Course Info

Mon/Wed 12:00 – 13:15

Goals

This course establishes a foundation on research planning, project management, research methods, and data analysis with a particular focus on mechanical engineering applications. Students will be prepared to conduct independent research as part of a special projects class, a thesis, or voluntary research work. Topics that will be covered: Introduction to engineering research; how to define a research project; how to establish state of the art knowledge; conduct a literature search and to cite literature in a report; data analysis; computational methods and coding, high performance computing; data visualization; how to write a discussion of a paper; statistical analysis.

Syllabus

Week	Topic
1	Introduction to engineering research and identification of applications relevant to society
2	How to define a research project?
3	How to establish state of the art knowledge, conduct a literature search, and to cite literature in a report?
4	Experimental design and data acquisition
5	Computational methods and coding
6	Data management
7	Data analysis – Part 1
8	Data analysis – Part 2
9	Data visualization
10	Statistical analysis – Part 1
11	Statistical analysis – Part 2
12	How to write the discussion of a paper?
13	How to present scientific work?
14	Ethics in Research
15	Final Presentations

Grading

• 9% Research Proposal
• 21% Milestones of Project Report (3 in total)
• 60% Final Report
• 10% Weekly Meetings and Discussions