Some Readings – Snapping Shrimp

• Snapping Shrimp Drown Out Sonar With Bubble-Popping Trick, Described In Science
• How snapping shrimp snap? What is the Physics behind snapping?
• Snapping Shrimp – Discovery of Sound in the Sea
• Bioacoustics – Acoustic Monitoring
• Biomedical Acoustics
• Biomedical Ultrasonics
• Doppler Ultrasound
• Medical Imaging
• Acoustic Monitoring – Underwater Acoustics Monitoring Tutorial
• Snapping Shrimp – an article from the Scientific American
• Protecting Whales from Dangerous Sonar  NRDC’s campaign to regulate harmful Navy sonar systems is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
• High Court Hears Navy Sonar Case
• Underwater Acoustics – U.S. Navy Ships

Books

• Physics and Sound
• Underwater Acoustics
• Physics and Biology
• Acoustic* and bio*
• Sonar
• Acoustic Waves
• Acoustical Engineering
• Doppler Ultrasound

To find additional books, search in our online catalog using Advanced Keyword Searching and using appropriate research keywords.

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 ‘Biomedical Ultrasonics’ 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)

• AccessMedicine
• ASM Materials Information
• Books@OVID
• ebrary
• Electronic Lectures on Biomedical Mechanics from Synthesis Digital Library
• Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
• ENGnetBASE
• Knovel: Engineering and Scientific Online References
• MATERIALSnetBASE
• NEUROSCIENCEnetBASE

Selected Electronic Books Organized by Subject

• Anatomy
• Electronic Lectures on Biomedical Mechanics from Synthesis Digital Library Cardiology
• Pharmacology
• Orthopedic Surgery
• Physiology
• Surgery

Electronic Databases

Use databases below to find scholarly journal articles on the topic of your research project.

• American Physiological Journals
• Annual Reviews
• Biomaterials Properties Database from the University of Michigan
• Ei Compendex and INSPEC
• Google Scholar
• IEEE Xplore
• HUBMED
• ILI Standards Infobase – ASTM and other standards
  Please contact Jay Bhatt bhattjj@drexel.edu to check if the availability of the  standard you are looking for.
• Journal Citation Reports
• Journals@OVID
• Matweb
• MDConsult
• MEDLINE via ISI Web of Knowledge
• PubMed
• ScienceDirect
• Web of Science
  (Search in Journal Citation Reports section to locate journals with high impact factors in a particular area)
• Wiley Interscience

Brief description for electronic databases: Various Electronic Databases

Obtaining articles not available in the Library

• How do I obtain Full papers from the Proceedings of the SPIE, other conferences and journal papers that are not available in the library?

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

• Is this a scholarly publication?
• Deciphering Citation

Guidelines for using images in web pages, presentations and instruction

• Images for Presentations & Instruction

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Groupwork Survival Guide

When you work in a group, you can accomplish more than you would if you were just learning on your own. Your group members may have some skills or knowledge that you don’t have. And you will find that you, too, have knowledge and skills that compliment your group members.

Furthermore, group work will help you learn how to play well with others – that’s super important to anyone in the working world. If you can figure out how to leverage your teammates’ abilities with your own, you can succeed in any team environment in the work world

Finding Information Resources

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:

• Intrusion Detection
• Memory Design
• Smartphone*
• Hybrid and Electric
• RF Communication
• Vehicle and (Unmanned or Autonomous)
• Robotics and Control

Search by Subject:

• Telecommunication
• Biosensors
• Robots – Control Systems

To find additional books, search in our online catalog using Advanced Keyword Searching and using appropriate research keywords.

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 ‘Integrated Satellite Antenna’ 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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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:

• Robotics
• Robotics and Surgery
• Robot Control
• Sensors and Actuators
• Neural Control and Robot*
• Surgery

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)

• AccessMedicine
• ASM Materials Information
• Books@OVID
• ebrary
• ELECTRICALENGINEERINGnetBASE
• Encyclopedia of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
• ENGnetBASE
• Knovel: Engineering and Scientific Online References
• MECHANICALENGINEERINGnetBASE
• NEUROSCIENCEnetBASE
• Synthesis: The Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science
• Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Electronic Databases- Engineering

Use databases below to find scholarly journal articles on the topic of your research project.

• ACM Digital Library
• ACM Guide to Computing Literature
• Ei Compendex and INSPEC
• Google Scholar
• HUBMED
• IEEE Xplore
• INSPEC
• Journal Citation Reports
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science

• MDConsult
• MEDLINE via ISI Web of Knowledge
• PubMed
• ScienceDirect
• Web of Knowledge

Business Databases

Use databases below to find scholarly journal articles on Business related subject areas of your research project.

• Academic Universe(Lexis/Nexis)
• Business & Industry

• Business Source Premier
• Expanded Academic

• Factiva Global news and business information service, international business, company/industry research
• Faulkner’s Advisory for IT Studies
• IBISWorld Industry Reports
• Mintel Reports – Market Research

• Proquest
• Tablebase - Statistical Data on Companies, Industries, Countries and Markets

News and Magazine Articles

• Academic Universe(Lexis/Nexis)
• Expanded Academic
• Factiva

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

• Resources for Biomedical Engineering, Ethics and Law
• Legal Ethical Issues in Robotics Surgery
• Who’s Proposing Ethical Guidelines for Robots?
• Code of Ethics for Robotics Engineers

Web Resources

• Internet Resources for Computer Aided Surgery
• Robotics: the Future of the Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery
• Surgical Robotics: Robots help surgeons transcend human limits
• Intuitive  Surgical® da Vinci® Surgical  System andEndoscopic  Instruments: 510(k)  SUMMARY
• Assessing the da Vinci® Robotic Surgical System for Surgery of the Upper Aerodigestive Tract
• A Consensus Document on Robotic Surgery: Position Papers/Statements published on: 11/2007by the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES)
• Occupational Safety and Health: Robotics
• Advancing neurosurgery with image-guided robotics
• National Alliance for Medical Image Computing

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering:

Books

Click on the links below to see what books are available in the library in some key areas related to Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

• Geotechnical Engineering
• Soil Mechanics
• Structures and Concrete
• Earthquake Engineering

• Infrastructure Engineering
• ArcGIS
• Asset Management
• Life-Cycle Analysis
• Critical Infrastructure
• GIS and Management
• Wastewater
• Highway Engineering
• Green Engineering
• Intelligent Buildings
• Sewage System*
• Transportation and Infrastructure

To find additional books, search in our online catalog using Advanced Keyword Searching and using appropriate research keywords.

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 ‘Smart Structures’ 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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ENGnetBase has broken out its holdings into 4 smaller netBASE sections, in addition to being searchable all under ENGnetBase.

ENGnetBASE
This award-winning site offers a critically acclaimed collection of best-selling engineering handbooks and reference titles. Additionally, this wide-ranging digital library has spawned the following vertical collections focused on specific engineering disciplines:

CivilENGINEERINGnetBASE
ElectricalENGINEERINGnetBASE

ENVIROnetBASE
MechanicalENGINEERINGnetBASE

INFOSECURITYnetBASE
MATERIALSnetBASE

POLYMERSnetBASE
TELECOMMUNICATIONSnetBASE

Each of the small netbase sections can also be found under Databases /Article Indexes page.

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

Primal Pictures Anatomy.tv – 3D Model of Human Anatomy Online

Primal Pictures Anatomy.tv online provids 3D model of the human anatomy. It includes Interactive Functional Anatomy and Complete Human Anatomy — both are 3D interactive human models.You can also export images, animations or text and rotate the model, adding or removing layers to show structures.

Access: Databases/Article Indexes for Medicine/Biomedical Sciences and then click on Primal Pictures.anatomy.tv or go to Primal Pictures Anatomy.tv

Examples of 3D anatomy models include: Interactive Head & Neck, Interactive Spine, Interactive Shoulder, and Interactive Foot among many others.

Note: You will need to enable pop-ups for optimal viewing.

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

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

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

• Engineering Ethics
• Eugenics
• Ethic* and Biomedical Research
• Medical Ethics
• Human Experimentation in Medicine Moral and Ethical Aspects
• Institutional Review Board

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 ‘Ethics and Highway Safety’ 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.

Use following electronic databases/indexes to find articles on your topic dealing with any ethical issues.

• Academic OneFile
• Applied Science and Technology Retro
• CQ Researcher
• EBSCO via Access PA
  Use Business Source Premier and Professional Development Collection
• Ei Compendex/Engineering Village2/INSPEC
• Expanded Academic
• Google Scholar
• IEEE Xplore
• JSTOR
• LegalTrac
• Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe
• National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Policy and Legislation Database
• National Information Resource on Ethics and Human Genetics
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
• Project Muse
• Proquest Research Library
• Synthesis: Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science

Some useful journal titles

• BMC Medical Ethics
• New England Journal of Medicine
• Science and Engineering Ethics – an electronic journal

Some additinal resources

• Various Instructional Tutorials
• Eugenics and American Social History
• Buck V. Bell
• Skinner V. Oklahoma
• DNA Learning Center Blog
• Designer Humans
• Image Archive – American Eugenics Movement
• Indiana Eugenics
• NSPE Ethics
• Medical Ethics
• American Academy of Medical Ethics – Current Issues
• ToP 50 Medical Ethics Blogs
• Cases from the National Society of Professional Engineers
  Board of Ethical Review

Subject Overview – Infrastructure Systems

Use AccessScience to find  information on various subject areas related to Infrastructure Engineering.

• AccessScience
  Full access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology updated daily. AccessScience is the electronic version of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.  Use ‘Infrastrucure Systems’ or related keywords to locate articles on those topics.

See also:

Sustainable critical infrastructure systems [electronic resource] :

Click on the links below to see what books are available in the library in some key areas related to Infrastructure Engineering.

• Infrastructure Engineering
• ArcGIS
• Asset Management
• Life-Cycle Analysis
• Critical Infrastructure
• GIS and Management
• Wastewater
• Highway Engineering
• Green Engineering
• Intelligent Buildings
• Sewage System*
• Transportation and Infrastructure

To find additional books, search in our online catalog using Advanced Keyword Searching and using appropriate research keywords related to Infrastructure Engineering concepts.

Using Summon:

Try Summon to find books, articles and more. See: About Summon for more detailed information on how to use it more efficiently.

• 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.

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.

• AccessScience
• CivilENGINEERINGnetBASE
• ebrary
• ENGnetBASE
• ENVIROnetBASE
• Knovel: Engineering and Scientific Online References
• MATERIALSnetBASE
• MechanicalENGINEERINGnetBASE
• POLYMERSnetBASE

Electronic books

• Wetland And Water Resource Modeling And Assessment A Watershed Perspective Boca Raton : CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, c2008.
• GIS Applications For Water, Wastewater, And Stormwater Systems Shamsi, U. M. (Uzair M.) Boca Raton, FL : Taylor & Francis,
• The grid [electronic resource] : a journey through the heart of our electrified world
  Schewe, Phillip F.
  Washington, D.C. : J. Henry Press, c2007.

Engineering Databases

Use databases below to find scholarly journal articles on the topic of your research project.

• Annual Reviews
• ASCE Digital Library
• 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
• Google Scholar
• Home Depot Smart Home
• IEEE Xplore
• 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

Business Databases

Use databases below to find scholarly journal articles on Business related subject areas of your research project.

• Academic Universe(Lexis/Nexis)
• Business & Industry

• Business Source Premier
• Expanded Academic

• Factiva Global news and business information service, international business, company/industry research
• Faulkner’s Advisory for IT Studies
• IBISWorld Industry Reports
• Mintel Reports – Market Research

• Proquest
• Tablebase - Statistical Data on Companies, Industries, Countries and Markets

News and Magazine Articles

• Academic Universe(Lexis/Nexis)
• Expanded Academic
• Factiva
• Proquest

Selected Web Resources

• Restore and improve urban infrastructure
• Engineers Use GIS to Improve Transportation Infrastructure Throughout Louisiana
• Federal Highway Administration – Office of Infrastructure
• NOAA Economics – Engineering/Infrastructure
• The City of Peoria,  Arizona,  Infrastructure Design Guidelines

Organizing References

• ASCE Citation Style
• 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

Knovel provides electronic access to leading engineering reference handbooks, databases, and conference proceedings.

To access knovel from the Library’s web site, go to Electronic Databases and then click on Knovel:Engineering & Scientific Online Reference.

knovel
Dates vary

Click on ‘Data Search’.

Data Search retrieves numeric and other tabular data contained in Knovel’s interactive graphs, equations and tables. Click in the Field box to display the available search fields. When you begin typing, the list is filtered.

Watch:  Knovel’s Interactive Tools Video

This video teaches you how Knovel’s data analysis tools ensure you not only find the information hidden in complex graphs, equations and tables quickly, but also analyze and manipulate data as easily as sorting a spreadsheet.

Tables and charts found in Knovel’s online reference collection deliver the data that users can extract it for further analysis.

Knovel search widget allows you to access Knovel from almost anywhere on the web- email it to colleagues, embed it in your personal homepages (like iGoogle, MyYahoo or Live.com), post it to your blog, add it to dozens of other social platforms.

Knovel also provides RSS feeds of new content added, instructional tips and other announcements. Click

ebooks include:

Engineering Materials for Biomedical Applications
Sax’s Dangerous Properties of Industrial Materials
Guidelines for Engineering Design for Process Safety
Guidelines for Safe Warehousing of Chemicals
Standard Handbook of Biomedical Engineering and Design

See  New Titles for all recently added titles in Knovel.

See also: New Video tutorials from Knovel

Every year, thousands of students worldwide take the Knovel University Challenge — a contest that allows students to compete for prizes while learning how to use the research tools they’ll need to complete assignments and ultimately succeed in the workplace. The contest is also a fun way to start the school year. We plan to keep it interesting with iPads, cash prizes and lots of other cool stuff.

What are the details?
See: Knovel University Challenge

When Is the Contest: September 12 – December 1

Who Should Play: The contest is open to current engineering and science students. They can simply search Knovel to answer 3 technical questions across core disciplines

What Are the Prizes: Completing the challenge will allow students to enter to win great prizes, including an iPad 2 and $500 in cash!

To access Knovel, go to:http://www.library.drexel.edu/databases/bytitle/K Click on Knove

See also: Knovel – Engineering and Scientific online reference books