Assignment: Types of Engineers

Class Name: Intro to Engineering
Teacher: T. Lytton

North Library Resource List

Print materials in the North Library

What?

Task Definition
1. What is my research question?
2. What do I already know?
3. What information do I need?

Where?

Search Plan
1. What type of information do I need? For example: general, in depth, current, historical, biographical, issue oriented, other?
2. Review suggested resources, circle ones that fit, prioritize your list.
3. Evaluate resources for significance, accuracy, currency, authority.

Sample Book List
620 Flo The Civilized Engineer
620 Fur The Engineer
620 Pet Remaking the world: adventures in engineering
620 Pet Inventions by Design: how engineers get from thought to thing
620.0023 Bai Is there an engineer inside you?
620.0023 Bai The fantastical engineer
620.0023 Pas Cool Careers for Girls in Engineering
620.0076 Goo Engineering projects for young scientists
620.9 Dec Ancient Engineers
621.9023 Dud Opportunities in Tool and Die Careers
624 Hag Opportunities in Civil Engineering Careers
624.023 Pas Cool Careers for Girls in Construction
624.09 Fra Builders
629.1302 Pas Cool Careers for Girsl in Air and Space
670 Ros CD's, Super Glue, and Salsa:how everyday products are made

Engineering and Dewey Look for books in these numbers
620 Engineering
621 Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
623 Military and Naval Engineering
624 Civil Engineering
629 Aerospace Engineering

Occupational Briefs 400 current job descriptions and analysis

How?

Location & Access
1. Jot down rich words that relate to your topic.
2. Check your words, change your words if your search fails.
3. Focus your search by looking for relationships between elements in your research question.

Keyword or SUBJECT searching in the North Library catalog

CIVIL ENGINEERING
ENGINEERING DESIGN
MANUFACTURING
WOMEN IN AERONAUTIC
WOMEN IN ASTRONAUTICS
WOMEN IN ENGINEERING

 

 

 


 

Online materials

Library Catalog
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North Library Online Databases
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Cyberography
Selected Web sites

Engineers and Engineering

Engineering Societies

Robotics
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Bridges

Summer Programs and Camps

  • SESEY
    Summer Experience in Science and Engineering for Youth

NASA Links

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