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 related to Electrical and Computer Engineering
Search by Keyword:
To find additional books on ‘Biomedical Engineering’, search in our online catalog usingAdvanced Keyword searching and using the term ‘Biomedical Engineering’.
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 ‘Stem Cells’ 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.
Electronic Books
Click on the links below to access electronic books (Access only to Drexel faculty and students)
Electronic Databases- Engineering
Use databases below to find scholarly journal articles on the topic of your research project.
Business Databases
Use databases below to find scholarly journal articles on Business related subject areas of your research project.
News and Magazine Articles
Patent Searching and Company Research
See also: Patents, FDA approved medical devices, and Intellectual Property , Research a Company , Research an Industry and Business Plans and Entrepreneurship
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.
See What is a Patent?
See Patent Searching Tips.
See ‘What is Intellectual Property?’ in Frequently Asked Questions for Inventors
See ‘Manual of Patent Classification’
Fresh Patents
Provides access to the latest published US patent applications each week BEFORE the USPTO decision to
grant/deny.
pat2pdf.org
Given a patent number, pat2pdf.org will return a free, pdf formated version of the patent.
The Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO—from patents issued in the 1790s to present.
Ethics
Web Resources
Schedule for the RET class in the Library
Drexel-NSF Research Experiences for Teachers Program: RETAIN Technologies in the Delaware Valley
Wednesday, July 13th from 11 am, Room L13C (Lower Level) in the Library
University of Pennsylvania’s Engineering Library
Books
Click on the links below to see what books are available in the library in some key areas.
To find additional books on any topics, 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.
Grant and Funding Opportunities
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Drexel Archives is proud to present the work of ten Drexel students writing about Drexel history. Each week in the winter quarter, we will feature a new essay. Thanks to Professor Sheryl Simons and all the students in English 101, Fall quarter 2010.
“Mr. Drexel was known for his intelligence, learning five languages. Moreover, he was known for his kindness. He took J.P. Morgan under his wing and helped launch the Industrial Revolution. The Drexel family was also known for donating millions of dollars to improve the condition of prisons, hospital sanitation, and gender equality.
Despite all of his major accomplishments, A.J. Drexel was most proud of the school he founded, the Drexel Institute. He wanted to create a school for the working class that taught art, science, and industry. Access for the masses was critically important and he made sure that the school was in close proximity to public transportation. A. J. Drexel was different from others in his time because he understood that the world was constantly changing and he made sure that his school would change with the times.”
More information: Drexel students write about Drexel history
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
With over 2,500 members & advocates, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) is the hub of the wind energy industry.
AWEA promotes wind energy as a clean source of electricity for consumers around the world.
AWEA site also provides access to several online documents and resources.
These include:
among many other resources. See also: Wind Energy Case Studies to find information on how wind energy is used today in various ways around the world.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the journal Science created the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge to celebrate that grand tradition–and to encourage its continued growth. The spirit of the competition is for communicating science, engineering and technology for education and journalistic purposes.
Judges appointed by NSF and Science will select winners in each of five categories: Photography, Illustrations, Informational Posters and Graphics, Interactives Games and Non-Interactive Media. The winning entries will appear in a special section in Science and Science Online, and on the NSF Web site, and one of the winning entries will be pictured on the front cover. In addition, each winner will receive a one-year print and on-line subscription to the journal Science and a certificate of appreciation.
For more details: NSF International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge
ISI reports that their popular index to the scholarly literature, Web of Science, covers the contents of 494 peer-reviewed open access journals. That amounts to 4.5% of the roughly 11,000 journals covered by the service, also known by its subsets — Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Read the full article at: Almost 500 open access titles indexed in ISI Web of Science
See also: Transforming Scholarly Communication: A Blog
Drexel’s e-Learning Minute is a series of short pod casts, hosted by Dr. Kenneth Hartman, Director of Academic Affairs at Drexel e-Learning, created to help students succeed with online learning.
Features an interview with Drexel University’s Tim Siftar (Hagerty Library) on using a college’s e-Library to supplement your online learning.
Using College’s e-Library
See: Podcast Part 1 | Podcast Part 2
See all podcasts at: Drexel University’s Online Podcast Series:
Books
Click on the links below to see what books are available in the library in some key areas related to Hurricane Katrina, Levees, Hurricane Protection Sytems, Legal Aspects of Disasater, and Environmental Issues.
To find additional books, search in our online catalog using Advanced Keyword Searching and using appropriate research keywords.
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
- 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
News and Magazine Articles
Interdisciplinary Databases
Web Resources and Journal Articles
Instructional Tutorials
