Acquisition of basic knowledge of science and the operation of the scientific community; ability for autonomous literature search; basic skills of scientific writing (precise and cleanly structured presentation of a scientifically relevant topic and its context, correct references and citations); usage of scientific publishing tools (LaTeX); basic scientific presentation skills.

Also provides an overview of current computer engineering research topics and potential supervisors of Bachelor thesises, practicals and scientific projects at the contributing institutes/working groups (http://ti.tuwien.ac.at/teaching/ti-research-presentations).

Introduction to science and the operation of the scientific community in computer engineering (lecture block); overview of current research topics by professors from TI-related institutes/working groups. Selection and elaboration of a suitable topic (assigned or possible self-selected) within our major areas of expertise dependable distributed real-time systems, embedded / cyber-physical systems and VLSI Design.

Course setup: Preparation and writing of a literature survey for the chosen topic and a regular conference-style article in LaTeX, reviewing by other participants. Delivery of an oral presentation (using video beamer) under time constraints; discussion of the talk and the presentation style in the whole group.

ECTS breakdown (3 ECTS ... 75 hours):

 12h       Plenary presentations, presentations
40h       Preparation literature survey and article (1. version)
   4h       Reviewing
14h        Preparation article (2. version)
   5h        Preparation lecture slides

Assessment of the writings and the oral presentation.

Registration via TISS. Please present the registration confirmation to your supervisor in the first meeting.