Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Chapter 5: Gathering Information


Question

Where would you find the following information:-

(a )The service of a taxidermist.

A person who practices taxidermy is called a taxidermist. Taxidermists may practice professionally for museums or as businesses catering to hunters and fishermen, or as amateurs, such as hobbyists, hunters, and fishermen. To practice taxidermy, one should be very familiar with anatomy, sculpture, and painting, as well as tanning.


The taxidermist also must be licensed to charge for his or her work. The licensed will be obtained from government. According to Law of Malaysia, purchasing from unlicensed dealer or unlicensed taxidermist is false. Thus, we should refer to Department of Wildlife and National Park (Perhilitan in Malay), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to get information about taxidermy.





Logo of  Department of Wildlife and National Park,
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment Malaysia

(b) A consultant on carbon-fiber-reinforced composite material.

Glass fibers are manufactured from molten glass, from which glass monofilaments are drawn and then gathered to strands. The strands are used for preparation of different glass fiber products (yarns, rovings, woven fabrics, mats). There are used to make aircraft and spacecraft parts, racing car bodies, golf club shafts, bicycle frames, fishing rods etc.

To get information about it, we need to refer to Engineering professional societies and trade assoclations. An engineering society is a professional organization for engineers of various disciplines. Some are umbrella type organizations which accept many different disciplines, while others are discipline-specific. The roles of these professional associations have been variously defined: "A group of people in a learned occupation who are entrusted with maintaining control or oversight of the legitimate practice of the occupation;" also a body acting "to safeguard the public interest;" organizations which "represent the interest of the professional practitioners," and so "act to maintain their own privileged and powerful position as a controlling body.

This, in turn, places the burden of enforcing a Profession ban upon these associations as well. Such bodies generally strive to achieve a balance between these two often conflicting mandates. Though professional bodies often act to protect the public by maintaining and enforcing standards of training and ethics in their profession, they often also act like a cartel or a labor union (trade union) for the members of the profession, though this description is commonly rejected by the body concerned.Therefore, in certain dispute situations the balance between these two aims may get tipped more in favor of protecting and defending the professionals than in protecting the public.


Example of engineering profesional society,
Board of Engineers Malaysia

(C) The price of an X3427 semiconductor chip

Semiconductor chip is the final or intermediate form of any product having two or more layers of metallic, insulating, or semiconductor material, deposited or otherwise placed on, or etched away or otherwise removed from, a piece of semiconductor material in accordance with a predetermined pattern and  intended to perform electronic circuitry functions. The X3427 is the one of the type of semiconductor chip.


To find the price of it, you can search from Google. Like many search engines, it built up its search index by using robot crawlers to transerve the web and add the URLs to its index. Thus, just type “the price of an X3427 semiconductor chip”, you will find all the price that offered from supllier. From the website, the supplier usually provide a contact number or email,thus you can contact them directly to get the price.



List of the semiconductor company

(d) The proper hardening treatment for AISI 4320 steel.

The best source to get the information about hardening for AISI 4320 steel is library. The library is repository of information that is published in the open or unclassified literature. Although the scope of the collection will vary with size and the nature of the library, all technical libarary will give you the oppourtunity to borrow books and journal or will provide, for a fee, copies of needed pages from the journal and books.Most libraries today have adopted modern digital information. Thus, it easy to us to find the information.


Hardening treatment

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