Plagiarism

• Plagiarism Guide
• Plagiarism Powerpoint

Books

Click on the links below to see what books are available in the library in some key areas related to Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electronics and Nanotechnology

• Applied Mechanics
• Biomedical Technology
• Computer Applications and Networking
• Construction Management
• Hybrid and (Car or Automobile*)
• Mechatronics
• Production and Quality Control
• Sensor* and Instrumentation
• Thermodynamics
• Electrical Technology

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

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 ‘Sensors and Measurements’ 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)
You can access full book chapters using electronic book collections such as Books24X7, ebrary, ENGnetBASE, ElectricalENGINEERINGnetBASE, INFOSECURITYnetBASE, Knovel, MATERIALSnetBASE, MechanicalENGINEERINGnetBASE, Referex, Safari and Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering)

• Books24X7
• ebrary
• ElectricalENGINEERINGnetBASE
• ENGnetBASE
• INFOSECURITYnetBASE
• Knovel: Engineering and Scientific Online References
• MATERIALSnetBASE
• MechanicalENGINEERINGnetBASE
• Referex – electronic books
• Safari Tech Books Online
• Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Electronic Databases

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

• BuildingGreen
  (BuildingGreen Suite integrates online versions of GreenSpec, Environmental Building News, and a database of more than 160 high-performance building case studies.)
• Ei Compendex and INSPEC
• IEEE Xplore
• 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

Tips on obtaining articles not available in the Library

How do I obtain full papers from the Proceedings of the SPIE and other conferences that are not available in the library?

News and Recent Developments

Use the following databases to find information on breaking news in about emerging technologies in magazines and newspapers

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

See also: ‘Fundamentals of Engineering Research’ guide

Catalogs and Components

• Google Catalog
• Globalspec: Engineering Search engine
• Sensors, Transducers and Detectors
• Electrical and electronic Components

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

Step 1: Starting with your particular topic, for example: Polymer Composite Fibers

Using Google Search and searching for

You may find web resources such as : Fibers in Polymer Composites

• The site provides mechanical properties of some common fibers used in polymer composites

Use Advanced search in Google for Polymer Composite Fibers to refine your search using various options.

• Limit by latest web resources using ‘Last Update’ field
• Limit by PDF in ‘File Type’ field
• Limit by .Gov domain (or. edu, or .org domains) to obtain quality web resources

You will find web resources like

• FIBER-REINFORCED POLYMER COMPOSITE MATERIAL SELECTION NASA report on material selection for design

• Browse through various resources that you think are useful for your project.

See

• Specific information needs for engineering design projects
  During the course of your design project, you may need references from manufacturer’s product datasheets, application notes,  and whitepapers.

Step 2:

After this initial search, refer to our presentation and start using various electronic databases and books covered

Note: Library Presentation – Library Resources Freshman Engineering

Online books, Handbooks and Encyclopedias

• See Engineering electronic books from ENGnetBASE and other netBASE collections

• For example, searching in ENGnetBASE finds a chapter on Properties of Fibers and Yarns

• See Books 24×7 and Safari Tech Books for books on arduino robotics, computer science, software, database management, and operating systems, etc
• Knovel scientific online handbooks
• ASM Handbooks
  
• Thermopedia
• ebrary and NetLibrary
  Two extensive electronic book collections that cover many disciplines.

• There are a number of reference books available online. How can I find out which reference books are available from our Library’s web site?

Finding scholarly journal articles

• 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

• Searching in Engineering Village, finds a research paper like Cohesive zone model of carbon nanotube-coated carbon fiber/polyester composites from a journal titled ‘Modelling and simulation in materials science and engineering’. This article was published in 2012.

Step 3. 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 Anatomy of a U.S. 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.

Step 4: Statistical Resources

• Science.gov
  Science.gov searches over 40 databases and over 2000 selected websites, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information, including research and development results.

• Statistical Resources Research Guide

• Statistical Resources on the Web from University of Michigan Library

Step 5: Catalogs and Components

• ENGNETGLOBAL
• Google Product Search
• Globalspec: Engineering Search engine
• ThomasNet – a comprehensive resource for industrial information

Step 6: Citation Guidelines:

• IEEE Citation Reference

Additional Resources

• Fundamentals of Engineering Research
  

Web of Science (ISI) Interface provides access to the ISI Citation databases: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Science Citation Index.

Extensive help in using these databases is available from:

Web of Science Tutorial will give you an overview of this database and understanding of how to use it.
Web of Science Recorded Training Materials provides video based training tutorials in Recorded Training section.

See:

Web of Science search tips

New Features Update – Winter 2011 and New Features Update – Summer 2011

There are other important tutorials on  Citation Report, Citation Alerting , Cited Reference Searching, and Saving Search Histories and Alerts are also available.

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 and Technology
• Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology
• 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

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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Check out our new video tutorials! (More to come soon!)

ENGR103: Finding background information Part 1: Types of resources

ENGR103: Finding background information Part 2: Locating resources

What is Knovel?

Searching Engineering Village

Searching Web of Science

Using Journal Citation Reports

Using Summon

Using Web of Science Citation Reports

Video Tutorials

• Engineering Video Tutorials

There are important resources including print and electronic books,  several engineering databases, research guides and blogs available from the Library’s web site. These are listed below:

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

• Carbon Nanotubes
• Electric or Hybrid Vehicles
• Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
• Bridge Design
• Wind Turbine

To find additional books on engineering design topics, search in our online catalog using the Advanced Keyword Search

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 ‘Infrastructure Engineering’ 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.

Key Resources to find Background Information and Physical Properties

• Access Science
• ASM Handbooks
• Engineering e-books from ENGnetBASE and other netBASE collections
• Knovel
• Electronic Reference Books
• Thermopedia

News and Recent Developments

Use the following databases to find information on breaking news in about emerging technologies in magazines and newspapers

• Lexis Nexis Academic
• Expanded Academic
• Factiva
• Proquest Research Library

Current Engineering Research

• Engineering Databases

• Engineering Village

• Biomedical Engineering/Health Sciences Databases

Engineering Research Guides

• ENGR103 Library Resources
• Fundamentals of Engineering Research

Tips on obtaining articles not available in the Library

• How do I obtain an article from a citation found in Ei Compendex/INSPEC databases or (Engineering Village) when it is not available in full text? **VIDEO**

• How do I obtain full papers from the Proceedings of the SPIE and other conferences that are not available in the library?

Citation Guidelines:

• IEEE Citation Reference
• ASME Citation Reference
• ASCE Citation Reference (Author-Date style)

Patents

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

Statistical Resources

• Science.gov
  Science.gov searches over 40 databases and over 2000 selected websites, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information, including research and development results.

• Statistical Resources Research Guide

• Statistical Resources on the Web from University of Michigan Library

Catalogs and Components

• ENGNETGLOBAL
• Google Product Search
• Globalspec: Engineering Search engine
• ThomasNet – a comprehensive resource for industrial information

Library Orientation Survey

You can help us by taking our brief survey.  Click here for the Library Orientation Session Evaluation.

During the course of your design project, you may need references from manufacturer’s product datasheets, application notes,  and whitepapers.

For example,  A Designer’s Guide to Instrumentation Amplifiers, written by Charles Kitchin and Lew Counts, gives a comprehensive overview of Instrumentation Amplifier technology and application is available from Analog web site.

By searching for ‘Design and Amplifiers’ ,  limiting by ‘Application Notes’ from the left column, and then clicking on ‘Update Results’, you will be able to access several Application Notes. For example,  Instrumentation Amplifiers Solve Unusual Design Problems

See:  Technical Documentation for documentation about different products and their applications.

Other company web sites with technical documentation are:

Xilinx

• Documentation – Xilinx
• FPGA SMPS

Texas Instruments

Similar documentation can be found.

Search documents at: Texas Instruments

Researching such material is important as well in addition just searching in books, online books, and databases.

Sometimes students will need product brochure and information on how that product works. Again, searching google for such queries will help.

See also:  Chip Directory for the catalog of electronic components.

For information about the ‘Cool Roof ‘ and ‘Reflective Roof Coating’ project:

Try also searching in  Science.gov in addition to other databases highlighted in ENGR101-102-103 blog page. You will find a web site for ‘Cool Roof’ from the Building Technologies Program of the U.S. Department of Energy web site.

Searching in the advanced google  seach page and limiting to domains such as .org and. gov,  you can find sites such as

Reflective Roof Coatings — White is the new Green
Northwest Indiana Hospitals Use Reflective Roof Coatings. September 21, 2010.

Once students have some clear ideas after going through these sites, searching in ENGnetBASE and other ebook/print collections, student can search in scholarly journals from IEEE and others for more in depth research.

As part of my senior engineering design project, along with my
teammates, I worked on designing a Mechanical water softener using
plasma.

My project:

Water hardness is a major problem is today’s world and
warrants attention. Hard water causes scaling and reduces life of any
devices that it comes in contact with. About 85% of the water in the
US is classified as hard water. Current Water softeners include ion
exchange and reverse osmosis system. These systems have significant
health and environmental impacts. Thus, there is a need to develop a
more efficient water softening system for commercial applications.
Through using filtration assisted by electric spark discharge plasma,
a mechanical water softener was created to reduce calcium in water.
This property of plasma would also ensure in creating a self cleaning
filtration system making it an automated system
For this research, literature search was extremely demanding. However,
with the Drexel library system resources, the task was significantly
easier to find and some of the sources used were

1.      Engineering Village
2.      Knovel

I also found the ASTM standards extremely useful in my project. These include:

ASTM E650–97. Standard guide for mounting piezoelec-tric AE sensors.
ASTM E750–98. Standard practice for characterizing acoustic emission
instrumentation.
ASTM E650-97(2002)e1 Standard Guide for Mounting Piezoelectric
Acoustic Emission Sensor
ASTM E1316 – 10c Standard Terminology for Nondestructive Examinations

I would like to thank our Engineering Library for providing numerous journal
articles and reference materials throughout my undergraduate years as
well as my graduate studies

My personal favorite is the Engineering Village database.  It is an extremely powerful reference website which contains numerous articles. Its extremely easy to find
articles and more importantly relevant articles. The search box is as
easy as it can get and you simply just need to type the name of the
article or even the field you are looking. If you are looking for
specific authors, it can still find the articles by specifying the
name of the author and setting the field as author name. Knovel is
pretty useful too in this regard.

Prashanth Abraham
Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering,
Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA