Class assignments
Welcome
This guide should serve as a starting point for the research you do for your Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Technology course. Use the tabs on the side of the guide to get started on finding articles, books, and other useful resources.
Subject Guide
Select a Research Topic - ENGR 186
- Choose a topic that interests you
- Read through background information
- Write out your topic as a statement and select the main concepts
- Start making a list of words to describe your topic (try to come up with 3 or 4)
- Come up with synonyms for the list of words that describe your topic
Having trouble deciding what to write about? Try looking at the links below to get some ideas:
- IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new windowIEEE Xplore is an online delivery system providing full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.
- ASTM International Digital Library This link opens in a new windowASTM Digital Library provides access to full text journals, special technical publications, manuals, data series, and terminology that covers a broad range of engineering disciplines.
- ScienceDirect - All Subscribed Content This link opens in a new windowElsevier ScienceDirect is a leading scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 journals and almost 30,000 books.
Other eReferences
Looking for an overview of standards, definitions of terms or concepts, important events, and bibliographic references? Many useful reference works are now available online.
- Knovel This link opens in a new windowEngineering information and data analytics.
Knovel provides numerical and tabular data from leading engineering and science resources, including handbooks and encyclopedias. Some tables are interactively searchable. - Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new windowTraces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources.
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new windowOnline reference library provides advanced searching and full-text of hundreds of dictionaries and encyclopedias in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Cross-reference links and interactive concept maps provide answers and enable further exploration of topics. Images include 17,000 works of art from the Bridgeman Art Library Archive.
Class Exercises
- Keyword Development ExerciseAn exercise for you to practice developing keywords
- Choosing Keywords ExampleSome suggestions on how to get started with selecting keywords from a main topic.
Career Information
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