Subject Guide
Welcome
This guide should serve as a starting point for the research you do for your Senior Engineering Design Course. Use the navigation menu on the side of the guide to help you learn how to locate articles, books, and patents.
Proper Literature Search
How to conduct a proper literature search:
- Search multiples resources
- Adjust your keywords as you go to find more relevant results
- Use the references from an article you found useful to locate similar articles
Online Resources
- IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new windowIEEE Xplore is an online delivery system providing full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics.
- Engineering Village This link opens in a new windowCompendex is the most comprehensive bibliographic database of scientific and technical engineering research available, covering all engineering disciplines. It includes citations and abstracts from engineering journals and conference proceedings. You can also search the Engineering Index Backfile (1884-1969) and the Inspec Archive (1898-1968).
- ScienceDirect - All Subscribed Content This link opens in a new windowElsevier ScienceDirect is a leading scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 journals and almost 30,000 books.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowGoogle Scholar searches academic publishers, professional societies and pre-print archives.
- ASTM International Digital Library This link opens in a new windowASTM Digital Library provides access to full text journals, special technical publications, manuals, data series, and terminology that covers a broad range of engineering disciplines.
- ACM Digital Library This link opens in a new windowThe ACM Digital Library is the full-text repository of papers from publications that have been published, co-published, or co-marketed by the Association for Computing Machinery.
- SPIE Digital Library This link opens in a new windowThe SPIE Digital Library is the most extensive resource available on optics and photonics, providing unprecedented access to more than 200,000 technical papers from SPIE Journals and Conference Proceedings from 1990 to the present. More than 17,000 new technical papers are added annually.
- Knovel This link opens in a new windowEngineering information and data analytics.
Knovel provides numerical and tabular data from leading engineering and science resources, including handbooks and encyclopedias. Some tables are interactively searchable.
- ABI/INFORM Complete This link opens in a new windowSearch a complete database comprising full-text business periodicals and news sources from ABI/INFORM Global, Dateline, and Trade & Industry
- Business Source Complete This link opens in a new windowBusiness Source Complete is a full text business database, covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business.
Access to Business Source Complete is provided via INSPIRE - a service of the Indiana State Library.
- Consumer Technology AssociationConsumer Technology Association (CTA) is a standards and trade organization for the consumer electronics industry in the US. CTA sponsors the CES each year, providing previews of products and new product announcements.
- Engineering Network (EngNet)A directory, search engine, and buyers guide focused on engineering technology. It helps engineers, technicians, and tradesmen to find information and communicate with suppliers.
- USPTO Patent Database/US Patent Full-text and Image Database This link opens in a new windowThe database includes information about all US patents (including utility, design, reissue, plant patents and SIR documents) from the first patent issued in 1790 to the most recent issue week. Patents from January 1976 to the present offer the full searchable text, including all bibliographic data, such as the inventor's name, the patent's title, and the assignee's name; the abstract; the full description of the invention; and the claims.
- Google PatentsLocate US and international patents searching with keywords. The patents can be viewed in your browser and downloaded. While the collection is comprehensive, this may not include all published patents.
Career Information
Occupational Outlook Handbook includes information about the nature of work, working conditions, training and education, earnings, and job outlook for hundreds of different types of jobs and occupations.