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Looking for Background Information?
Start here! These resources are a good place to get definitions of terms and concepts as well as general background information.
ASM Handbooks
Provides a full-text resource for anyone who works with metals and materials. Includes the complete content of 21 ASM Handbook volumes plus 2 ASM Desk Editions.
CRCnetBASE
Includes hundreds of online books related to manufacturing and industrial engineering.
Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering available in the reference section, TJ9 .N28 1996
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Finding Research Articles
Databases
Applied Science and Technology Abstracts – a good place to find citations and abstracts of journal articles in the applied sciences
Engineering Village - good source for peer-reviewed citations articles in all fields of engineering
SPIN (Scitation) – full-text peer-reviewed journals in the science and engineering fields.
Journal Titles
Mechanical Engineering; The Magazine of ASME Available in print at the Klamath Falls Library from 1961 to Present, and at the Portland East campus Library from 2001 to present some recent content also available online at http://memagazine.asme.org/
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Finding Books
Books and other items are listed in the
Library Catalog. Use the
Library Catalog to find materials in the Oregon Tech Libraries' collections and through the Summit. Summit provides access to materials from 36 academic libraries in Oregon and Washington for Oregon Tech students, faculty and staff. See the titles and suggested Library of Congress call
number ranges below for pointers to popular items.
KMODDL E-book Collection - 50 full text books on the history and theory of machines
digitized by Cornell University Library Also, try these LC call number ranges to find books on the shelf.
TC160-181 Technical Hydraulics
TJ 1- 1570 Mechanical Engineering
TJ170-179 Mechanics applied to Machinery, Dynamics
TJ210.2 – 211.47 Mechanical Devices and Figures, Robots
TJ227-254.7 Machine design, drawing and construction
TL500-777 Aeronautics
TL787-4050 Astronautics
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Selected Websites
Google Scholar - a general search of scholarly information on Google
Knovel Critical Tables,- Interactive tables including 503 Heat Capacity and Thermal Conductivity, 3,133 Reaction Thermodynamics and Equilibrium Constants, 854 Density and Compressibility, 13,332 Vaporization and Vapor Pressure, 185 Thermal Expansion, 377 Transport and Flow, and 1902 Electrical Properties data.
MEADinfo – Mechanical Engineering and Design Information.
Thermodynamics Research Laboratory- Nano, Quantum and Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics Data and Property calculations websites
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office- Patent Search
IHS Standards Store - Search for standards. Note the citation information and request the full standard through ILL.
Professional Societies and Associations
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