Questions tagged [projects]
Questions regarding the academic projects including either thesis projects or other projects which may be done in the universities with support of academies and in collaboration with faculty members and students.
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How do I minimize the number of "unknown unknowns"?
There's a famous quote from a former US government official regarding the things we know, the things we know we don't know, and things we don't know we don't know. Likewise, there are many colorful ...
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How to abort one post-doc sub-project politely
Right after starting a post-doc, another post-doc in the new group came and invited me to collaborate in one of his projects (only a side thing; not my main research project; somehow independent from ...
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Is it possible to "validate" a simulator without comparing it with the actual tool? [closed]
I am developing a simulator for a data mining tool. The simulator will be an abstract version of the tool so that people can perform their experiments easily.
I am doing this project for a post ...
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On the ethics of continuing current project with another advisor
I have been trying to work with a certain professor for a year, since the time I joined PhD. I wasn't paid by her, rather, funded by TAships.
This past quarter, I did a project for a class I took ...
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How should a thesis be structured in this situation?
My project is generally combining many of the existing techniques into a pipeline with minor modifications in computer science. And this thesis is expected to be my degree thesis, not a journal/...
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Is there a tool like the Open Science Framework that can be run on a private server?
I am very impressed by the Open Science Framework. Unfortunately, for some projects I cannot put any data in a cloud especially if it is not encrypted. Are there similar tools which allow me to keep ...
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Is it ok to give your Old Assignments to others?
My friend wants an old assignment which I have done few semesters ago. I want to know whether it's ok to give the assignment to him and whether it's going to be a problem for me in the future. (I have ...
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How to effectively balance research, teaching and project work? [duplicate]
Starting from the upcoming semester besides my research for the PhD, I will also have to work on a loosely related project (w.r.t. my research), and do teaching as well.
I am overwhelmed from this. ...
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How to solicit funded research projects from industry to perform while in graduate school?
My ultimate goal is to secure a position in industry post graduation. I figured a solid approach would be align myself with current problems and try and partner to solve them. This gives me resume ...
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Ad hoc work detracting from PhD project
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I am a graduate student in a quant/informatics group (size = 2 people: my advisor and I) housed within a larger academic group that do wet laboratory/bench research. I have my own project ...
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How to protect the timeline of my project when the supervisor is not willing to negotiate anything?
I am currently working on an 8 month final project, of which 1 month has already passed. Its for an Engineering Doctorate degree. I have one supervisor and one client (who is a Phd student).
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How to reduce negative consequence for the person I plagiarized my assignment from?
Due to some personal reasons, I didn't get to complete my semester end project. So I copied my friend's project and submitted it without major changes (I know I was a fool to do that). Now we are ...
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How to work with a RA unwilling to work with me?
I've recently started a new role on a three year project. I'm a research officer and I've joined onto the project about 8 months in at new research institute, there are three CIs. I've been brought on ...
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Project websites - Increasing visibility or wasting time?
I'm from an empirical social science background and observe that several research projects build project websites, similar to job market websites of academics. Those that I am aware of are often ...
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What are the best questions to ask a PI upon the first meeting to join some of his projects?
I'm planning to see a professor today, in our department, he is the director of one of the labs there and a PI of a couple of projects. I knew that, he's looking for some student to join his project/s....
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How should I email my graduate advisor if I did not hear anything?
I am a graduate student at a University and I am working on academic project under my advisor's guidance. I had emailed two weeks back about my project update (which helps him grade my project hours ...
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How do professors get to apply and work on industry projects?
Not necessary to have a research project but any project where professor can get to apply his theory and skills and work along with working professional in the industry - and also get to leverage ...
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How to proceed when you are coordinating a project among several research groups and they do not contribute to the progress of the project
I am principal investigator in some project that involves other research groups from other countries. When I was writing the proposal, I asked them if they would like to joint the project, and they ...
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Re-initiating the discussion with a seemingly busy Professor
A couple of weeks back, I reached out to a Professor stating my interest in a project he had put up on his website. The professor was impressed with my resume and gave a brief description of his ...
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Do I have to prove all the theorems I mention in my paper?
I am writing a paper on a big theorem in Algebra. But in order to supply as many proofs as I find interesting, I have to mention the theorems used to prove this Big Theorem. Do I have to include all ...
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What happens to a research group when a principal investigator (P.I.) dies? Is it common to have existing contingency plans?
Principal investigators (P.I.s) are not immune to things like traffic accidents, fatal diseases, or acts of terrorism.
Is it common to have contingency plans as to what will happen with funding, ...
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Advice for writing Lab Manuals for undergraduate students
I was wondering how lab manuals for freshmen or junior year engineering students are created. I am currently working on documenting a lab manual for a project. Although, I am fairly well-versed with ...
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Failed to achieve intended project outcome, what to put on design fair poster? [duplicate]
I have been working on an ultrasonic transducer technology for a while now. This project involves a very novel components that has not yet been established to work. Because of the novelty of this ...
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Feeling like I wasted 6 months on a side project that won't benefit me
I'm doing an MSc in Electrical Engineering. In about August of 2014 my supervisor approached me, asking if I would be able to finish off a project someone else has started since I was the only one ...
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Should I continue a project someone else started?
I think there are two situations where your supervisor might ask you to continue a project someone else started:
Someone produced some data, but never wrote a paper about it
Someone wrote a paper and ...
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Are practical experiences as valuable as academic research experiences? [duplicate]
I'm a non-U.S undergraduate Computer Science student and I want to get admission from an eminent U.S university for M.Sc./PHD.
In my experiences, there are lots of practical records. From about 10 ...
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How do project supervisors address the "freeloading" problem in group projects?
I am currently leading a three person team to tackle an undergrad engineering project that involves several parts. I am responsible for data analysis using sophisticated computer algorithms, another ...
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How to quantify the loss in productivity due to time spent on writing proposals
During my PhD it bothered me how much time my supervisor had to spend on writing proposals to get funding to do science, which in practice pretty much meant that he had no time to do science because ...
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Should I inform other project's members about my work on an idea which they are not initially interested in
I'm a PhD student working on a research project consisting of 2 teams. My team (team A) is on the practical side, we provide the problems related to our research and evaluate the theoretical solutions ...
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When does the co-authorship line end for a PI's data
As I understand it, in the engineering field, the person who has research money and/or a project that leads to the collection of data, is put on research papers that directly use that data. I guess ...
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How do I communicate my research with a general audience more effectively?
I really enjoyed my research but it happens that whenever I tell somebody about it, I have the impression I'm making it sound boring, unimportant and not exciting.
Americans have a way of telling a ...
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I believe my classmates plan to hand in a plagiarized project, how should I handle this?
In my class, we have project groups of 4 or 5 students. This period has everything to do with game development. The project is to build a XNA game for children at primary school.
Now, there is one ...
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