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Things to be Managed During PhD
1. Time Management
2. Mind Management
3. Human Resource Management
4. Patience
5. Finance Management
6. Persistence
7. Technical Skills
and more ............
Research Means
• Satyam
• Shivam
• Sundaram
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Stages in Education
School
Intermediate
Ph.D
PG
UG
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Purpose of Research
• Doing some work expecting something new may
come-out (without specific plan)
• To know why something is existing in a particular
form/mode
• To find some improvements over existing things:
may be to increase safety, reduce price, to add
more facility etc.
• To explore/search solutions for a problem of the
Humankind.
• And many more …..
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Output of Research
• Research Publications
• Patents
• Solution to Society Problems
• Degree
• Good Thinking and Analysing Process for
a problem
• To do good quality research
• Good & Clear Teaching
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Types of Research
• Experimental Work
- Model studies
- Basic Experimental studies (Material Properties etc)
(Ex. Material for Brick manufacturing)
• Analytical/Numerical work
– Analytical Modeling (Derived)
– Empirical Modeling
Literature
Review (6-36)
Thesis Writing (28-36)
Defining Thesis
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Time Planning
Quarterly Planning
Monthly Planning
Weekly Planning
Daily Planning
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Typical Experimental Work
• Literature Review
• Plan of Action of Research
• Identify the Parameters to be Investigated
• Apparatus Identification/Design of New One
• Calibration of Apparatus
• Conducting Preliminary Experiments
• Modification of Apparatus if required
• Conducting Experimental Programme
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Typical Experimental Work
• Analysis of a set of Results
• Review of Experimental Programme
• Modify the Apparatus Design or Experimental
Programme if Required
• Complete the Experimental Work
• Analyse the Experimental Results
• Check whether you achieved what you wants to
Examine? If not design an additional tests to
complete the gap.
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Typical Experimental Work
• Develop the Analytical Model if Proposed.
• Compare the Experimental Results with the
analytical prediction, the reported literature
and the Mechanism associated and explain
with reasoning.
• Conclusion
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Analytical/Numerical Work
• Literature Review
• Plan of Action of Research
• Identify the Parameters to be Investigated
• Development of Broad Algorthim for Major Problem
• Splitting the Problem into a number of suitable
Subroutines
• Development of Detailed Algorithm to Each
subroutine
• Writing the Programme for Each subroutine
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Analytical/Numerical Work
• Testing of Each subroutine
• Modify the algorithm and programme if required.
• After Completing the Testing of all subroutine Write
the Overall Programme and test it.
• Conduct the parametric Investigation
• Compare the results from other analytical models and
Experimental results if any.
• Conclusions
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Methodology
• Tentative plan of action
– Monthly targets
– Yearly targets
– Review of Progress
• Literature Review
• Conduct of Research
• Review of Research progress
• Analysis of Results
• Thesis Writing
– Content List
– Introduction
– Literature Review
– Investigation Plan and Details
– Analysis and Discussion Results
– Conclusions
– Abstract
• Defining the Thesis
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Problems associated with Research at..
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My Experience of Research
• My PhD
• Interview at UGC
• What you want to do in UK?
• Why can't you do this in India?
• Offshore Structures are now Existing. What is that
you wants to do New?
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• Experience in England
• Mr. Reddy! What you want to do?
• Research in Offshore Pile foundation.
• How you want to do?
• You should Guide me.
• I don’t know any thing about Offshore piles,
how can I guide you?
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• Mr. Reddy Give your research Programme
for the Next 36 Months.
• Started with Numerical Work
• Worked for 6 months.
• There was no data to verify the model.
• So What? How you want to Proceed ?
• I Want to do Experimental work to get
Performance of Pile.
• So go ahead.
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• Literature Review
• Collect all the Literature that you feel they are related to
your work.
• Get the back literature from the references for the latest
papers.
• Group the Papers according to sub topics of your research
Ex: Experimental work, Analytical work etc.
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Some Experiences
• I Designed and developed an apparatus, which was
being discouraged by my guide.
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• Thesis Writing
• Introduction
• Literature Review
• Apparatus and materials Used
• Experimental Programme
• Analysis and Discussion of Results
• Conclusions
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Viva-voce Examination
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Post Doctoral Research – I
At Saint Maries University, Halifax Canada
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• Post Doctoral Research -II
University of Birmingham UK
• Research that is needed for the Society.
• On Geo Environmental Engineering
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Research Ethics
1. Do not claim some one’s work as yours
2. Do the research for the betterment of the society
3. Do not try/manipulate results to prove your theory.
4. Do not propose a theory with limited investigation.
5. Do not Publish the same material in different places.
6. No research work is failure.
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My observations in RRMs and
Colloquiums
• Title of the thesis
• Abstract, Introduction
• Literature Review
• Objective of work
• Core of Research –
Experimental/Analytical/Both
• Analysis and Discussion of Results
• Conclusions
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State of Mind of Researcher During
Research
• Enthusiasm
• Appears very clear of objective
• Literature review creates confusion (No. of
thoughts)
• You may lose line of sight (May forget what you
intended to do)
• Frustration
• Physical, Mental, Psychological, Financial stress
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Dos in Research
• Be clear about the subject around your Research
problem
• Be clear about the research problem
• Be a researcher but not a technical assistant to your
supervisor
• Be confident and but not Over Confident
• Give clear reference to researchers
• If you can't understand any results discuss with your
supervisor.
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Don’ts in Research
• Do not modify the results to meet your ideas.
• Never say no one has worked in this area.
• Never claim some ones research as yours.
• Never publish the same research paper in more
than one place.
• Do not argue with your supervisor
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• Thank you very Much
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