EEET2450

Research Methods
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Lecture 2_2: Research Process
A General Guide of Your First Research Project

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2 Practise 1: Identify Paper Information
• Step 1: Find the journal paper using key word “review,
progress, wireless power transfer”

• Step 2: Identify the paper information and fill

in the form.
✓ Journal details (title, volume, issue, date)
✓ Page number
✓ Paper title
✓ Authors and affiliations
✓ Publication record
✓ Funding sources
✓ Number for references cited
https://forms.gle/ewUpTFEr5r3Xbgqh9
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3 Review 2: Paper Dissection
• Task-1: Find the Journal Paper
Electric Springs for Reducing Power Imbalance in Three-Phase
Power Systems

• Task-2: Read the paper

• Task-3: A quiz

https://www.flexiquiz.com/SC/N/cf248f3d-55f3-4427-8612-757e1eb0bc15

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4 1 Overview of Research Process
• Prepare Knowledge
• Read Extensively
• Think Innovatively
• Write Research Proposal and Grant Application
• Form Research Project and Group
• Work on Research Project
• Publish Research Outcomes
• Seek Industrial Collaboration

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5 A General Research Process
Step 1: Prepare Knowledge

• Circuit Analysis,
• Electronic Circuit,
• Electrical Plant,
• Power Conversion,
• Power System,
• Control Theory,
• Coding Basics,
• Others…

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Step 2: Read Extensively

• 論語，《學而》：溫故而知新，可以爲師矣 。

• 100 Classic Papers to gain the good knowledge of one small disciplinary

• Actual reading = 100*2/3/4

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7 Advices on Reading References
• Review paper introduces background and trend

• Conference papers contain basic ideas.

• Journal papers contain in-depth idea and

comprehensive explanation.

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8 A General Research Process
Step 3: Think Innovatively

• What has not been done?

• Challenge what has been done
• Self-critical

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Step 4: Write Research Proposal and Grant Application

• HK Research Grant Council

https://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxy0uhpAKMU

Research Proposal

• Australia Research Council

https://www.arc.gov.au/

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10 Activity: Find Research Projects
• Task 1: Find the similar research projects since
2019/20 in the HK RGC database

• Task 2: Fill it in the form

https://forms.gle/g6unjgBurZB3oi577

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11 Activity: Find Research Projects
• Task 1: Find the similar research projects since
2020 in the AUS ARC database

• Task 2: Fill it in the form

https://forms.gle/rd51NsUoosw6QzAV6

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12 A General Research Process
Step 5: Form Research Project and Group
• Group Leaders: Prof., Asso. Prof., Assis. Prof.
• Postdoctoral Fellows: PhD graduates
• Research Associates: PhD graduates
• Research Assistants: UG graduate
• PhD/Mphil students
• Master students
• Technical Assistants

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https://www.rle.mit.edu/per/
https://cpes.vt.edu/
https://superlab.stanford.edu/

http://xlab.me.berkeley.edu/index.html

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14 A General Research Process
Step 6: Work on Projects
• Theory development and refinement
• Test of theory via simulations
• Hardware implementation, Coding, Testing
• Result collection and process
• Results analysis

Theory development=>refinement +simulation (hardware information)=>hardware

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Step 7: Publish Your Research Outcomes
• Conferences/Workshops: too many, specific deadline, submission
and acceptance, registration, presentation, committee members,
session chair, keynote speakers, awards.

Call for Final

Digest Results
Paper Submission

Example: APEC, PEDG

https://www.facebook.com/pg/APEC-Applied- Present/
Power-Electronics-Conference-
Poster
114419428583664/photos/?ref=page_internal
https://www.apec-conf.org/about/history/2017- 9/17/2020
conference-photos
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Step 7: Publish Your Research Outcomes

• Special Issues: Guest editors, specific topic, specific deadline,

slight easier than regular paper

Call for Paper

Result Publish
Paper Submission

Publish Revise

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Step 7: Publish Your Research Outcomes
• Regular paper: most challenging, no deadline, several rounds of
review and revision, acceptance and publication.

Paper Publish
Result Revise
Submission

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19 A General Research Process
Step 8: Seek Industrial Collaborations

• Consultation

• Patents

• Establish your own companies

Fano lab, IND technology

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20 2 Literature Review
• Theoretical Fundamentals
o Models
o Equations
o Circuits

• Technical Evolution
o Milestones
o Improvements

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• Critical evaluation on the proposed method and

its counterparts.
o Benefits
o Weaknesses
o Constraints

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22 A Reading Sample
Paper: Power Electronics as Efficient Interface in
Dispersed Power Generation Systems

https://forms.gle/9UCBGpCkAXTyyTi79

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23 3 Impacts and Databases
• Measurements of Impact

• Research databases

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24 Measurements of Impact
• Journal Impact: Impact Factor (IF)

• Paper Impact: Citation, Awards

• Scholar Impact: Total citation, H-index,

Awards,

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25 Databases
• Google Scholar

✓ Open source

✓ Citation and abstracts

✓ Cross-search of individual scholar

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26 Databases
• Scopus

✓ Abstract and citations

✓ Over 50 million items

✓ Over 20 Thousand peer-reviewed

journals

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27 Databases
• ResearchGate

✓ Social Media of researchers

✓ All kinds of activities

✓ Lots of interactions

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28 Databases
• ORCID

✓ A open research and contributor ID that is used to protect

your unique scholarly identity an eliminate author
ambiguity

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29 Activity: Explore Research Impact
• Task 1: Find the IF of the two top journals

• Task 2: Find the total citation, citation by others,

citation benchmarking, and citation impact of the
paper you input
https://forms.
gle/CJjhWuD • Task 3: Find total citation, citation by others, h-index
uqc6pYHS26 of the corresponding author of the paper.
• Task 4: Find the Google scholar page, Scopus page,
and the ORCID of the first author.

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