EngLibrary

Books

Click on the links below to see what books are available in the library in some key areas

• Motorsports
• Magnetic  materials
• Carbon Nanotubes
• Automobiles--Brakes
• SAE - Society of Automotive Engineers
• Nanomaterials
• Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
• Engineering Ethics
• Nanowires
• Biopolymers
• Sensor Networks
• Aircraft Design
• Nano* and Drug Delivery
• Polymer* and Matrix Composite*

To find additional books on, search in our online catalog using Advanced Keyword searching .

Using Summon:

Try Summon to find books, articles and more. See also What is Summon? How can I use it?

• Click on Articles & More Tab in the Library Home page
• For example, type ‘Nanomaterials’ 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.

Electronic Books

Click on the links below to access electronic books (Access only to Drexel faculty and students)

• AccessScience
• ASM Handbooks Online
• ebrary
• Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
• ENGnetBASE
• ENVIROnetBASE
• Knovel: Engineering & Scientific Online References
• MATERIALSnetBASE
• MECHANICALENGINEERINGnetBASE
• POLYMERSnetBASE
• Thermopedia (NEW RESOURCE)
  The entirely revised online version of the THERMOPEDIA™ covers a wide range of fundamental topics including thermodynamics and physical properties, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, mass transfer, and basic equations and their methods of solution.

See also: Comprehensive Composite Materials, Encyclopedia of Materials and Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology

Electronic Databases

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

• Annual Reviews
• ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) Database
• ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Journals
• Ei Compendex and INSPEC
• Google Scholar
• IEEE Xplore
• Material ConneXion
• Materials Research Database
• MatWeb
• NIST Nanotechnology Portal
• Reaxys
• SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers)
  
• Scifinder Scholar Web Version
• ScienceDirect
• Scirus
• Web of Science

Brief description for electronic databases: Various Electronic Databases

News and Recent Developments

Use the following databases to find developing news stories on various technologies in magazines and newspapers

• Academic Universe(Lexis/Nexis)
• Expanded Academic
• Factiva
• Proquest

Patent Searching

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
The USPTO offers web access to bibliographic and full-text patent databases. These databases provide full-text of patents from 1976 to the present and full page images from 1790 to the present.

See What is a Patent?
See Patent Searching Tips.
See ‘What is Intellectual Property?’ in Frequently Asked Questions for Inventors
See ‘Manual of Patent Classification’

Fresh Patents
Provides access to the latest published US patent applications each week BEFORE the USPTO decision to
grant/deny.

pat2pdf.org
Given a patent number, pat2pdf.org will return a free, pdf formated version of the patent.

The Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO—from patents issued in the 1790s to present.

Plagiarism

• Plagiarism Guide
• Plagiarism Powerpoint

Technical Reports

• A technical report is a document that describes the process, progress, or results of technical or scientific research, or the state of a technical or scientific research problem.

Blogging and RSS

• What is RSS?

Instructional Tutorials

• Is this a scholarly publication?
• Deciphering Citations
• Refworks
• Refworks Overview
• All Tutorials
• Video Tutorials

Foundation of Biomedical Engineering

Plagiarism

• Plagiarism Guide
• Plagiarism Powerpoint

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 Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering:

• Artificial Organs
• Tissue Engineering
• Bone and cartilage
• Prosthesis
• Biomaterials
• Spinal Cord
• Spinal Cord - ebooks
• Spinal Cord Wound and Injuries
• Spinal Cord Injuries

To find additional books on 'Biomedical Engineering', search in our online catalog using Advanced Keyword searching and using the term 'Biomedical Engineering'.

Using Summon:

Try Summon to find books, articles and more. See also What is Summon? How can I use it?

• Click on Articles & More Tab in the Library Home page
• For example, type ‘Spinal cord and technology and treatment’ 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. You can also limit to articles from scholarly publications, including peer-review.
• See:  Spinal-cord injury by McDonald, John W and Sadowsky, Cristina Lancet (0140-6736), 02/2002, Volume 359, Issue 9304, pp. 417 - 425 Spinal Cord Injuries[etiology], Human, Spinal Cord Injuries[rehabilitation], FUNCTIONAL ELECTRICAL-STIMULATION, Spinal Cord Injuries - physiopathology More than a decade ago, spinal-cord injury meant confinement to a wheelchair and a lifetime of medical comorbidity.

Electronic Books

Click on the links below to access electronic books (Access only to Drexel faculty and students)

• AccessScience
• AccessMedicine
• ASM Materials Information
• Biomedical Engineering Collection
• ebrary
• Electronic Lectures on Biomedical Mechanics from Synthesis Digital Library
• Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
• ENGnetBASE
• Knovel: Engineering and Scientific Online References
• MATERIALSnetBASE
• NEUROSCIENCEnetBASE

See also:

• Spinal Cord Medicine Principles And Practice
• Surgical Management Of Spinal Cord Injury Controversies And Consensus

Selected Electronic Books Organized by Subject

• Anatomy
• Electronic Lectures on Biomedical Mechanics from Synthesis Digital Library Cardiology
• Pharmacology
• Orthopedic Surgery
• Physiology
• Surgery

Electronic Databases

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

• American Physiological Journals
• Annual Reviews
• Ei Compendex and INSPEC (Engineering Village)
• IEEE Xplore
• PubMed
• ScienceDirect
• Web of Science

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

Web Resources

• Development of An Integrated System for Restoring Over-ground Walking
• Spinal Cord Injury: Hope through Research
• Spinal Cord Injury Information Network
• Spinal Cord Injury: Treatment
• Regaining control: treatment options for spinal cord injury bladder dysfunction
• Functional Electrical Stimulation
• The latest Spinal Cord Injury News - Spinal Cord Injury Zone
• Nanofibers heal Spinal Cord Injury
• Innovative Technology Allows Paralyzed to ‘Step and Stand’

Instructional Tutorials

• Refworks (RefWorks is a web-based software application that helps you manage citations. It helps you keep track of the sources you are using for your research and your own notes about the sources)
• Refworks Tutorials

• Is this a scholarly publication?
• Deciphering Citation

Meeting with me for research consultation:

You can also set up an appointment with me for more in depth research consultations. Here is how you can do so:

http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/englibrary/reference-assistance-for-engineering/
and click on 'Book a Reference Consultation' to set up a meeting time

You can also email me at bhattjj@drexel.edu or call me at 215 895-1873 and set up a meeting with me. My office is in room 132 in the Library.

This course introduces first year biomedical engineering graduate students to cell biology and cellular physiology focusing on two principal concepts: a) What is a cell? and b) How does a cell function?

Plagiarism

• Plagiarism Guide
• Plagiarism Powerpoint

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

Click on the links below to see what books are available in the library in some key areas related to Tissue Engineering

• Cellular and Tissue Engineering
• DNA Repair
• Genes and Genomes
• Glycolysis
• Stem Cells
• Artificial Organs
• Cell Chemistry
• Cells and Tissue and Signal
• Cell and Signal* and Pathways

To find additional books,  search in our online catalog using Advanced Keyword searching

Using Summon:

Try Summon to find books, articles and more. See also What is Summon? How can I use it?

• Click on Articles & More Tab in the Library Home page
• For example, type ‘Function and DNA’ 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. For Peer Reviewed journal articles, refine using 'Journal Article' and 'Limit to articles from scholarly publications, including peer-review'.
• Try Summon for quick search. For more in depth search, explore the resources below.

Electronic Books

Click on the links below to access electronic books (Access only to Drexel faculty and students)

• AccessMedicine
• Books@OVID
• CRC NetBase ebooks
• CRC-Biomedical Science
• CRC-Medicine
• ebrary
• ENGnetBASE
• Knovel: Engineering and Scientific Online References

Electronic Databases

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

• American Physiological Journals
• Annual Reviews
• Ei Compendex and INSPEC
• Google Scholar
• IEEE Xplore
• IEEE’s Community for Biology, Medicine and Technology
• IEEE Life Sciences - Cell, DNA and Cancer
• HUBMED
• Journals@OVID
• MDConsult
• MEDLINE via ISI Web of Knowledge
• PubMed
• ScienceDirect
• Web of Science
  (Search in Journal Citation Reports section to locate journals with high impact factors in a particular area)

Brief description for electronic databases: Various Electronic Databases

Instructional Tutorials

• Refworks (RefWorks is a web-based software application that helps you manage citations. It helps you keep track of the sources you are using for your research and your own notes about the sources)
• Refworks Tutorials

• Is this a scholarly publication?
• Deciphering Citation

Books

Click on the links below to see what books are available in the library in some key areas

• YC-14 STOL Prototype
• Boeing 727
• Aerodynamics
• Aircraft Design
• Static Stability and Control
• Supersonic planes

To find additional books, search in our online catalog using Advanced Keyword Searching and using appropriate research keywords.

Electronic Handbooks and Encyclopedias:

Click on the links below to access electronic books (Access only to Drexel faculty and students)

• AccessScience
• ASM Handbooks Online
• ebrary
• Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
• ENGnetBASE
• ENVIROnetBASE
• Knovel: Engineering & Scientific Online References
• MATERIALSnetBASE
• MECHANICALENGINEERINGnetBASE
• POLYMERSnetBASE
• Thermopedia (NEW RESOURCE)
  The entirely revised online version of the THERMOPEDIA™ covers a wide range of fundamental topics including thermodynamics and physical properties, fluid dynamics, heat transfer, mass transfer, and basic equations and their methods of solution.

See also: Comprehensive Composite Materials, Encyclopedia of Materials and Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology

Some electronic books and chapters:

• Air Planes Design and Construction - from ebrary
• Aerodynamics and Aircraft Flight -from ENGnetBASE
• Supersonic Aircraft - from Knovel
• Airfoil - from AccessScience
• An introduction to theoretical and computational aerodynamics - from Google books
• Advances in Spacecraft Systems and Orbit Determination
• Applied Aerodynamics:A Digital Textbook

Case Studies:

• YC-14 Advanced Medium STOL Transport (AMST)
• YC-14 Military Transport
• Anatomy of Concorde
• Development of A New Supersonic Aircraft
  

Electronic Databases

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

• Annual Reviews
• ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) Database
• ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Journals
• Begell Digital Library
• Ei Compendex and INSPEC
• Google Scholar
• IEEE Xplore
• Material ConneXion
• Materials Research Database
• MatWeb
• NASA Techinical Reports Server
• NIST Nanotechnology Portal
• ScienceDirect
• Scirus
• Web of Science

Brief description for electronic databases: Various Electronic Databases

Data Sites

• UIUC Airfoil Data Site
  The UIUC Airfoil Data Site is a collection of airfoil coordinates and airfoil related links. The UIUC Airfoil Coordinates Database includes the airfoils, and they cover a wide range of applications from low Reynolds number airfoils for UAVs and model aircraft to jet transports and wind turbines.
• Summary of Airfoil data
  The historical development of NACA airfoils is briefly reviewed. New data are presented that permit the rapid calculation of the approximate pressure distributions for the older NACA four-digit and five-digit airfoils by the same methods used for the NACA 6-series airfoils.
• The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage
• NACA Airfoil
• NACA Airfoil Series
• NACA Airfoil Series
• Summary of Airfoil Data
• References to NACA Airfoil Geometry and Aerodynamics
• NACA FOUR-DIGIT AIRFOIL SECTION GENERATION
  USING CUBIC PARAMETRIC CURVE SEGMENTS AND
  THE GOLDEN SECTION
• AIRFOIL DATA:  NACA 0018: Drag Coefficients
• Historical Evolution of Airfoil Sections - Source: Airfoils
• The Characteristics of 78 Related Airfoil Sections From Tests in the Variable-Density Wind Tunnel. National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) Technical Report 460, 1933.
• Airfoil section data obtained in the NACA variable-density tunnel as affected by support interference and other corrections
• Where can I get airfoil performance data?

Patent Searching

United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
The USPTO offers web access to bibliographic and full-text patent databases. These databases provide full-text of patents from 1976 to the present and full page images from 1790 to the present.

See What is a Patent?
See Patent Searching Tips.
See ‘What is Intellectual Property?’ in Frequently Asked Questions for Inventors
See ‘Manual of Patent Classification’

Fresh Patents
Provides access to the latest published US patent applications each week BEFORE the USPTO decision to
grant/deny.

pat2pdf.org
Given a patent number, pat2pdf.org will return a free, pdf formated version of the patent.

The Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO—from patents issued in the 1790s to present.