Master Seminar : Winter Term 2009 / 2010
In winter semester, four working groups in the field of teaching "Software engineering and programming"
host a joint
Master 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 89-3372 of the Module Handbook.
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)
Term paper review
- Each student reviews two term papers
- A review contains
- Summary
- Comments to the author
- Positive and negative aspects
- At least 400 words
- LNCS Style
Presentation
- 30 min. presentation (hard deadline!)
- 10 min. Q & A
- 5 min. comments on presentation style
- At least one question by reviewers of the corresponding term paper
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
Term paper deadlines:
- 23.11.2009 (Monday) 12:00: Deadline: Annotated table of contents
- 04.01.2010 (Monday) 12:00:
Deadline: Preliminary version of term paper
- 11.01.2010 (Monday) 12:00: Deadline: Review of two other term papers
- 25.01.2010 (Monday) 12:00: Deadline: Revised version of term paper
Presentation slides deadlines:
- Preliminary slides: 3 days before the presentation
- Final version of slides: 1 day before the presentation
The presentations will take place during the first two weeks of February.
All of the material marked by has to be sent as PDF files by e-mail before the corresponding deadline to Yannick Welsch. You should also send a copy to your supervisor.
Please also note that all deadlines are hard deadlines.
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
Yannick Welsch.
