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Engineering and Information: Research Skills for Engineers

This book, Engineering and Information: Research Skills for Engineers, is intended to expand experiential learning course offerings for undergraduate students through a series of interactive modules. The developed resource includes seven independent modul

Topic 2: Information Sources in Engineering

 

This next video explores information sources in engineering and the most common types of sources engineers use.

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resume icon Summary

In this module, you discovered how evidence-based practice can be applied to inform your decisions, and you learned about some of the information sources that you might use as an engineering student and in your professional career. 

library icon References

[1] G. Guyatt et al., “Evidence-Based Medicine: A New Approach to Teaching the Practice of Medicine,” JAMA, vol. 268, no. 17, pp. 2420–2425, Nov. 1992, doi: 10.1001/jama.1992.03490170092032.

 

[2] B. A. Kitchenham, D. Budgen, and P. Brereton, Evidence-Based Software Engineering and Systematic Reviews. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press, 2016. [Online]. Available: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/evidence-based-software-engineering/9781482228663/ 

 

[3] J. Kaufman, C. Tenopir, and L. Christian, “Does workplace matter? How engineers use and access information resources in academic and non-academic settings,” Science & Technology Libraries, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 288-308, Jul. 2019, doi: 10.1080/0194262X.2019.1637806.

 

License

Engineering and Information: Research Skills for Engineers by Katie Harding, Alanna Carter, Shelir Ebrahimi, and Eva Mueller is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.