Weekly Meeting with Prof' Mendez

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Weekly Meeting with Prof. Mendez

• Student Name
• Date

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Summary

• ONE SLIDE, LIST ONLY THE BOTTOM LINE OF EACH
  BULLET
• The goals for this week were (e.g. perform
  literature search on weld penetration)
• The work performed was(e.g. 1) used Web of
  Science, Weldasearch, and Google Scholar, 2)
  went to the library and made copies of the papers
  3) selected references from the papers citations
  4) went to the library again to obtain references
  from 3).
• The results were (e.g. I have a list of 100
  papers to go over, or I am stuck because I dont
  know how to select meaningful references)
• (no analysis is necessary in this slide)
• The goals for next week are (e.g. build Endnote
  database, skim over papers, detect general
  themes, group papers according to themes)

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Goals for this week

• ONE SLIDE, LIST ONLY THE BOTTOM LINE OF EACH
  BULLET
• Goal 1 perform literature search on weld
  penetration
• Goal 2
• Motivation for
• Goal 1 is the need to know what other people have
  already done in this field
• Goal 2 is
• The relationship with the overall goals of this
  semester of
• Goal 1 is to build the base for the Introduction
  in a paper to be submitted this semester
• Goal 2 is

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Work performed this week

• ONE OR MORE SLIDES, LIST ONLY THE BOTTOM LINE
  OF EACH BULLET
• List here the tasks performed to reach the goals,
  e.g.
• used Web of Science, Weldasearch, Google Scholar
• Keywords in Web of Science
• weld penetration 15023 hits
• weld penetration AND GMAW 3472 hits
• Keywords in Weldasearch
• etc.
• went to the library and made copies of 23 papers
  (bring Prof. Mendez a copies)
• downloaded 40 papers (bring Prof. Mendez a
  copies)
• selected references from the papers citations
• went to the library again and copied 21 more
  papers
• downloaded 18 more papers

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Results

• ONE SLIDE, LIST ONLY THE BOTTOM LINE OF EACH
  BULLET
• There are two outcomes to a good week of work
• theres something to show
• or theres confusion and/or blocking
• If theres something to show, then show it in a
  succinct way, e.g.
• I have 102 papers to skim over
• If there is confusion or blocking, thats OK.
  Then we need to trace from the last thing that
  was clear until where confusion/blocking started,
  e.g.
• I looked into Web of Science with no problem,
  but couldnt figure out how to select the most
  important papers
• Results should be given in order of significance
  (most significant first)
• Long tables and groups of graphs go in an appendix

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Analysis and Discussion

• ONE SLIDE, LIST ONLY THE BOTTOM LINE OF EACH
  BULLET
• Here is where you tell me something intelligent
  about your findings, for example
• Of the 102 papers I have I noticed that almost
  everybody references papers by Shimada
• Many references appear in a journal we do not
  have in the library
• Compare results with theoretical expectations
• Account for anything unexpected
• Explain sources of error
• Note important problems encountered

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Goals for next week

• ONE SLIDE, LIST ONLY THE BOTTOM LINE OF EACH
  BULLET
• Goal 1 build Endnote database
• Goal 2 skim over papers
• Goal 3 detect general themes
• Goal 4 group papers according to themes
• (no need to include motivation or relationship
  with overall goals, youll do that for next
  weeks meeting)

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Appendix

• Add here long tables, or groups of graphs
• You can also bring hard copies or other computer
  files to the meeting, but the results must be
  summarized in the Results section of this
  presentation
• I strongly suggest that you include your figures
  and tables in this presentation as much as you
  can. This is going to be very convenient when is
  time to write your thesis. The best way to
  import figures and graphs is using Copy and Paste
  Special as enhanced metafile