Practical Work Experience 3 семестр

Published: Friday, 14 October 2016 06:44

Appendix 1

Course: Practical Work Experience

Programme Summary

Major: 13.04.01 Thermal Power Engineering and Thermal Technology

Degree: Master

Course units:

Semester 3:

• Unit 1. Collect the general information about the host organisation.
• Unit 2. Look at how the host company’s research activity is organised.
• Unit 3. The organizational structure of the host department.
• Unit 4. The department’s R&D facilities.
• Unit 5. Basic developments, research results and publications.

Semester 4:

• Unit 6. Look at the R&D planning by the department.
• Unit 7. Select one of the perspective research areas and explain how it is related to one’s thesis.
• Unit 8. Build a new research plant or upgrade the existing one.
• Unit 9. Finalize a report on one’s research project.
• Unit 10. Present and publicly defend the report.

Course contents:

Semester 3:

• Unit 1. Collect the general information about the host organisation: Company name. Structure. Key products. Research competence of the employees.
• Unit 2. Look at how the host company’s research activity is organised.
• The regulatory and legal framework. The company’s research library. Reporting.
• Unit 3. The organizational structure of the host department.

Research competence. The history of the company and the department. Plans for further training. Postgraduate study and degree-seeking. Acceptance of young employees. Collaboration with other departments and organisations.

Unit 4. The department’s R&D facilities.

Laboratory utilities and the main equipment.

Unit 5. Basic developments, research results and publications.

Monographs and articles published in leading scientific journals. Research funding through target programmes and grants.

Semester 4:

Unit 6. Look at the R&D planning by the department.

The department’s approach to R&D activities. Scientific seminars and conferences. Look at the perspective areas of research by the department.

Unit 7. Select one of the perspective research areas and explain how it is related to one’s thesis.

Collect the information about the research leader and his/her team. Elaborate a R&D programme during one’s practicum. Set a research problem.

Unit 8. Build a new research plant or upgrade the existing one.

Carry out experiments for the purpose of one’s thesis.

Unit 9. Finalize a report on one’s research project within 10 weeks. 25 to 50 pages. Prepare presentation materials. Presentation.

Unit 10. Present and publicly defend one’s report in week 11. Submit the report with one’s university department.

Activities:

• Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
• Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (obligatory);
• Office-hours.

Semester 3:

• Total hours – 324.
• Total points – 9.
• Weeks – 6.
• Semester 4:
• Total hours – 216.
• Total points – 6.
• Weeks – 4.

Midterm assessment – Pass/fail examination with a grade.