RA536 Advanced Research/Grant Writing (3 cr.)

This course examines effective research methodologies best used in understanding requirements and expectations associated with the graduate research project.  This includes formatting and graphic requirements, literature review development,graduate proposal design,and expectations of the final journal-style graduate project manuscript.  Additional emphasis includes ethical frameworks of research in technology as well as research related to varying aspects of grant writing/fund solicitation.  Grant writing studies include discussions of grant sources, needs assessment, budgeting principles, developing full proposals, and proposal evaluation.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Synthesize research utilizing various formats to formulate reviews of literature and proposals suited to graduate research project preparation.
2. Translate complex technical information to non-technical audiences.
3. Understand the need to respect human beings with regards to the multiple diversities each person represents.
4. Plan and organize the allocations of human, financial, and information resources.
5. Evaluate strategies and motivate people to accept and promote them.