Part I: Ph.D METHODOLOGY EXAMINATIONS RESEARCH METHODOLOGY Paper ‘SYLLABUS Introduction to Research: Importance of doing Definition for Research ~ Difference between Importance 8 Research and Innovation ~ ‘fessional Research, Classical Research; ied Research, Quantitative vs and Ethical issues in doing Research - Types of Research: Amateur Research, Pr Descriptive vs Analytical Research, Fundamental vs Appli Qualitative Research, Conceptual vs Empirical Research; Challenges Research Research Problem: ‘Types of research problems: Academic problems, Industrial problems, Societal problems ~ Various methods of identifying the problems ~ Origin of the problem ~ Justification of the problem — Importance of the problem; Literature Review: Primary and secondary sources — web as a source- various search engines ~ critical review of literature — Identification of research gaps ~ Feasibility studies - Work plan formulation Problem Solving: Experimental.designs ~ completely randomised blocks~ Latin square ~ concepts of factorial design, fractional factorial design, response surface methods and designs - Analysis of variance — “Methods for one, two factor models; Statistical Modeling and analysis: Probability Distributions — Binomial, Poisson, Normal, Exponential, Weibull; Multivariate methods: Factor analysis — ‘methods of factor analysis ~ centroid method, principal component method: Concepts of single and multiple correlation and regression. Algorithmic Research Problems: ‘Types of solution procedure — complete enumeration method, branch and bound method — steps of development of algorithm -steps of algorithmic research ~ Metaheuristics for combinational problems ~ simulated annealing algorithm, Genetic algorithm, Tabu search, Neural Network — basic conceptsResearch Articles & Report Writing: Research Articles: Types of Conference Papers ~ Contributed Papers, Poster Papers, Invited Papers, Keynote Papers, Plenary Papers; Types of Journal Papers: Short communications, Technical Report, Full paper, Review paper, Structure and components of Research Paper, Impact Factor of Joumals, Citation Index of the Paper, Report writing, significance of report writing, steps in writing report ~ Types of Report, Layout of Research Report, Mechanism of writing a research report, referencing in academic writing. REFERENCES: 1. Kothari, C.R., Research Methodology Methods and Techniques, 2" editions, New Age Intemational (P) Limited Publishers, New Delhi, 2010. 2. Panneerselvam, R., Research Methodology, Prentice Hall of India Private Limited, New Delhi, 2007. 3. Besterfield, Total Quality Management, Pearson Education Pvt. Limited, New Delhi, 2003. 4. MeBumey, DH. and White, T.L., Research Methods, Cengage Leaming, 2010