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Background Information

Mechanical Engineering

The Cambridge Aerospace Dictionary
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TL509 .G88 2004

CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TA403.4 .C74 2001

Comprehensive Structural Integrity
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TA645 .C63 2003

Dictionary of Engineering Materials
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TA402 .K43 2004

Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TJ9 .N28 1985

Handbook of Hydraulic Fluid Technology
Location: netLibrary

MacGraw Hill Dictionary of Mechanical and Design Engineering
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TJ9 .M395 1984

Mechanical Engineer's Handbook
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TJ151 .M395 2001

MEMS Handbook
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TJ151 .M46 2002

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Books

Books and Materials at the UTSA Library

UCAT, UTSA Library Online Catalog
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Electronic Books

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

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Databases & Article Searching

ASME Online Journals (UTSA subscription)
Provides full text access to journals published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for which the library subscribes in print. Full-text coverage begins in 2000. To locate current and back issues in print, search UCAT. Updated regularly.

CSA Engineering Research Database (UTSA subscription)
(via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) 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

General Science Abstracts Full Text (UTSA subscription)
Selectively indexes and abstracts articles from more than 140 English-language periodicals including popular science magazines as well as professional journals. Indexing coverage begins with May 1984, abstracting begins with March 1993, and full text coverage from more than 35 of the periodicals begins with January 1995. Full Text/Full Image

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

SIAM Journals Online (UTSA subscription)
Full image access to journals published by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. 1994 to the present. 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.

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Associations

AASHTO : Transportation Center of Excellence
Free Website: http://www.transportation.org/
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Official, this non-profit organization represents highway and transportation departments in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Five modes are represented: air, highways, public transportation, rail and water. Fosters the development, operation and maintenance of an integrated national transportation system.

ASME : American Society of Mechanical Engineers (International)
Free Website: http://www.asme.org
Purpose is to promote the art, science and practice of mechanical engineering. Links to products, member information, education opportunities, career center, conferences, etc.

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Technical Reports

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.

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Conference Proceedings

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

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Standards

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
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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

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.

Annual Book of ASTM Standards

• Section 01.04, Steel
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TA401 .A653 2006
• Section 4, Construction
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TA401 .A65304 2006
• Section 11, Water and environmental technology
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TA401 .A65311 2006

SAE Handbook
Location: JPL Reference Stacks TL151 .S62 2005

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Further Research

CFD Online
Free Website: http://www.cfd-online.com/
Links to sites about computational fluid dynamics. Three topics - online resources, jobs database, and discussion forum. Extensive links to academic institutions. Upper division and professionals.

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

The Robotics Alliance Project
Free Website: http://robotics.nasa.gov/
Robot news, online courses, competitions, classroom activities, links, and information about jobs that focus on robots. From the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

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