Scientific Writing in Engineering helps scientists, engineers, and students of all academic levels efficiently write scientific texts, such as scientific articles, conference papers, theses, reports, and research proposals. Drawing from long-time experience in academic teaching, the authors walk the readers through scientific writing step by step all the way from a blank first page to complete manuscripts. A comprehensive list of concise recommendations and more than one hundred examples, taken from real-life scientific texts, offer readers the chance to draw easy analogies between own scientific texts and the examples provided in this book. The elaborate recommendations, with emphasis on specific characteristics of writing in engineering sciences, serve as complete self-study material that renders the book a practical guide to effective scientific writing. Readers will enhance their knowledge on structuring scientific texts and will learn to avoid pitfalls in use of English, including grammatical and syntactical phenomena. Readers are given the opportunity to handle non-textual elements in scientific writing, such as figures as well as mathematical equations and formulas. Finally, the book provides detailed discussions on citing and referencing along with recommendations on formal electronic correspondence.
Scientific Writing in Engineering helps scientists, engineers, and students of all academic levels efficiently write scientific texts, such as scientific articles, conference papers, theses, reports, and research proposals. Drawing from long-time experience in academic teaching, the authors walk the readers through scientific writing step by step all the way from a blank first page to complete manuscripts. A comprehensive list of concise recommendations and more than one hundred examples, taken from real-life scientific texts, offer readers the chance to draw easy analogies between own scientific texts and the examples provided in this book. The elaborate recommendations, with emphasis on specific characteristics of writing in engineering sciences, serve as complete self-study material that renders the book a practical guide to effective scientific writing. Readers will enhance their knowledge on structuring scientific texts and will learn to avoid pitfalls in use of English, including grammatical and syntactical phenomena. Readers are given the opportunity to handle non-textual elements in scientific writing, such as figures as well as mathematical equations and formulas. Finally, the book provides detailed discussions on citing and referencing along with recommendations on formal electronic correspondence.
Über den Autor
Kay Smarsly is a Professor and Director of the Institute of Digital and Autonomous Construction at Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, and has authored/co-authored more than 200 papers in international journals, books, and conference proceedings. He is a reviewer of numerous international scholarly journals, conferences, and funding institutions and is teaching in undergraduate programs, graduate programs, and advanced training programs. From 1996 to 2002, he studied Civil Engineering with a specialization in Structural Engineering at Ruhr University Bochum. After research stays at Carnegie Mellon University and Stanford University, he received his doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Ruhr University Bochum in 2008, where he was actively involved in research and teaching until 2010. Professor Smarsly was as a DFG Research Fellow at Stanford University from 2010 to 2013 and at Berlin University of Technology in 2013. In the same year, he was appointed Full Professor of Computing in Civil Engineering at Bauhaus University Weimar. In Weimar, he also held a lectureship within the Bauhaus Academy since 2013, and he was a founding member of the Institute of Computing in Civil Engineering, Mathematics and Building Physics at Bauhaus University Weimar in 2019 and the Institute Director from 2020. In 2021, Professor Smarsly accepted the appointment as Professor and Director at Hamburg University of Technology to set up the newly founded Institute of Digital and Autonomous Construction, located in the Hamburg Innovation Port. Professor Smarsly is a member of several advisory boards of international journals. He is the Chairman of the German Association of Computing in Civil Engineering (GACCE) and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society of Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ISCCBE). Since 2024, Professor Smarsly is a member of the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy of Sciences and Arts.
