The module Scientific Working and Writing (formerly Proseminar ETiT) is aimed at Bachelor students of Electrical Engineering and covers various topics from computer science and electrical engineering.

It is usually the first seminar that students take during their studies. The focus is, therefore, on finding, reading, and understanding scientific publications (conference papers, articles) on a specific topic as well as on classifying and summarizing the results in oral (presentation) and written form (short paper).

For the proseminar, you arrange a topic individually with one of our research assistants based on your research interest. Feel free to contact the respective persons in this matter. We will be happy to assist you in finding a suitable tutor here at KOM and clarify all organizational questions. Please contact the persons listed below.

As soon as we have found a suitable topic and a suitable tutor for your proseminar, your tutor will assist you in finding relevant papers on your chosen topic. He/she will usually provide you with a set of sources that you can use as a starting point for your further search, and you will meet with your tutor once a week to discuss the literature you have found and to prepare the thesis and your presentation.

M.Sc. Pratyush Agnihotri

M.Sc. Konrad Altenhofen

Start: Anytime. Just contact us, preferably with a rough proposal for a topic you would like to work on. If you do not have a topic yet, we will try to find one that is suitable for you.

Duration: usually 2-3 months.

Deliverables: a presentation on your findings and a written seminar paper (details below).

Credit points: 3 CP.

Please note: grades are transferred twice a year, so depending on when you start your assignment, you may have to wait a few months for the final grades to be available in TUCaN.

Final Presentation: you will be required to present your final results to a group of researchers here at KOM. Within 15 minutes, explain your assignment and provide an overview of existing solutions (related work) and a categorization or structure of related work that you derived during your research phase. Following the presentation, there will be an opportunity for discussion with the audience. Dates for presentations will be scheduled as needed.

Until the deadline and before your presentation date, you must also submit your written short paper to your supervisor and cc the organizers. The paper should summarize your results and ideally point out open and interesting directions for future research in the respective field.

Your supervisor will provide a LaTeX template (IEEE format) for you, which must be used for the short paper. If you have not worked with LaTeX before, the seminar is a good opportunity to start in preparation for your thesis.

Formally, the paper should be at least 4 pages long (in 11 pt, two-column IEEE format) and include sound scientific references. However, the core requirement is a structured and meaningful discussion of related work: meeting the formal requirement of submitting 4 pages does not guarantee a good grade.

Of course, we do not tolerate plagiarism. If your contributions (short paper, presentation) are plagiarized, you will be graded with a 5.0, and we will inform the examination office. By participating in the seminar, you declare that you have read and understood the information on plagiarism.

Similarly, using AI tools to create the paper or the presentation, especially its contents, is strictly forbidden. Such usage constitutes a cheating attempt (following §38 APB), i.e., you will be graded with a 5.0, and we will inform the examination office. The only exception is explicitly the sole improvement of spelling and grammar of your own text.

 

18-sm-1001 (Scientific working and writing)
18-sm-1000 (Proseminar Electrical Engineering and Information Technology)