 Hello, welcome to this 10 hour course on research and introduction to research. So what we will do is look at this topic. Basically we all do research. Most of what we do, we is informally being described as research. So when you go to buy a stereo system or you go to buy a camera or you go to buy a tire for your vehicle, we all do some kind of research, some kind of background research to figure out if what we are purchasing is what we are interested in and so on. So this is what we all do, however when you do formal research which is what students in graduate school do or postgraduate studies do or people in R&D labs do, then there are specific processes that are involved in what would then get described as formal research. So based on your background you may or may not have become familiar with formal research. So in this course what we intend to do is to walk you through the various important steps that are involved in research and show you examples of it, we will get you involved in activities associated with it. So things like literature survey, there is something called literature survey. So we would like to show you what is literature survey, how do you go about doing it and then once you start doing research you collect data. So how do you do data analysis, what are good ways to do data analysis and then finally you will also have to present your data, you will have to present it formally in conferences and also formally in journal papers. So there again what is a journal paper, how is it different from say a novel that you would read, a storybook that you would read. So there are formal ways in which documents are written and analyzed and reviewed. So these are things that we would like to introduce you to so that you understand what are the range of activities that are involved when you get into formal research. When you do research it is not that all the things that we are going to show you will start doing right from day one but in the course of your research, in the course of your master's degree or in the course of your PhD degree pretty much all the major steps that you are going to go through are all the steps that we will show you through this course. So I hope you will enjoy it, I hope you will benefit from it, in fact I am confident you will benefit from it and we hope to see you through this course, thank you.