Thesis

Catalog description

This course is designed to develop understandings, skills, and outlooks to conduct original, independent research and scientific publication in the field of water resources science and technology. Student will develop research plans that will state the problem and research questions, outline a research strategy and experimental approach, detail method of data collection, interpretation, and validation, and outline the method of documenting results and conclusions. Student are expected to conduct an extensive and appropriate literature search relating to the research. Students will conduct research by collecting data through an appropriate experimental protocol, and then analyze that data according to techniques appropriate for the type data collected and to answer the research questions. Students will then draw conclusions answering the research questions and make recommendations. Each student will produce a thesis document that can also be published in part or whole in a peer reviewed research journal.