Initial Research Pathway


  • Both Cephas and Kai Xiang studied Aerospace in polytechnic and have read about turbofan engines

  • Kai Xiang used Wikipedia to read up on turbofan engines

  • Both Cephas and Kai Xiang used ChatGPT to give a summary about turbofan engine

  • We read the ChatGPT summary and Google searched the key takeaways, found few websites and articles on turbofan engines

  • Cephas found out that turbofan engines are widely used in commercial aviation

  • Cephas used Google scholar to research more about turbofan engines to find the reason
  • Used the information gathered from journal articles and websites to form a summary

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