SoE Senior Design Thesis Research Assistance

This guide is currently being updated for the 2025-26 academic year. If you are looking for specific information previously from this guide, please email Sophia Mosbe at smosbe@scu.edu. 

Congratulations on making it to the Senior Thesis!

This guide is designed to help you stay organized and connect you to resources as you start and complete this exciting project. 

If you have more in-depth questions or are having problems finding materials, feel free to use the Chat with a Librarian box to the left to receive help from a real librarian. You can also request a consultation appointment with or email your question to your Applied Sciences Librarian.

Additional Helpful Guides

Engineering: Find guides specifically on your department to help you start the journey right. 

Introduction to Library Resources for Engineers: Refresh your knowledge on using library resources.

This is a free browser extension that facilitates access to the SCU library's full text resources as you find research on the web. LibKey Nomad provides one-click access to full text from websites, databases, publisher pages, and even Wikipedia.

Browse Senior Design Thesis submissions from previous years.

Access an assortment of credited engineering databases through your affiliation with SCU. This is a better option than Googling!

Use the above link to access the SCU instance of Google Scholar which will allow you to escape paywalls and find scholarly literature and other materials to support your research.

Over 600 reference books, including encyclopedias, dictionaries (English and foreign language), thesauri, books of quotations, as well as a range of subject-specific reference books.