blubb Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 That might be a little bit of a standard question but could be still interesting to people here. I'm in a little bit of self crisis at the moment wondering the following question: How do I choose my research topic? (I'm in engineering) Criterias I can imagine: - income/important in the future - personal relation to the area - random/by accident - strengthfinder 2.0 - media presence - know professor at the school of interest And second question, what is in your opinion important in the future? Bio-Nanotechnology,... Where will we get the most funding lateron? Please share your opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chasely Posted August 1, 2012 Share Posted August 1, 2012 Are you already in grad school or not? I ask because of your last criteria. I still haven't narrowed down my research topic, and probably won't for a couple of years. Unless I can get outside funding through a NSF fellowship or something similar, my topic will more or less be dictated by my advisor's projects. There are likely "hot topics" in your field, but you need to ask yourself if they're worth doing. I also think that there is no way to figure out what will get you funding later on in your career. The tenured professors in my department are all getting grants now that are pretty unrelated to their research in grad school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blubb Posted August 1, 2012 Author Share Posted August 1, 2012 I'm about to graduate but I guess it doesnt matter since it could be intersting during gradschool as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blubb Posted August 7, 2012 Author Share Posted August 7, 2012 Noone else who can share some experience? It would be really helpful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylogician Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 You're an undergraduate applying to grad schools? You'll get a much better response if you post this question in a more appropriate forum, e.g. the Engineering forum or the Applications forum. It might also help if you ask a more precise question and explain why you're asking it. Otherwise your questions are so general that they're hard to reply to. Dal PhDer 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blubb Posted August 7, 2012 Author Share Posted August 7, 2012 thanks :-) didnt know the community is so different when scrolling down ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eigen Posted August 7, 2012 Share Posted August 7, 2012 The ubiquitous PhD Comic on research interests: quicksort 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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