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FORMACION TRANSVERSAL PARA DOCTORANDOS:
ETSI CAMINOS CANALES Y PUERTOS
6 sessions (10am-12pm on July 17, 18, 19 and July 24, 25, 26)
AULAS:
A, B, 11 y sala de reuniones del ICE
22, 23, 24, 45 y 46 de ETSI Caminos
40 PLAZAS
Oral Communication Intensive for UPM PhD
Part of being good at what you do is being able to explain what it is that you do. This is a six-day intensive in which PhD students in technical disciplines learn and workshop six simple ideas that they can use when explaining their research to a range of audiences. These ideas are:
- Choosing appropriate language to avoid overwhelming your audience,
- Using narrative to explain why your research is important,
- Synthesizing prior work to convey where yours fits in by highlighting differences,
- Controlling focus in order to minimize cognitive load when presenting data,
- Buying time for an audience to process when explaining how something works,
- Distilling your message when time and attention spans are short.
Learning Goals and Objectives
This course will (1) encourage you to think about effective and efficient oral technical communication, and (2) equip you with communication skills necessary to succeed in a professional technical academic/industry setting. We will provide you with opportunities to practice your skills and create mechanisms for feedback to help you strengthen them.
Upon completion of the course, students will have learned how to:
- use ideas from the course to describe aspects of their research to different audiences,
- deliver this communication more effectively, and
- give and receive constructive feedback.
Syllabus
The following topics are covered on each day:
Day 1: What do you do?
Day 2: Why should I care?
Day 3: Where does your work fit in? You have data, so what?
Day 4: How does it work?
Day 5: How does it work? (reprise)
Day 6: What do you do? (reprise)
Assignments
There are six assignments. In most cases, you'll start the assignment in class, and then complete the assignment outside class before the next session.
Expectations
Due to the nature of the Intensive, attendance at all six sessions is expected. Please arrive on time and refrain from using electronic devices in class. They distract the speaker and those around/behind you. Lastly, as you will be learning from each other, you are also expected to provide your fellow students with clear, respectful, concrete and constructive feedback.
Resources: Materials and Equipments
Any materials (comics, videos and any additional handouts) will be made available online. Participants will need access to slide creation software, and will need to be able to both record and upload videos (e.g. using a laptop and to DropBox respectively).
Office Hours
Office hours are by appointment.
How to Enroll
Enrollment is limited and is first-come first-served. Participation is by application - i.e. an interested graduate student should submit (1) one slide of data related to their research that they understand (ideally data or experimental results that they collected, but it need not be), and (2) a 20-30 second long professional self-Introduction video (ideally, recorded using a laptop and not a smart phone) in which they introduce themselves and their research professionally to other UPM graduate students. The filenames for your slide and video should contain your name (e.g. TonyEngSlide.pptx and TonyEngIntro.mp4). Submissions should be sent to the Contact address below (in the event that the video is too large, please upload the video to DropBox and send a DropBox link).
Contact
Feel free to contact Tony at tleng@mit.edu with any questions or concerns.