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.
