Experiment Methods

This section is only for research projects. The following text repeats the guidance available in the Report Templates, with minor changes.

This section should discuss the overall hypothesis being tested and justify the approach selected in the context of the research area. Describe the experiment design that has been selected and how measurements and comparisons of results are to be made.

You should concentrate on the more important aspects of the method. Present an overview before going into detail. As well as describing the methods adopted, discuss other approaches that were considered. You might also discuss areas that you had to revise after some investigation.

You should also identify any support tools that you used. You should discuss your choice of implementation tools or simulation tools. For any code that you have written, you can talk about languages and related tools. For any simulation and analysis tools, identify the tools and how they are used on the project.

For the parts of your project that needed some engineering to support the experiments, include details in your report about your design and implementation; example discussion would cover hardware, software, firmware, or a mixture of these. Discuss with your supervisor whether it is better to include a different top-level section to describe any engineering work. In Research version of the Report Templates, Chapter 3 is suggested as a place for that discussion.