报告人：Bingwen YAN
地点：学术报告厅
报告内容：
Seminar 1 (3 class-hours): 7月4日上午 (9:00-11:30)
Content：WRITING ARTICLES FOR JOURNAL PUBLICATION
• Importance of writing for publication
• Reviewing first draft for publication
• Time management
• Techniques for being an effective writer
• Processes involved in preparing the publication
• Rewriting the paper based on author guidelines of the relevant journal

Seminar 2 (3 class-hours): 7月4日下午(2:00-4:30)
Content：HOW TO WRITE A GOOD RESEARCH PROPOSAL
• Basic structure of a research proposal
• Formulating research questions/hypotheses and research objectives
• How to write literature review
• Research design and methodology
• Reasons of research proposal failure
• Anticipated Results
• Ethical issues

Workshop 3 (3 class-hours): 7月5日上午 (9:00-11:30)
Content: QUALITATIVE RESEARCH DESIGN AND ANALYSIS
• Overview of qualitative research methods
• Qualitative research characteristics
• Qualitative research designs
• Data ****ysis examples
• Validity and reliability
• Software packages for qualitative ****ysis
o ATLAS.ti, NUD*IST, Nvivo, etc.
o Ethics in Qualitative Data Analysis

Workshop 4 (3 class-hours): 7月5日下午(2:00-4:30)
Content: QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH DESIGN AND ANALYSIS
• Understanding qualitative research
• The market research process
• Research questions and research design
• Basic statistics
• Data ****ysis
• Validity and reliability
• Statistical Tests
• Data ****ysis examples (SPSS)

报告人介绍：Dr. Bingwen Yan is a Senior Lecturer in CPUT, Bellville Campus. He is a Member of Executive Research & Ethical Committee, Teaching & Learning Coordinator, Curriculum Development Officer, Member of Advisory Board. Supervising both Doctoral and Masters students; lecturing core subjects in Operations Management; attending regular research committee meetings, coordinating teaching and learning matters; attending curriculum forum and contributing to the development of institutional curriculums and programs; developing new curriculum and revising the existing program; advising the department on the projects relevant to industry. On October 2015, he served as a Session Chair of IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management (IEEM).