Bachelor Seminar : Winter Term 2009 / 2010
In winter semester, four working groups in the field of teaching "Software engineering and programming"
host a joint Bachelor seminar. The goal of the seminar is to give the students the opportunity
to get acquainted with the research fields of these groups.
This seminar is also known as
Module ID 89-3311 of the Module Handbook.
Beware, this is a
Bachelor's seminar.
Only Bachelor students, who will write their bachelor thesis in the summer term 2010, can register.
Organization
The topic allocation will take place on Wednesday, 28.10.2009 in room 32-439 at 17:15. All students should attend.
General Remarks
The
goal of a seminar is to introduce students to the major constituent of
scientific method that is concerned with
critically reading,
understanding,
summarizing,
explaining and
presenting existing scientific papers.

The following links present this in more detail: General guidelines for seminars in
English and
German.
Successful participation in the seminar requires:
Term paper (preliminary and revised version)
- Approximately ten pages (excluding title page, table of contents, references, figures)
- LNCS Style
Examples
Term papers from the last years:
1 2 3 4 5
(access password-protected, log-in announced per e-mail)
Presentation
- approx. 25 min. presentation (after 30 min. you will be stopped)
- 10 min. Q & A
- 5 min. comments on presentation style
How to fail a seminar ...
- Plagiarism
- Non-observance of deadlines
- Non-observance of compulsory attendance
- Poorly written term paper (e.g. failed scope)
- Bad presentation
- No participation at discussion rounds
- ...
Schedule and Deadlines
The seminar will take place on Tuesday 17:15-18:45 in Room 34/420, starting on january the 5th.
Presentation Slides:
- Preliminary Slides: 1 week before the presentation
- Final Slides: 1 day before the presentation
Both, preliminary and final slides have to be send to your supervisor
and to
Kathrin Geilmann as a PDF-File before the deadline.
Term paper:
The final version of the
term paper has to be send to your supervisor
and to
Kathrin Geilmann as a PDF-File not later than the
8.2.09
Topics
Please note that some of the resources may only be accessible from the university network.
Contact
If you have any questions concerning our seminar please send an e-mail to
Kathrin Geilmann.