I'm thinking how to explain this to you. It's a multiple-criteria decision-making issue. Perhaps you want to use TOPSIS to rank or select one of the 3 alternatives that should have the shortest geometric distance from your positive ideal solution.

The Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) is a multi-criteria decision analysis method, which was originally developed about 3 decades ago by the Chinese people.

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i wish to continue my study in PhD. i did my masters via coursework last time at ukm part time.

i wanted to find a topic related to :

1. medical metrology (new field for me & out there)
2. metrology, calibration laboratory
3. Low AC/DC measurement
4. measurement uncertainty

the above is related to my daily work & working experience. i can give trainings too on the above topic - should any of you students need help ;-)


any ideas how one can :

1. find a supervisor for PhD part time (industrial?) with expertise related to my interest
2. find a research topic that is related to the above topic

because i have the facility (lab) and equipment..

thanks peeps

Hi guys, updating my status. MPhil (Social Science) part time

Area: Accounting Education, Communication Avoidance

I finished the majority part of my data analysis, and handed the draft thesis to both my supervisor and co-supervisor. Hope that they will give me the green light so I can proceed to work completion seminar.

One paper written in late Dec 2012 was gracefully returned with comment that my paper might be too lengthy (i wrote 8.5k words oh). And that gave me an idea to separate it to 2 papers.

I also thought of doing 2 conference papers on top of sending 2 of them for journal review. Will only go for typical international journal this round. Been rejected 4 times

My scholarship will end this July 2013 (started July 2011), where the institution supports my minimum 2 years of study. Failing which to submit thesis for examination within the period, I'll need to fork out extra RM1000 per year for extension of study.

Hope that I can save up the 1k. =)


Hi Starbucki, you may consider negotiating with the institution in incorporating a statistician lecturer of another department as your (additional) co-supervisor, if you want to save the cost =) So long you can justify the need for the expertise.

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Hope all goes well with everybody's research. Once I completed my master, I intend to go for an internal grant

God bless Malaysia.

Hi blueicecube, for point 1, you may ask around your friends who are currently holding tenure positions in major higher education institutions in Malaysia. I'm not so sure about you mentioning the 'industrial' part, but PhD in almost every field requires academic research skill.

If you intend to go for PhD, I would suggest you to read around the subject, specifically, those involving 'what academic research is all about'. Judging from your interest, I suppose you graduated in field of engineering. Each field has its dominant research philosophies and methods. As of now, I suggest you to download and read few 'journal articles', with the hope that you know of the expectation in producing an academic paper/ thesis.

For your research interest (point 2), I'm afraid that it's beyond my means to comment specifically about your research topic. But I have this general guideline for research student, based on a book I read recently named 'How to get a PhD: A handbook for students and their supervisors' (Phillips & Pugh, 2010).

It mentions that there are, in general, 3 types of research: exploratory, testing-out, and problem-solving research. The authors are in favor of the second type of research as a PhD thesis. Main reason conveyed is that PhD is served as the training ground for candidate to be equipped with adequate research skill, and be able to exercise it. Hence, testing-out research enables the PhD candidates to operate their thesis in a relatively 'safer' environment, as compared to the other two types.

Thus, I recommend that you go and read around the subject, by reading published journal articles related to your research interest, and start a thesis from there.

P/s: my research interest is also emerged from readings =)

Hope it helps

This post has been edited by alexkos: Jan 26 2013, 10:04 PM

2nd year PhD candidate reporting in.

Didn't know that you have a thread specially for postgraduate students and holders.

anyone here doing their postgrad in USM??? would want to seek out advice and info...

=D....

I'm doing my postgrad studies in USM.

hi brudder blo. =)

im thinking of furthering, not 100% sure yet, in the mean time, i am pondering on the possibility of doing my postgrad in USM...

So I seek opinions/info on humane supervisors, postgrad life at usm, etc. =). lol...

I see ur doing ur postgrad on OB. =)...

My interests include

-Machine Vision
-AI
-Robotics

Since you are in engineering, I dont really know much. Anyway, the engineering campus is somewhere in Nibong Tebal, Prai.

Just make sure that you do your "shopping" first to find out which supervisor is suitable for you.

The only thing I don't like is the research database. It's quite limited.

how come???

Because not enough funding, I guess.

Unis have subscription to academic journals right? Like IEEE bla bla..

Yes they do but it is limited over here.

That's why I believe if you have the chance to go to reputable universities overseas, please do it because they have better resources.

Please be reminded that, although reputable universities at overseas may have wide resources, it does not mean the resources at your local university are of less quality. How effective and efficient also depend on your local university Resource Searching Mechanism and your searching Strategy.

With the help of creative and motivated people in the forum, supported by information and social technologies from your university, and above all with the spirit and drive of visionary people like yours, you and I and not forgetting alexkos, Blofeld & tanji can make this world a better place. Let us focus our energy on realizing what Aristotle defined as: ‘‘the art of living, and living well’’.

True true
Sometimes we cannot find the journal we want since most Universities only subscribe to those journals that are more popular~
But then one can always write to the authors, or perhaps a friend in other universities with subscription to get the articles
And I guess most of the time the supervisors will definitely have membership/sources in their field too

Thanks man~
As mentioned in my previous post, we can ask friends from other universities/ institutes for help with getting research materials
THe only ones that are hard to access to are those very old and thick journals earlier than 1950s; need to manually find in libraries

hurm... ok.... now i realize why my friend frm other uni asked me ada subscribe scienedirect tak. O.o.. lol..

bro, going to USM?

I am thinking master by research at USM, yup engineering and it would be fun there.

where should I start if going to be 'graduate research assistant'? kind of clueless

unfortunately....I'm in the same boat as u. =)...

i am still clueless and having a giant headache just thinking what I want to do with my future.. lol...


decisions decisions decisions......