Hi there
This week we have normal class on Wednesday(August 31,2011);
9:00---9:45 AM in room 114-2001
10am---12pm Writing in 180-1082
We are going to have two individual group tutorial sessions in week 5 and 6 (
August 31 and September 7,2011). Bring your ideas or contract and discuss with technical adviser by group.
Kindly reminder: our contract due day is on September 7(Wednesday) before 4:00PM. If you couldn't finish on time, Please follow the special circumstance procedure and provide us with the evidences.
Thanks for your all hard work and helping each other!
Lixin and Niranjan
Monday, August 29, 2011
Monday, August 22, 2011
New Contract
Hi All
We have designed a new Technology Project agreement, which you can find from our Moodle course or from my Gmail shared folder.
All your contract should be based on the new version, which has your Gmail and Blogger address. We don't accept the old version.
Any questions regarding the contract, come to see me on Wednesday.
Regards
Lixin and Niranjan
We have designed a new Technology Project agreement, which you can find from our Moodle course or from my Gmail shared folder.
All your contract should be based on the new version, which has your Gmail and Blogger address. We don't accept the old version.
Any questions regarding the contract, come to see me on Wednesday.
Regards
Lixin and Niranjan
Sunday, August 14, 2011
This Wednesday's class
Hi All
This Wednesday we have a special session run by IP lecturers for our Technology Project:
Room: 180-1082
When: August 17(Wednesday)
Time: starts at 9am. The session is from 9am to 12pm.
Don't forget to bring your pen and notebook.
Enjoy
Lixin
This Wednesday we have a special session run by IP lecturers for our Technology Project:
Room: 180-1082
When: August 17(Wednesday)
Time: starts at 9am. The session is from 9am to 12pm.
Don't forget to bring your pen and notebook.
Enjoy
Lixin
Sunday, August 7, 2011
How to find a research problem by Lindsay Nicholson
http://www.bris.ac.uk/cellmolmed/air/qanda/archive/how_to_find_a_problem.html
Finding a good research problem is tough thing to do. From a distance, it appears easy. There are so many things that we need to know: how to prevent childhood leukaemia; how to reverse global warming; how to maintain a stable economy; how to treat autoimmune disease. Then as you approach these questions more closely, they reveal themselves to be too large to tackle in one go: They have to be broken down.
When you do this, you suddenly find yourself with the choice of thousands of small problems. Now, you may be able to figure out ways to investigate these fragments, but you have to choose which is the most important.
Many of them will already have been studied by others. You may believe your research is relevant and unresolved, but what if someone else has already discovered the answer you are still looking for? Finding this out can be a lengthy and frustrating process. It has brought many of us to tears.
What's more, now you are dealing with something that is only a small piece of a big puzzle, it may not be important at all. How do you feel, when you tell your colleagues what you are doing and their reaction is 'so what?' Now you have to have the stamina to do the experiments well, so that the results are unambiguous, even if for most people they are unambiguously boring!
In summary the ideal research problem is something that can be solved, but hasn't been yet. It's important enough so that your peers can understand the value in doing it, and if you design the experiments well and are lucky, when you have finished working, the results are clear and interesting. Then you can count that problem solved, and all you have to do is find the next one.
Finding a good research problem is tough thing to do. From a distance, it appears easy. There are so many things that we need to know: how to prevent childhood leukaemia; how to reverse global warming; how to maintain a stable economy; how to treat autoimmune disease. Then as you approach these questions more closely, they reveal themselves to be too large to tackle in one go: They have to be broken down.
When you do this, you suddenly find yourself with the choice of thousands of small problems. Now, you may be able to figure out ways to investigate these fragments, but you have to choose which is the most important.
Many of them will already have been studied by others. You may believe your research is relevant and unresolved, but what if someone else has already discovered the answer you are still looking for? Finding this out can be a lengthy and frustrating process. It has brought many of us to tears.
What's more, now you are dealing with something that is only a small piece of a big puzzle, it may not be important at all. How do you feel, when you tell your colleagues what you are doing and their reaction is 'so what?' Now you have to have the stamina to do the experiments well, so that the results are unambiguous, even if for most people they are unambiguously boring!
In summary the ideal research problem is something that can be solved, but hasn't been yet. It's important enough so that your peers can understand the value in doing it, and if you design the experiments well and are lucky, when you have finished working, the results are clear and interesting. Then you can count that problem solved, and all you have to do is find the next one.
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