A introductory guide to engineering and technology resources. Directed primarily at engineering undergraduates in ASU101 and lower-level engineering courses.
The more you know about a topic, the better you'll be able to research it. You'll know the appropriate terminology to use in the search, thereby retrieving more articles specifically on your topic and you'll recognize when an article meets your needs even if author doesn't describe the topic in the same way you do.
So, when starting to research an engineering topic, use one or more of these resources to get a summary of the topic and find out more about it.
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Contains the complete encyclopedia, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, world atlas, timelines, ""This Day in History"" feature, and world data analyst. Includes articles, illustrations, definitions, and links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
Alternate titles: Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Academic Edition
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The Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS) provides a body of knowledge of the planet’s life support systems and an integrated compendium of twenty component encyclopedias.
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Full text collection of several thousand reference works for most areas of engineering, technology and the sciences. Works include handbooks, manuals, encyclopedias, data compilations and regular texts. In addition to keyword searching, features also include property data searching, periodic table, a unit converter and interactive equations.
Be careful! your professor may not allow you to cite this! The bibliography at the end of the article is usually a great resource for more acceptable sources of information.
