DOCTORAL TRAINING CENTER FOR SOFT SKILLS

MIPT DTC at the Language Training and Testing Center

Welcome Video

DTC Director— Еlena Bazanova

Communication

Problem solving

Creativity

Curiosity

Leadership

Public Speaking

Communication Skills

The ability to communicate involves knowing how you should speak to others in different situations or settings. For example, when working with a team on a project, you may need to communicate when you believe an idea or process is ineffective. Finding a way to tactfully and skillfully disagree with others on the job without creating conflict is an important skill that employers value.

Problem-Solving Skills

Employers highly value people who can resolve issues quickly and effectively. That may involve calling on industry knowledge to fix an issue immediately as it occurs, or taking time to research and consult with colleagues to find a scalable, long-term solution.

Creativity Skills

Creativity is a broad ability incorporating many different skill sets including other soft skills and technical skills. Employees with creativity can find new ways to perform tasks, improve processes or even develop new and exciting avenues for the business to explore. Creativity can be used in any role at any level.

Curiosity Skill

Curiosity plays a vital role in searching for meaning and coordination with the present as a precondition for effective decision-making and the exchange of views/knowledge. The recording and exchange of lessons and the detection of the most appropriate technique are skills that we find very useful in all aspects of our lives. The skill of curiosity is a basic condition.

Leadership Skills

Leadership skills are skills you use when organizing other people to reach a shared goal. Whether you’re in a management position or leading a project, leadership skills require you to motivate others to complete a series of tasks, often according to a schedule. Leadership is not just one skill but rather a combination of several different skills working together.

Public Speaking Skills

Public-speaking skills enable an individual to be comfortable when addressing groups ranging from small meetings to large auditoriums. Strong public-speaking skills are useful to professionals in a broad range of fields. Improving your public speaking abilities makes you a more appealing applicant when seeking a new job and more effective as an employee at your current position. In this article, you’ll learn about the most important public speaking skills to possess, how to improve your skills as a public speaker and how to demonstrate those skills to a potential employer.

COURSES

International Research Writing and Presentation Skills

Course aims to develop effective skills in English-language academic speech, scientific writing, and digital content presentation of research results in international conferences and peer-reviewed journals.

Proposal Writing, Project Management and Funding Sources

Course aims to develop effective competence, skills and abilities in proposal writing, project management and understanding the bases for attracting and searching funding for research/ educational idea.

Grant Proposal

Course provides guidance on developing a strong application that will allow reviewers to better evaluate the science and merit of your proposal. You will learn how to put your ideas into proper words, arrange a clear and concise paper and search grant market for potential funder. You will also learn how to react to negative feedback from reviewers and resubmit your proposal. The course focuses on useful project management tools and possible budget pitfalls.

Technical Writing

The course develops technical writing skills necessary to communicate information gained through a process of technical or experimental work. The course highlights the factors that determine the degree of technicality of the language and concepts involved. You will learn how to write different technical reports, e.g., laboratory reports, research reports, design and feasibility reports, progress reports, consulting reports, etc. The course also approaches several language, structure, style, and content issues that you can encounter while reporting the results of your research.

Critical Thinking for Engineers

To tackle increasingly difficult engineering problems, engineers require more than just technical knowledge. To this end, there is a need for engineers to develop their critical thinking and abstract thought to complement their technical expertise. The course introduces students to critical thinking from an engineer’s perspective. The primary focus is on the process of conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication.

Academic Literacy

The course is an introduction to what you need to know about academic discourse. You’ll gain important critical reading skills to help you develop as a self-critical scientific writer. You will learn practical tools and effective strategies for increasing your academic vocabulary and grammar so that you will write well-structured coherent academic texts.

Scholarly Communication

Scholarly Communication is a concise but comprehensive course on how to write research papers in English. The course will help the candidates gain a better understanding of the rhetorical conventions of English and the common challenges the candidates may face as an academic writer. The course provides instruction, exercises, structure, and deadlines needed to create a publishable paper.

Corpus-Based Engineering English for Professional Communication

The course develops students’ enhanced understanding of Engineering English based on the principles of a good technical text: technical accuracy, usefulness, conciseness, completeness, clearness, consistency, correct spelling, grammar and punctuation. It allows students to perform their own language analyses with the help of computer concordancing programs that are aimed at identifying formulaic multi-word units, or word partnerships, in which certain words co-occur in a natural text with greater than random frequency.

Literature for Tech-Minded

The course introduces students to the fiction that would be good for engineers to read to reflect on their professional role in society and as individuals. The course prepares students to face challenges when they are to manage project groups and be leaders for organizations because such positions demand skills in social competence and empathy. Also, the course encourages students to sharpen their thinking and make it more complex to see patterns and connections in other fields.

Writing Technical Documentation

The course focuses on the conventional format for reporting the results of research, investigations, and design projects. It provides information on how to write different technical documentation, e.g., laboratory reports, research reports, design and feasibility reports, progress reports, consulting reports, the results of an investigative study, or the solution to a design problem. The course also focuses on audience, purpose, and measures of excellence in technical documents.

Writing a Patent Application

The course introduces students to the disclosure of a patent specification, which is a techno-legal document that establishes novelty and non-obviousness of an invention. The course covers basic prerequisites of patentability, namely, novelty, inventiveness, industrial applicability, and sufficiency of disclosure. The course also provides clear guidelines for transforming an invention into technical contents of patent applications.

Engineering Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is of particular importance for engineers as they have to work with people outside of their field. To become a truly great engineering manager, one needs to develop a strong ability to recognize and manage emotions of others while solving problems or making decisions. This course is organized around a methodology that helps students progress from personal awareness and knowledge to interpersonal development and organizational development.

Professional Writing In the Workplace

Professional writing in the workplace reflects rhetorical constraints associated with three professions—engineering, administration, and technical writing. Engineering writing responds to professional values of scientific objectivity and professional judgment as well as to corporate interests. Administrative writing reflects decisionmaking authority and promotes institutional identity. Technical writing accommodates audience needs through complying with professional readability standards.

Writing for the Media

Writing for social media and the news media, engineers must convey their messages concisely, confidently, and memorably. This takes strategy, good storytelling skills, and the ability to focus on the essential information. This course is for students who want to strengthen their writing skills and develop their authentic voices as professionals. The course provides strategies turning technical jargon into a distilled message that captures online readers' attention.

Editing

Ethics and Social Issues In Engineering Sciences

The course explores ethical and social aspects of engineering. It examines standards and ethical issues in research and practice, extending to the effects of innovation on society at large. It also contextualizes human rights concepts and theories in engineering practice. Finally, the course develops students’ knowledge of problematic issues, ethical principles, and main regulations as well as skills for analyzing and integrating the professional responsibility criteria in specific engineering solutions.

OUR TEAM

Elena Bazanova,
PhD, assosiate professor

Director, trainer

Elena Sokolova,
PhD, assosiate professor

Trainer

Alexandra Rudakova

Trainer

Irina Obukhova

Project Manager

Evgenia Lebedeva

Educational Programs Coordinator

Marina Fomina

Educational Programs Coordinator

Address

30, building 8, Pervomayskaya str., Dolgoprudny
Moscow Region, 141700
Russian Federation

Contact e-mail

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Telephone

+7-(498)-744-65-67