Use the Online Catalog to find book sand other materials available in the library.
To find resources on a particular topic, search in the online catalog using ‘Advanced Keyword Searching’ feature
Use following electronic databases/indexes to find articles on your topic dealing with any ethical issues.
Some useful journal titles
Some additinal resources
Wind, Solar Could Play Bigger Roles in Future US Energy Mix
“U.S. climate change legislation now before Congress would mandate that by 2020, 15 to 20 percent of the nation’s electricity supply would come from renewable sources like wind and solar.
Currently wind and solar contribute only about 2 percent, with hydropower providing an additional 6 percent.
The new report examines the potential of wind and solar electricity in the United States
Can these renewable sources meet the nation’s energy needs? A new report from the Pew Center on Global Climate Change finds that wind and solar can be a major source of electricity in the United States.”
Please read the whole artilcle at:
Wind, Solar Could Play Bigger Roles in Future US Energy Mix
Schedule for REU classes:
Room L13C (Lower Level) in the Library.
DREAM June 23rd 1-2
SENSORS June 23rd 1-2
Engineering Cities June 23rd 1-2
Books
Click on the links below to see what books are available in the library in some key areas
To find additional books on, search in our online catalog using Advanced Keyword searching .
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The High Performance Buildings Database is research sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy that seeks to improve building performance measuring methods by collecting data on various factors that affect a building’s performance, such as energy, materials, and land use. The database collects information from buildings around the world, ranging from homes and commercial interiors to large buildings and even whole campuses and neighborhoods.
Access: High Performance Buildings Database from U.S. Department of Energy: Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
The senior design team of Eric Eisele, Courtney Reid, Dan Pugh, Sarah Byrnes, and Charlie Woods was awarded a Phase II People, Prosperity, and Planet Award from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). See Senior Design Team wins EPA funding for more details.
Eric and his team used several Library resources over a period of time. These include:
- ASCE Civil Engineering Database
- ASCE Conference Proceedings Online
- BuildingGreen - (BuildingGreen Suite integrates online versions of GreenSpec, Environmental Building News, and a database of more than 160 high-performance building case studies.)
- DoE Energy Codes
- Ei Compendex and INSPEC
- Environmental Engineering Abstracts
- Google Scholar
- Home Depot Smart Home
- Knovel: Engineering and Scientific Online References
- 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
- Statistical Resources
- Statistical Resources on the Web-Energy
- Web of Knowledge
Eric also needed some ASTM standards for the Solar Coating project. Using How Do I access ASTM, SAE, ASHRAE, ISO or ANSI standards? Any other standards? Eric was able to obtain ASTM standards that he needed for the project. Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering and Materials Engineering Site include a few resources that may also help in future for other projects. See also Cool Roofs and Cool Roofing Materials Database available from Heat Island Group Resources.
Eric also contributed in creating Drexel’s web site for Sustainability and Drexel Green.
Congratulations to the Senior Design Team!
INIS, the International Nuclear Information System, was established in 1970 in response to the IAEA’s mandate “… to foster the exchange of scientific and technical information on peaceful uses of atomic energy”.
INIS processes most of the world’s scientific and technical literature on a wide range of subjects from nuclear engineering, safeguards and non-proliferation to applications in agriculture and health.
- The INIS Database, contains over 3 million bibliographic records and a unique collection of over 200 000 full-text documents (non-conventional “grey” literature – NCL) in 63 languages, including many documents that cannot easily be found anywhere else.
- The INIS Multilingual Thesaurus – a major tool for describing nuclear information and knowledge in a structured form, which assists in multilingual and semantic searches.
Access: INIS (International Nuclear Information System) Database
Scirus is a comprehensive science and engineering specific search engine that searches open-access websites as well as peer-reviewed content from publisher sites. With over 450 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists’ homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information.
Scirus is also linked from Databases/Article indexes for Engineering or it can be found by searching on our Library’s online catalog in the ‘Title’ field.
To link to Drexel full text from Scirus, first add Drexel University in the Library Partner Links within Scirus Preferences
Thomas Fuller, SF Environmental Policy Examiner, analyzed nanotechnology patents using ‘Advanced Search’ feature in scirus. He found records of 8,007 patent filings for nanotechnology. According to Fuller, “Of those 8,007 patents that have nanotechnology in the title, abstract or text, 7,007 were filed in the past 5 years. That’s 88%. Almost a quarter–23%–were filed last year alone. That’s one reason why I think nanotechnology will be to this century what electricity was to the last.” He also writes, “the recovery of the American economy and progress to unprecedented heights over the next 10 years would be led by nanotechnology, bio-technology and robotics.”
Read the full article at: American economy and progress to be led by nanotechnology, bio-technology and robotics.
BuildingGreen Suite integrates online versions of GreenSpec, Environmental Building News, and a database of more than 160 high-performance building case studies. The information is searchable and cross-referenced by CSI MasterFormat division, LEED credit, or green topic. Each article, product listing, and case study also lists related content and information sources.
Access: BuildingGreen Suite or go to Databases by Title page an click on BuildingGreen Suite.
Building Green also provides access to High Performance Building database that provides access to case studies of projects ranging from homes and commercial interiors to large buildings and even whole campuses and neighborhoods. See ‘Using High Performance Building Database’ for more information on how to search this database.
The BuildingGreen.com LIVE blog is the place for real-time event coverage, reviews,and latest news from atest news from all over the green building world. You can find entries such as Putting wind turbines on buildings doesn’t make sense
UMTRI carries out short- and long-term research projects in broad areas involving accident data collection and traffic safety analysis, bioengineering, human factors, mechanical engineering, psychology, economics, public policy, and all aspects of the science of driving. In addition, numerous multidisciplinary research programs are currently being conducted with other units of the University involving specialized areas of engineering, business, medicine, and public health.
The UMTRI Library houses one of the world’s most extensive collections of literature on traffic safety. It reflects the diversity of disciplines that the field comprises: biomechanics, lighting, vehicle dynamics, driver behavior, and injuries from motor-vehicle crashes.
Recent deposits include:
Search: Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) Reports
Books
Click on the links below to see what books are available in the library in some key areas related to Sustainability Issues, Life Cycle Assessment and Management.
To find additional books, search in our online catalog using Advanced Keyword Searching and using appropriate research keywords.
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 ebrary, ENGnetBASE, Knovel, MATERIALSnetBASE, and MECHANICALnetBASE.
Engineering Databases
Use databases below to find scholarly journal articles on the topic of your research project.
- ASCE Civil Engineering Database
- ASCE Conference Proceedings Online
- Annual Reviews
- BuildingGreen - (BuildingGreen Suite integrates online versions of GreenSpec, Environmental Building News, and a database of more than 160 high-performance building case studies.)
- Earthquake Engineering Abstracts
- Ei Compendex and INSPEC
- Environmental Engineering Abstracts
- GeoRef
- Google Scholar
- GreenFILE
- Home Depot Smart Home
- 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
- Transportation Research Information Services Online
- How do I obtain full papers from the Proceedings of the SPIE and other conferences that are not available in the library?
ILI Standards Infobase
The ILI standards database is a bibliographic standards database. It covers over 600,000 worldwide standards. Over 250 major Standards issuing authorities are covered, from the US, Europe, the international bodies ISO and IEC to Japan and Australia. Any ASTM standards can also be requested through ILI Standards Infobase.
Interdisciplinary Databases
Web Resources and Journal Articles
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