MET 4123: Senior Design Project: Home
Library Instruction Objectives for MET 4123: Senior Design Project
Literature Review. Search Compendex, IEEE, ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar to locate scholarly journal articles on your topic.
Locate the full-text article, in each case.
Use Interlibrary Services when full text is not available from the Library
Determine if a scholarly journal is peer reviewed (refereed) using Ulrichsweb.
Understand the difference between the content found in handbooks and articles
Locate technical standards on your topic.
Use a citation style to cite your sources.
Please complete the paper or online feedback form after this instruction.
Peer Reviewed? Use Ulrichs' to determine
What is Ulrichsweb?
Ulrichsweb is an easy to search source of detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals (also called serials) of all types: academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more.
Use Ulrichsweb to explore your library's catalog or other locations where your library subscribes to serials resources.
Example search
Airfoil designs for Darrieus type Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWT)
Start by obtaining background information using Google: Darrieus type Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWT). – produces 91,000 results.
Also, obtain background information from handbooks.
Handbooks (Knovel)
( Vertical Axis Wind Turbines or (vawt) ) AND darrieus AND airfoil – 11 text sections
Obtain articles from databases.
Compendex
Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (vawt) – 0 results
Vertical Axis Wind Turbines – 1798
(Vertical Axis Wind Turbines or (vawt)) – 1878 results
(Vertical Axis Wind Turbines or (vawt)) AND darrieus -- 338 results
(Vertical Axis Wind Turbines or (vawt)) AND darrieus AND airfoil – 64 results
add another term to focus the results:
modeling: modeling or simulation or algorithm
Truncation: model* or simulat* or algorithm*
Inspec
( Vertical Axis Wind Turbines or (vawt) ) AND darrieus AND airfoil – 33 results
add another term, optimize, to focus the results.
Science Direct
( Vertical Axis Wind Turbines or (vawt) ) AND darrieus AND airfoil – 237 results
add another term, optimize, to focus the results
Google scholar
( Vertical Axis Wind Turbines or (vawt) ) AND darrieus AND airfoil – 2300 results
add another term, optimize, to focus the results
