3 credits
Fall 2026 Lecture
The goal of this course is to provide you with the tools necessary to not only understand how to create your own research study on cyber-physical systems, but how to critically assess the different methodologies and components in various research designs used in applied information technology. In this course, you will learn about the landscape of research in information technology. You will learn to differentiate between different research methodologies used in IT, identify threats to validity, learn specific protocols for commonly used methods in IT, and synthesize empirical literature and theory in order to design a scientific research study. The end product of this course will be the ability to design and report on an IT-related research project. Permission of instructor required. Prerequisites: STAT 50100 or STAT 51100 or other statistics course; 6 credits of CNIT at the 500 level.
Learning Outcomes1Understand the landscape of research related to applied cyber-physical systems.
2Evaluate the quality and salience of research related to cyber-physical systems.
3Differentiate between research methodologies used in IT and design a research study using appropriate methods.
4Formulate discipline-appropriate research questions.
5Synthesize empirical literature and theory and write various types of research reports appropriate to their sub-discipline.
6Identify different research philosophies and paradigms used in Information Technology and their impact on research designs and outcomes.
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