As I wrote in my very first post, research is not like making homework. In fact, even though a PhD is the third cycle of higher education (especially when taking coursework), there is large difference between studying and doing research.…
Most of the time, I present in English, but every now and then I gt to talk in my native language. It's a strange sensation that talking about my research in my mother tongue takes me slightly more effort than…
There are a few websites I regularly check to see if there's an interesting conference coming up to which I should submit an abstract. These are:ACI: International conferencesfib eventsASCE ConferencesAfter attending a few conferences, I now also receive calls for…
Today, I'm exactly halfway the time it is supposed to take me to finish my PhD. Looking back at the past two years, and thinking of what still needs to be done, I find it hard to tell if I…
I spend most of my time in the laboratory to destroy slabs - but before doing so, we first have to make our specimens.The slabs I'm testing are reinforced concrete slabs, which are cast in timber formwork in the laboratory…
Have you ever been in the following situation?You have selected a conference you would like to attend, and you have all the information you need for writing the abstract (the conference topic which suits your work, the maximum amount of…
This book is written for any student undertaking research for the first time. Although the book seems to be written from the perspective of social sciences, there is good information for science and engineering students in it as well.The first…
Writing a doctoral dissertation is a large task, but not the only large task to face during the PhD. A few examples include:- writing an article,- preparing a research report,- the literature review itself,- developing a method,- ...One way to…
The past 5 days, I've been completely immersed into replying reviewers' comments to a paper which will be published as a special publication after a conference in October.Previously, I did receive some comments from reviewers for other conference papers, but…
Last week, I attended the fib Symposium 2011 in Prague, and presented some of my experimental results in the Friday morning session on Construction Technology. The full paper is published on the CD proceedings, and the short version of 4…
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