How to do research as an Engineer?

Hi there, my approach here will be reverse engineering. Look for the most interesting papers in the area do you want to gain experience. Try to reproduce the experiments in details, document your results and even try to make new experiments to see if you find something new. Ask questions to the authors about your problems. I'm sure that making this in your after ours time, you will gain a good intuition of what research means and you will have some learning lessons to share with others.