Advice for students starting Final Year Projects

In case you are feeling a bit lost with starting your Final Year Mechanical Engineering Project and aren’t sure where to look for things beyond Google and Wikipedia, I have put together a few webpages outlining the basics. There are notes relating to journals and conferences, I’ve introduced some of the databases the library subscribes to and give some (hopefully) helpful tips to make your searches more effective and refine results to get the articles most relevant to you.

You can access my Final Year Project Introduction pages here.

While my focus has been on the Mechanical Engineering Resources, the search strategies and introductory notes are relevant to any Engineering and Design department.

Best of luck with your research projects and do tell me if there is anything else you think I should add to these pages.

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