This course gives an Introduction to the research process like: Formulating research problems, Asking research questions and finding answers, Making arguments, Writing research arguments, and Ethics of research. Topics in performance evaluation: Selection of evaluation techniques and metrics, Types of workloads and workload selection, Data presentation and ratio games, Summarizing measured data and comparing systems, Introduction to experimental design, and Introduction to simulation and analysis of simulation results. Ethical, safety, and social impact issues related to engineering solutions. This course includes assignments and a term project that focuses on preparing and presenting a research proposal or research report.