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This is a demo of a bell siphon I built in collaboration with a couple of engineering professors. There are certain cases where it would be nice to be able to create a siphon without any intervention, a self-priming or automatic siphon: the next level of siphonry. It's built out of an acrylic sheet and a piece of clear pipe.
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- Building Services Engineering
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- Siphons
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In general, and compared to other common building materials, metals have excellent mechanical properties. They are hard, tough, strong, and durable. As someone who occasionally works the wood, even I can admit that metals are a superior material in many regards. So you can see why it would be advantageous to have a way to connect them together, especially if you can do it in such a way that joint isn’t the weakest part of your assembly. That’s the goal of welding, and luckily, this is not something reserved for industrial factories and machine shops. From my own experiences so far, welding is something you might be able to do yourself as a hobby. And stay tuned till the end for some tips for getting started.
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In civil engineering, quicksand is more than just a puddle of mud! The "quick condition" occurs when seepage reduces the effective stress of a soil. This can lead to some dangerous conditions, especially if the seepage causes piping erosion to occur at a dam.
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- Hydraulic Engineering
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- Seepage Dam failures Quicks Fluid mechanics
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This video explores a primer on one of the most important companions to civil engineering: land surveyors. Conventional measurement tools like a tape measure and protractor don't work for large civil structures and public works projects. Surveying is essentially the science of measuring big stuff. In this video I give a quick explanation of how surveying works and show a few ways you can do your own leveling survey at home. No sines, cosines, or tangents required!
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- Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
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- Surveying
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Dirt is probably the cheapest and simplest construction material out there, but it's not very strong compared to other choices. Luckily geotechnical engineers have developed a way to strengthen earthen materials with almost no additional effort - Mechanically Stabilized Earth (aka MSE or Reinforced Soil).
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- Building and Real Estate
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- Reinforced soils
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Almost everyone agrees that flooding is bad. Most years it’s the number one natural disaster in the US by dollars of damage. So being able to characterize flood risks is a crucial job of civil engineers. Engineering hydrology has equal parts statistics and understanding how society treats risks. Water is incredibly important to us, and it shapes almost every facet of our lives, but it’s almost never in the right place at the right time. Sometimes there’s not enough, like in a drought or just an arid region, but we also need to be prepared for the times when there’s too much water, a flood. Rainfall and streamflow have tremendous variability and it’s the engineer’s job to characterize that so that we can make rational and intelligent decisions about how we develop the world around us.
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- Hydraulic Engineering and Disaster Control and Management
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- Floods Hydrology Flood control -- Management
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Engineers that work with fluids need a solid understanding of how they behave, and there’s one branch of fluid mechanics that plays a role in areas all across our lives. Whether you’re designing a water tower for a city or you just want to understand how those upside-down pet bowls work, you’ve got to know how to relate the depth and pressure of a fluid: hydrostatics.
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- Hydrostatics Fluid mechanics
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In many of the world’s tallest skyscrapers, there’s a secret device protecting the building and the people inside from strong motion due to wind and earthquakes. Did you know you can tune a skyscraper just like a guitar? In this video, we’re comparing theory to the real world for tuned mass dampers. Luckily this tech is simple enough that we can model it right in the garage. As silly as this little experiment looks, it’s actually not that far off from what engineers do in the real world (maybe without the googly eyes). The design phase for just about every major building includes some physical scale model tests. This video shows that the tuned mass damper is a great example of elegance in engineering.
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- Structural Engineering
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- Tuned mass dampers Buildings -- Earthquake effects Buildings -- Vibration
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Sinkholes form through both natural and human-made processes. Most of us think about erosion on the surface of the earth, but erosion can occur in the subsurface as well. In fact, scientist and engineers have a very creative name for just such a process: internal erosion. If just the right factors come together in the subsurface, some very interesting things can occur, including sinkholes.
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- Geotechnical Engineering
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- Sinkholes Soil erosion
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This video explores the protective systems that keep the power grid from self destructing. We usually think of the power grid in terms of its visible parts: power plants, high-voltage lines, and substations. But, much of the complexity of power grid comes in how we protect it when things go wrong. When your power goes out, it’s easy to be frustrated at the inconvenience, but consider also being thankful that it probably means things are working as designed to protect the grid as a whole and ensure a speedy and cost-effective repair to the fault.
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- Building Services Engineering and Electrical Engineering
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- Electric power failures -- Prevention Electric power distribution Electric power failures
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This video gives a quick description and demo of this ingenious pump. A hydraulic ram is a clever device invented over 200 years ago that can pump water uphill with no other external source of power except for the water flowing into it and there is a way to take advantage of this normally inauspicious effect for a beneficial use. The ram pump is an ingenious way to take advantage of the properties of fluids. We all need water for a variety of reasons, so being able to move it where we need it without any fancy equipment or external sources of power is a pretty nice tool to have in your toolbox.
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- Hydraulic Engineering
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- Hydraulic rams Pumping machinery
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This video gives a brief overview of this ingenious method of compressing air using only the power of water. The way a trompe harnesses the power of water to generate compressed air with no moving parts is fascinating and its use is seeing a small revival in modern days. A trompe can be useful in off-grid aquaponics and hydroponic systems that need aeration of the water. And, in fact, the inspiration for this video came from the late Bruce Leavitt, a mining engineer who pioneered the use of small trompes for aeration and treatment of mining water in remote locations without access to electricity.
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- Hydraulic Engineering
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- Air-compressors Compressed air Water-power Fluid dynamics
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This video shows a demonstration and brief explanation of air lock in fluid pipelines. If you assume that gasses don’t get into pipes or that they can’t constrict the flow, you might design a pipeline that doesn’t work. Luckily for engineers, this is a well-known phenomenon in pipe systems. It’s just one of the complexities that come with the job and we’ve come up a with a lot of creative ways to overcome it.
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- Building Services Engineering and Building and Real Estate
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- Fluid dynamics Pipelines
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This video explores the behavior and design of structural steel elements according to AISC 360. Design of tension members, bolted and welded connections, columns, beams, and beam-columns based on strength and serviceability requirements.
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- Structural Engineering
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- Building Iron steel Steel Structural
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This series of videos discuss the following topics in fluid dynamics: Bernoulli's equation, Stoke's Law, Reynolds Number, dynamic and kinematic viscosity, viscosity of water, viscosity of liquid, viscosity of gases, viscosity measurement, viscosity calculation, types of flow, object falling in a fluid, terminal velocity of an air, laminar flow between plates, Poisseuille's Law, drag coefficient, buoyancy and viscosity.
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- Fluid dynamics
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This free online project management course teaches the methods of project planning, scheduling, and controlling. The course consists of 45 tutorials which cover the material of a typical introductory project management course at the university level.
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- Building Services Engineering and Building and Real Estate
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- Production scheduling Construction projects Construction industry -- Management Project management
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This free online statics course teaches how to assess and solve 2D and 3D statically determinate problems. The course consists of 72 tutorials which cover the material of a typical statics course (mechanics I) at the university level or AP physics.
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- Structural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
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- Mechanics Mechanics Analytic Mechanics Applied Statics
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These tutorials cover a range of material that, depending on where you go to school, might show up in either mechanics of materials 2 or structural analysis courses. A solid understanding of mechanics of materials is necessary to understand the topics presented here.
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- Structural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
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- Structural analysis (Engineering)
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These 56 tutorials cover typical material from a second year mechanics of materials course (aka solid mechanics). A solid understanding of statics and calculus is necessary to properly learn and grasp the concepts of solid mechanics.
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- Structural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
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- Mechanics Strength of materials
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Architects, engineers and developers are creating increasingly greener structures - and doing it in a more literal way than ever before. This is what happens when trees meet buildings.
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- Environmental Engineering, Building Services Engineering, and Building and Real Estate
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- Buildings -- Energy conservation Roof gardening Sustainable buildings Sustainable construction Trees in cities
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This video discusses the technical aspects to consider when designing an airport runway.
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- Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering and Transportation
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- Airports Runways (Aeronautics) -- Design construction Aeronautics Commercial
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This video discusses pros and cons of building higher, from the both technical and cost perspectives.
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- Building Services Engineering and Building and Real Estate
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- Building -- Estimates Skyscrapers Housing City planning Tall buildings
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This video explains how GPS works, security issues of GPS, and why US military GPS can be made free for use.
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- Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics
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- Global Positioning System Artificial satellites in navigation
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This video discusses the topic of urban sprawl and the environmental and social impact if a city is expanding too fast
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- Building and Real Estate
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- Cities towns -- Growth Housing policy Buildings -- Height restrictions City planning
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This video explores the challenges of self-driving cars and possible solutions to address the safety of self-driving technology.
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- Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Transportation
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- Automobiles -- Automatic control Automobile industry trade -- Technological innovations
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This video shows an interesting case study of how a drone delivery service was designed and operated in Rwanda.
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- Logistics and Enterprise Engineering, Industrial and Systems Engineering, and Transportation
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- Rwa Drone aircraft Business logistics
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Can renewable energy be adopted to aviation transportation industry? Can our giant planes powered by batteries? This video discusses some possibilities.
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- Environmental Engineering, Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, and Transportation
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- Renewable energy sources Energy storage Airplanes -- Fuel
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Is hydrogen the solution to electric cars? This video discusses the safety of hydrogen, cost of hydrogen, infrastructure set up for hydrogen charging, and how hydrogen fuel cells work in vehicles.
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Hydrogen fuel cell cars and lithium-ion battery powered cars, which is more energy efficient and cost effective? This video shows you some facts from perspectives of production, storage of fuels, and infrastructure set up for charging.
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- Electrical Engineering, Chemistry, Environmental Engineering, and Transportation
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- Hydrogen cars Hydrogen as fuel Electric vehicles Fuel cells Hydrogen -- Storage
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What is air pollution? Learn how greenhouse gasses, smog, and toxic pollutants effect climate change, and human health.
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- Environmental Sciences and Environmental Engineering
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- Air -- Pollution Greenhouse gases -- Environmental aspects Smog
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What are solar cells, and how do they work? Find out more about solar power - and learn how this renewable resource harnesses the power of the sun into usable energy.
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- Environmental Engineering and Building Services Engineering
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- Solar energy Renewable energy sources Photovoltaic power generation
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There are many benefits to using renewable energy resources, but what is it exactly? From solar to wind, find out more about alternative energy, the fastest-growing source of energy in the world—and how we can use it to combat climate change.
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- Environmental Engineering
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- Renewable energy sources
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Earthquakes are almost impossible to predict. Luckily, engineers have come up with some amazing ways to protect people the next time one might strike.
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- Building and Real Estate and Disaster Control and Management
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- Building failures -- Prevention Earthquake resistant design Buildings -- Earthquake effects
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Some people say that buying an electric car is a great way to fight climate change - but if they use electricity that is made by burning fossil fuels, are they really more environmentally friendly than gas powered cars?
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- Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Transportation
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- Electric vehicles Electric vehicles -- Environmental aspects Automobiles -- Environmental aspects
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From self-healing asphalt to electrified roads, technology is steering the future of driving along some exciting new paths!
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- Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Transportation
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- Traffic safety Roads -- Technological innovations Automobile driving
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About 10,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers, aided by rudimentary agriculture, moved to semi-permanent villages and never looked back. With further developments came food surpluses, leading to commerce, specialization and, many years later with the Industrial Revolution, the modern city. Vance Kite plots our urban past and how we can expect future cities to adapt to our growing populations.
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- Building Services Engineering and Building and Real Estate
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- Cities towns -- Growth City planning
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Earthquakes have always been a terrifying phenomenon, and they’ve become more deadly as our cities have grown — with collapsing buildings posing one of the largest risks. But why do buildings collapse in an earthquake? And how can it be prevented? Vicki V. May explains the physics of why it is not the sturdiest buildings, but the smartest, that will remain standing.
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- Building and Real Estate and Disaster Control and Management
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- Building failures -- Prevention Earthquake resistant design Earthquake engineering Buildings -- Earthquake effects
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Biofuels can provide energy without the reliance on environmentally harmful fossils fuels -- but scientists are still searching for a plentiful source. Craig A. Kohn demonstrates how cellulose, the naturally abundant tough walls of plant cells, might be the solution.
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- Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, and Chemical and Bioprocess Technology
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- Renewable energy sources Biomass conversion Cellulose -- Biodegradation Biomass energy
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People have been grappling with the question of artificial creativity -- alongside the question of artificial intelligence -- for over 170 years. For instance, could we program machines to create high quality original music? And if we do, is it the machine or the programmer that exhibits creativity? Gil Weinberg investigates this creative conundrum.
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- Electronic and Information Engineering
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- Robotics Artificial intelligence
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The Earth intercepts a lot of solar power: 173,000 terawatts. That’s 10,000 times more power than the planet’s population uses. So is it possible that one day the world could be completely reliant on solar energy? Richard Komp examines how solar panels convert solar energy to electrical energy.
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- Building Services Engineering and Environmental Engineering
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- Renewable energy sources Solar energy Photovoltaic power generation
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The tools available on the ERIC website at eric.ed.gov can help you find the articles you need to write an education-focused research paper. This video walks you through the process of writing a research paper using ERIC. Since there are multiple ways to navigate ERIC, we show various techniques to help you find high-quality resources on a topic. The video provides step-by-step instruction on how to narrow your topic, use search filters, and take advantage of the ERIC Thesaurus to target specific resources. The video also provides guidance on how to identify and select the most relevant and rigorous articles for your paper.
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- Education -- Periodicals Educational Resources Information Center (U.S.) Report writing Education -- Research
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Chances are you'll need to find a scholarly journal article for a research paper or project in the near future. But, wait, what is a "scholarly journal article?" How is it different from a popular source like a newspaper or magazine article? Let's reduce the confusion on scholarly journal articles. Scholarly journals enable scholars -- experts in a particular academic field -- to communicate their research with other experts in that field through publishing articles and to stay current by reading about other scholars' work. Consequently, scholarly journals create a community of scholars who are all participating in a kind of "conversation" in that academic field. Rather than a face-to-face conversation, this is a formal conversation, which takes place over months and years through written documents. The most important part of this long term written conversation - what makes it a “scholarly” conversation, as opposed to popular - is what's called the “peer review process.” The peer review process works like this: in order for a scholar to get published in a scholarly journal, his or her expert peers must read their work and critique it. These “peer reviewers” make sure that the scholar has cited the appropriate experts in the discipline, made valid and well-supported arguments, and has written the article on a topic that is appropriate for that particular journal. This rigorous evaluation process ensures that scholarly work meets a higher standard than popular publications. So, why is this important for you? First, the information in a scholarly text has been rigorously evaluated, so it is more reliable and credible than information in popular sources. Second, reading scholarly journal articles for your papers or projects can give you insight into the ways of thinking of experts in that field. Finally, every scholarly text has extensive bibliographies that introduce you to important texts in the field, which can help you extend your research in that area. When you read the articles and books the scholar cited in her article, you are taking part in the scholarly conversation.
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- Scholarly periodicals Scholarly publishing
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In this video, the team won the best student poster award at the poster exhibition, and they are being invited to publish an exclusive feature story in the student e-newspaper. They want to use an infographic to help present their ideas and would like to extend their research to invite the interviewee to share their views on the topic.They are excited about writing for the student e-newspaper, and they are interested to know the ethical and legal issues around the use of information.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Intellectual property Social sciences -- Research Communication in education Copyright
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In this video, 8 tips for creating a great research poster for a conference, from the Poster Illustration team at AJE. Visit our Author Resource Center for publishing tips: https://www.aje.com/en/arc/.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Communication in education Poster presentations Technical writing
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Learn how to create a Zotero account, install it, and set it up. If you need to learn how to use Zotero, click here: https://youtu.be/RMx5S0hbjrg
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Bibliographical citations -- Computer programs Information storage retrieval systems
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This tutorial will help you get started with Mendeley by showing you an introduction to all the basic features. Check out our YouTube channel for more videos, or go to http://resources.mendeley.com for guides and support.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Bibliographical citations -- Computer programs Information storage retrieval systems
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Learn more about the New RefWorks.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Bibliographical citations -- Computer programs RefWorks (Computer file) Information storage retrieval systems
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A 24-minute class covering the basics of using EndNote X8 on the Macintosh.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Bibliographical citations -- Computer programs EndNote (Computer file) Information storage retrieval systems
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This 25-minute class covers the basics for working with EndNote X8 on Windows.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Bibliographical citations -- Computer programs EndNote (Computer file) Information storage retrieval systems
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A quick demo of how Google's reverse image search tool can be used to fact check and research images. Have you ever wondered about the source or history behind an image? Google image search can help provide answers. Whether you're doing research or just curious, reverse image search offers a digital paper trail of where an image has appeared on the internet. All you need to do is drag and drop an image into the images.google.com search bar, paste a url into the search bar, or right click on an image when using the Chrome browser.
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- Statistics and Research Methods
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- Google (Firm) Internet searching Information literacy
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