BS504 CONDUCTING RESEARCH IN BUILDING SCIENCE
| Course Code: | 8540504 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (2.00 - 2.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Building Science |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. SOOFİA TAHİRA ELİAS ÖZKAN |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
- To familiarise the student with the dimensions and methods of research.
- To orient the student to make an informed choice from the large number of alternative methods and experimental designs available.
- To enable the student to present a good research proposal.
- To familiarise the student with the nature of research and scientific writing
- To empower the student with the knowledge and skills they need to undertake a research project, to present a conference paper and to write a scientific article.
Course Content
The problem: where it lies; what be its parts; how best describe it. Information: sources, modes, types and cost(s). Objectives: formulation and realization. Data: measures of location and dispersion; reliability and consistency; interpretation and inference. Data: frequency and other distributions. Probability: dependent and independent events; the random experiment, observation and variable. The design of research and experiments: population and sample; parameters and statistics; systematic sampling and sampling distributions; the sample variance and confidence intervals. The Hypothesis: formulation, tests, errors and level of significance. Quantitative and qualitative methodologies.
Course Learning Outcomes
- Understand the commonly used terms and statistical techniques, and to interpret statistics used in research.
- Describe the stages involved in developing and completing a research project successfully, and describe the purpose and content of a research protocol/proposal.
- Understand when to use questionnaires, identify what makes a good questionnaire, design and critically appraise a questionnaire, and plan a study involving questionnaires.
- Identify strategies to disseminate research results and findings, and to prepare successful conference presentations and papers for submission to peer review journals.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | To be able to implement the knowledge attained throughout the undergraduate education in building science related areas of education, practice, research-development-innovation and to be able to contribute to the developments in these areas | ✔ | |||
| 2 | To be able to define the technical topics and problems, analyze and bring proposals of solution regarding building materials, building physics, construction, construction management, conservation processes and the relationships of the environment and the nature | ✔ | |||
| 3 | To be able to gather and accumulate local and global professional knowledge (theoretical, technical and practical) on building related (building physics, materials, construction, construction details) topics | ✔ | |||
| 4 | To be able to interpret and analyze the information coming from different disciplines regarding buildings, and create new knowledge from them | ✔ | |||
| 5 | To be able to analyze, evaluate and provide solutions to a problem within an ethical framework and with scientific approach | ✔ | |||
| 6 | To be able to propose a research topic or study within an ethical framework, using scientific methods, and with a inter-disciplinary approach/point of view, and develop, evaluate, and run as a research proposal | ✔ | |||
| 7 | To be able to publish the developments and results regarding a research topic in national and international scientific media | ✔ | |||
| 8 | To be able to follow and grasp the new and contemporary technologies / advances in the field of building science | ✔ | |||
| 9 | To be able to follow and interpret the new and current technologies/developments regarding the field of building science | ✔ | |||
| 10 | To be able to have the consciousness of ethical liability in building related professions | ✔ | |||
| 11 | To be able to use the information and communication technologies in an advanced way in the processes of building construction, facilities management, and conservation processes; to be able to use, manage and share the attained knowledge by using these technologies | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution