- •Contents
- •Part 2. Academic writing practice 113
- •Part 3. Texts on interdisciplinary research for abstracting and annotating 132
- •Part 4. Topics for postgraduate exam 156 Supplementary file 162
- •Bibliography 256 Мои интернет-ресурсы 260
- •Методическая записка
- •Диаграмма междисциплинарного пособия по английскому языку
- •Part 1. Discussing scientific issues Unit 1. Modern system of higher education in Russia
- •1 ) Complete these sentences with the key vocabulary words in the form required
- •2) Choose one of the words to complete the sentences
- •3)* This text is from informational booklet about a college. Choose one of two variants in every case.
- •2) Compare engineering educational systems in different countries. Visit the website http://www.Answers.Com/topic/engineer
- •5) Discuss the following questions in pairs or in small groups
- •1) The following sentences are mixed formal and informal. Write f (formal) or I (informal) after each sentence and prove your answer.
- •2) Fill in the gaps of the tables given below with an appropriate word
- •3) Visit the website given below and do a quiz “Formal letter vocabulary”
- •4) Correct the mistakes in the following business letter
- •Unit 2. Universities as scientific centers. My university.
- •I nsert the missing prepositions if necessary
- •2) Fill in the gaps with the words and phrases from the box
- •3) Look at the idioms below. Each one is in some way connected to university life. Match each idiom with its definition.
- •4) Complete the sentences below by using one of the idioms above. Some of them can be used more than once.
- •1) Discuss education in different countries in pairs or in small groups and read short students’ interviews about studying in the uk
- •2)* Decide if the following statements are true or false
- •4) Listen to the recording once again and match words and phrases with their meaning
- •5) Discuss the following questions in pairs or in small groups
- •1) Study the following information about ways of writing a report
- •Outline
- •The Art of the Soluble
- •The Shock of the Not Quite New
- •The early evolution of the telescope
- •1 ) Complete these sentences with the key vocabulary words in the form required
- •2) Study гост 8.417-2002. Единицы величин: http://nolik.Ru/systems/gost.Htm
- •3) Match the name of the physical unit (column a) with its обозначение (column b) and the scientist whose name was given to the unit (Column c)
- •1) Read a short article about history of telecommunication and discuss it in pairs or in small groups
- •2) Match words and phrases from the text with their meaning
- •3 ) Visit the website given below and listen to a telecommunications expert talking about the most recent developments and current situation in this sector.
- •4)* Listen to the recording once again and decide whether the statements are true or false
- •5) Discuss the following questions in pairs or in small groups
- •Outline
- •Introduction
- •3) Work in pairs and check your groupmate’s letter using the criteria for assessment of appendix 8
- •Unit 4. Science and engineering in the modern world
- •The beginning of space race
- •1) Translate the following words and phrases from English into Russian
- •2) Read the short text below. Use the words given in capitals below the passage to form the new words fitting the corresponding spaces in the text.
- •Европейская наука
- •1) Read a short article about url and discuss it in pairs or in small groups
- •2) Analyze the website addresses given below from the point of view of their structural components (See exercise 1 for reference)
- •3 ) Listen to Jason Hadington, an expert in Internet search and discuss the ways of finding information in pairs or in small groups
- •4) Are the following sentences true or false?
- •5)* Match the websites with the information that can be got from them
- •Letter giving information
- •1) Study the following information about ways of writing a letter giving information
- •Outline
- •Introduction
- •3) Work in pairs and check your groupmate’s letter using the Criteria for assessment of appendix 8
- •Sms language
- •1 ) Study brief information about sms / e-mail language and sms / e-mail symbols and compose your sms or e-mail using sms / e-mail language for your classmates.
- •Ask Dr. H: “Who Do You Credit For Your Scientific Interests?”
- •1) Match words and their meaning
- •2) Explain the following abbreviations and acronyms, translate them in Russian
- •3) Find the words and phrases in the text which are synonymic to the following once:
- •4)* Read a short article about nanotechnology and fill in the gaps with the correct word or phrase from the box
- •Nanotechnology
- •Visual aid
- •1) Read a short article about visual aid
- •2 ) Listen to the conversation about using visuals in a presentation
- •3) Listen to the conversation again and fill in the gaps
- •5) Discuss the following questions in pairs or in small group?
- •1) Study the following information about ways of writing a letter of apology
- •Outline
- •Introduction
- •2) Look through the letter of apology given below and define a topic of each paragraph
- •3) Choose one of the following situations a) or b) to write a letter of apology
- •4) Work in pairs and check your groupmate’s letter using the Criteria for assessment of appendix 8
- •How to Find Mechanical Engineering Jobs
- •The future of engineering in Russia
- •1 ) Translate the following words and phrases from Russian into English
- •2)* Insert the missing prepositions if necessary
- •3) Fill the gaps with the words and phrases from the box. The meaning of the missing word or phrase is in the brackets.
- •Study the diagram of ways of finding a job and discuss it in pairs or in small groups
- •Employment agencies
- •Job fair
- •2 ) Listen to the tips of successful job interview
- •3) Listen to the tape once again and fill in the gaps
- •3) Discuss the following questions in pairs or in small groups
- •1) Study the following information about ways of writing
- •Interests and achievements
- •Outline
- •Interests
- •2) Imagine you have seen a job advertisement and really want to apply for this job. Prepare your cv, use appendix 7 for sample of cv.
- •1 ) Visit the website given below and a job advertisement for engineers you are interested in. Prepare your cv for this advertisement.
- •Moscow Region to get its own collider
- •1) Read the article once again, find international words, and fill up the following table
- •2) Using a dictionary translate the following words and explain their meaning
- •3) Highlight the following words in the text:
- •1) Read a short article about electrical engineering and its inventions and answer the questions given below.
- •3)* Are the following sentences true or false?
- •1) Study the following information about ways of writing a letter of application
- •Outline
- •Introduction
- •2) Arrange the following extracts from a letter of application
- •3) Here are job advertisements. Look through these advertisements, choose one of them,
- •2) Imagine that you are a young scientist and have made a very important invention. But how to patent it? Compose a brief presentation «How to patent an invention/idea» using the following website
- •Turning up the heat on quantum mechanics
- •1)* Match words and phrases from the text with their meaning
- •2) Insert the missing prepositions if necessary
- •Плавящийся при охлаждении кремний создан учёными
- •1) Read a short article about computer science
- •2) Listen to an interview of James Heather, a lecturer in computer science at the University of Surry, speaking about his invention and fill in the gaps
- •3) Answer the questions
- •1) Study the following information about ways of writing a cover letter
- •Outline
- •Introduction
- •2) Write a cover letter for cv you have already written in previous units. Use appendix 7 for sample of cover letter.
- •W riting a scholarly article
- •Unit 9. Great scientific events of the modern world
- •The Nobel Prizes
- •1 ) Translate the following words and phrases from Russian into English
- •2)* Insert the missing prepositions if necessary
- •3) Complete these sentences with the key vocabulary words in the form required
- •1) Visit website of Clay Mathematics Institute (cmi) http://www.Claymath.Org/poincare/index.Html
- •2) Watch John Tate's and Michael Atiyah's lectures on the Millennium Problems
- •1) Read a short article about graphene, the invention that got Nobel Prize in 2010
- •2 ) Visit the website given below, watch and listen to Willard s. Boyle’ s Nobel Speech about his invention
- •3) Listen to the tape once again and fill in the gaps
- •4) Prepare a report to compare the importance of invention of graphene and ccd – an extension of man’s vision for science and people
- •1) Study the following information about ways of writing a reference letter
- •Outline
- •Introduction
- •Unit 10. International supporting programs for students and young scientists
- •The Young Scientist Program
- •Support Program for Students, Graduate Students, and Young Scientists
- •Give Young Scientists a Break
- •1 ) Translate the following words and phrases from English into Russian
- •2) Insert the missing prepositions if necessary
- •Программы поддержки и гранты для научной молодежи
- •1) Read a short article about hbs given below
- •2) Visit the website given below to listen to the interview with PreMba Program Administrators and a Participating Student
- •3)* Are the following statements true or false?
- •4) Discuss the following questions in pairs or in small groups
- •1) Study the following information about ways of writing a letter of complaint
- •Outline
- •Introduction
- •3) Work in pairs and check your groupmate’s letter using the Criteria for assessment of appendix 8
- •1 ) Visit the website of the Polytechnical University and compose a brief presentation about international activity of our university. Use appendix 4 to evaluate your groupmate’s presentation.
- •Unit 11. Science and global problems
- •Global Warming
- •1 ) * Translate the following English words and phrases
- •2) Insert the missing prepositions if necessary
- •3) Complete the following table. Use the dictionary if necessary
- •4) Complete the text by choosing a word from the table
- •Глобальные проблемы современности
- •1) Read a short article about greenhouse effect
- •2) Visit the website given below to listen to the radio talk about causes and effects of climate change
- •3) Are the following statements true or false? If the sentence is false give the correct answer.
- •4) Discuss the following questions in pairs or in small groups
- •Outline
- •Writing the draft
- •1 ) Prepare a presentation about the things we can do to reduce global warming. You can use the website address given below to get more information.
- •2) Visit the website address
- •Scientific misconduct
- •Forms of scientific misconduct
- •1) Mach the words from the text with their definitions
- •2) Insert the missing prepositions if necessary
- •3)* Fill in the gaps with the words and phrases from the table
- •Ethics and science
- •4) Complete the following table. Use a dictionary if necessary
- •1) Study and discuss the following definition of science and the schematic diagram below
- •2) Listen to Laura Grant speaking about education of science
- •3) Are the following sentences true or false?
- •4) Listen to the tape once again and fill in the gaps
- •5) Discuss the following questions in pairs or in small groups
- •1) Study the following information about ways of writing an agenda
- •Outline
- •Part 2. Academic writing practice Preparing grant proposal
- •1. Cover sheet
- •2. Table of contents
- •3. Project summary
- •4. Project description
- •5. Reference cited
- •6. Biographical sketches
- •7. Budget
- •Writing a scholarly article
- •I. Prewriting
- •II. Literature review
- •III. Citations. Quotations, paraphrases and summaries
- •IV. Writing the draft
- •V. Revision of the final draft
- •Part 3. Texts on interdisciplinary research for abstracting and annotating
- •Carbon nanotubes: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
- •Prizewinning nanoparticle based ‘sharkskin’ for aeroplanes, ships and wind energy plants
- •Pyrolysis and gasification of food waste: syngas characteristics and char gasification kinetics
- •1. Introduction
- •2. Background
- •3. Experimental
- •4. Results and discussion
- •5. Conclusions
- •Validation of a model-based virtual trials method for tight glycemic control in intensive care
- •Introduction
- •Validation Analysis
- •Insertable surgical imaging device with pan, tilt, zoom, and lighting
- •I. Introduction
- •II. Prototype Device
- •III. Experiments and Results
- •IV. Conclusions and future work
- •Instability of pump-turbines during start-up in turbine mode
- •Introduction
- •1. Numerical flow simulation
- •2. Validation
- •3. Procedures to analyze fluxes
- •4. Results
- •5. Conclusions
- •Сделай сам: четырехколесный WiFi Robot на базе Mini-itx «материнки»
- •Ученые создали имплантируемую биологическую антенну для мониторинга организма
- •Проблема создания нанороботов
- •Вибрационные ветровые панели как альтернатива ветровым турбинам
- •Графен: материал будущего, или головная боль для ученых?
- •О возможности оптимизации инвестиционной политики при замене электрооборудования
- •Part 4. Topics for postgraduate exam List of topics for post-graduate exam
- •My scientific interests. My research diploma project.
- •Global problems and ways of their solution
- •3. Modern system of higher education in Russia
- •4. St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University as a scientific center. My department.
- •Contemporary scientific events
- •Researches, discoveries and innovations in English-speaking countries
- •Researches, discoveries and innovations in Russia
- •Prospects of work in my professional field
- •Supplementary file
- •Appendix 1. Additional articles
- •Text 1. Undergraduate Education: Types of Schools
- •Text 2 Educating the nation
- •Text 3
- •Unit 2 Science matters! The importance of scientific literacy.
- •Unit 3 Text 1. How the Hubble Telescope Will Die
- •Text 2. A Brief History of Engineering
- •Unit 4 Text 1. Computer and computer science
- •Text 2. The century-old artifact that defines the kilogram, the fundamental unit of mass, is to be replaced by a more accurate standards based on an invariant property of nature
- •Unit 5 The importance of physics: breakthroughs drive economy, quality of life
- •Unit 6 Career of engineer
- •Unit 7 Text 1. Science in Russia
- •Text 2. Smart Russia
- •Unit 8 High-energy Large Hadron Collider results published
- •Unit 9 The Millennium Prize for resolution of the Poincaré conjecture History and Background
- •Unit 10 Meeting with scientists
- •Unit 11 Climate changes
- •Unit 12 Speculations on the future of science
- •Appendix 2. Power Point presentation
- •Appendix 3. Strategies for oral presentations
- •8. Write your own humorous material.
- •Appendix 4. Oral presentation evaluation form
- •Introduction
- •Visual aids
- •Appendix 5. Body language
- •Appendix 6. Samples of grant proposal documents
- •Irex Special Projects in Library and Information Science with Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia
- •Initial Goals
- •Appendix 7. Samples of business letters Structure of formal letter
- •Structure of informal letter
- •Sample of report
- •Site accident report
- •Introduction
- •Sample of letter of request
- •Sample of letter giving information
- •Sample of letter of apology
- •Sample of cv (Curriculum Vitae)
- •5) Affiliations:
- •Sample of letter of application
- •Sample of cover letter
- •Sample of letter of recommendation
- •Sample of letter of complaint
- •1) What is the topic of each paragraph?
- •2) Is it formal or informal letter? Is it mild or strong? Prove it.
- •Sample of memo
- •A) Company health club b) New general manager c) New sales manager d) Closure of cafeteria e) Meeting postponed f) Conference rooms
- •Sample of agenda
- •Appendix 8. Criteria for letter assessment
- •Appendix 9. Computer-assisted language learning environment
- •Example of the task fulfilled with the use of British National Corpus
- •Appendix 10. Guidelines for synopses and annotations
- •Appendix 11. Written practice exercises
- •Unit 10
- •Unit 11 Revision
- •Unit 12 Revision
- •Appendix 12. Intercultural communication
- •Appendix 13. Tests
- •I. Match words and phrases with their definitions
- •II. Translate the following words and phrases from Russian into English
- •III. Translate the following words and phrases from English into Russian
- •IV. Fill in the gaps with the words and phrases from the box
- •V. Answer the questions
- •I. Match words and phrases with their definitions
- •II. Translate the following words and phrases from Russian into English
- •III. Translate the following words and phrases from English into Russian
- •IV. Fill in the gaps with the words and phrases from the box
- •V. Answer the questions
- •Appendix 14. Key to tasks for self-checking
- •Bibliography
Unit 2. Universities as scientific centers. My university.
Warm-up
(Scientific) research centre Research laboratory Experimental design bureau To conduct/perform/carry out/do an experiment Conduct/do research Discovery and breakthrough Pioneering work
To present findings Submit a paper/ an article Peer-reviewed journal To hold conference/ seminar /congress Organizing committee Proceedings of the conference Publishing house Postgraduate study/student To defend thesis/dissertation Doctoral studies International cooperation in solving scientific problems Programs of support of young scientists |
Научно-исследовательский центр Научно-исследовательская лаборатория Опытно-конструкторское бюро Проводить эксперимент
Проводить исследование Открытие и прорыв Пионерская работа (в определенной области) Представлять результаты Представлять статью для публикации Рецензируемый журнал Проводить конференцию/семинар Оргкомитет Материалы конференции Издательство Аспирантура/ аспирант Защитить диссертацию Докторантура Международное сотрудничество в решении научных проблем Программы поддержки молодых ученых |
1 . What do you know about your university / its history and traditions? When was it found?
2. Why was it difficult for you to enter the Polytechnical University? Why not?
3. In what way is university life different from school life?
4. Why do you like the system of education at the Polytechnical University? Why not? What would you like to change in the educational system of your university?
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
B ackground
MIT is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research.
Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, the institute adopted the European polytechnic university model and emphasized laboratory instruction from an early date. MIT's early emphasis on applied technology at the undergraduate and graduate levels led to close cooperation with industry but curricular reforms under Karl Compton and Vannevar Bush in the 1930s re-emphasized basic scientific research. MIT was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1934 and researchers were involved in efforts to develop computers, radar, and inertial guidance in connection with defense research during World War II and the Cold War. Post-war defense research contributed to the rapid expansion of the faculty and campus under James Killian.
MIT enrolled 4,232 undergraduates and 6,152 graduate students for 2009–2010. It employs about 1,009 faculty members. 76 Nobel Laureates, 50 National Medal of Science recipients, and 35 MacArthur Fellows are currently or have previously been affiliated with the university. MIT has a strong entrepreneurial culture and the aggregated revenues of companies founded by MIT alumni would be the seventeenth largest economy in the world. MIT managed $718.2 million in research expenditures and an $8.0 billion endowment in 2009.
The Engineers sponsor 33 sports, most teams of which compete in the NCAA Division III's New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference; the Division I rowing programs compete as part of the EARC and EAWRC.
Research
MIT was elected to the Association of American Universities in 1934 and remains a research university with a very high level of research activity; research expenditures totaled $718.2 million in 2009.
In electronics, magnetic core memory, radar, single electron transistors, and inertial guidance controls were invented or substantially developed by MIT researchers. In the domain of computer science, MIT faculty and researchers made fundamental contributions to cybernetics, artificial intelligence, computer languages, machine learning, robotics, and cryptography.
Current and previous physics faculty have won eight Nobel Prizes, four Dirac Medals, and three Wolf Prizes predominantly for their contributions to subatomic and quantum theory. In the domain of humanities, arts, and social sciences, MIT economists have been awarded five Nobel Prizes and nine John Bates Clark Medals Linguists Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle authored seminal texts on generative grammar and phonology. The MIT Media Lab, founded in 1985 within the School of Architecture and Planning and known for its unconventional research has been home to influential researchers such as constructivist educator and Logo creator Seymour Papert.
Activities
MIT has over 380 recognized student activity groups, including a campus radio station, The Tech student newspaper, an annual entrepreneurship competition, and weekly screenings of popular films by the Lecture Series Committee. Less traditional activities include the "world's largest open-shelf collection of science fiction" in English, a model railroad club, and a vibrant folk dance scene. Students, faculty, and staff are involved in over 50 educational outreach and public service programs through the MIT Museum, Edgerton Center, and MIT Public Service Center. The Independent Activities Period is a four-week long "term" offering hundreds of optional classes, lectures, demonstrations, and other activities throughout the month of January between the Fall and Spring semesters. Some of the most popular recurring IAP activities are the 6.270, 6.370, and MasLab competitions, the annual "mystery hunt", and Charm School. Students also have the opportunity of pursuing externships at companies in the U.S. and abroad. Many MIT students also engage in "hacking," which encompasses both the physical exploration of areas that are generally off-limits (such as rooftops and steam tunnels), as well as elaborate practical jokes. Recent hacks have included the theft of Caltech's cannon, reconstructing a Wright Flyer atop the Great Dome, and adorning the John Harvard statue with the Master Chief's Spartan Helmet. It is a popular misconception and myth though that MIT students have the hobby of creatively editing Wikipedia articles.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology