Jay Bhatt
Librarian for Engineering
Hours M-F: 9am-6pm
Hagerty Library, Room 132
bhattjj@drexel.edu
215-895-1873
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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
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
“Engineering Education Suppliers Guide” is a new online resource, available through the American Society for Engineering Education site, designed specifically to help engineering educators locate products and services for the classroom and research.
Free Desktop search tool: Download
Source: ASEE Connections
ETHX on the Web is the database on bioethics and professional ethics. ETHX on the Web is a bibliographic database that searches journal articles, book chapters, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, books, audio-visuals, and news articles relating to bioethics and professional ethics.
It can also be accesed from: Databases by Title and click on ETHX on the web. Citations on engineering ethics, patents, and intellectual property can also be located using this database.
Knovel provides electronic access to leading engineering reference handbooks, databases, and conference proceedings.
To access knovel from the Library’s web site, go to Electronic Databases and then click on Knovel:Engineering & Scientific Online Reference.
In order to download a citation into either Refworks or ENDNOTE, first click on the citation from the list of items you found after a search. Click on ‘Citation’. Click on ‘Export’. Select either ‘ENDNOTE’ or “Refworks’ for downloading your citation.
With this new feature in Knovel, you will now be able include citation(s) of any electronic book from Knovel in your bibliography. In engineering design projects, you often need to use electronic handbooks in order to develop background necessary in a particular subject area for your project. This new feature will allow you to download references from Knovel automatically so that your bibliography can now include electronic books as references in addition to your scholarly journal articles you may have found using engineering databases such as Engineering Village, Earthquake Engineering Abstracts, Environmental Engineering Abstracts and IEEE Xplore.
ASEE Prism is the flagship publication of the American Society for Engineering Education, a nonprofit association of more than 12,000 engineering faculty members, U.S. colleges of engineering and engineering technology, corporations, and other organizations dedicated to promoting excellence in engineering and engineering technology education.
March 2010 issue of Prism has this very interesting article about libraries in today’s digital age.
Excerpts:
“And while students and faculty can access digi-collections at no charge whenever they want, the effort and cost of putting those collections together is staggering. NC State’s libraries spent $10 million on such collections last year. Moreover, few students arrive on campus with the skills necessary to find their way through billions of bytes of research and reference materials. Librarians are there to guide them through those digital mazes and to teach them the skills needed to do it on their own. But a big reason that libraries remain popular hubs is space – space to study, meet, and relax. Today’s engineering students still prefer to study in libraries rather than in their rooms or dormitory study halls. And as engineering education becomes more project- and team-oriented, students need meeting rooms equipped with high-tech learning tools, from whiteboards to double-monitored desktop computers.”
Read the full article at: The Place to Go: Libraries reinvent themselves to serve digital-age students.
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