Research Methodology

This book offers a design research methodology intended to improve the quality of design research- its academic credibility, industrial significance and societal contribution by enabling more thorough, efficient and effective procedures.

Dr. Vinayak Bairagi has completed M.E. (Electronic) from Sinhgad COE, Pune in 2007 (1st Rank in Pune University). University of Pune has awarded him a PhD degree in Engineering. He has teaching experience of 12 years and research experience of 8 years. He has filed 10 patents and 5 copyrights in technical field. He has published more than 58 papers, of which 26 papers are in International journals of which 12 papers in SCI Indexed journals, with five Springer journal publications along with One in The_IET journal publication. He is a reviewer for nine scientific journals including IEEE Transactions, The-IET Journal, and Springer Journals. He is the P.I. for UoP-BUCD research grant. He has received "Maniratna" Best Teacher Award for Excellent academic Performance (2013). He has received IEI national level Young Engineer Award (2014) and ISTE national level Young Researcher Award (2015) for his excellence in the field of engineering. He is the member of INENG (UK), IETE (India), ISTE (India) &BMS (India). He had worked on Image compression at College of Engineering, Pune, under Pune University. Currently he is associated with AISSMS Institute of Information Technology (Affiliated college to S P Pune University), Pune as Professor in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. He is recognized PhD Guide in Electronics engineering of SavitribaiPhule Pune University. Presently he is guiding 7 PhD Students. Dr. Mousami Vaibhav Munot is currently an Associate Professor in Electronics and Telecommunication Department at Pune Institute of Computer Technology, PICT, Pune, India. She has 13 years of teaching experience and 7 years of research experience. She has completed M.Tech (1st rank holder) from College of Engineering, Pune, CoEP, in 2007. Savitribai Phule Pune University, SPPU has awarded her a PhD degree in November 2013. She has received fellowship from Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) for research work under Dr. Jayant Mukhopadhyay, Dept. of Computer Sciences, IIT, Kharagpur, India. She has also received support from DST (ITS) to present a research paper at IET -Image Processing Conference, London, UK. She has received Best paper award at National Conference and international conference. She has fetched grants worth 20 Lakhs from DST, AICTE and SPPU-BCUD for various projects. She has served as Session Chair, IEEE-WIECON, AISSMS, Pune, India, 2016; a TPC member, ICDECT -2016 , Lavasa City , Pune-India, 2016 ; Session chair, EEECoS- 2016 , AISSMS, Pune ,India, 2016 and a Guest Editor for special issue on Soft Computing, Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Jan 2015. She is reviewer for various reputed journals; IEEE, System, Man and Cybernetics, Springer Medical and Biological Engineering Computing, Springer Journal of Medical Sciences, Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, IET -Image Processing. She is a member of IET, ISTE, BMESI and IoE. She has served IET as younger member section chair, South Asia regional board member, Global operations chair. She has represented India at London, Malyasia and Srilanka for IET Volunteers' conference and strategy planning conferences and Asia Pacific Young engineers meet.

1. Introduction to Research 2. Literature Survey and Problem Statement 3. Research Design 4. Basic Instrumentation 5. Applied Statistics 6. Presenting and Publishing the Research Findings 7. Plagiarism 8. Intellectual Property Rights