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ENGR103: Finding background information Part 1: Types of resources

ENGR103: Finding background information Part 2: Locating resources

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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

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Andrew Cebulski and his team members last year worked on their freshman design project titled ‘Diet Management’. See below for the Abstract and a link to their Full design report.

Abstract:

The cell phone dietary monitoring system is intended to easily record the user’s food intake, and also provide information that is important to their diet plan. The device is designed to utilize a Bluetooth headset, which will be able to listen for the user to begin chewing. The headset will also be able to take in the name and portion size of a food. Finally, the device is able to output important nutritional information about the user’s diet, such as calories and vitamins. The device prompts the user to input their meal information after every major meal, based on when they finish chewing. The information is stored in the user’s cell phone. After the food information has been recorded, the information is sent to an online database, which is able to obtain average nutritional values for each type of food. The values are sent back to the user’s phone, where they are kept track of. The user has the ability to have specified totals read to them through the Bluetooth headset after every meal. The device allows the user to accurately keep track of the foods they eat, as well as give them an idea of how they can better follow their chosen diet plan. The technology does not detect drinks, and it may not always work correctly in loud environments. The technology operates under the assumption that the user records the foods and the serving sizes correctly. Two areas for future work on the project are the hardware needed to analyze the chewing, and the other area is the power consumption of the total device.

Final Design Report: Diet Management Final Design Report

Source: The Drexel Smart House Wiki

Among the sources that the team used included:

C. A. Vereecken, M. Covents, C. Matthys and L. Maes, “Young adolescents’ nutrition assessment on computer (YANA-C),” European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 59, pp. 658, May. 2005.

N. De Belie, M. Sivertsvik and J. De Baerdemaeker, “Differences in chewing sounds of dry-crisp snacks by multivariate data analysis,” in First International ISMA Workshop on Noise and Vibration in Agricultural and Biological Engineering, 2003, pp. 625-43.

J. L. Weinstein, V. Phillips, E. MacLeod, M. Arsenault and A. M. Ferris, “A Universal Product Code Scanner Is a Feasible Method of Measuring Household Food Inventory and Food Use Patterns in Low-Income Families,” Journal of the American Dietetic Association, vol. 106, pp. 443-445, 3. 2006.

C. Wardell, “What’s On Now The kitchen of the future is not so very far away. Get a piece of it with these innovative new products.;” Popular Science, vol. 264, pp. 40, March. 2004.

Bowers, John H. amd Thomas J. Clare, “Inventory System using Articles with RFID tags,” U.S. 5963134, October 5, 1999. [Online].

P. Harrop. Smart labels. AccessScience@McGraw-Hill (Online Science and Technology Encyclopedia available from the library’s web site)
(Note: See What is AccessScience? How do I access it?

R. Hall and J. S. Hampl, “Radio frequency identification: Applications for dietetics professionals,” Journal of the American Dietetic Association, vol. 104, pp. 1521-1522, 10. 2004.

An excellent compilation of references using scholarly journal articles, patents and electronic reference works.