EN 423: Environmental Engineering Senior Design

Background

Company R&D discovers new material that solves a problem but ends up creating a bigger one

Literature by researchers from the originating company

Chemical or material data

Demographic data of the affected area

Citation indexes (try searching by Affiliation)

Handbooks and reference: Knovel, AccessEngineering, SciFinder-n

Demographics: U.S. Census

First discovery of effects

Greater investigation into background

Local newspapers and/or blogs

Discovering more about the cause

Scientific literature

Scholarly research

Citation indexes: Scopus, Web of Science

Attempting to do something about it