need a successor
When my prof told me that I need to find a "koukeisha", even though that was the first time I heard the word "koukeisha" but I knew it right a way that it means a successor, i.e. someone who will continue my research. I plan to work in a company and not to continue my study in the univ. On the other hand, my co-reseacher is a busy woman, working as a professor in another university and she doesn't have time to develop the block diagrams and/or tools. She does have a lot of idea and plans to develop a compact measurement system for ASSR including the sound stimulator. So.. till now my job is to create the block diagrams, turning her idea into reality. The reason why I don't want to continue my research is because it is not my own idea, so I don't really feel like it is my real work and I'm not sure about the future of this research. In the past few years in Japan, there are no researcher working on this kind of research, and the measurement system used in hopitals recently are imported from Canada.
So after I talked to my prof about my plan, he asked me what kind of a person that is fit to be the successor. I didn't really know how to answer that question. First of all, the research is something that is quite new, and the expert in this kind of field is not many. My co-researcher is someone that is dependable, she can explain a lot of things. But the problem is, she doesn't really know about LabVIew, the software that we use. And I remember that 6 months ago we were stuck in a stage where we don't know how to read the ASSR waveforms, the BRW file. This BRW file is the output file from the measurement system (that have already been commercialized and sold to many hospitals) developed in Toronto University. That time, we didn't know the data format in the BRW file. Without the ASSR waveforms, we wouldn't be able to start our research! Eventually I tried to read it as a binary file and after fixing couple bugs in my block diagram, finally we are able to read the BRW file. So... now I realize that the successor should be someone that is creative, and can work without technical guide. Up until now I thought my works is not something big, but now at least I understand the reason why my co-researcher appreciated my works.
So after I talked to my prof about my plan, he asked me what kind of a person that is fit to be the successor. I didn't really know how to answer that question. First of all, the research is something that is quite new, and the expert in this kind of field is not many. My co-researcher is someone that is dependable, she can explain a lot of things. But the problem is, she doesn't really know about LabVIew, the software that we use. And I remember that 6 months ago we were stuck in a stage where we don't know how to read the ASSR waveforms, the BRW file. This BRW file is the output file from the measurement system (that have already been commercialized and sold to many hospitals) developed in Toronto University. That time, we didn't know the data format in the BRW file. Without the ASSR waveforms, we wouldn't be able to start our research! Eventually I tried to read it as a binary file and after fixing couple bugs in my block diagram, finally we are able to read the BRW file. So... now I realize that the successor should be someone that is creative, and can work without technical guide. Up until now I thought my works is not something big, but now at least I understand the reason why my co-researcher appreciated my works.
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