Research elements investigation

Zainal, Nurlishafiqa (2015) Research elements investigation. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Research is one of the crucial activity that can be conducted in university apart from traditional functions of university which is to enhance the quality of education, increase human knowledge and regional development. In the past few decades, most researchers produce research only to get their right for Intellectual Property (IP) and for publications. The scientific knowledge created by researcher is not expanded because no contributions towards innovation and commercialization as an output for the research. This study is conducted to fulfill these following objectives: (i) to identify the lacking elements that obstruct to produce good quality research, (ii) to identify the hurdles that obstruct researchers to produce worthy research and (iii) to propose a model to help researchers to improve the significant elements in conducting worthy research. Preliminary investigation is done to identify the current environment of conducting research in universities and research trends in universities. Questionnaires were designed based on the lacking elements that were identified using matrix method. For this study, survey was conducted with target of I 00 researchers from four engineering faculties in UTeM which are Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering (FKP}, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (FKM), Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FKE), and Faculty of Electronics and Computer Engineering (FKEKK) as the sample in this study. However, only 56% response rate were gave the feedback of the questionnaires. The survey data was collected and analyzed using Microsoft Excel Software. Statistical method to identify the correlation between researchers' experience with research network and research grants with research performance. From the survey, four elements were identified that influenced the research outcomes which are primary intention of researchers, research problem, research network, and research grants. These elements are discussed to identify the hurdles that obstruct researchers to produce worthy research. A model was proposed as the outcome for this study to help researcher improve the lacking elements in conducting worthy research.

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