LibGuides: Idea Generator: Business/Engineering/Tech

Business and Public Administration

Academic preparation & job performance
Access for people with disabilities
Accounting forensics
Advertising "puff"
Affirmative Action
Airline safety
Austerity measures
Bailout
Bank failures
Bank mergers
Bankruptcy
Bias in promotions
"Big box" stores
Biotechnology
Bitcoin
Branding
Brexit
Building security
Business ethics
Claims adjustment
Coinage
Communal experiments
Competition in business
Competitive intelligence
Consumer risk
Consumerism
Controversial advertising on TV
Copycat products
Core competencies
Corporate crime
Corporate culture
Corporate social responsibility
COVID-19 and the economy
Credit card fraud
Credit crisis
Currency manipulation
Customer competencies
Cyber Monday
Dangerous equipment
Data mining
Data security
Demonetization
Deregulation
Disaster preparedness
Diversity
Dow--how high/low will it go?
Downsizing
Downtown revitalization
Dress code
E-commerce
Econometrics
Economic depressions
Economic recession
Economic stimulus approaches
Effect of 9/11 on airline industry
Emotional intelligence
Employee benefit planning
Employee empowerment
Employee theft
Employing people with disabilities
Employment equity
Empowerment
Estate planning
European community
Exchange rates
Factory farms
Family farms--future/viability of
Farm diversification
Farm subsidies
Farmers as entrepreneurs
Farming in less developed countries
Fashion industry
Ferries
Fish farming
Flat tax
Forecasting
Foreign exchange
Franchises
Funding for nonprofit organizations
Glass ceiling (men vs. women salary gap)
Global food crisis
Great Recession
Green products
Harassment
Healthcare reform
HOV lanes
Housing market crash
Housing sales
Human resources
Identity theft
Imports from China
Increased farm production--at what cost?
Industry disruptor
Intellectual capital
Interest rates
Internships
Job sculpting
Knowledge management
Labor disputes
Land development's effect on farms
Landfills
Light rail
Low-income housing
Mail-order businesses
Mall trends
Mandatory drug testing
Marketing ethics
Marketing lies
Marketing on the World Wide Web
Mentoring
Mergers
Micro-cap investing
Minimum wage
Mortgage crisis
National debt
The new economy
Oil price factors
On-site day care
Organigraphs
Outsourcing
"Own label" products
Paperless society
Parks administration
Petroleum price fluctuations
Philanthropy
Precision farming
Product shrinkage
Public unions
Quality Circles
Recession
Recovery
Recycling programs
Regional planning
Reinsurance
Retirement planning
Reverse performance appraisals
Risk management
Scams
Service initiatives
Service recovery
Sex sells
Sexual harassment
Shared services model
Shellfish industry in Virginia
Shop local
Short-term financing
Social media in advertising
Social media influencers
Social security
Standardizing of weights & measures
The Starbucks Effect
Strategic human resource management
Strategic planning
Strikes
Subliminal advertising
Subprime
Succession management
Super Bowl TV advertising
Superstores
Sustainability
Tariffs
Taxation
Team leadership
Telecommuting
Telemarketing
Terrorism--effects on business
Tipping
Tobacco industry
Total quality management
Tourism
Traffic congestion
Traffic management
Trans Pacific Partnership
Transportation solutions
Troubled employees
Underage workers
Underwriting
Unemployment
Unions
Urban transit
War--effect on economy
Wellness in the workplace
Whistleblowing
Work ethic
Work week length
Work/life ratio
Working poor
Workplace ambiance & atmosphere
Workplace dating
Workplace violence
Zoning

Engineering

3D printing
Additive design
Adhesives
Aeroacoustics
Aeroelasticity
Aerothermodynamics
Air turbulence
Airbags
Alternative fuels
Analytical mechanics
Boundary layer
Bridge collapse
Carbon capture
Composite materials
Computer-aided design (CAD)
Computer-aided engineering (CAE)
Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM)
Design optimization
Earth-sheltered homes
Electric cars
Ethics in engineering
Fiber optics
Finite element analysis (FEA)
Flow -- transonic, hypersonic, unsteady
Fluid dynamics
Flutter phenomena
Geoengineering
GIS technology
High horsepower in cars
Holographs
Hybrid vehicles
Hydroforming
Laser applications
Liquid crystals
MEMs
Microchips
Microwave engineering
MOOs
Nanomaterials
Nanotechnology
Nanotubes
Naturalistic decision making
New tech gadgets
Night vision technology
Nuclear power
Object-oriented technology
Offshore structures
Particle accelerators
Plates
Pollution Protection Act
Radar
Rapid prototyping
Refrigerants
Robotics
Satellites
Seismic design
Self-driving cars
Semiconductors
Simulation
Smart structures
Sonar
Stereo imaging
Superconductors
Synchronous transmission
Synthetic fuels
Tires
Tunnels and bridges of Hampton Roads
Vortex-motion
Wi-Fi in public spaces
Wind tunnels

Computer Science and Information Technology

Algorithms
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Biometric signature
Bitcoin
Computer animation
Computer composed music
Computer forensics
Computer modeling
Computer viruses
Computer voice recognition
Datamining
Encryption
Fiber optics
Gamergate
Gamification
General Data Protection Regulation
Intelligent databases
Internet of things
LAN/WAN servers
Large language models (LLMs)
Machine language
Machine learning
Malware
Mobile computing
MOOs
Piracy
Social media literacy
Speech recognition
Ubiquitous design
Viruses
Voice recognition