COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PREPARING PROJECT PROPOSAL

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FBE 6074 PREPARING PROJECT PROPOSAL ELECTIVE 1 1 0 5

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR LEVENT ÇAVAŞ

Offered to

Statistics (English)
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Course Objective

The main aims of this course are to introduce the fundamentals of effective writing of project proposals to Ph.D. students.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The students will be able to know national and international project-grant sources related to science and engineering
2   The students will be able to know the importance of the novelty of the project
3   The students will be able to find the literature background with respect to project idea
4   The students will be able to know how to write an effective project proposal for both national and international grant sources

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Project Proposal Writing
2 National Grant Sources-1
3 National Grant Sources-2
4 International Grant Sources
5 Novelty, Originality and Priority
6 Quality in the Literature
7 A Sample Project Application: TUBITAK 1002
8 MidTerm
9 A Sample Project Application: TUBITAK 1001
10 A Sample Project Application: IAPP-RISE (1)
11 A Sample Project Application: IAPP-RISE (2)
12 Evaluation Criteria for national and international projects
13 Presentation and Group Discussion of Student Projects-1
14 Presentation and Group Discussion of Student Projects-2

Recomended or Required Reading

The following web sites are recommended to the students:
http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/
http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/tr/destekler/akademik/ulusal-destek-programlari
http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/tr/destekler/sanayi/ulusal-destek-programlari

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Active Learning Strategies, Problem Based Learning, Project Based Learning, Instructor and Student Presentations, Questions and Answers, Group Discussion on Project Proposals

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PRJ PROJECT
3 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG* 0.15 + PRJ * 0.20 + MTE * 0.30 + FIN * 0.35
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG* 0.15 + PRJ * 0.20 + MTE * 0.30 + RST * 0.35


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Midterm and Final Exams, Project Preparation&Evaluation, Homeworks
SCORE=(Midterm*0.30)+(Final*0.35)+(Project Preparation&Evaluation*0.25)+(Homeworks*0.10)

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

The students will attend 11 lectures and 2 group discussion session during 14 weeks of the course. The attendance is compulsory at both till %70, but the rules for the attendance up to the students and can be obtained from the web site of Graduate School of Sciences at http://www.fbe.deu.edu.tr/.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof.Dr.Levent ÇAVAŞ,
Dokuz Eylul University,
Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
Division of Biochemistry, 35160, Kaynaklar Campus, IZMIR-TURKEY
Tel: +90 232 3018701 (office)
+90 506 5047380 (cellular)
Fax:+90 232 4534188
Email: lcavas@deu.edu.tr
Web: http://people.deu.edu.tr/lcavas/web

Office Hours

Monday 5-6

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Homeworks 5 2 10
Preparation for Presentations 1 30 30
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Final exam 1 2 2
Midterm exam 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 133

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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