Role Of Online Resources In Engineering Project Planning And Execution

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Projects are part of any engineering curriculum. Final year projects help students to execute what they learned in their four years engineering studies. They also help the faculty to understand their students' performance. Naturally during the final semester students are on the run to decide project topics and gather information.

This search for project topics and data is now easier with the help of internet. Information technology has contributed a lot to the educational sector globally. Students can now access information from anywhere around the globe through a computer. This has helped students to develop their knowledge base on various fields of their studies. It also helps them to acquire data on project executions and demonstrations. With thousands of you tube videos and other informational articles on ‘how to do' executing a project nowadays is a piece of cake.

For example if you are planning to make a working model of a hover craft all you have to do is search for it in internet. You can find thousands of websites providing videos on working of hovercrafts, information and specifications of different ...
... parts and even their drawings.

But a few years ago this was not the case. People had to refer books from books to access any information. The world had to design from scratch what was already designed. The introduction of World Wide Web has ended such problems and now all the information in the world is accessible to anyone. It is an open door that leads you to the vast ocean of knowledge. Students are now depending on online information than on books. People in the .com field have recognized this potential in the field of education. As a result now there are many websites directly targeting students and offering project information. These websites help engineering students to decide their project topics and also provide valuable reference resources. They also provide tips on project execution and presentation.

There is also another set of websites which shows data on patents and projects executed by people in various industries and research institutes. These help to provide the students an idea about project execution, and the demo videos and webinars motivate them to come up with a valuable project.

The downside of having such a vast knowledge base on engineering projects is that these information are sometime used without modification. Though secured by copyright laws they are not enough to stop the misuse of such resources. This results in project executions without any value. Since the data so taken is not used for any valuable or industrial applications the providers of these data do not take any measures to prevent these idea thefts.

Even though there is a downside, no one can argue the role of information technology in making the world of information globally accessible.