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Leslie C. Mounteer Jr. 2009 – 07 - 15

Advice for Researchers 2009 NSF REU MAS-Net Based from findings in Dr. Dennis Bernstein’s student guides and lessons learned from Leslie C. Mounteer Jr. Leslie C. Mounteer Jr. 2009 – 07 - 15. Advice for Researchers. Do Quality Research Paper Writing Note Making

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Leslie C. Mounteer Jr. 2009 – 07 - 15

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  1. Advice for Researchers2009 NSF REUMAS-NetBased from findings in Dr. Dennis Bernstein’s student guides and lessons learned from Leslie C. Mounteer Jr. Leslie C. Mounteer Jr. 2009 – 07 - 15

  2. Advice for Researchers • Do Quality • Research • Paper Writing • Note Making • Treat research like a story (Presentations) • Keep it entertaining • Get the audience involved/interested • Avoid minute details and focus on general ideas • Teamwork • Get to know strengths and weaknesses • Maintain standard documentation practices • Meet regularly to update/maintain/and get future guidance

  3. References • Bernstein, Dennis S. "Professor Bernstein's Advice on Getting Your Paper Published".1997:http://aerospace.engin.umich.edu/people/faculty/bernstein/guide.html • Bernstein, Dennis S. "Professor Bernstein's Top Ten Tips for Giving a Presentation".1997:http://aerospace.engin.umich.edu/people/faculty/bernstein/guide.html • Bernstein, Dennis S. "Professor Bernstein's Ten Steps to Writing a Paper". 1997:http://aerospace.engin.umich.edu/people/faculty/bernstein/guide.html • Bernstein, Dennis S. "Professor Bernstein's Top 13 Writing Tips". 1997:http://aerospace.engin.umich.edu/people/faculty/bernstein/guide.html

  4. Advice SidesImportant PointsByJacob Marsh July 15, 2009 All points were taken from advice-dennis.rar from Dr. Chen

  5. “Write an excellent paper. Clearly state the contribution of your paper. Show unequivocal improvement over prior work. Write concisely and clearly. Cite prior work accurately and appropriately. Keep revising your paper…”

  6. Take lots and lots of measurements that mean something which will help you qualitative analysis. • Recognize when you are tired and rest.

  7. Highlights from Dr. Dennis Bernstein's advice Lindsey Stevens July 14, 2009 Advice Meeting

  8. Setting up a Control Laboratory • When setting up a control laboratory weigh your building versus buying options carefully. Buying off the shelf can be helpful in regulating educational experiments and allowing researchers to call a manufacturer in case of technical problems. The drawback to buying is that the researcher does not gain the insight from designing his/her own equipment. [1] • Getting Published • If a dispute arises between the writer and the reviewer, it is the writer’s responsibility to neutralize the conflict by contacting the editor and explaining the validity of the research, rather than continuing a debate. [2] • Peer Review • Participating in peer review is a moral obligation for researchers seeking publication themselves. The reviewer is responsible for reviewing the article for novelty, correctness, and significance within his or her understanding. [3]

  9. References [1] Bernstein, D.S., "Setting up and running a control research laboratory," Control Systems Magazine, IEEE , vol.23, no.5, pp. 14-19, Oct. 2003URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1234647&isnumber=27678 [2]Bernstein, Dennis S.“Professor Bernstein's Advice on Getting Your Paper Published,” 1997 URL: http://aerospace.engin.umich.edu/people/faculty/bernstein/guide/getting_published.pdf [3] Bernstein, D.S., "Peer review," Control Systems Magazine, IEEE , vol.20, no.3, pp. 8-11, Jun 2000URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=845033&isnumber=18317

  10. Important Research Advices Andrew Dalia MAS-net REU 2009 7/15/09

  11. Important Advice on Research • Aim to be as clear as possible • Always acknowledge and give regards to sources and previous researches whom you have received important insight/ideas from • Aim for perfection in terms of grammar, style, and conciseness to make it publishable quality • Attempt to make your research problem as interesting and stimulating for the audience and make sure to set the problem in perspective by giving background on issues related to the problem

  12. References • “Professor Bernstein's Advice on Getting Your Paper Published” Dennis S. Bernstein, 1997 • “Professor Bernstein's Top 13 Writing Tips” Dennis S. Bernstein, 1997 • “Professor Bernstein's Ten Steps to Writing a Paper” Dennis S. Bernstein, 1997 • “Professor Bernstein's Top Ten Tips for Giving a Presentation” Dennis S. Bernstein, 1997 • “A Student’s Guide to Research” Dennis S. Bernstein, 1999

  13. Advice Worth Remembering 3 Useful Quotes from Dennis S. Bernstein By Johnathan Nielsen johnathan.nielsen@aggiemail.usu.edu 7/14/2009

  14. Doing Your Own Work BYO (Build-Your-Own) experiments have the distinct advantage of forcing you to become familiar with the physics of the process, and this familiarity can provide insights into controller design and control theory. BYO also forces you to understand the restrictions and reality of engineering hardware in terms of sensors (resolution, bandwidth, linearity, drift, repeatability) and actuators (stroke, low signal bandwidth, high signal bandwidth, authority, linearity, hysteresis). –Setting Up and Running a Control Research Lab. Doing your own work is not only ETHICAL…it is also the best way to learn something.

  15. The Benefit of Experiments Control experiments allow one to practice the “outer-loop” of control design, namely, the specification, design, and implementation of sensors and actuators. Control research without experiments is like music without sound.

  16. Have a Point The design of a control experiment must begin with an explicit control system objective. You should always keep the end goal in mind.

  17. Great Advise from Dennis S. Bernstein by Levi Rock REU Week 6 Advice Meeting July 15, 2009

  18. Let’s Shed Some Light on Precision Writing • Some key characteristics of Precision Writing is (1) clarity and (2) conciseness (A Student’s Guide to Precision Writing, pg 1) • Guidelines to Write Precisely • Establish Frame of Reference • Terminology-important things, one name • No Ambiguity-hold down confusion • Fault Diagnosis-check for errors • Fault toleration-in case errors occur • Conciseness- not wordier than necessary • Compression and expansion • Spatial location, movement, and orientation-describe with precision

  19. Systems Introducing Signals, Systems, and Control in Grades K Through 12 Signals

  20. A Student’s Guide to Classical Feedback Feedback is pervasive Block Diagrams are not Circuit diagrams Determine the equilibrium points and linearize Check Stability first Stable systems have a frequency response Remember the loop transfer function After stability performance is everything Perfect performance is asymptotically possible

  21. Insightful Ideas • Brad Rogers • 2009 MAS-Net REU 7-15-2009 week 6 Presentation Rogerb1@spu.edu

  22. Insightful • “An unstable plant provides almost no opportunity for online identification” • “If normal stability does hold, there is still the problem of rolloff.” • Use impeccable logic, Spell perfectly, and Respect paragraphs

  23. Not as Helpful Helpful • “Finding Problems is one of the most crucial things you can do as a researcher.” “ In general, the best way to find good research problems is to do research. By doing research you will find that each advance leads to new ideas and new problems. of course this advice assumes you already have a good starting point.”

  24. Top Three Advices Aaron Quitberg aaronquitberg@yahoo.com July 15, 2009 Meeting on advices learned from Dennis S. Bernstein’s notes.

  25. If a reviewer judges a paper to be of poor quality, s/he must give specific examples to substantiate that opinion. If the reviewer judges the contents of a manuscript to be insignificant, then s/he is obligated to demonstrate why that is the case. A review that says nothing more than “not interesting" or “not surprising" is a non-review; it has no validity and should be discarded without being transmitted to the authors. Reviews that fail to provide an objective basis for their evaluation have no merit and can have no bearing on a publication decision. Binary information. Some information is of the yes/no type, whereas other information is a matter of degree. This distinction is digital (binary) versus analog. Example: “The toaster is on. When the toaster is on, the coils are hotter than boiling water.” Do not say “relative” or “advantage” without saying relative to what or advantage over what. Even after you submit your paper, continue to revise and improve it. If any new information, results, or ideas come to light, include them in the paper. In that way you will be ready to revise the paper quickly once you receive the reviews. However, if significant extensions are achieved, then this should lead to another paper without expanding the scope of the first paper.

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