I. The purpose of the students’ research work
to help students perfect and consolidate their knowledge;
to intensify the process of training specialists;
to provide students with an opportunity of applying their theoretical knowledge to
practice; to help students master methods of independent work and acquire skills of research
activity; to develop students’ creative thinking; to acquaint students with the latest achievements in a certain field of science and their
practical appUcation.
II. Close connection between the students’ research work and educational process
involvement of students in research work from the first year of study;
guidance of the students research work by the most experienced members of the teaching staff;
the use of the research work results in curricular and extracurricular activity.
Ш. Forms of students’ research'work
curricular activity: laboratory exercises, course and diploma projects, seminars, individual tasks;
extracurricular activity: work in students’ scientific societies, participation in scientific conferences, being incorporated in research groups.
IV, Practical results of tse students' research work
to design devices and laboratory apparatus;
to produce visual aids;
to prepare short information about one’s investigations;
to present one’s reports at seminars and conferences;
to write a diploma project to an order of a particular enterprise;
to learn how to handle equipment.
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V. The role of the Foreign Languages Department in the organizaiion of the students’ research work
1. to help students acquire skills of work on scientific literature in foreign languages;
2. to give instruction in the methods of extracting essential information, makingabstracts and reviews of scientific texts in foreign languages;
to organize students’ scientific conferences in foreign languages;
to train students for work in translation bureaus;
to train students for the defense of their diploma projects in foreign languages.
Task 4. 34. Speak about your current research work, using the following questions as an outline:
Have you got any experience in carrying out research work?
If so, how many course projects or scientific papers have you written?
What is the subject of your current scientific work (or course project)?
What field of science does it deal with?
How long have you been working on it?
Who is your research supervisor (scientific adviser)?
What literature are you consulting?
Do you use any information from foreign scientific journals or the Internet?
Does your work include any drawings?
Will you have to carry out any experiments to complete your work?
Will you have to produce any models for demonstration?
Do you use a computer while working on your course project?
If so, what kind of software do you use? (Application software: word processing
programs to write texts, spreadsheet programs to do calculations, graphics package
to produce drawings.) How much work has already been done?
In what form are you going to present your work (written, typed, printed)? What is the deadline for submitting it? (When are you to submit it?) Will you have to defend (support) your work? What language will you present it in? Will your work have any practical application?
Are you going to present the results of this work at any seminar or conference? Have you thought over the subject of your diploma project yet? Would you like your diploma work to be connected with your current research work?
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Task 4.35. Read the text, make up a plan, then compile an abstract and a summary of it (Consult the Tasks of Section VI for the instructions).
There are two major tasks set before any institution providing tertiary education in our country: to train highly qualified professionals and to carry on research in various branches of science and engineering. The latter concerns, to a large extent, universities. So, Lviv Polytechnic, being a national university, has, as one of its primary tasks, been doing both fundamental and applied research involving the staff of its numerous research laboratories, its professors (many of whom are heading scientific schools), its teaching staff as well as the ablest students of the university.
Students’ research work is an integral part of the educational process in Ukrainian institutions of higher learning. In addition to training qualified specialists LviV Polytechnic National University carries out extensive research in various branches of science, engineering, humanitarian and social sciences.
The students are involved in this or that kind of research right from their first year of studies here. Research work helps students perfect their qualification.
The main task set before the students doing research is mastering methods of independent solution of scientific and technical problems.
Every student of the University participates in research in this or that way. Thus, all the students are involved in research directly related to auricular activity comprising laboratory exercises, course works, graduation projects, seminars and individual tasks. Doing laboratory exercises according to the timetable in specialised laboratories of the University students are given an opportunity to apply their knowledge and display initiative. While preparing their reviews and oral presentations in humanitarian subjects they learn how to deal with large numbers of theoretical sources, the activity that is considered to be a kind of research work. Preparing their course works under the guidance of professors, associate professors and experienced teachers, junior students learn the basics of research.
Close contacts of institutions of higher learning in general, and Lviv Polytechnic in particular, with research institutions and businesses introduce students to the latest achievements in both science and engineering. Due to this, students are involved in research dealing with urgent problems of modern economic development of the region and the country as a whole. This helps them learn modem research methodology used in their particular fields, study state-of-the-art technologies and handle the most sophisticated equipment.
The students taking Bachelor’s course and those studying to obtain Master’s degree are doing research while preparing their graduation papers. In general, Bachelor’s and Master’s graduation works (projects)reflect the knowledge and practical skills acquired by tire students in their particular fields. Every graduation paper is a small
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research project carried out by the student under the guidance of a supervisor (scientific adviser), this usually being a leading professor (associate professor) or any other scientist or researcher actively participating in up-to-date research in a particular field. Very often students graduation papers are valuable contributions to solution of a concrete practical problem an enterprise or a business has. Having thoroughly studied the existing problems, students come up with ideas, develop practical recommendations and measures to be taken to improve the situation.
In some cases the graduation paper contains results valuable enough for a professional journal publication and such a publication is then recommended. When a student submits his/her graduation paper and successfully defends it before the examination board, he/she is qualified as a Bachelor or a Master in a certain field and finally becomes a graduate, in other words, he/she graduates from the University.
The extracurricular research activity is arranged in the form of students’ scientific societies. The purpose of such societies is research and instruction in various fields of science, economy and liberal arts. The students who are active in the societies design devices and produce visual aids, various lab set-ups, they do tHeoretical research into social and humanitarian issues.
The most promising undergraduates are incorporated into research teams and groups organised by the leading professors at the departments. Postgraduates working for their scientific degrees as well as research associates are also active members of such teams.
Every year the ablest graduates of the University are given an opportunity to develop their research skills while taking postgraduate courses. All institutes of the University as well as the departments of the institutes are headed by prominent scholars and scientists whose names are well known not only in Ukraine but also abroad. These scientists and scholars supervise the research done by postgraduates. During a three-year course postgraduates carry out research widely using information obtained from the books and periodicals in their field of research, written in foreign languages, an examination in a foreign language being a mandatory postgraduate course entrance exam. In three years every postgraduate is supposed to present a dissertation for the Candidate of Science degree. In their theses postgraduates are expected to propose some innovations and use some innovative methods and techniques.
At Lviv Polytechnic students perfect their knowledge of one of six foreign languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Latin and Japanese. Foreign languages help students do research in their fields of interest by way of enabling them to read professional literature and periodicals in foreign languages, communicating with foreign specialists while participating in scientific conferences, doing research in collaboration with foreign specialists, performing joint projects, using the Internet. Under the guidance of teachers of Foreign Languages Department the best students prepare and present their reports in foreign languages at annual students’ scientific conferences arranged by the department. Their reports (presentations) usually deal with urgent problems of science, engineering, social sciences, humanities. The best students defend their graduation works and projects in foreign languages. Students are distinguished for their success in R&D activity and are awarded certificates and diplomas.
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research work is part and parcel of the R&D activity conducted
at the University in general. Research work is done here on a wide
scale. There are a number of research laboratories and designing
bureaus in the University that are responsible for up-to-date
investigations and developments. The research carried out at the
University and the developments made here meet world standards. The
fundamental investigations in the field of physics, radio
engineering, electronics, mechanics, chemistry and chemical
technology, geodesy and mathematical sciences, eonomics and
management are well-known and are of importance both in Ukraine and
abroad.
Task 4.36. Topics for writing essays with previous brainstorming in the classroom:
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Students should start their scientific research activity as soon as possible.
Some students think that they can do research better by themselves than under the guidance of a supervisor. Others think that it’s better to have a scientific adviser. Which way do you prefer?
While working on your course paper do you prefer using the Internet to attending a traditional library? Offer your arguments.
Task 4. 37. Respond to the following advertisements, writing a CY and a covering letter:
Sheffield Business School Research Assistant Temporary for three years Up to £15, 288 pa
As a result of winning additional research funding, the Change Management Research
Center can offer a post graduate researcher the chance to undertake a project
examining how manufacturing companies build strategic capabilities for future
success through organizational learning.
Based at our Totley campus, this project is funded by the CDP group of EPSRC. You'll
be involved in all aspect of the pro ect, including reviewing lkerature, data collection
and analysis, report and article writing, and conference presentations.
Able to communicate effectively with all levels of management in the collaborating
companies, you should also be able to plan and prioritize your workload and work
effectively as part of a team.
If you don’t hold a higher degree, we’ll give every encouragement to register for one.
Please quote reference 316/95
For further information or an application form please contact the Human Resources Department Sheffield Hallam University City Campus Pond Street Sheffield SI 1WB Closing date is 19 March 2005 Telephone 0114 253 3946
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