Research brainstorming

Abood never knew about this little incident. Nevertheless, twenty years later, in 1986, I was pleasantly surprised when he invited me to join a dozen other researchers at a unique symposium in Maryland. Its purpose was to brainstorm chemical countermeasures to possible terrorist attacks, especially the hijacking of airplanes. 

It s exciting that there are so many topics and individuals out there that have potential research interest. Your research topic may be chosen for you if you are in a particular class, but often you will have to come up with a topic by yourself. How do you narrow down your topics or choose just one idea For the moment, you don t have to answer that question. Instead, allow yourself to brainstorm and make a list of at least potential ideas or people that might interest you. For instance, your list might look something like this ... 

It is not always easy to consolidate and narrow down the entire essence of your paper or your research into a single sentence. But don t worry. Just as you allowed yourself to brainstorm for your outline, take a blank sheet of paper and write down a full, flowing, practice paragraph that includes several sentences about why you are writing your paper and why you think the topic is important. This gives you plenty of material to draw from and sentences to edit that are already about your topic. For example, a preliminary thesis paragraph might look like this ... 

After a Research Proposal topic is selected (refer back to the Writing on Your Own task in chapter 11), it is time to specify project goals and objectives. Consider guestions such as these to begin the brainstorming process ... 

This book is rooted in an informal discussion with three researchers. Dr Alatzne Carlosena, Dr Monica Felipe and Dr Maria Jesus Cal, after they had some problems measuring antimony in soils and sediments by electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry. While we reviewed the results and debated possible problems, much like in a brainstorming session, I realized that some of their difficulties were highly similar to those found in molecular spectrometry (mid-IR spectroscopy, where I had some experience), namely a lack of peak reproducibility, noise, uncontrollable amounts of concomitants, possible matrix interferences, etc. 

Assuming that these findings are eventually substantiated by additional research, they find their most obvious application to problem solving in industry, professional practice, and research. Here the procedure could play a role similar to that played by consultants, brainstorming, synectics, and other attempts to augment and "unstick" the problem solver s unsuccessful efforts. A quote from one of our subjects illustrates the possibilities ... 

A review on using the Internet for pollution prevention was published by Scott Butner (1997) at the Battelle Seattle Research Center. All of these resources can be used to help prepare a brainstorming team for the generation of ideas. 

Research the facts behind this situation. Before you start, brainstorm some specific questions to research. Some suggestions are given below. 

Snyder, S. H. (1989). Brainstorming The science and politics of opiate research. Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press. 

Brainstorm a list of questions that must be addressed through research before deep ocean sequestration is attempted. Visit qlencoe.coiti for more information on CO2 sequestration. 

Breakout Session 3a Brainstorm Blue-Team Counter measures to Presented Nano-Enabled Threat Scenarios Brainstorm Red-Team Circumventions to Presented Nano-Enabled Countermeasures Scenarios Breakout Session 4 Brainstorm research directions underlying or related to countermeasures or threats (Note only research directions underlying countermeasures will be used as input to Breakout Session 5)... 

In the past few years, there have been a number of research software systems that have been created for the computational study of biomedical problems, including bioelectric field problems. These include ECGSIM [45],EEGLAB [46], BrainStorm [47], CardioWave[48], SCIRun [49],andBioPSE [50]. 

The concept stage has four steps (1) define the problem, (2) brainstorm, (3) research and generate ideas, and (4) identify criteria and specify constraints. 

After the brainstorming session, the design team interviews people who are affected by the problem. After ideas to solve the problem have been listed, the design team conducts research to find out if any solutions to the problem already exist. Research is some of the best work an engineer can do during the design process. Research is essential because most new designs... 

In the first step of development, we reexamine the list of possible solutions to the problem. This step could include more brainstorming by the design team and more research. The design team then evaluates each possible solution against the established design criteria and the imposed constraints. 

Cornerstone Pharmaceuticals, Cranbury, New Jersey and Stony Brook, New York Altira Capital and Consulting, LLC., Edison, New Jersey Center for Biotechnology, Stony Brook, New York Metabolic Research, Inc., Montgomery, Texas, USA and BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics,... 

A military unit was chosen for the research of the risks of occupational exposure to NIEMR. The Checkhst Analysis method to identify NIEMR sources and traditional brainstorming to define qualitatively priorities of risks were applied. The stay of employees in the NIEMF of radar side lobes was analyzed as a critical risk which was subjected to detailed examination. 

First rounds of presenting the brainstormed versions of the Education Designathon were necessary as a way of getting user input from, in this case, the professor of the class and the advisor that would approve and oversee the end product. A promising visual tool was creating a tree hierarchy of all the possible options at each node of a decision to be made. This gives insight into the direction of the next steps that must be taken and researched further. 

From any source—research and development, engineering, any operations department, a cross-functional group, maintenance, individual workers—an idea may be proposed for process improvement. A broad range of brainstorming by a team takes place. 

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