rbtl

Research Beyond the Lab: Open Science and Research Methods for a Global Engineer

Offered for the first time in 2022, we will teach a revised version of this course in spring 2024. We designed this course to teach learners how to conduct a research project out of the lab, and apply Open Science principles to their data analysis projects.

Course catalogue:
https://www.vorlesungen.ethz.ch/Vorlesungsverzeichnis/lerneinheit.viewsemkez=2024S&ansicht=KATALOGDATEN&lerneinheitId=176668&lang=en

Over the course of the semester, students will develop a research project and learn the necessary quantitative methods required to collect data from people. We will use tidyverse R packages to work with data, git and GitHub as tools for version control and collaboration, and Quarto publishing system for scientific writing. By the end of the course, students will have a complete overview of how a typical research project is designed, implemented, analysed, and communicated.

All materials are published as external [Open Educational Resources with permissive licenses through GitHub](external page https://github.com/rbtl-dev/). For students, these course materials are available as public websites:

- FS22: external page https://rbtl-fs22.github.io/website/
- FS24: external page https://rbtl-fs24.github.io/website/ .