CH EN  7753 Graduate Seminar

Course Information

Classroom meetings:    10:45 AM-12:05 PM in MEB 3291 (ChE Conference Room). Occasionally we will meet in EMCB 102 

Registration: A required 1 ch course for all first-year graduate students (must register for both Fall & Spring Semesters

Course Content:

This course includes periodic lectures by Distinguished Lecturers (combined graduate and undergraduate seminars), industrial and academic visitors and talks by invited on-campus faculty. In addition to distinguished and invited lectures, we will have meetings that will cover a wide range of topics meant to help you improve your general research and presentation skills, and successfully navigate through your graduate career at the University of Utah.

Student Presentations:

During Fall and Spring semesters, students will make two presentations:

1.      During the first 10min presentation (followed by 5min Q&A), students will describe the background and basic direction of their future graduate research. You may want to discuss this with your adviser.

2.      As a topic of the second presentation, each student will critically review an assigned paper from one of the archival journals.

We will use the following process to select and assign review papers:

a.      Each one of you will first submit two candidate papers recently published in the specified journal.

b.      The pool of candidate papers will be used by instructors to assign the review papers.

c.      You may or may not be assigned the same paper as you entered into the pool.

Social:

During one or two class periods, we are planning to have a social for new graduate students. All graduate students and faculty will be invited.

Class Grade (Credit/No credit) will be based on the quality of presentations, questions and attendance record.

Other Information:

1. Academic ethics. If a student violates academic ethics in this course, the consequences will be an automatic F in the course, and referral of the matter to the Department Chair for possible further action. The basic rule is that students may not present as their own the work of another person.

2. Reasonable accommodation will be gladly provided for known disabilities of students in the class.  If you wish to qualify under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), you should contact the Center for Disability Services, 162 Union Building, onadeau@saff.utah.edu, http://disability.utah.edu/index.htm , (801) 581-5020.