GCC501 Scientific Research Methods and Ethics

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Course Description

A brief introduction to characteristics, types and scheduling of research. Research planning and design. Methodologies of research design. Measurement, data analysis. Presenting the results of research.

Prerequisites

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Course Objectives

• To teach the basic steps of scientific research methods.
• To help students improve their ability to make connections across ideas, read carefully, assess the quality of sources on which they or others rely.
• To develop communication skills that required to suggest and discuss scientific questions in the student field of study both written (informal memos and letters, formal project proposals, reports, thesis and journal papers) and oral (presentations, scientific discussions) communication.
• To reinforce students’ sense of professionalism and ethical behavior.
• To assist students in seeing and being able to take advantage of the possibilities for improving the world via research.

Course Outcomes

At the end of the course the student should be able to

• Define basic principles and steps of the scientific research.
• Understand scientific research ethics.
• Formulate a research plan.
• Evaluate literature, form a variety of sources, pertinent to the research objectives.
• Write a scientific research proposal, report and/or paper.
• Present their research work.

Meetings

Class meets weekly on Thursdays 16:00-18:50

Grading Policy

The tentative point distribution is as follows.

Homeworks	50%
Project	50%

Policies

• Students must use my email address neu.gcc501@gmail.com to submit their assignments and etc.
• Late assignments will not be accepted unless an agreement is reached with the leturer.
• The class grades will be assigned using the Near East University's grading scale.
• I allow students to attend class at their own discretion. If you miss a class however, you are responsible for the materials covered.
• Cheating will not be tolerated.
• Attacks performed against University/Lecturer resources are expressly prohibited.

Textbooks

• C.R. Kothari, G. Garg, Research Methodology: Methods and Techniques, New Age Int., 2019.
• D. Deb, R. Dey, V.E. Balas, Engineering Research Methodology: A Practical Insight for Researchers, Springer, 2019.

Schedule

Week	Topic	Readings
1	Introduction	Kothari Ch1, Deb Ch1
2	Defining the problem	Kothari Ch2, Deb Ch1
3	Literature Review (Slides: a, b )	Deb Ch2 and 10, WOS, Scopus
4	Research planning and design	Kothari Ch3, Deb Ch8
5	Writing project proposal	NEU Research Proposal Guidelines
6	Collect data/Execution	Kothari Ch6
7	Analysis and Interpret	Kothari Ch7
8	Technical Writing	Deb Ch2 and 6, Kothari Ch14
9	Attributions and Citations	Deb Ch3
10	Building Intellectual Property Rights	Deb Ch4
11	Ethics in Research	Deb Ch5
12	Contributions, Arguments, and Dealing with Criticisms	Deb Ch7
13	Publishing, Presentation	Deb Ch6 and 10, Deb Ch9
14	Review of the Semester
15	Presentations

The instructor reserves the right to make changes to the Syllabus as necessary. Students are responsible to be aware of changes announced in class and/or via the internet.