EXERCISE 5.3

3. Using a search engine, answer the following questions. Provide the URL of each site that provides information for your answer. If your instructor requests it, submit your answers in an email to him or her.

  1. What are the three largest or most-important professional organizations in your field? (For example, if you are a construction management major, your field is construction management, civil engineering, or industrial engineering.)

  2. What are three important journals read by people in your field?

  3. What are three important online discussion lists or bulletin boards read by people in your field?

  4. What are the date and location of an upcoming national or international professional meeting for people in your field?

  5. Name and describe, in one paragraph for each, three major issues being discussed by practitioners or academics in your field. For instance, nurses might be discussing the effect of managed care on the quality of medical care delivered to patients.