Chemical Engineering 7753
Graduate Seminar
For your Ph.D. qualifying examination, you will be asked to review a self-selected paper from the list assembled by the Department’s faculty. Your review will consistent of:
1. Written critique of the paper. At this stage, you will be asked to play the role of paper reviewer and thus insure that the contribution is of high quality, error free, novel and important to the field.
2. Next, your role will reverse from a paper critic to its advocate. You will make an oral presentation, similar to a conference presentation, laying out the results of the paper as your own. You will then need to defend “your” results in the face of potential criticism of the audience, consisting of faculty members
To prepare you for the Qualifying Examination, the described written and oral components will be mimicked during the next semester. The major difference are that the pool of review papers will all have a theme, the papers to the pool are contributed by you, and that you will assigned a paper to review. You will need to contribute two papers to the pool. A paper that you will be assigned to review may or may not be the same paper you contributed to the pool.
Assignments:
By September 29, propose a theme for review papers and a 2 min pitch of why your topic should be lectected.
By November 10, submit two papers for the review pool. Potential sources of papers are any engineerng and science journals with reasonable Impact Factor. (e.g., Science, Nature, AIChE Journal, any journal published by the American Chemical Society (http://pubs.acs.org/about.html), Chemical Engineering Science, Computers & Chemical Engineering, etc.).
Due Date: Email the electronic version of the selected papers by the due date listed in the class schedule.