Graduate Research and ITM Body of Knowledge

1. II Graduate Research and ITM Body of Knowledge

2. Objectives • To explain the study of graduate program • To describe the responsibility of students and advisor • To plan and manage for the research • To explain ITM body of knowledge

3. Graduate Program • Mixture of courses related to your specialty, and a research project • The research project will teach you to be a discoverer and that can not be taught in the classroom

4. Getting Started • Get advice from someone • Make understand in the curriculum and the graduate school requirements • Choose courses to get you going in generally the right direction • Begin planning the graduate program in earnest

5. How to find the Right Advisor? • Starting to talk with potential advisors • The advisor usually older, wiser, and knowledgeable about the ways of the university world • The advisor usually a professor whose research is in your area of interest • The advisor should be respected professionally by others • A professor’s rank-assistant, associate, and so on

6. How to find the Right Advisor? • A well-known researcher can often generate funds • The advisor should have a permanent employment status (tenure) • The advisor should not plan to sabbatical leave in the near future • The advisor should not be near retirement • How do other students who are working with this advisor react to the situation?

7. How to find the Right Advisor? • However, by choosing an advisor who is well-known, you risk being seriously neglected

8. Phase of Faculty-Student Interactions • An exploratory phase • Problem focus • Generation of research questions or hypotheses • Douglas McGregor said that people’s attitudes toward work are based on one of two underlining sets of assumptions • Theory X: person dislikes work and will avoid if it’s possible • Theory Y: person likes work and responsibility, that people will exercise self-direction and self-control in achieving their objectives

9. Phase of Faculty-Student Interactions • Douglas McGregor • Conflict can rise when advisor and advisee are of basically opposite types • A theory Y advisor and a theory X student • A theory Y student and a theory X advisor • The advisor as a mentor/tutor • The advisor as a model • The thesis as a teaching device • Research process • Student’s ability to work independently

10. What are the Advisor’s Role? • Discuss about research projects and the advisor’s expectations of student • Involved with the student program • Keep your advisor current on your progress • To develop the necessary level of mastery and confidence in doing research

11. What are the Advisor’s Responsibilities? • Responsibilities to the students • Consultants and relationships • Advice with the students on the acceptable topic and give students exercise on independent judgment within criteria • Feasibility, efficiency, the importance of the topic, competence of the student, a theory base underlying the student’s understanding of the topic • Ethical responsibilities • Maintain the advisor’s academic and professional competencies

12. What are the Advisor’s Responsibilities? • Responsibilities to the committee members • Traditionally the advisor chairs and sets standards of committee behavior • Set the climate of expertise and high standards within the committee • Defining committee roles • Encouraging committee participation • Coordinating committee communications • Administrative arrangements

13. What are the Advisor’s Responsibilities? • Responsibilities to the institution • Maintenance of the standard • Prevention of fraud • Relevance of the student research • Academic interests • Advisee responsibilities with respect to • Identifying the topic • Personally conducting the research • Setting reasonable and realistic goals and meeting them • Using clear language in writing

14. How can I change Research Advisor? • Sometimes reply breakdown of relationships • Proposal is changed • Faculty member may not have the time • Feel that the progress is too low

15. How to plan and manage for the research? • Time scale • A master’s program with thesis, generally ranges anywhere from 18 months to 3 years, with 2 years being about average at most institutes • Appointment of the graduate committee • Determine what people, representing various specialty areas • Including your advisor, a graduate committee usually consists of a minimum of three people for a master’s program • Working with the advisor • Develop a study plan • Establish a business like working relationship with the advisor • Arrange the time and place

16. How to plan and manage for the research? • Discouragement • When you are getting discouraged, refer to your plan regularly • Any time, while gathering literature or data, or analyzing, and you feel that you are losing control of where you are and what it all means, stop and get yourself up to date psychologically • Keep a project record book and fill it with work summaries • Schedule at least one day a week to summarise and write • Carefully written progress report to the advisor

17. IT Body of Knowledge ACM, Version - October 2005

18. ITF: Information Technology Fundamentals • Pervasive Themes in IT • Organizational Issues • History • IT and its related and informing disciplines • Application Domains • Applications of Math and Statistics to IT

19. HCI: Human Computer Interaction • Human Factors • HCI Aspects of Application Domains • Human-Centered Evaluation • Developing Effective Interfaces • Accessibility • Emerging Technologies • Human-Centered Software Development

20. IAS: Information Assurance and Security • Fundamental Aspects • Security Mechanisms • Operational issues • Policy • Attacks • Security Domains • Forensics • Information States • Security Services • Threat Analysis Model • Vulnerabilities

21. IM: Information Management • IM Concepts and Fundamentals • Database Query Languages • Data Organization Architecture • Data Modeling • Managing the Database Environment • Special-Purpose Databases

22. IPT: Integrative Programming & Technologies • Intersystems Communications • Data Mapping and Exchange • Integrative Coding • Scripting Techniques • Software Security Practices • Miscellaneous Issues • Overview of Programming languages

23. NET: Networking • Foundations of Networking • Routing and Switching • Physical Layer • Security • Application Areas • Network Management

24. PF: Programming Fundamentals • Fundamental Data Structures • Fundamental Programming Constructs • Object-Oriented Programming • Algorithms and Problem-Solving • Event-Driven Programming • Recursion

25. PT: Platform Technologies • Operating Systems • Architecture and Organization • Computing infrastructions • Enterprise Deployment Software • Firmware • Hardware

26. SA: System Administration & Maintenance • Operating Systems • Applications • Administrative Activities • Administrative Domains

27. SIA: System Integration & Architecture • Requirements • Acquisition/Sourcing • Integration • Project Management • Testing and QA • Organizational Context • Architecture

28. SP: Social & Professional Issues • Professional Communications • History of Computing • Social Context of Computing • Teamwork Concepts and Issues • Intellectual Properties • Legal Issues in Computing • Organizational Context • Professional and Ethical Issues and Responsibilities • Privacy and Civil Liberties

29. WS: Web Systems and Technologies • Web Technologies • Information Architecture • Digital Media • Web Development • Vulnerabilities • Social Software