Conducting an engineering research
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Methodology for Engineering Research: This module shares the knowledge and experience related to conducting research in civil engineering fields.
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0. Module overview: Conducting Engineering Research
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1.1 Introduction to research
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1.2 Aim of engineering research
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1.3 Type of engineering research
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1.4 The research process
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1.5 Criteria for a good research
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2.1 Attribution and Citation
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2.2 Inappropriate citation and rules of citing
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2.3 Factors affecting citation rate
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2.4 Type of title describing a research
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2.5 Writing acknowledgement
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2.6 Ethics in Engineering Research
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2.7 Research misconduct
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2.8 Ethical issues related to authorship
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2.9 Retraction of article
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2.10 Reasons of article retraction
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2.11 Academic fraud incident
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3.1 Literature review
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3.2 Doing literature review
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3.3 Steps of literature review
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3.4 Network searching from reference list
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3.5 Analysing and Synthesizing prior arts
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3.6 Effective search for article
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3.7 Type of publication source
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3.8 Process of effective search
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3.9 Identifying research gap
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3.10 Skills of searching and reading articles
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3.11 Technical reading
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3.12 Technique of reading
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3.13 Sections of paper and the purpose
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3.14 Conceptualizing research
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3.15 Critical reading
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3.16 Taking notes while reading research article
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3.17 Reading mathematics
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3.18 Personal experience with Literature Review
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3.20 Doing Literature Review one task at a time
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4.1 Introduction to technical writing
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4.2 Technical writing
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4.3 Writing style
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4.4 Writing Strategies
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4.5 Paragraphing
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4.7 Writing titles of technical writing
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4.8 Example title for technical writing
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4.9 Appropriate terms in title
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4.10 Constructing title
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4.11 Authors of technical writing
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4.12 Writing abstract
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4.13 Components of abstract
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4.14 Writing an introduction
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4.15 Writing literature review
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4.16 Question asked during literature review
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4.17 Template for literature review
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4.18 Organization of literature review
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4.19 Literature review: emphasize on concepts
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4.20 Critical review of literature
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4.21 Meta analysis for literature review
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4.22 Example Literature Review
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4.23 Methodology of a research study
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4.24 Methodology
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4.25 Example flow chart for methodology
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4.27 Data collection plan
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4.28 Planning the variables
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4.29 Example planning for analysis
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4.30 Work schedule
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4.31 Example material specifications
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4.32 Example material specification
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4.33 Know the limitations of research
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4.34 Approaches to conduct research
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4.35 Results of investigative program
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4.36 Use of table and figure
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4.37 Example results
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4.38 Strategies of anaysing results
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4.39 Research depth and standard
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4.40 Verification vs Validation
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4.41 Discussion
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4.42 Writing discussion and example
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4.43 Writing conclusion
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4.45 Dos and don'ts while writing conclusions
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4.46 Language skills, writing style, and editing
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4.47 Tenses in academic writing
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4.48 Tenses by sections
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4.49 Subject verb agreement
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4.50 Modal verbs
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4.51 Pronoun reference
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4.52 Active and passive voice
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4.53 Rules of mathematical writing
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4.54 Recommendations for mathematical writing
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4.55 Common sentence problems
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4.56 Common punctuation problems
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4.57 Commonly misused words and phrases
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4.58 Use of evaluative words
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4.59 Do's of technical writing
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4.60 Do's of technical writing 2
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4.61 Don'ts of technical writing
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4.62 Strategies of technical writing
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4.63 Paraphrasing, summarizing and quoting
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4.64 Selection of journal publisher
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4.65 Stages of revising technical writing
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5.1 Tools for technical writings
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5.2 Submitting to journals for publication
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5.3 Publish articles and get cited
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5.4 Peer review process
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5.5 Bibliometric measures
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6.1 Presenting research work
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6.2 Flow of presentation
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6.3 Good practices of presentation
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6.4 Knowing the priority in presentation
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6.5 Advisable sequence of preparing presentation slides
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6.6 Common mistakes of given presentation
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6.7 Presentation slide vs verbal explanation
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6.8 Example presentation slides
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6.9 Rules of slide design
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6.10 Do's and dont's of oral presentation
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7.1 Members in a research team
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7.2 Postdoctoral researchers
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7.3 Finding a research supervisor
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7.4 Planning a research project
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7.5 Keeping research records
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7.6 Seeking helps in research
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7.7 Thesis proposal and proposal defence
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7.8 Possible outcome of proposal defence
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7.9 Evaluation for thesis proposal and proposal defence
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7.10 Rubrics assessment
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7.11 Circumstances that fail a proposal defence
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7.12 Thesis and viva presentation
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7.13 Thesis vs dissertation
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7.14 Comparison of final year project, master and phD
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7.15 Verification and validation process for master and phd research projects
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7.16 How frequent should you meet your supervisor?
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7.17 Dealing with incompetent supervisor?
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7.18 Supervisor who corrects my grammar?
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7.19 My supervisor that motivates too much?
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7.20 Supervisor's expectation is too high?
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7.21 Supervisor always ask for papers?
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8.1 Knowing your laboratory
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8.2 The strong floor system in heavy structure lab
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8.3 Portal frames for heavy structure lab testing
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8.4 Test setup in heavy structure lab
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8.5 Actuator system for heavy structure lab testing
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8.6 Data acquisition system
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8.7 Calibration of measuring instrument
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8.8 Lifting machines
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8.9 Universal testing machine
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8.10 Standards for experimental works
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8.11 Fabrication and disposal of specimens
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8.12 Concluding remarks
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3.21 How I do literature review 1
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3.22 How I do literature review 2
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3.23 How I do literature review 3
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3.24 How I do literature review 4
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