Chemical Engineering

FUNDAMENTALS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

General Data

Type of credits: ECTS
Number of credits: 5.00
Status: Optional
Type: Course
Academic Year:
Term:
Languages: English, Portuguese
Available for Mobility Students: No
Restricted to alliance: No
Code: Sin codigo

Coordination

Description

Theory
1

Theory/Practice
2

Instructors

Valentina Fernandes Domingues


 

Contents

CP1 - The scientific methodology
CP2 - Ethics and deontology in scientific research
CP2.1 - The European Charter for Researchers
CP2.2 - Plagarism
CP3 - Elaboration of scientific works
CP3.1 - Bibliographic Research, Databases, and Information Analysis (Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, etc.)
CP3.2 - Citation/referencing rules and reference management (EndNote, Mendeley, etc.)
CP3.3 - Structure and writing of scientific texts
CP4 - Public (oral) presentation of scientific works
CP5 - Industrial Property Rights
CP6 - Participation in a scientific event (Seminar, Workshop, etc.)
CP7 - Personal marketing from a scientific point of view (CV, Ciência ID, ORCiD, etc., motivation and self-introduction letters)

Learning Outcomes

This course enables the students to acquire knowledge of the fundamentals of scientific research through the following objectives
OBJ1 - Start and reinforce student skills in scientific research
OBJ2 - Develop critical thinking and creativity
OBJ3 - Stimulate scientific autonomy
OBJ4 - Adopt ethical and deontological behavior in Science
OBJ5 - Develop literature research
OBJ6 - Develop oral and written scientific communication skills
OBJ7 - Write a scientific curriculum vitae, motivation letter and self-introduction document