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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 Alternative Energy Sources.
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.
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 ‘Solar Thermal and Photovoltaics ’ 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. You can also limit to articles from scholarly publications, including peer-review.
Electronic Databases
Use databases below to find scholarly journal articles on the topic of your research project.News and Recent Developments
Use the following databases to find information on breaking news in biomedical technologies in magazines and newspapers
Web Resources
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
Meeting with me for research consultation:
You can also set up an appointment with me for more in depth research consultations. Here is how you can do so:
http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/englibrary/reference-assistance-for-engineering/
and click on ‘Book a Reference Consultation’ to set up a meeting time
You can also email me at bhattjj@drexel.edu or call me at 215 895-1873 and set up a meeting with me. My office is in room 132 in the 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 FSAE
Drexel Formula SAE is a team comprised of undergraduate students that designs and builds a race car from the ground up every year for international, intercollegiate competition.
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.
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 .
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 ‘Nanomaterials’ 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.
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Aerospaceweb.org is a non-profit site operated by engineers and scientists in the aerospace field. The goal of this site is to provide educational information on a variety of subjects ranging from aviation to space travel to aerospace technology. Primary areas of expertise include aerodynamics, propulsion systems, vehicle design, engineering career information, and aerospace history.
See: Aerospaceweb
See also: Aerospace calculators
The Aerospaceweb.org calculators section includes a series of useful scripts for computing aerodynamic and atmospheric properties.
Atmospheric Calculator
Handy script for computing properties of the standard atmosphere, Reynolds numbers, airspeeds, basic aerodynamic values, and other useful quantities.
Compressible Flow Calculator
Another script for computing supersonic flow properties using isentropic, normal shock, and oblique shock relations.
The Billion Gallon Challenge: Advanced biofuels from diverse sources such as grasses and agricultural waste hold the promise of sustainably reducing U.S. oil dependence and global warming emissions. Unfortunately the advanced biofuels industry not been able to meet the demand as set out in the federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
The Billion Gallon Challenge is an effort to build the support and policies needed to bring the fledgling advanced biofuels industry to maturity. It also seeks to ensure that the biofuels market maximizes taxpayer investment and helps to strengthen U.S. energy and environmental security.
Recent studies have concluded that avoiding dangerous climate change will require the United States and other industrialized countries to reduce their global warming emissions approximately 80 percent below 2000 levels by mid-century. This goal is attainable, but only if we act immediately, and on multiple fronts. One major part of the climate solutions equation is a shift to renewable energy resources such as wind, solar, and bioenergy.
See: Smart Bioenergy: Guiding Sustainable Bio-based Energy and Fuels Development
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
Searching for Nanotechnology Patents:
Using Advanced Searching, select ‘Patents’ as one of the ‘Information Types’ and use ‘Nanotechnlogy’ as keywords.
See: Nanotechnology patents
Some nanotechnology related electronic Journals available through our Library website:
Comprehensive list of Nanotechnology Publications can be accessed through the link:
A resource for nanoscience and technology, the nanoHUB was created by the NSF-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology.
The nanoHUB is a rich, web-based resource for research, education and collaboration in nanotechnology. The nanoHUB hosts over 1600 resources which will help you learn about nanotechnology, including Online Presentations, Courses, Learning Modules, Podcasts, Animations, Teaching Materials, and more. Most importantly, the nanoHUB offers simulation tools which you can access from your web browser, so you can not only learn about but also simulate nanotechnology devices. The nanoHUB also provides collaboration environment via Workspaces, Online meetings and User groups.
Resources come from over 600 contributors in the nanoscience community, and are used by thousands of users from over 170 countries around the world. Most of our users come from academic institutions and use nanoHUB as part of their research and educational activities.
The PGM Database is a collection of published data and internal Johnson Matthey data defining the physical properties and characteristics of platinum group metals and their alloys. It assists you to find materials based on their properties, enabling you to find the right material for the job without the hassle, helps you find solutions to material problems, and it will display a datasheet of material properties in a user-friendly view, giving a comprehensive picture of a material and its capabilities.
Access: PGM Database
