17MF023 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY LT P C

3003
COURSE OBJECTIVES
To families the various procedures to formulate appropriate research problem and
design of experiments.
To identify various sources of information for literature review and data collection.
To understand some basic concepts of engineering research and its methodologies.
COURSE OUTCOMES
The students will be able to
1. Demonstrate the concepts of engineering research and its methodologies.
2. Understand the various methods used to collect the data to research.
3. Formulate appropriate research problem and conduct the experiments using
Systematic methods.

UNIT I INTRODUCTION 9
Definition, mathematical tools for analysis, Types of research, exploratory research,
conclusive research, modeling research, algorithmic research, Research process- steps. Data
collection methods- Primary data observation method, personal interview, telephonic
interview, mail survey, questionnaire design. Secondary data- internal sources of data, external
sources of data.

UNIT II SAMPLING METHODS 9

Scales measurement, Types of scale Thurstones Case V scale model, Osgoods
Semantic Differential scale, Likert scale, Q- sort scale. Sampling methods- Probability sampling
methods simple random sampling with replacement, simple random sampling without
replacement, stratified sampling, cluster sampling. Non-probability sampling method
convenience sampling, judgment sampling, quota sampling.

UNIT III HYPOTHESES TESTING 9

Testing of hypotheses concerning means -one mean and difference between two means
-one tailed and two tailed tests, concerning variance one tailed Chi-square test.

UNIT IV DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS 9

Introduction, Types - Full and Fractional factorial Design- Orthogonal Array Design -
Taguchi techniques - Regression Models - Response Surface Methods.

UNIT V OPTIMIZATION AND REPORT WRITING 9

Optimization classification- methods- genetic, particle swarm and artificial bee colony
algorithms. Report writing- Types of report, guidelines to review report and typing instructions -
oral presentation.

Total: 45 Hours

REFERENCES:

1. Kothari, C.R., Research Methodology Methods and techniques, New Age Publications,
New Delhi, 2009.
2. Panneerselvam, R., Research Methodology, Prentice-Hall of India, New Delhi, 2004.