Homework Assignment for Intro to Industrial Engineering 100

For this assignment you will find information on the cost and manufacture of your assigned appliance.  Find references to materials in the library (at least one book and one journal article) and on the web.  Include your references in the Appendix of your report for credit (see 4. below).

You will need UCLID/OhioLINK (the online catalog) to complete the assignment.
Access the UCLID/OhioLINK web version through
          six PC's within the Engineering Library,
          sixteen library networked stations in the Engineering Information Commons, or
          ALL the Engineering PC and Unix labs .

Assignment

1. Find a book with information on your topic.

• Connect to UCLID from the Engineering Library homepage (www.engrlib.uc.edu).
• Search by keyword for your topic.  Note that some keywords may appear in the table-of-contents.
• If you don't find enough records in UCLID,  broaden your search to OhioLINK.
• Note the LIBRARY, Location, call number and status for the books. Only those with a status of AVAILABLE or LIB USE ONLY will be available for you to look at. You will need the call number to find the book on the shelf.
• If the book is at an OhioLINK library, you may request the item. It will take 3-5 working days to get here.
• Hint: email the UCLID/OhioLINK record to yourself for printing or editing. It has all the information you need for finding the item in the library and citing it for your paper.  Select Export this Record, then View Marked Records. Choose Full Display format.

    To find a reference book:

• From the Engineering Library homepage (www.engrlib.uc.edu), click on the link called Reference Guides. Select Mechanical or Industrial Engineering from the subject list, OR pick up a printed guide from the racks in the Reference section of the library.
• Review the titles listed in the section of the guide entitled HANDBOOKS and ENCYCLOPEDIAS.
• Use the call numbers provided to find the books in the Reference collection.

2. Find an article on your topic in a journal (magazine).

• From the Engineering Library homepage , select OhioLINK and then "research databases."
• Choose Science and Technology, then Applied Science and Technology Abstracts.
• Search by keyword or subject for your topic.
• Choose the records that are most appropriate. Check the holdings to make sure that UC owns the journal that the article appears in.
• If you want to export these records to your email, mark and store them a page at a time, then email using the brief format (for citing) or full format (to examine subject headings).
• The "Appears in" information shows the journal title and issue that your article is in.  Use UCLID to get the call number for the journal title.  In the Engineering Library, current journal issues are on the shelf in alphabetical order by journal title.
  Bound volumes for past years are on the shelf in call number order.

3. To find a website:

• Select a search engine such as Google or Altavista. 
• Search for your topic. (Use the Help feature for details on forming a search query.  For example in AltaVista you can use quotation marks to identify a phrase, a "+" sign before a word or phrase to ensure it will be included, and domain:edu to limit to educational sites only.)
• Select non-commercial sites with up-to-date web pages and clear authorship. There is a lot of wrong information on the web!

·  4. Write up your findings in the Appendix of your paper

• Cite each reference (book, journal article and web site).  Be sure to include page numbers for the book and journal article.  Provide a brief statement of content for each reference.
• Use the ASME format to cite your references.  To cite a web site for this assignment, provide the title of the web page, who is responsible for it, the date, and the location (URL beginning with http://).

4/13/02

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