I am a first year doctoral student working towards drafting my research proposal. My area of concentration is condition monitoring and fault diagnosis of drive-train (wind turbine) components. Comments and suggestions are welcome on how to approach in selecting "relevant" problems to be tackled.
I am in a dilemma on how to first pinpoint on the components (gearbox, bearing, motor, generator, shaft etc.) from among so many and then choose a research problem to solve. What will be the best way to approach?
Literature suggest every component has their own set of problems and scope for work but what are some of the important aspects to keep in mind before selecting one of them. For starters, should the approach be to select an already established method of solution to the problem and try to improve it?
Thanks