Development of checklist for systematic research communication in multidisciplinary fields

摘要

This paper proposes a systematic strategy for multidisciplinary research communication in engineering fields. Research problems in modern society are complicated and are difficult to solve with expert knowledge in a single field. In higher education and research, emphasis is being placed on multidisciplinary research with collaboration and communication across disciplinary boundaries. Solving such complicated problems through multidisciplinary collaboration is still difficult. This research categorizes research abstracts collected from researchers in various engineering fields into five research patterns based on the functional analysis approach. They are analyzed to examine the problems in multidisciplinary research communication. Finally, a research communication check sheet is proposed as a solution for the issues that were discovered through the analysis. The authors expect the check sheet will be useful as a systematic tool to aid multidisciplinary research communication and could be utilized in academic writing and presentations.