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-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.

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

Motorsports
Automobiles–Brakes
SAE – Society of Automotive Engineers
Nanomaterials
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
Engineering Ethics
Nanowires
Biopolymers
Sensor Networks
Aircraft Design

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

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Books

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

Search by Keyword:
Intrusion Detection
Memory Design
Hybrid and Electric
Vehicle and (Unmanned or Autonomous)

Search by Subject:
Telecommunication
Biosensors
Robots – Control Systems

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

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You can find electronic encyclopedias or handbooks by searching in our Library’s online catalog. For example, to locate electronic handbooks in the area of Mechanical Engineering, use ‘mechanical*’ and ‘handbook*’ as keywords in ‘Advanced Searching’ feature and by limiting to ‘DU Electronic Books’ option.

For example, see: Mechanical and Handbook

Here are some electronic encyclopedias and reference works available to Drexel Community.

AccessScience-McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
Comprehensive Composite Materials
Encyclopedia of Agrochemicals
Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical engineering
Encyclopedia of Bioprocess Technology
Encyclopedia of Chemical physics and Physical Chemistry
Encyclopedia of Molecular Biology
Encyclopedia of Optical Engineering
Encyclopedia of Materials: Science andTechnology
Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology
International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors
Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Encyclopedia
Ullmann’s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry
Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Wiley Encyclopedia of Molecular Medicine