Crafting Your Research Future: A Guide to Successful Master's and Ph.D. Degrees in Science & Engineering

What is it like to be a researcher or a scientist? For young people, including graduate students and junior faculty members in universities, how can they identify good ideas for research? How do they conduct solid research to verify and realize their new ideas? How can they formulate their ideas and research results into highquality articles, and publish them in highly competitive journals and conferences? What are effective ways to supervise graduate students so that they can establish themselves quickly in their research careers? In this book, Ling and Yang answer these questions in a step-by-step manner with specific and concrete examples from their first-hand research experience. keYwoRdS: Research Methodology, Research Career Guidebook, Guidebook for Graduate Students, Ph.D. and Masters Research, Writing and Publishing Papers, Writing Ph.D. Thesis, Science and Engineering Career. iv