Research Proposal
Research Proposal
The object of a project is to record the academic activity of a student in a structured framework that gives a reasonably consistent appearance to the work done at the project level to encourage the comprehension of the academic work of students by people who are not familiar with the particular work presented, but who are familiar with professional writing in general.
The Project provides opportunities for students to plan, complete, interpret, and report research
The work should demonstrate the following from the student concerning the field of study:
▪ Student should have awareness and understanding of important current work in the field of research.
▪ Student should get the ability to plan a research activity in their thesis.
▪ Student must have knowledge and motivation to carry out the planned research activity.
▪ Student should have ability to analyze the results of the research.
▪ Student should have the ability to draw reasonable conclusions from the research.
▪ Student should have the ability to complete a written description of the work in the form of a well-written, properly organized thesis.
▪ And also, student should have Ability to complete a thesis with potential for presentation at and/or participation in professional meetings and/or publication in scholarly journals.
Attached some suggested, but not limited to, topics related to students studied courses
▪ Quality Management in Software Industry
▪ A Study on Continuous Improvement Process
▪ Effectiveness of Six sigma Projects
▪ Cost reduction through Quality Approach
▪ A Study on Just in Time in specific manufacturing Company
▪ Total Productive maintenance in specific manufacturing Company
▪ Customer Satisfaction through TQM Approach
▪ Quality Management in Healthcare sector
▪ Supply Chain Management
▪ Study on Kaizen and its implementation
▪ Applying TQM in High Education
▪ Applying TQM in Industry Sector
Your project is divided into two parts:
First part
You are required to present detailed introduction and literature review about the topic you are interested in.
Second part
You must make a search and to select a recent paper which describes a case study about your chosen topic. So, In the second part of your project you must well explain the chosen case.
Observational research thesis may use all the following components while innovative thesis may only use the first four components or may include alternate formats depending on the nature of the study.
- Title Page – including the title of the study, the University name and Logo, students’ names, and students’ ID,
- Introduction – brief overview explaining the background and importance of the study.
- Statement of Problem – specifically what the researcher wants to know.
- Purpose of the Study – explanation of the problem and what the researcher hopes to achieve by conducting the study.
- Theoretical framework, research questions, or objectives – used to guide the direction of the research: format to be determined by the department.
- Definition of Terms – clarification of any terminology in the study that may not be commonly known; provides a similar interpretation for all readers of the study.
- Literature Review – sufficient review of the relevant research to demonstrate an understanding of the subject and major components.
- Research Design – describes the methods that will be used to collect data or organize creative products. May include the following:
- Description of the design
b. Criteria for judging credibility and trustworthiness of results (where relevant) - Sampling – describe the aspects of the cases on which data collection and analysis will focus (where relevant)
- Indicating how access to the study population will be achieved.
- Variables – describing aspects of the cases on which data collection and analysis will focus (where relevant).
- Methods of Data Collection – explain how each variable will be measured (where relevant)
- Data Analysis Procedures – describing the use of interpretational, structural, or reflective methods (where relevant)
- Timeline – providing a timeline listing the order for all the major steps of the study and indicate the approximate amount of time needed for each step.
- Texts/ historical events/ case studies to be analyzed, with some sense of the conclusions that the writer might be tending toward and of the way the argument/analysis is positioned in relation to existing scholarship on the subject.
NOTE… Do not miss writing all cited references in your project using one of the know referencing styles.
