Engineering, Civil

Civil Engineering

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ENGnetBASE Provides full-text access to hundreds of leading engineering handbooks in PDF format published by CRC Press. Also searchable from Engineering Village 2. Updated monthly. Note: In order to view entire e-books, Adobe Acrobat must be set to open PDF files within your browser.

netLibrary Offers a comprehensive collection of electronic books (e-books) including tens of thousands of scholarly, reference, and professional e-books on all subjects from leading university, academic, and professional publishers. Browse e-books for quick research and reference or check them out and read them at your leisure. Since e-books are online, you don't have to worry about returning them. E-books are automatically "returned" at the end of your check-out period. Updated daily. Tipsheet Available

Referex Engineering (via Engineering Village 2) Provides PDF full-text access to over 300 leading engineering monographs in three collections: Chemical, Petrochemical, & Process Engineering; Mechanical & Materials Engineering; and Electronics & Electrical Engineering. Updated frequently. Title list

Applied Science and Technology Full Text (UTSA subscription)
Offers indexing and abstracting of articles from selected journals in engineering, aeronautics, transportation, physics, computers, and other science and technology topics. Features full-text articles from more than 100 publications in these disciplines. Includes trade and industrial publications, journals issued by professional and technical societies, and specialized subject periodicals, as well as special issues such as buyers' guides, directories, and conference proceedings. Indexing coverage from 1993 to current; full text coverage from 1997 to current. Updated regularly.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (UTSA subscription)
Indexes more than 2,000 US and foreign journals in architecture, historic preservation, archaeology, city planning, and interior design. Coverage includes articles back to the 1930s, with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s. Updated daily.

CSA Engineering Research Database (UTSA subscription)
covers the international serial and non-serial literature pertaining to civil, earthquake, environmental, mechanical, and transportation engineering including their complementary fields of forensic engineering, management and marketing of engineering services, engineering education, theoretical mechanics and dynamics, and mathematics/computation. Content includes basic and applied research, design, construction, technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, energy production and developments in new technologies. Over 3,000 primary journals plus trade literature, patents, newspapers, press releases, conference proceedings, books and reports. These subfiles can be searched individually: ANTE: Abstracts in New Technologies and Engineering, Civil Engineering Abstracts, Environmental Engineering Abstracts, Earthquake Engineering Abstracts, Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts

Engineering Village 2 (UTSA subscription)
Compendex® is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world referencing 5,000 engineering journals and conference materials dating from 1970. The database is updated weekly. Citations Only

Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (UTSA subscription)
(via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) A multidisciplinary database, including 12 subfiles, focusing on environment, ecology, energy, water resources, health and safety, pollution, hazardous waste, risk, bacteriology, and toxicology. Includes citations and abstracts, from 1981 to the present, from more than 4,000 scientific journals as well as books, conference proceedings, reports, and government documents.

Environmental Universe (UTSA subscription)
(via LexisNexis) Features access to a full complement of resources on environmental issues, including energy, air and water pollution, sustainable development and population, waste management, land use, biodiversity, global warming, and many others. Included in the database is access to Environment Abstracts, which indexes some 6,000 publications, many of which can be found in the Envirofiche microfiche collection (see UCAT, the UTSA Library online catalog, for more information on Envirofiche). Also included in this database are full-text news, journals, and reference materials on environmental topics; federal and state codes and regulations; federal and state case law and agency actions; and waste site data and hazardous materials information. Updated regularly.

ScienceDirect (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text/full image access to approximately 700 journals published by Elsevier Science. Indexes and abstracts articles from more than 1,100 journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Full Image

Wiley InterScience (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text access to approximately 200 of the more than 400 journals published by Wiley, plus tables of contents and abstracts. Updated constantly. Full Image

In addition, explore other databases, both citation and full-text, listed under "Databases by Subject > Engineering and Technology" on the UTSA Library Homepage.

ASCE : American Society of Civil Engineers
Free Website: http://www.asce.org/
Reliable up-to-date information particularly useful to undergraduates. Notable is the access to annotated citations of all ASCE publications from 1975 to present (journals, books, standards, conference proceedings and more. Standard options for searching and good searching tips.

DTIC's Public STINET
Free Website: http://stinet.dtic.mil/
The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)'s Scientific and Technical Information Network (STINET) Service helps the DoD community access pertinent scientific and technical information to meet mission needs effectively. Includes DTIC's technical reports collection and some full text resources.

NTIS: National Technical Information Service
Free Website: http://www.ntis.gov/
NTIS is the largest, central resource for government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today. Approximately 2.5 million products are available in a variety of formats including online, electronic, multimedia, CD-ROM , paper, and microfiche. Thousands of new products are added each week. Additionally, many records now include free links to the full-text publication on an agency's web site, or can be downloaded directly from the NTIS archival copy for a nominal charge. Be sure to search UCAT to see if UTSA Library owns any material referenced here.

NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server
Free Website: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/
NASA's Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program's mission is to collect, archive, and disseminate NASA aerospace information. Examples of information found here include research reports, journal articles, conference and meeting papers, technical videos, mission-related operational documents, and preliminary data. Check UCAT to see if UTSA Library owns any material referenced here.

U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Free Website: http://www.osti.gov/
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) provides access to a wealth of energy, science, and technology research and development information from the Manhattan Project to the present. Includes three areas of information: Information Bridge, which has full text DOE research reports (primarily from 1995 to today); Energy Citations, with bibliographic citations of DOE research from 1948 to today; and E-print Network, which is a collection of documents that researchers circulate electronically in advance or in lieu of publication. Check UCAT to see if UTSA Library owns any materials referenced here.

Science.gov: FirstGov for Science
Free Website: http://www.science.gov/
Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.

Transportation Research Board of the National Academies: Publication Series: NCHRP Web-Only Documents
Free Website: http://trb.org/news/blurb_browse.asp?id=4
The National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has begun publishing "Web-Only documents" to either augment or replace traditional hard-copy publication.

IEEE Xplore (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text/full image access to journal articles, conference papers, and technical standards from 1988 to the present published by IEEE and the IEE. Emphasis is on electrical engineering, computer science, and information systems. Full Text/Full Image

Search for conference proceedings in print in UCAT. Example search by expert keyword: "civil engineering" and conference or by LC Subject Heading: civil engineering congresses.

IHS Standards (UTSA subscription)
Provides access to a number of engineering and architecture related standards, including the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (sections II and X) and the AEC Referenced Standards collection. Updated regularly. Full Text/Full Image
Tipsheet Available

IEEE Xplore (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text/full image access to journal articles, conference papers, and technical standards from 1988 to the present published by IEEE and the IEE. Emphasis is on electrical engineering, computer science, and information systems. Full Text/Full Image

Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Section 4, Construction
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TA401 .A65304 2003

Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Section 11, Water and environmental technology
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TA401 .A65311 2003

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
Free Website: http://www.iso.org/
ISO is a non-governmental network of the national standards institutes of 148 countries. You can view a list of standards in the ISO Catalogue. There is also a helpful guide to abbreviations in the Your Guide to ISO Online.

EEVL
Free Website: http://www.eevl.ac.uk/
EEVL is a British guide to Internet resources in Engineering, Mathematics and Computing.

iCivil Engineer: The Internet for Civil Engineers
Free Website: http://www.icivilengineer.com
A knowledge portal specially designed for civil engineering professionals and students. It has two goals in mind: 1) collect and catalog valuable civil engineering relevant Internet resources so that people can find information fast; 2) explore how to take advantage of Internet technology to serve the civil engineering community.

Structurae: International Database and Gallery of Structures
Free Website: http://www.structurae.net/
This site offers you information on works of structural engineering, architecture or construction through time, history and from around the world. Our documentation begins at the time of the pyramids in Egypt and Roman construction, continues to Romanesque and Gothic churches and through to the Industrial Revolution all the way to today and beyond. Structurae deals mostly with bridges, tunnels, dams, skyscrapers, stadiums, towers, etc. Explore this site to discover the marvelous works of structural engineering.

Best test preparation & review course FE/EIT fundamentals of engineering/engineering-in-training : PM exam in general engineering
Location: JPL Folio Stacks TA159 .B467 2002

Best test preparation and review course for the FE/EIT fundamentals of engineering : AM exam
Location: JPL Folio Stacks TA159 .B468 2004

Efficient review of fundamental engineering exam [CD-ROM]
Location: JPL Multimedia Center Reserve, CD-ROM TA159 .X94 2000

Engineer-in-training license review
Location: JPL Permanent Reserve TA159 .E534 1998

Engineering fundamentals for professional engineers’ examinations
Location: JPL Stacks TA159 .P6 1987

FE/EIT civil, mechanical & electrical discipline reviews : reviewing discipline tests in civil, mechanical & electrical
Locations: JPL Folio Stacks, JPL Reserve TA159 .F445 2000

FE/EIT industrial & chemical discipline reviews
Locations: JPL Folio Stacks, JPL Permanent Reserve TA159 .F44 2000

FE/EIT quick prep : a rapid review for the A.M. & general P.M. tests
Locations: JPL Folio Stacks TA159 .F2 2000

FE review manual : rapid preparation for the general fundamentals of engineering exam
Locations: JPL Permanent Reserve TA159 .L5733 2004

Fundamentals of engineering : FE exam preparation
Location: JPL Reserve TA159 .F85 2004

Fundamentals of engineering review : for the morning & general afternoon tests
Location: JPL Folio Stacks TA159 .F86 2000

Fundamentals of engineering video review [videorecording]
Location: JPL Multimedia Center, DVD-ROM TA151 .F955 1999
Contents (each DVD-ROM can be checked out individually):

• [Disc 1] Mathematics (pt. 1) ( 85 min.)
• [disc 2] Mathematics (pt. 2) (112 min.)
• [disc 3] Thermodynamics (115 min.)
• [disc 4] Chemistry/Heat transfer (103 min.)
• [disc 5] Fluids (100 min.)
• [disc 6] Mechanics of materials (97 min.)
• [disc 7] Statics (108 min.)
• [disc 8] Dynamics (93 min.)
• [disc 9] Power cycles/Materials science (110 min.)
• [disc 10] DC & AC circuits/Electronics (110 min.)
• [disc 11] Economics (73 min.)
• [disc 12] Computers/Ethics (87 min.)