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Biomedical Engineering Senior Design Center
Proposed Senior Design Projects
Senior Design Evaluator Form - Written Report Rubric
Groupwork Survival Guide
When you work in a group, you can accomplish more than you would if you were just learning on your own. Your group members may have some skills or knowledge that you don’t have. And you will find that you, too, have knowledge and skills that compliment your group members. Furthermore, group work will help you learn how to play well with others – that’s super important to anyone in the working world. If you can figure out how to leverage your teammates’ abilities with your own, you can succeed in any team environment in the work world.

Books, Handbooks, Electronic Books and Journal Articles
See: Body Synthetic - Cardiovascular Engineering, Tissue Engineering and Biomedical Mechanics(Refer to this page to explore various electronic resources that our Library subscribes).
See also ClinicalKey: New Clinical Information Tool Replacing MDConsult
Access: ClinicalKey and explore Biomechanics using ClinicalKey

Biodesign [electronic resource] : the process of innovating medical technologies
See also: Biodesign : The biodesign innovation process has been developed to help medical technology innovators increase their likelihood of success in identifying important clinical needs, inventing new medical devices and instruments, and implementing these advances in patient care. This approach is described in detail in the book Biodesign: The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies.

Biomedical Properties See:Electronic Books, Encyclopedias and Comprehensive Composite Materials, Encyclopedia of Materials and Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology

Ethical and Professional Issues
See: Biomedical and Engineering Ethics
See also: Resources on Institutional Review Board Guidelines and Research Implications

Bioinformatics
See: Bioinformatics Resources

Biomedical Engineering Entrepreneurship
See: Entrepreneurship for Biomedical Engineering 
Use resources here to find marketing and forecast information about your design.

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
See: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science related resources

Patents and Medical Devices
See: Patents, FDA approved medical devices, and Intellectual Property

Images and 3D model
Primal Pictures Anatomy.tv – 3D Model of Human Anatomy Online Primal Pictures Anatomy.tv online provids 3D model of the human anatomy. It includes Interactive Functional Anatomy and Complete Human Anatomy — both are 3D interactive human models.You can also export images, animations or text and rotate the model, adding or removing layers to show structures.

Access: Databases/Article Indexes for Medicine/Biomedical Sciences and then click on Primal Pictures.anatomy.tv or go to Primal Pictures Anatomy.tv Examples of 3D anatomy models include: Interactive Head & Neck, Interactive Spine, Interactive Shoulder, and Interactive Foot among many others. Note: You will need to enable pop-ups for optimal viewing.

Standards
See:How Do I access ASTM, SAE, ASHRAE, ISO or ANSI standards? Any other standards? For more extensive listings of resources, please see our Standards guide.

News and Recent Developments
Use the following databases to find information on breaking news in biomedical technologies in magazines and newspapers
Academic Universe(Lexis/Nexis)
Expanded Academic
Factiva
IEEE Life Sciences
Proquest

Supply Costs
Globalspec: Engineering Search engine

Statistical Resources
See:Statistical Resources on the Web and Health Data

ThermoDex contains records for selected printed and web-based compilations of thermochemical and thermophysical data for chemical compounds and other substances. You can select one or more compound types and link them to one or more property terms, and ThermoDex will return a list of handbooks that could contain these data. Due to copyright and technical considerations, the actual data are not contained in ThermoDex. ThermoDex is based primarily on the holdings of the Mallet Chemistry Library at the University of Texas at Austin. Links are provided to identify library holdings in your area.

See: ThermoDex: An Index of Selected Thermodynamic and Physical Property Resources

Suppose we need to find information on 'Enthalpy' and 'Gibbs Free Energy'. Mark the items in 'Thermodex', and then click on 'Search'.  We find a book titled 'Chemical Properties Handbook'. Click on 'Find in a Library' link and use Zipcode 19104 to see if our Library has this book. The first link tells us that our library do have a copy of this reference book. See Drexel University Libraries link to locate information on where to find this book. However, one important point to remember is that this link points only to the print version. We do subscribe to the electronic version of this book. Therefore, it is necessary to check our online catalog as well.

Access the electronic version at: Chemical Properties Handbook

Use AccessScience to find  information on various subject areas related to Bridge Design.

• AccessScience Full access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology updated daily. AccessScience is the electronic version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.

Group Projects

• Group Therapy: a group project survival guide

Books Click on the links below to see what books are available in the library in some key areas related to Bridge Design.

• Bridge design
• Bridge and structure*
• Bridges - design and construction
• Background information on Bridges using AccessScience database
• Concrete and bridge
• Highway Truss Bridges
• Truss bridge -- historical

Using Summon: Try Summon to find books, articles and more. See: About Summon for more detailed information on how to use it more efficiently.

• Click on Articles & More Tab in the Library Home page
• For example, type ‘Truss and bridge design’ and click on Search Library link.
• Refine your search results by selecting an option from the left column. For example, select ‘ebook’ option. You will see a listing with links to  electronic books.
• Try Summon for quick search. For more in depth search, explore the resources below.

Searchable Electronic Book databases Click on the links below to access electronic books (Access only to Drexel faculty and students) You can access full book chapters using electronic book collections such as ebrary, ENGnetBASE,  Knovel, MATERIALSnetBASE, and MECHANICALnetBASE.

• AccessScience
• CivilENGINEERINGnetBASE
• ebrary
• ENGnetBASE
• Knovel: Engineering and Scientific Online References
• MATERIALSnetBASE
• MechanicalENGINEERINGnetBASE
• POLYMERSnetBASE

Electronic books

• Bridge Engineering, Substructure Design
• Bridge Engineering Handbook
• Bridge Engineering, Seismic Design
• Bridge Engineering, Construction and Maintenance
• Bridge Loads, An International Perspective
• Bridges for High-Speed Railways, Revised Papers from the Workshop, Porto, Portugal, 3 - 4 June 2004
• Highway Truss Bridges
• Electronic book chapters:  "Truss and Bridges"
• Electronic book chapters: "Method of Joints and Truss"

Electronic Databases Use databases below to find scholarly journal articles on the topic of your research project.

• Architectural Index
• ASCE Digital Library
• Annual Reviews
• BuildingGreen (BuildingGreen Suite integrates online versions of GreenSpec, Environmental Building News, and a database of more than 160 high-performance building case studies.)
• Earthquake Engineering Abstracts
• Ei Compendex and INSPEC
• Environmental Engineering Abstracts
• Google Scholar
• MAD CAD (NOTE: access to cross-referenced collections of building, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, fire, and maintenance codes from BOCA, SBCCI, ICBO, ICC, and NFPA.)
• ScienceDirect
• Web of Knowledge

Web based sources

• Images of Truss bridges
• Images: Bridge Truss Designs
• Truss Analysis using Method of Joints (youtube video)
• Truss Bridge and Truss Types
• Tennessee River Bridge
• Truss bridges (within ASCE site search)

See also:

• Starting your research for design projects
• Group Therapy: a Group Project Survival Guide

The Materials Project is a open science initiative that makes available a huge database of computed materials properties for all materials researchers. By computing properties of all known materials, the Materials Project aims to remove guesswork from materials design in a variety of applications. Experimental research can be targeted to the most promising compounds from computational data sets. Researchers will be able to data-mine scientific trends in materials properties. By providing materials researchers with the information they need to design better, the Materials Project aims to accelerate innovation in materials research.

See also: About Materials Project