Addis Ababa Science and Technology University

School of Energy Resources and Environmental Engineering

Department of Environmental Engineering
Template for Writing Research Proposal

1. Title page
2. Introduction/Background
3. Statement of the problem
4. Objective/Aim of the study
5. Hypotheses /Questions
6. Significance of the study
7. Scope of the study / delimitation of the study
8. Literature review
9. Research Methodology
a. Study area
b. Study design
c. Study subjects
d. Sample size
e. Sampling methods
f. Method of data collection
g. Description of variables
h. Data quality assurance
i. Operational definitions
j. Plan of data analysis
10. Work plan ( Time Schedule )
11. Budget
12. References
13. Appendices/Annexes

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AN ASSESSMENT OF THE COMPLIANCE OF MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES TO ENVIROMNETAL
REGULATIONS IN ETHIOPIA-A CASE STUDY OF LEATHER INDUSTRIES IN ADDIS ABABA.

A RESEARCH PROPOSAL by : xxxx yyyyyy

Submitted to:
Addis Ababa Science and Technology University; School of Energy Resources and Environmental
Engineering - Department of Environmental Engineering.

January , 2015

Addis Ababa

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Table of Content

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 Background
1.2 Statement of the problem
1.3 Objective/Aim of the study
1.4 Hypotheses /Questions
1.5 Significance of the study
1.6 Scope of the study / delimitation of the study

Chapter 2: Literature review

2.1……

2.2……….

Chapter 3: Methodology

3.1……………………..

3.2……………………….

3.3………………………

Chapter 4: Work plan and Budge

4.1 Time schedule
4.2 budget schedule

References
Appendices/Annexes ( if necessary )

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 Addis Ababa Science and Technology University
School of Energy Resources and Environmental Engineering
Department of Environmental Engineering
Assignment for Research Methods (Group Assignment)
1) If you want t to undertake a research on the following two issues :
I) “ Women participation in Politics”
II) “Environmental impact of urban living”
A) What could be your research topics?
B) What sort of issues should be addresses in defining the problems?
C) Discuss the data you need for this research and how you are going to collect it.
D) If Educational Level of female and male dominance are the two variables which you suspect
to have relations with your subject in the first issue. State your hypothesis in all the four
forms.
E) Identify two variables which might be important in the second issue and formulate
hypothesis in all the four forms.

2) Would it be appropriate to draw your sample only from AASTU students to study the incidence
of seasonal flu in Addis Ababa? Why?

3) In a study that investigates the rise of sea levels due to global warming, is it meaningful to try
and detect millimeter level differences every week? How about if your measurement is done
every decade?
4) A trial is conducted to study the effect of an environmental pollutant (lead in paint) on the
occurrence of pancreatic cancer in mice.
I) What is the cause and effect that the researcher is trying to establish?
II) If the outcome of this study shows that there is no causal relationship, does this imply
that the experiment was a failure?