Biomedical Engineering Senior Design Center
Proposed Senior Design Projects
Senior Design Evaluator Form – Written Report Rubric
Books, Handbooks, Electronic Books and Journal Articles
See: Tissue Engineering (Refer to this page to explore various electronic resources that our Library subscribes)
Biomedical Properties
See: Handbooks and Encyclopedias and Comprehensive Composite Materials, Encyclopedia of Materials and Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology
Ethical and Professional Issues
See: Biomedical and Engineering Ethics
Bioinformatics
See: Bioinformatics Resources
Biomedical Engineering Entrepreneurship
See: Entrepreneurship for Biomedical Engineering
Use resources here to find marketing and forecast information about your design.
Patent Searching
See: Patents, FDA approved medical devices, and Intellectual Property
Standards
See: How Do I access ASTM, SAE, ASHRAE, ISO or ANSI standards? Any other standards?
For more extensive listings of resources, please see our Standards guide.
News and Recent Developments
Use the following databases to find information on breaking news in biomedical technologies in magazines and newspapers
Academic Universe(Lexis/Nexis)
Expanded Academic
Factiva
Proquest
Supply Costs
Globalspec: Engineering Search engine
Biomedical Communications (Product Catalog)
Keeping uptodate with new developments and research articles
See:How do I subscribe to RSS feeds from IEEE Xplore? How do I receive regular email notification of recently posted journals, magazines or standards?
How do I set up RSS feeds using PubMed database?
What is Tagging? How do I use Tagging and Groups features available in Engineering Village? How do I receive RSS feeds for my searches in Engineering Village?
Web of Science Instructional Tutorials and go to Savings Search Histories and Alerts
Statistical Resources
See: Statistical Resources, Lexis/Nexis Statistical, Statistical Resources on the Web and Health Data
The Drexel Smart House is a unique multidisciplinary project working toward the goal of creating a building that functions like a home and serves as a laboratory to continually conduct research on innovations to the home experience. Through student-led (undergraduate and graduate from all colleges and majors) research and design, the Drexel Smart House will explore the areas of health and wellness, environmental interactions, efficiency, entertainment and communications. Ultimately, this research and design will be implemented into an urban home where involved students will live, thereby studying the effectiveness of the new ideas and proving the benefit of the Smart House.
See: Drexel Smart House
Blog: Drexel Smart House Blog
Books
Click on the links below to see what books are available in the Hagerty library at Drexel University in some key areas.
Smart Structures
Smart Materials
Intelligent Buildings
Green Buildings
Energy and homes
smart Home
To find additional books, search in our online catalog using Advanced Keyword Searching and using appropriate research keywords.
See also: Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Senior Seminar, Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Senior Design Resources and How Do I access ASTM, SAE, ASHRAE, ISO or ANSI standards? Any other standards?
Statistical Resources
Statistical Resources
Statistical Resources on the Web – Energy
Grant and Funding Opportunities
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
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 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!
Engineers Without Borders (EWB) is an international humanitarian engineering group that serves our global neighbors in the developing world; those who need it most. We provide the basics of life such as water and shelter, using appropriate and sustainable technology. More importantly though, we help people help themselves. Dedicated professionals and aspiring college students form the backbone of EWB, with invaluable help from corporations, Non-Government Organizations, and other supporters. EWB at Drexel is a great way for students to hone and apply their skills to real problems, gain unique experience and become socially and globally conscious.
Here are some resources available to help you find information on projects related to Appropriate Technology.
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.
To find additional books, search in our online catalog using Advanced Keyword Searching and using appropriate research keywords.
Books on DVD
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
- 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
Interdisciplinary Databases
News and Recent Developments
Use the following databases to find information on breaking news in about emerging technologies in magazines and newspapers
Web Resources
The Appropriate Technology Library is 150,000 pages of full text and graphics from 1050 books covering all areas of village-level and do-it-yourself technology–all on 27 CD-ROM’s or 4 DVD’s. The AT Library gives you all the benefits of a comprehensive appropriate technology library in the space it takes to store a shoe box. The AT Library gives you the knowledge to solve real-world problems such as; harvesting clean drinking water, making tools, growing your own crops, building and maintaining an irrigation system, preserving crops, reforesting a denuded watershed, starting a small fish hatchery, building a small-scale hydropower scheme, building and maintaining pumps, treating human and animal waste, utilizing solar energy, improving rural cookstove efficiency, constructing energy efficient structures, caring for the sick, non-formal education, preparing for a natural disaster.
It is now available on DVD through Hagerty Reserve Media section at the Circulation Desk of our Library.
See:
AT library [videorecording] / Village Earth.
For more information, please refer to: The Appropriate Technology Library
What is FSAE?
Formula SAE is a student design competition organized by SAE International (formerly Society of Automotive Engineers). The first competition was started back in 1978 and was originally called the Mini Indy.The concept behind Formula SAE is that a fictional manufacturing company has contracted a design team to develop a small Formula-style race car.
The prototype race car is to be evaluated for its potential as a production item. The target marketing group for the race car is the non-professional weekend autocross racer. Each student team designs, builds and tests a prototype based on a series of rules whose purpose is both to ensure onsite event operations and promote clever problem solving.
SEE: Rules & Important Documents and Drexel Racing Formulae SAE
FSAE Facebook Group: Drexel Formula SAE Information Resources and Tools
This group will serve to enhance awareness of various information resources available to participating Drexel students so that they can efficiently use them in their design of the prototype race car for this competition. You can post any material or books you need on the wall of this group. My Facebook ID is bhattjj@drexel.edu
See also ‘Searching SAE Literature’ from ‘Engineering Library Instruction’ Blog and Mechanical Engineering – Materials Engineering Senior Design from ‘Englibrary’ blog.
Knovel K-News features instructional tips on how to find specific data or information using online scientific and technical books availble through Knovel: Engineering & Scientific Online References’ . Spring 2008 edition of K-News provides demos on Basic Searching, and Interactive Graphs and Tables.
Within ‘Did you know..’ category, it features: ‘Did you know that Knovel can search the Tensile and Compressive properties of thousands of materials?‘ and within Knovel Solution categoty, ‘Manufacturing Plastic from Soybeans?’ is highlighted.
To access ‘Knovel: Engineering & Scientific Online References’ from the Library’s web site, go to Electronic Databases and then click on Knovel.
