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DDP Induction

Roderich Gross

Welcome to Centre of Doctoral Training (CDT)

CDT schedule

• Month 1: Induction, training needs analysis
• Months 6-9: Critical appraisal of a paper
• Month 10: Confirmation review report (draft) to

supervisory team

• Month 12: Confirmation review report (final) to

department

• Month 13: Confirmation review meeting
• Month 18: PGR Symposium
• Month 24: Present a paper (supervisor team)
• Month 30: Oral presentation (supervisory team)
• Month 36: Submission of dissertation
• (Month 48: Hard submission deadline)

Leave of Absence (LOA)

• Authorised absences for following grounds

– Medical – Personal – Maternity/paternity – Academic – Financial*

• LOA form submitted to department
• Students on a Tier4 visa, must contact

International Student Support & complete “LOA self-help tool”

DDP (compulsory elements)

• Faculty Professional Behaviour and Ethical Conduct

(FCE6100)*

• http://shef.ac.uk/egs/ethics

* Faculty requirement for passing the confirmation review.

DDP (compulsory elements)

• Attend all departmental seminars

(Wednesdays 2pm unless notified)

– Confirmation review: 100% attendance should be your target (any student with a below 66% level of attendance will not be eligible to pass)

• Student-led seminar (Mondays 2pm)

DDP (compulsory elements)

• Departmental Research Symposium

– Year 1: Attend – Year 2: Present poster – Year 3: (Not compulsory) Give oral presentation

DDP (compulsory elements)

• Critical Appraisal Exercise

– Presentation to supervisory team of a critical appraisal of an important paper by the end of month 9 – Paper identified by your supervisory team to you by the end of month 6

DDP (compulsory elements)

• Departmental Research Training sessions

(Semester 1)

– DDP Skills – Presentation Skills – Technical Communication* – Unfair Means – Voice Coaching – Writing Skills – Mentoring Skills – Case-study talks illustrating the research process from idea to output

DDP (compulsory elements)

• Departmental Research Training sessions

– Department keeps attendance register – Additional Departmental Research Training sessions will be offered – we will advise whether they are compulsory or not – Confirmation review cut-off point: 50%

Summary of the DDP process

• Complete Training Needs Analysis (TNA) by

month 1 http://www.shef.ac.uk/ris/pgr/ddpportal/guidanc e/forms

• At the end of each year, submit an updated TNA

to the department

• When submitting your confirmation review

report, submit your ePortfolio summary to the department

• When submitting your final dissertation, submit

your ePortfolio summary to the DDP team

ePortfolio

• Keep a record of all your training activities
• Include a summary of your monthly training in

your progress reports to supervisory team

• See Section 4.5 in PGR Handbook!
• The ePortfolio Summary (next slides)

List of gained research skills (with evidence)

• Reviewing, e.g. reviewer for ICRA 2015 (2015

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

• Writing, e.g. submitted 1 conference and 1

journal paper (see Section x)

• Mentoring, e.g. Student Mentor of A. Spring

and J. Jones (1st year PhD students), 2015/16

• Organising, e.g. Co-Chair of 2014 ACSE

Research Symposium, 28th November, 2014

List of departmental research seminars attended

• 08.10.2014: “Monte-Carlo Methods for

Bayesian filtering in High-Dimensional spaces and/ or Likelihood-free models” by Dr Francois Septier (Telecom Lille, France), ACSE Research Seminar

• …

List of training courses attended

• Passed DDP module ACS6110 - Embedded

Systems and Rapid Control Prototyping

• Participated in 2014 Machine Learning

Summer School, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK

• Participated in 2014 ACSE robotics hackathon

List of completed and submitted items of work

• Parrott C, Dodd TJ, Groß R. HiGen: A High-

Speed Genderless Mechanical Connection

• Mechanism. Submitted to IROS 2014 (2014

IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems)

• Chen J, Gauci M, Li W, Kolling A, and Groß R.

Occlusion-based cooperative transport with a swarm of miniature mobile robots. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics

List of conference/ workshops attended

• Attended GECCO 2015 (Genetic and

Evolutionary Computation Conference), July 11-15, 2015, Madrid, Spain

• Oral presentation of “….” at ACC 2015

(American Control Conference), July 1-3, 2014, Chicago, IL

List of teaching activities

• Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) for

ACS6110 - Embedded Systems and Rapid Control Prototyping

• Co-supervision of MEng final year project

student M. Smith, Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

List of any outreach activities

• Performed live-demo of Kilobot robot swarm

at Science Museum, London, March 14, 2015

• Exhibited XY technology platform at The

University of Sheffield The Festival of the Mind public event, 28 September, 2014, Barker’s Pool, Sheffield

• Exhibition of smart fire-fighter helmet as 2014

Gadget Show LIVE, NEC, Birmingham, UK

List of any extracurricular activities (if you wish to note)

Progress reports & meetings

• Records of meetings with your supervisory

team & regular progress reports (e.g. 1 pager)

• Recommended format (PPP):

– Progress – Problems – Plan (objectives set for next meeting / report period)

• You have been sent a Google form for you to

complete

Technical Communication Training

• Departmental PGR Training

– Sessions throughout Semesters 1 & 2

• Optional training by English Language Training

Centre, e.g.:

– ELT6060 - Speaking Skills for Research – Writing Advisory Service

About professional behaviour

• Read & respond to e-mails daily
• Be considerate about working in offices with
• thers

– Respect others and get to know them – No personal skype/phone calls – When using skype for business, use a headset – When using the kitchen, please clean up any problem you may have caused

General comments

• Closely follow the papers in top journals and

conferences in your field

• We expect you to produce at least one article

in a reputable journal by the time of their thesis submission

• Aim for visiting at least once another research
• rganisation (using RTSG funding)
• Communicate to non-academic audiences

(e.g. Sheffield Festival of the Mind)

Discussion