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Project Description and Report Outline

Completion of the project will require the use of a variety of data sources. A few places to check for these data on the web include bigcharts.com, ceoexpress.com, the Global Edge section of Michigan State's CIBER website (http://globaledge.msu.edu), the CIA website.

For articles on companies, industries and countries use the University Library System's Electronic Databases (www.library.pitt.edu), particularly the Business and International ones. Some of these are Business Source Premier/EbscoHost; Business and Company Resource Center/InfoTrac; National Newspapers; Stat-USA (particularly good for country information); Market Research Monitor (Euromonitor, good for marketing studies). With the University's new Zoom! Search engine, many databases can be searched at the same time. Other sources: for competitiveness and economic freedom ratings - Economic Freedom of the World PCL (www.freetheworld.com/index.html); The Global Competitiveness Report of the World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org).

For industry information: Investext*; NetAdvantage* (Standard and Poor's). For company information, see Disclosure Global Access and www.Hoovers.com (though this source applies to US firms, at least primarily). The information provided by the Career Services and Engineering Library throughout the first year can also be used to find information on your company.

Project Content.

The projects must consider both business and engineering points of view. The paper has six major sections.

  1. Introduction and Overview of the group's company,
  2. Description of the company you visited including an Industry Analysis,
  3. Description of how your company fits into the global economy,
  4. Description of the engineering principles involved with the company,
  5. Summary and Evaluation of the impact the global industry has on business and engineering and how it is changing these professions in the United States today and in the future, and
  6. Professional Development, which should be a summary of the final journal entries for your group.

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