ENGR 590: Graduate Research Methods

Summer 2022

ENGR 590: Graduate Research Methods

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Class # 10178
TuTh 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Upson II, Room 219

Class # 10179
Asynchronous

Prerequisites: Enrolled CEM graduate student or instructor approval for undergraduates
Instructor: Dr. Anna Crowell, College of Engineering & Mines

Course Description & Objectives
The goal of this class is to guide graduate students through the research process, from choosing a project to either writing a literature review for their thesis/dissertation or producing a paper for submission to a peer-reviewed journal.

After successfully completing this course, you should be able to:

• Understand proper journal article evaluation
• Identify and avoid plagiarism
• Structure a thesis/dissertation or journal article
• Write a literature review
• Professionally deliver oral presentations
• Choose appropriate references
• Mine information from a journal article
• Formulate a hypothesis
• Synthesize conclusions
• Design an experiment