Engineering Methods

Academic Year 2025/26

  
 

Exercise 1

  
 
  • Solving organizational matters
  • Basic information about the subject
  • Project theme
  • Tasks

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Basic Information About the Subject

  1. Familiarize yourself with the conditions for completing the subject, which are available on the subject's website.
  2. You will work on the project and its components in a team. Create four-member teams (preferred) or the number of members will be decided by the instructor during this exercise.

Project Theme

Carefully study point 1 of the Project section. In reality, it works so that certain financing will be needed to realize your dreams, ideas, or concepts. Authorities that can finance project intentions, ideas, or concepts are generally referred to as funding entities or donors and can be classified according to context and source of money as public (APVV, VEGA, KEGA), private (most often as foundations backed by commercial entities) and international (OECD, UN, UNESCO, World Bank, EIB, etc.). These authorities can accept project intentions, call for submission of project proposals, and ultimately decide which proposals to financially support. It is therefore important to have a clear idea about implementation, formulated into a project proposal on a specific topic. The project proposal must have its name and acronym. Together as a team, consider your own project proposal. Formulate its name, working title, which you can refine until the final submission. Use, for example, Acronymify to generate an acronym for your project intention.

Tasks

  1. Install Git on your computers (https://git-scm.com/downloads).
  2. Register on GitHub (https://github.com/join). Submit a file named gitHub.pdf to the prepared place in AIS with the name: GitHub Registration, where your name and surname will be stated and your GitHub account on a separate line.
  3. Try to search for key terms of your intended project theme, project idea/concept, or project intention through the following services:
  4. Narrow your query by adding other terms that interest you in connection with the basic idea of your concept/intention. Repeat this process. Notice that you come across new terms based on the searched sources (although not always directly).
  5. Use the database: Web of Science:
    • Perform a search: gaming (must be) "pixel" (and must not be) "on-line" (gaming AND pixel NOT on-line)
    • Narrow the search to years 2020 and 2021
    • Create a bibliography from the remaining articles
    • Export the bibliography to: BibTex (if you don't have LaTeX, Notepad will also open the file), Excel, HTML, requiring author, title, source and abstract (don't worry about the relevance of the articles)
    • What could you notice in the content of the bibliographies?
  6. Use the database: SCOPUS:
    • Search only in 2021: "Birds" (must be) "Colour" (must be) "Sound"
    • Similarly create a bibliography with abstracts from the results, choosing the clearest output
    • Take a screenshot of your output and justify your output
  7. Use the database: Dimensions:
    • Perform a search: gaming (must be) "pixel" (and must not be) "on-line"
    • Narrow the search to years 2024 and 2025
    • Create a bibliography from the remaining articles using Dimensions Research GPT
    • Check the correctness and completeness of citations created by GPT
  8. Finally, and probably most frequently, you will use the IEEE scientific database:
    • Search the database for Slovak authors (co-authors) who publish articles on the topic: cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Anti Money Laundering.
    • First search by individual words – example: Blockchain (i.e., 3 searches), record your results, do the articles overlap?
    • Then perform a search based on all mentioned terms and using Boolean operators that are implemented in IEEE so that you achieve the highest search result in the number of articles.
    • Subsequently perform a search using Boolean variables so that the number of articles is as low as possible.
    • What variables did you use in both cases? How many articles did you find in both cases?
    • Set up alerts in IEEE for articles related to Blockchain. Present the implementation through a printscreen of the screen, which you will put in the presentation.
  9. Repeat the same/similar searches with databases from publishers Elsevier, SpringerNature, Wiley and compare all obtained bibliographies.