Books

Click on the links below to see what books are available in the library in some key areas related to Cardiovascular Engineering, Tissue Engineering and Biomedical Mechanics

Artificial Organs
Cardiac and assist devices
Coronary circulation
Artificial heart
Biomechanics
Tissue Engineering
Bone and cartilage
Prosthetics
Biomaterials
Drug Delivery

To find additional books on ‘Biomedical Engineering’, search in our online catalog using Advanced 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
• 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

Important Electronic Journal

• Tissue Engineering

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?

Searching for Associations

• Encyclopedia of Associations
• The Scholarly Societies Project - Search for Biomaterials

News and Business Information

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

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

Images for Presentations

• Usage and Copyright Guidelines for using images
• Medical Images

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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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

Plagiarism

• Plagiarism Guide
• Plagiarism Powerpoint

Books

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

• Biomaterials and Properties
• Cellular and Tissue Engineering
• Genes and Genomes
• Stem Cells
• Artificial Organs
• Biomechanics
• Cells and Tissue and Signal
• Cell and Signal* and Pathways
• NIH
• Tissue Engineering – Electronic Books
• Tissue Engineering – Both Print and Electronic Books
• Prosthetics
• Biomaterials
• Drug Delivery

To find additional books on ‘Biomedical Engineering’, search in our online catalog using Advanced 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
• 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

Important Electronic Journal

• Tissue Engineering

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?

Searching for Associations

• Encyclopedia of Associations
• The Scholarly Societies Project - Search for Biomaterials

News and Business Information

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

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

Images for Presentations

• Usage and Copyright Guidelines for using images
• Medical Images

Books

To find books on a particular topic, search in our online catalog using ‘Advanced Keyword Searching ‘feature and using appropriate keyword representing that topic.

Examples:

Business Plans
Entrepreneurship
Ventures and Technology
Emerging Technologies

Key Engineering Electronic Databases

Ei Compendex and INSPEC
Google Scholar
IEEE Xplore
HUBMED
ScienceDirect
Web of Knowledge

Key Business and Entrepreneurship Databases

Use the following databases to find information on breaking news in biomedical technologies in magazines and newspapers

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

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