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Multidisciplinary Research Methods for Engineers
Course
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English
24 h
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- Self-paced
- Free Access
- Fee-based Certificate
- 6 Sequences
- Intermediate Level
Course details
Syllabus
Week 1: Introduction to research
- What constitutes multidisciplinary scientific research and how is it used
- Structure of research: Scientific method and engineering design cycle
- Language of research
- What to research and how to find out more
- What is a research objective and a research question
- How to formulate a research objective and a research question?
Week 2: Phases and methods of scientific research
- Research questions and hypotheses
- Desktop research, literature study
- Theoretical modeling and conceptual frameworks
- Experimental/Study design
- Data collection
- Evaluation, validation and verification
- Research ethics and human resource research ethics
Week 3: Research method selection and study design
Understand and select the appropriate method for a research question in terms of:
- Qualitative methods
- Quantitative methods
- Mixed method approaches
- Formative and summative evaluation studies
Week 4: Data collection and analysis
- Data collection and data management
- Data analysis (qualitative and quantitative)
- Data interpretation
- How to validate and verify data
Week 5: Research management, documentation and publishing
- How to report research results
- Reporting multidisciplinary work
- Reporting in different disciplines
- Project management
- Scientific publishing including open science
Week 6: Verified certificate only: Research plan writing
- Writing a project plan based on a multidisciplinary research case where students can choose from which discipline they approach the problem.
Prerequisite
This course is aimed at new and aspiring researchers with a background in Engineering and other STEM related disciplines who are working or going to work in multidisciplinary environments who want to learn more about this type of research. There are no prerequisites.
Instructors
Marcus Specht
Professor for Digital Education
Delft University of Technology, Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Center for Education and Learning
Gillian Saunders-Smits
Associate Professor Aerospace Engineering
Delft University of Technology
Jacqueline Wong
Postdoctoral Researcher
Delft University of Technology
Martine Schophuizen
Research Scientist
TNO
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