KE1040 Oral and Written Presentation for Chemists 6.0 credits

The course in presentation techniques integrated with reading required courses in chemistry and chemical engineering. The course consists of four parts on 1.5 credits each read integrated with a chemistry or chemical engineering course. In each modment, instruction are given in the form of lectures and / or exercises with compulsory attendance, but the bulk of the workload consists of practical exercises with feedback

The examination are conducted in the form of oral seminar presentations and submitted written reports in which the substance is such as to own laborationsresultat

Part 1: Written presentation integrated with the project assignment in Introduction to Chemical Engineering during spring termin study year 1, period 3.

Part 2: Oral presentation with integrated laboratory course in Organic Chemistry 2, study year 2.

Part 3: Presentation of a poster in the course of Polymer Technology with Cellulose Technology in study year 3.

Part 4: Written presentation integrated with project work in the Reaction and Separation Engineering in study year 3.

After preceded by part 1 and part 4, you should be able to:

• demonstrate an ability to make an outline for the written presentation of specific material - to adapt the structure of a mind reader.
• able to structure the material writing and bring informative headings.
• demonstrate ability to write simple and correct.
• demonstrate ability to write neatly and with good readability - content, presentation, headlines, paragraphs, sentence structure, vocabulary, typography and layout.

After preceded part 2, you should be able to:

• demonstrate the ability to dispose of the material to a munlig presentation so that the essence and your message is clear to the intended audience.
• demonstrate skills to convey the material to the content and structure, choice of tools, time available and the subsequent issues.
• demonstrate ability to present the topic orally with clarity over concept, theme and illustrations for audiences thought.

After preceded part 3, you should be able to:

• select and propose information from a text for presentation on a poster.
• formulate short and informative sentences about a topic
• design a poster in terms of text, colors, images and other layout
• discuss and answer questions about the content of the poster
• analyze and evaluate the information submitted in the form entries and summarize this
• criticize and discuss the content of a poster

Part 3: Scientist´s Guide to Poster Presentations, P. J. Gosling, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999

• SEM1 - Oral Presentation, 1.5 credits, grading scale: P, F
• INL1 - Written Report in Swedish, 1.5 credits, grading scale: P, F
• SEM2 - Poster Presentation, 1.5 credits, grading scale: P, F
• INL2 - Written Report in English, 1.5 credits, grading scale: P, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Completed upper secondary education including documented proficiency in English corresponding to English A. For students who received/will receive their final school grades after 31 December 2009, there is an additional entry requirement for mathematics as follows: documented proficiency in mathematics corresponding to Mathematics A.

And the specific requirements of mathematics, physics and chemistry corresponding to Mathematics E, Physics B and Chemistry A.

Written report in Swedish (INL1)
Oral presentation (SEM1)
Poster presentation (SEM2)
Written report in English (INL2)

Together with attendance at lectures and seminar in the four diffrent parts

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.

This optional course, Oral and Written Presentation for Chemists can be integrated with mandatory chemical and chemical engineering courses.
The course will be given over 3 years, with start, study year 1.

The course consists of four parts, each of 1,5 credits
INL1 - Written Report in Swedish
INL2 - Written Report in English
SEM1 - Oral Presentation in Swedish
SEM2 - Poster Presentation