PhD Courses in Denmark

PhD Course - Journal Club in Power Electronics and IC design

DTU Department of Photonics Engineering

General course objectives:

- To bring the student in a position to better understand and critically relate to current research results within power electronics and IC design - To get the student become familiar with scientific papers and other publications within the field - To bring the student in a position to review others and owns papers - To increase the skills of the student to communicate and discuss own scientific standpoints.



Learning objectives:

A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

  • To bring the student in a position to better understand and critically relate to current research results within power electronics and IC design.
  • To get the student become familiar with scientific papers and other publications within the field.
  • To bring the student in a position to review others and owns papers.
  • To increase the skills of the student to communicate and discuss own scientific standpoints.
  • To enable the student to critical review the methods and results in a scientific publication within the field.
  • To enable the student to organize and formulate own scientific results.
  • To enable the student to debate and criticize the content in a scientific paper.
  • To enable the student to compare and evaluate own results with those in scientific papers.

Contents:

The course will consist of presentations by the students of their own scientific papers from recognised journals. The goal, results and conclusions shall be presented, and a critical review of method and results shall be made. The individual student shall give an account of the new elements in the paper and for how this can contribute to the student’s research. The presentations shall result in one page summaries with the important results and conclusions.