Enb100 Progress Report Week 5

Progress Report – 2014 (due in Wk6 Tutorial)

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Your task: ‘Research’ provides information, evidence and expertise to inform views and assemble data. As a professional Engineer, you are required to ‘form a particular view’ based on the information you gather. As such, you need to identify types of information sources that provide robust information. For example, a text book is a good source because it provides detailed views on one particular topic; however the information in a book can date and become obsolete. Your task is to identify 3 other types of sources of engineering information and write a paragraph justifying why this type of source is valuable and potential shortfalls.

|Source Type 1: Internet |

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|Value... |

|The internet is a valuable and easy source for engineering information. Vast types of sources can be easily found through search engines as well |

|as company and government sites. The advantage to internet sites is that the information is often regularly updated so you can be sure to find |

|valuable, relevant information. |

|Shortfall... |

|Although engineering information may be easily found on the internet it is often not credible due to the nature of the websites....