I am currently doing data collection, running experiments and doing some basic analysis, by myself on an apparatus set up by a Masters Student for his thesis. The data is going to be used in a publication by our supervisor. Does it seem fair for me to *request* authorship? or it inquire what degree of additional work would be required for it? The project is a very small, but novel, thermodynamics experiment (i'm in chemical engineering), currently there are the following people working on it:
Two professors (one tenured, one not) serving as joint supervisors (the tenured one is basically just lending his opinion, and his lab space to the other)
One master student
Two undergrads (including me)
I have an NSERC USRA to do this work, and have completed maybe about 20-25% of the trials on my own (its really more tedious then difficult)... but have contributed probably less than 5% of the hours into it...
/edit/ NSERC is the National Science and Engineering Research Council, and a USRA is an Undergraduate Summer Research Award... just in case it isn't know,... since I'm Canadian... /edit/
We have regular meetings where I join the discussion with the Prof about figures, comparisons to industry examples of similar technologies, and ways to commercialize our product (our? his? i dunno... the product I guess lol).
Does this seem like enough to merit the request, or would that be offensive? What if I clarify that its for medical school application, and I'm willing to increase my responsibility accordingly?
thoughts?
What is *enough* when it comes to authorship? because I've heard of people doing the dishes and getting a mention... as like a 14th author -___-;;
Two professors (one tenured, one not) serving as joint supervisors (the tenured one is basically just lending his opinion, and his lab space to the other)
One master student
Two undergrads (including me)
I have an NSERC USRA to do this work, and have completed maybe about 20-25% of the trials on my own (its really more tedious then difficult)... but have contributed probably less than 5% of the hours into it...
/edit/ NSERC is the National Science and Engineering Research Council, and a USRA is an Undergraduate Summer Research Award... just in case it isn't know,... since I'm Canadian... /edit/
We have regular meetings where I join the discussion with the Prof about figures, comparisons to industry examples of similar technologies, and ways to commercialize our product (our? his? i dunno... the product I guess lol).
Does this seem like enough to merit the request, or would that be offensive? What if I clarify that its for medical school application, and I'm willing to increase my responsibility accordingly?
thoughts?
What is *enough* when it comes to authorship? because I've heard of people doing the dishes and getting a mention... as like a 14th author -___-;;
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