Library:Research Skills For Engineering Students/Introduction/Page 01

This goal of this tutorial is to improve your engineering information research skills. By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to:

1. Brainstorm concepts and keywords for your question(s)
2. Understand how to differentiate between and evaluate information
3. Search Google and Google Scholar effectively
4. Search UBC Library via Summon, to find books/e-books and journal articles
5. Find technical and scholarly engineering information using academic databases
6. Understand what standards and patents are, and how to find them
7. Understand when and how to cite your sources