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Student Research Seminar

GSA is pleased to announce an extension to our autumn seminar series (EE 592). This winter quarter GSA will be offering a course dedicated to research presentations from graduate students within the department. We urge faculty to encourage your students with upcoming talks (i.e. thesis defense, conference presentation, etc.) to sign up if they would like to present. Please note that you do not have to present a talk in order to sign up for this course or register for the course to present.

The goal of this course is to introduce graduate students to the environment of technical presentations, from the perspective of both audience and speaker. Each week a student will give a presentation on their current research. Speakers can use this as a practice-run for an upcoming conference talk or thesis defense. Students in the audience are asked to complete feedback forms, which are given to the speaker after each presentation. This course not only provides valuable feedback to speakers, but also provides a chance for students to learn about research being done by fellow students in the department. In addition, students in the audience get a chance to learn how to actively listen to a technical presentation and ask insightful questions.

Early in 2007, we had Professor David Farkas of the Technical Communications department give us an informative talk with tips for giving a good technical presentation. His slides are available here in PPT format.

The GSA Graduate Student Research Seminar is being held winter quarter 2009 with the following course information.

EE 592: Electrical Engineering Research Survey
EE-592, SLN TBA, 1-credit (CR/no-CR only)

Attendance of 8 out of 10 talks is sufficient for credit.

To sign up to speak at the seminar, please find an available date in the schedule below and email Laura or Andy at eegsa at u with the date you're interested in and a tentative title for your talk. The current schedule of talks for Winter Quarter 2009 is as follows.
DateSpeakerPresentation Title
Jan 09
Jan 16
Jan 23
Jan 30
Feb 06
Feb 13
Feb 20
Feb 27
Mar 06
Mar 13
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