2018年04月11日上午，加拿大皇家科学院Keith W Hipel教授应邀在将军路校区自动化学院1号楼403会议室做题为“How to Conduct Original Research in Graduate Studies”的学术报告。会议由自动化学院院长姜斌教授主持，自动化学院部分师生参加了报告会。 

Hipel教授的报告主要从论文选题、论文撰写、审稿回复等方面给出了中肯的指导。

首先，Hipel教授在开场先进行了有奖问答环节，问题设置为历史上重要的科学革新以及相应的科学家的相关知识，第一个答对问题者会得到Hipel教授的小礼物，此环节不仅起到了暖场作用也让大家对创新有了更深刻的认识。而后，Hipel教授就论文撰写进行了详细讲解，从内容、逻辑、语言各个角度对论文的所有部分，包括论文选题、摘要、引言、主要内容、结论和参考文献进行剖析。这些讲解对学术论文写作有很大的指导意义，让在座师生受益匪浅。  

随后，Hipel教授又着重为我们讲解了论文审稿回复方面所要注意的一些问题，关于这个方面在座师生还提出了自己所遇到的这方面的难题，比如：审稿人并不了解作者所研究的方向，给出了一些不合理的意见时该如何处理，Hipel教授对此耐心给出了独到的见解。Hipel教授的讲座幽默风趣，用丰富的案例开阔了师生们的视野，扩展了大家的思路。 

最后，Hipel教授与到场的师生进行了交流互动，耐心解答了师生们所提出的学术问题并与到会师生代表合影。

报告人简介： 

Keith W. Hipel is University Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo where he is Coordinator of the Conflict Analysis Group. He is Former President of the Academy of Science within the Royal Society of Canada, Senior Fellow of the Center for International Governance Innovation, Fellow of the Bafsillie School of International Affairs, and Past-Chair of the Board of Governors of Renison University College. His major research  interests are the development of conflict resolution, multiple criteria decision analysis, time series analysis and other decision-making methodologies for addressing complex interdisciplinary system of systems engineering problems lying at the confluence of society, technology and the environment, with applications in water resources management, hydrology, environmental engineering, energy, and sustainable development. Prof. Hipel is the author or co-author of 5 books, 12 edited books, more than 315 journal papers, as well as many conference and encyclopedia articles (over 13,000 citations; H-index=54, i10-index=247). Dr. Hipel is the recipient of the Officer of the Order of Canada title; Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Eminent Scientist Award; Joseph G. Wohl Outstanding Career Award from the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Society; IEEE SMC Norbert Wiener Award.