Journal Club

Discussion of releveant journal articles

During the fall and spring semesters, M.D.-ERL researchers meet together for 1 hour to discuss relevant archival journal articles. The purpose of this literature review course is to promote learning from and critical scrutiny of electrokinetics and microdevice literature alongside your research efforts. The discussion of articles tangentially related to your research will benefit you by increasing the breadth of your knowledge. Your depth of understanding and retention of articles in your own research area will increase as you practice and prepare for leading discussions within the forum. The discussion questions will increase the depth of your knowledge in electrokinetics. In addition, your involvement in discussions will teach you to think critically and will aid in developing your own experiments and skills. More specifically, after completion of the course, you will be able to:

• Critically read current literature in electrokinetics and microdevices.
• Lead a discussion on a research article.
• Demonstrate the ability to adapt techniques from articles into your own lab work.
• Critique techniques and conclusions asserted in the literature.
• Conduct a literature search and obtain articles available on-campus and off-campus.
• Analyze data to determine trends and present this to the group.
• Compile a survey of literature on a subject and organize it for oral presentations and
• Write a research article using your survey of the literature and the articles presented / discussed during the semester.

A full syllabus for this course is available here.

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