MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 100

 

NAME_______________________________________________Date    October  8, 2002  Class  MECH100

Complete the following exercises and bring your results to the October 15th session.  We will discuss them at that time.   During the day the Engineering Librarian is available to assist you.  Staff and students can also assist you and you are encouraged to ask for their help.

 

1.       Does UNL subscribe to The International Journal of Robotics Research? yes____no____

 

If so, where is it located?__________________________________________________________

What is the call number?__________________________________________________________

2.      Does UNL subscribe to Industrial Robot: An International Journal in ELECTRONIC FORMAT?  yes________no_________

What is the title of an article in Volume 27 Issue 4 of Industrial Robot: An International Journal?______________________________________________________________________

3.      Match the following type of information with the letter next to the name of, or acronym for, an appropriate resource for finding it:

 

Standard_________

a.   EI Compendex Plus

Technical Report generated by NASA _____

b.   Proceedings First

Engineering Journal Article __________

c.   ANSI

Conference Proceeding________

d.    NTRS

 

4.      Use  Compendex (Expert Search Interface)  Limit years to 1990 – 2002. How many article citations are retrieved by searching for the phrase “robot vision” in the TITLE?_____________

 

5.      Tribology, the study of interacting surfaces in relative motion, including the subjects of friction, wear, and lubrication, is an important area of study in Mechanical Engineering.   Use Applied Science and Technology Index to find an article that has all of the words molecular, tribology, and lubrication in the TITLE. 

Use the following format to cite (refer to) the article:  (Source is the journal in which the article appears.)

Author, Year of Publication, Article Title (in quotes),  Source. Volume number, Page numbers.

(e.g.: Smith, J. A., 2000, “Tribology,” Engineering Journal, 14 pp. 100-102.)

 

 

 

 

Mechanical Engineering Topics for Questions 6 through 10.

Fusion power                                         Modular design                              Computational heat transfer              

Robotics for highway maintenance             Nanomachines                  Liquid fueled rocket engines    

6.   Choose one of the above topics __________________________________

7.   Write a sentence describing the information (your search query) that you want to find out about that topic________________________________________________________________________

 

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8.  Use the search engine "Hotbot" http://hotbot.lycos.com/  Choose "Advanced Search" and find a government web site (HINT: limit domain to .gov) that is related to your query. What search term(s) did you use, and what drop down box choice did you select (words, person, or phrase)? 

 

      Term 1______________________________(Main Search Box) (Optional)

 

      Term 2______________________________ Drop Down Box Choice? _______________

 

      Term 3_________ ____________________ Drop Down Box Choices?  _______________

 

 Give the title and URL of a useful site that you found. TITLE__________________________

 

________________________________URL________________________________________

Print the first page of this web site and attach it to your assignment. 

What about the site or information on it is useful for your query?________________________

 

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9.    Use the index Academic Search Elite to find FULL TEXT articles about your topic.  Choose a useful article and print the citation AND the article.  What is the name of the publication the

 

article is in?____________________________________________What is the title of the

 

article?_____________________________________________________________________Based on the article, would you deem the publication it is in to be scholarly___ or non-scholarly___?  Using the handout, explain your choice.________________________________________________

 

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10.   Use the US Patent and Trademark Office website <http://www.uspto.gov> to locate a patent on your topic.    Click on "Patents", then "Search Patents", then "Quick Search" under "Issued Patents".   Enter your search term(s) in the box(es) and select "title" for at least one field.  Leave the year selection at 1996-2002.  If the search results in no hits, try expanding the year selection to "all years" and/or broadening the search. What search term(s) did you use?_______________________

 

_______________________________________How many patents resulted from this search?____

Look through the patent list until you find one that appears to be applicable.  What is the title

 

of the patent? ______________________________________Patent Number?_______________

Click on that patent number.  Look down the record until you find "Current U.S. Class".  What is the class/subclass number that is in bold type in that field? _______________________________

Use the online Manual of Classification at http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/classification/ (Select

 

class definition) to determine the class and subclass titles:  Class title_________________________

 

Subclass title_____________________________________________________________________

On the record for the patent you have chosen above, click "Images" to view the patent itself.  Print the first two pages of the patent and attach them to your assignment.

Now go back to the patent search screen and perform a search that will retrieve all patents in the class/subclass above for the years 1996-2002 (Choose "Current US Classification" as the search field).  How many patents did you retrieve with this search? ________________