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How to Search UBC Engineering
Type in a few relevant words and click Search. One word will often return too many results; more than four or five words will often return too few.
Capitalization is irrelevant.
Searches are not case sensitive. It doesn't matter if you type isaacson or Isaacson.
You don't need to enter AND.
The search engine returns only results that include all your search terms. That means you don't need to type AND between words. So you don't need to type Engineering AND Civil AND Biomedical , just Engineering Civil Biomedical .
Exclude words by using the - sign.
You can exclude a word from your search by typing - (minus sign) immediately before the word. For example, if you wanted pages about the Engineering but not Engineering Students you could type Engineering -Students.
Use quotation marks to find a complete phrase.
You can search for a complete phrase by enclosing it in quotation marks. For example, the phrase "Applied Science " would return pages that include the entire phrase Applied Science, not just the individual words Applied and Science.
Very common words will be ignored.
The search engine ignores words such as where, to, how, with and be, because those words appear on lots of pages, so searching for them will slow down your results. If those words are important, you can force the search engine to look for them by putting a + sign in front of the word, or by enclosing the entire phrase in quotation marks. So, to search for the Faculty of Applied Science , you would type "Faculty of Applied Science "or Faculty +of Applied Science .
Don't use stemming ("wildcard" searches).
The search engine searches for exactly the word or words you type. So if you type eng or eng*, you will not get results for either engineering or engineers. If you want results for both, just type both words into the box.
