An adventure in the Library

I had the opportunity to meet with Peter Zuber, the engineering and technology subject librarian. We spent most of the time discussing ways to narrow our search results, in order to find the most relevant articles to our topic of study. One of the sites we spent the most time on was engineeringvillage.com. I was impressed by how helpful the thesaurus tool is when doing searches. It basically tells you which key words will be helpful in finding related material to the topic.

The topic of my research is medical devices. I still may change the theme of my paper a bit, but as of now, my purpose is to research and discuss different types of medical devices that are needed, but unavailable to those who need them. I specifically want to look at why they are unavailable, and what could potentially done to change that.

So far I have found research about making certain medial equipment more cost efficient, and what the process was like. This is helpful, but not exactly what I need. I need to spend much more time locating articles that are relevant to what I need. I know that the articles are out there, I just haven't found them yet.