Research Process & Methodology

1. Advance Personalized Learning

2. A growing appreciation of individual preferences and aptitudes has led toward more “personalized learning,” in which instruction is tailored to a student’s individual needs. Given the diversity of individual preferences, and the complexity of each human brain, developing teaching methods that optimize learning will require engineering solutions of the future.

3. Make Solar Energy Economical

4. Currently, solar energy provides less than 1 percent of the world's total energy, but it has the potential to provide much, much more.

5. Enhance Virtual Reality

6. Within many specialized fields, from psychiatry to education, virtual reality is becoming a powerful new tool for training practitioners and treating patients, in addition to its growing use in various forms of entertainment.

7. Reverse-Engineer the Brain

8. Much research has been focused on creating thinking machines—computers capable of emulating human intelligence— however, reverse-engineering the brain could have multiple impacts that go far beyond artificial intelligence and will promise significant advances in health care, manufacturing, and communication.

9. Engineer Better Medicines

10. Engineering can enable the development of new systems to use genetic information, sense small changes in the body, assess new drugs, and deliver vaccines to provide health care directly tailored to each person.

11. Advance Health Informatics

12. As computers have become available for all aspects of human endeavors, there is now a consensus that a systematic approach to health informatics - the acquisition, management, and use of information in health - can significantly enhance the quality and efficiency of medical care and the response to widespread public health emergencies.

13. Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure

14. Infrastructure is the combination of fundamental systems that support a community, region, or country. Society faces the formidable challenge of modernizing the fundamental structures that will support our civilization in centuries ahead.

15. Secure Cyberspace

16. Computer systems are involved in the management of almost all areas of our lives; from electronic communications, and data systems, to controlling traffic lights to routing airplanes. It is clear that engineering needs to develop innovations for addressing a long list of cybersecurity priorities

17. Provide Access to Clean Water

18. The world's water supplies are facing new threats; affordable, advanced technologies could make a difference for millions of people around the world

19. Provide Energy from Fusion

20. Human-engineered fusion has been demonstrated on a small scale. The challenge is to scale up the process to commercial proportions, in an efficient, economical, and environmentally benign way.

21. Prevent Nuclear Terror

22. The need for technologies to prevent and respond to a nuclear attack is growing.

23. Manage the Nitrogen Cycle

24. Engineers can help restore balance to the nitrogen cycle with better fertilization technologies and by capturing and recycling waste.

25. Develop Carbon Sequestration Methods

26. Engineers are working on ways to capture and store excess carbon dioxide to prevent global warming.

27. Engineer the Tools of Scientific Discovery

2020 Emerging Challenges Will Reshape Business

The Boston Consulting Group

The future competitive environment will likely be shaped by multiple trends that are already unfolding today:

1. Artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing, and pioneers are advancing beyond spot applications to implement AI at scale.

2. Businesses are increasingly organized into multicompany “ecosystems” that defy traditional industry boundaries and blur the distinction between competitors and collaborators, and producers and consumers.

3. Technology is beginning to redefine the nature of work, as well as the relationship between the company and the individual, as both employee and customer.

4. The rise of China is challenging the global economic order and the institutions and rules that have defined it.

5. Long-term global growth projections have been falling, driven in part by an ongoing deceleration in working-age population growth across significant economies.

6. Society is increasingly scrutinizing the social impact of technology and the sustainability and broader contribution of business.

7. Investor activism and the role of private capital are rising in many parts of the world.

8. The combination of these forces is producing multidimensional uncertainty, which confounds traditional forecasting and planning-based approaches for harnessing the future.

To stay ahead of these trends, leaders need to question their current assumptions and retool their companies for the coming decade.

POSSIBLE TOPICS Research Topics Related To Technology Management

1. Assessment of Cleaner Production Technologies and Appropriate Technology Management Strategies in the Automobile Industry

2. This study provides a detailed assessment of some of the cleaner production technologies and technology management strategies that are available for implementation in the automobile industry. The research will show how these technologies and strategies can be effectively employed in the automobile industry

3. An Analysis of Challenges in Implementing an Equipment Reliability Improvement Strategy at a Power Station

4. The paper gives a detailed review of the difficulties encountered when implementing an equipment reliability improvement strategy at a power station. The paper also provides suggestions on how the highlighted challenges can be overcome

5. A Study on the Strategies of Optimizing Equipment Procurement by the Use of Technology Management Principles

6. This study explores how strategies based on technology management principles can be harnessed and used for optimizing equipment procurement to minimize the costs of operations and maximize the benefits accrued to the firm

7. Simulation and Evaluation of a Proposed Management System with Shared Constrained Resources in the Multi-Project Environment

8. This paper focuses on elaborating a proposed management system that can be implemented in a multi-project environment in which there are constrained resources that have to be shared effectively, to make all the projects successful. As such, the study will identify a cost-effective strategy for implementing the system in the multi-project environment

9. A Strategic Business Model for the Introduction of Mobile Data Services in an Emerging Economy: The Case of Third World Countries

10. The study proposes a business model that can be adapted to introduce mobile data services in nascent economies specifically in a third of the world's countries. The paper seeks to provide a blueprint that other investors can emulate and implement

11. Commercial Off-The-Shelf Software: Using Purchasing Portfolio Management to Gain Competitive Advantage

12. This study examines how purchasing portfolio management can be used to gain a competitive advantage when using Commercial off-the-shelf software products in software development. Through this research, the best approach to using commercial off-the-shelf software in purchasing portfolio management will be identified

Research Topics Related To Technology

1. What are the long-term effects of living in a technological world? Are these mostly negative or positive?

2. Are children under 12 now growing up in a different world than college-age students did? How is it different, and what does that mean for them?

3. What is the most important new technology for solving world problems?

4. How has social media helped solve and create problems in countries outside the U.S.?

5. Will governments like China continue to be able to control citizens' access to the Internet and social media?

6. How do social media, texting, cell phones, and the Internet make the world bigger? Smaller?

7. What are the implications of ever-increasing globalization through technology to the global economy?

8. Technology is changing so quickly that we are frequently using computers, software programs, and other technologies that have frustrating glitches and problems. Is there a solution?

9. How does our experience of social interactions with other humans influence the way we interact with machines?

10. When does it become morally wrong to engineer your child genetically?

11. What are new ways people can use technology to change the world?

12. How is digital learning going to change schools and education?

13. Does the Internet need controls or censorship? If so, what kind?

14. Do digital tools make us more or less productive at work?

15. To what extent is the development of new technologies having an adverse effect?

16. How will technology change our lives in twenty years?

17. Should people get identity chips implanted under their skin?

18. Should people in all countries have equal access to technological developments?

19. Can video gaming help solve world problems?

20. How are brains different from computers?

21. Is organic food better for you than genetically modified foods?

22. What are genetically modified food technologies able to do? How does this compare with traditional plant breeding methods?

23. Should genetically modified food technologies be used to solve hunger issues?

24. Since it is now possible to sequence human genes to find out about possible future health risks, is that something everyone should have done? What are the advantages or disadvantages?

25. If people have genetic testing, who has the right to that information? Should healthcare companies and employers have access to that information?

26. If parents have genetic information about their children, when and how should they share it with the child?

27. What sort of genetic information should parents seek about their children and how might this influence the raising of that child?

28. Would having cars that drive themselves be a good or bad idea?

29. How might travel in the future be different?

Research Topics Related To Information Communication Technologies (ITC)

1. Should information technologies and Internet availability make work from home the norm?

2. Is technology changing the way we read?

3. Does an online format cause readers to skim rather than fully digest information?

4. Is being able to find information quickly online a good or bad thing?

5. How do we gauge intelligence?

6. How is Google search changing us?

7. How should we change teaching to incorporate new technologies?

8. How important is it that schools teach using iPads, Smart Boards, social media, and other new technologies?

9. Is there an intelligence developed through conventional reading and research which is being lost in the digital age?

10. If Google prefers their brand of information, are we getting the best when we search?

11. Should there be regulation of sites such as Wikipedia which provide information that is not necessarily credible?

12. Are blogs better than books?

13. How necessary is teaching traditional researching skills to today’s young people?

14. Do schools and parents need to encourage or discourage media use?

15. How is reading digitally different than reading print?

16. Is the digital generation going to be smarter or dumber?

17. Is Google affecting the attention span of young people?

18. Is using technology for entertainment a bad thing?

19. Information Storage

20. How can storing information on DNA create new information system technologies?

21. Are there any ethical objections to using DNA for storage?

22. Is unlimited data storage a good thing? How can humans manage these massive amounts of information?

23. Should we worry about the fact that the line between the human brain and a computer is getting blurred? Is it a problem that computers will soon be able to think?

24. Should we build robots to do many of the tasks people do not like to do? How relevant is the Wall-E scenario to our future?

Research Topics Related To Information Technology

1. Cloud Computing – It is the latest technology that has made a massive change in the way data is stored and processed in servers

2. Computer Graphics Development – It is based on the use of software to create image data which in turn is used from videos to architecture and a lot more

3. Internet Censorship – A debatable topic based on the information flow over the internet.

4. Data Security – It is mainly based on the misuse of technology. Taking advantage of the loopholes in technology to cause severe damage by hacking or phishing information

5. Robotic surgery – One of the latest achievements of technology in using the help of robotics to achieve success in medical surgery

6. Electronic surveillance – The use of technology to monitor important and secured places with the use of camera and video devices to protect them from possible dangers

7. Artificial intelligence – This topic has made its name long back in the history of technology but is ever evolving. It mainly deals with the use of technology to make devices behave like human beings

8. 3-D Algorithms – The utilization of computer programming languages combined with game theory to develop 3-D algorithms and using them in turn to develop video games or art

9. Optimizing parallel queries – This is related to usage of a database to retrieve stored information or data with the help of Structured query language

10. Auto text summarization – This deals with to the point representation of electronic data

11. Imaginaire – The use of technology to share your photos over the internet with your friends

12. Data Mining – To detect technical fraud and theft. It deals with protection of online card usage

13. Proxy Server – A process of connecting computer networks to access or process information

14. Tracking of Defects – A system to track defects or issues that might result out of the development stage

15. Business Protocols – The set of rules or guidelines that are not defined yet followed in the technology business field

16. Internet Shopping – The use of the internet to purchase almost everything from the comfort of your home

17. Ad Server – The use of technology for advertising

18. E-Billing – The summary of bills or expenditure arising out of online shopping and leading to their mode of payment

Additional Research Topics Related To Information Technology

1. How Digital Tools Make the Workplace Less Productive

2. Hackers Anonymous: How Vigilant Hacker Groups Target Terrorists

3. How IT Helped Globalization: Why People Are Not More Culturally Friendly Now

4. Internet Privacy: Is There Such a Thing?

5. Digital Reading: How the Brain Has Changed as a Result

6. Free Speech: How a Guaranteed Right Has Changed with IT Advancements

7. The Changes to Neuroplasticity: How Tablet Devices Have Created Focus Problems

8. The Use of IT Filters by Governments to Influence Society

9. The Generational Gap: How Generations Are Further Apart Because of Technology

10. Internet Gambling: Exacerbating Addictions with Computer Technology

11. Digital Imaging: How It Impacts an Industry of Your Choosing

12. Internet Marketing and the Growth of the Marketing Research Industry

13. National Security Risks and Computer Viruses

14. Computer Crimes: How Governments Are Hacking Data too

15. The Growth of the Distance Education: IT in the Modern Classroom

16. Information Retrieval Methods: Why Wiping a Hard Drive Is No Longer Enough

17. The Fine Line Between Ethical and Unethical Hacking: How a Misstep Can Ruin Lives

18. The Use of Simplified Data Processing in Modern IT

19. The Internet and Art: How Money Laundering Has Grown

Research Topics Related To Information Systems Management

1. A review of the Information Systems Management in the Energy industry

2. The use of information systems for management of epidemics in war-torn areas

3. The implications of Big Data Analytics in the online education center

4. Data mining and textual analysis in online purchases of health products

5. Trends in mobile applications downloads and implications for the consumer

6. How do online reviews impact mobile app downloads?

7. How do private courier organizations use information systems management for effective functioning- a primary study of courier companies

8. Health records database and inherent security concerns

9. Consumer experience management

10. The challenges faced with diagnostic imaging- literature on Radiology Information Systems and the limitations that need to be overcome

11. A primary investigation of managers' perceptions and inclinations towards the use of Big Data for strategic decision-making- perspectives from the UK manufacturing sector

12. Big data in developing countries- trends, implications and challenges

13. A systematic exploration of the definition of ERP systems through the stakeholders' perspective

14. A systematic review of the supporting function of Information systems towards Corporate Integrated Reporting

15. How do family-owned businesses employ information systems management techniques to improve profitability

16. A primary investigation of the representation ratio of the genders in higher education in ICT programs

17. How are SME's in emerging economies using cloud computing

18. A review of brand community interactions through social media and its impact on retail sales

19. Primary research on social misconceptions, perceptions, and attitudes toward Information Systems and their management

20. Exploring the efficacy of e-Government models through Information systems management- the case of emerging economies

21. Information systems management in the hotel industry

22. How can small retailers utilize information systems management for optimum efficiency?