The Research Process and Design

Specific Fields

Architectural engineering; environmental/environmental health; geotechnical engineering; hydraulic engineering; hydrologic engineering; marine engineering; sanitary and environmental engineering; structural engineering; transportation.

Specific Fields

Chemical Engineering; petroleum; petroleum refining process; polymer/plastics engineering; wood science.

Broad Categories

Chemical engineering is a science that is concerned with the application of chemistry in the design and operation of industrial chemical plants.

Broad Categories

Civil engineering deals with the science of designing and building roads, dams, bridges, large buildings and similar structures.

Engineering

a branch of science, is concerned with studies directed toward developing engineering principles or toward making specific principles usable in engineering practices. Such principles include design, building, as well as the use of engines, machines and structures.

First Research Process

choosing a research topic.

Sixth Research Process

collecting and analyzing data.

Eighth Research Process

disseminating the research study.

Broad Topic

enough to have an impact on the society and the scientific community.

Narrow Topic

enough to make the research project doable and answer a specific problem.

Fifth Research Process

gathering data.

Second Research Process

gathering information about the research topic.

Research Project

it involves a systematic, cyclic and dynamic process.

Too Narrow

it will be difficult to create multiple key words to describe your research.

Too Narrow

only a few articles or studies are available to serve as your reference.

Third Research Process

preparing a review of related literature.

Conduct of Experimental Study

such as a capstone research project employs the scientific method, which involves systematic procedures in order to come up with scientifically acceptable and verifiable results and conclusions.

Too Narrow

the impact of your research will be severely limited.

Too Broad

the information you will find is broken to several specific aspects.

Fourth Research Process

writing the research proposal (hypothesis and design).

Seventh Research Process

writing the research report.

Too Broad

you will find too many articles that have little significance to your topic.

Too Broad

your topic will be too simple that it can be summarized into one or two words.