Introduction to Research: What Constitutes Good Research – Modalities of Research in Engineering: Experimental, Theoretical and Computational. Formulating a Research Problem, Defining the research problem. Literature Review and its importance, Different library resources, how should literature review be written up in thesis and papers. Thesis and Paper Writing, Citation Methods and Styles, Graphical representation. Plagiarism. Technical Writing for Research – An Introduction to Word and using it for technical writing.

Techniques for Data Analysis: Introduction to EXCEL and MATLAB. MATLAB: Features, Matrix Computations, Data Analysis, Toolboxes. Presenting a technical work using PPTs – Do’s and Dont’s.

Research Presentation by Students.