Engineering: ENGG 1003: Sustainable Engineering Practice

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Head to the How To Guides for videos, interactive tutorials and handouts about:

• Finding peer reviewed journal articles
• Connecting and combining search terms
• Planning your search
• Evaluating information
• EBook guide
• Managing references
• Getting help in the Library
• And much more!

The main concepts in your question form the foundation of your search:

1. sustainable
2. engineering
3. community development

To cover the range of terminology used in the literature, you must also identify any synonyms or similar keywords for each concept:

1. sustainable, renewable, alternative
2. engineering, technology, applied science
3. community development, progress, welfare, engagement

Also consider:

•  Plurals, different word forms (engineering vs engineer),
•  Different spellings (civilisation vs civilization), and hyphenated words (eco friendly vs eco-friendly)
• Acronyms (Work Health and Safety vs WHS)

Once you have your list of terms for each concept, you can combine them to create a search strategy. Combine these keywords using the search connectors OR & AND.

OR: combines similar keywords - sustainable OR renewable
AND: combines different concepts - sustainable AND engineering

Use an asterisk * to find word variations e.g. engineer* will find engineer, engineering, etc. Use double quotes for phrases such as "civil engineering".

Search example: "sustainable" OR "renewable" AND "engineer*" AND "community development" OR "community engagement"

Head to the Managing References guide to access:
- Referencing Roadmap (Harvard)
- Bibliographic management software e.g. EndNote 
- Referencing help for various referencing styles
- Referencing forum

For information please refer to the Course Outline.

  Key journals

  Key databases