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		General Reference Sources for Engineers Penn State Resources If you are looking for a 'whole' item (a book, a journal title, a conference) use - The CAT How to Find a Book... If you are looking for an article, report or conference paper use - Databases, Engineering Compendex NTIS Databases, General Ingenta ProQuest Direct How to Find Articles Web Sites with General Reference Materials Internet Public Library Includes general reference resources: almanacs, FAQ lists, Encyclopedia Smithsonian, Directories and science and technology resources: conversion factors, subject based guides,educational sites, etc. Carnegie Mellon Reference Page Includes acronyms, toll free numbers, area codes, links to government services, etc. Network Acronym and Abbreviation Server Urban Legends and Folklore - spam/hoax news Great Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century eFunda Engineering Fundamentals Sightseer's Guide to Engineering Vision Engineer - site 'aims at helping students who want to discover more about the profession.' Engineering Research Center Fact Sheets from NSF BEST Search Engines From UC Berkeley Industrial Catalogs A listing of industrial catalogs on the Web Engineering Reference Sources Citation Guides Conference Information General Engineering Reference Sites Glossaries/Dictionaries Government Web Sites Instructional Materials Numerical Data Patents Society Information Standards Technical Reports Electronic Citation Guides links to Web sites that discuss citation guidelines and styles in general, and citing Web resources in particular. Writing Resources/Style Manuals from Penn State University Libraries Engineering Library How to Guide - Citations Ethics in Engineering IEEE Ethics site National Institute for Engineering Ethics Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science at Case Western Reserve University Glossaries/Dictionaries Webopedia - computer and Internet dictionary NASA Thesaurus Numerical Data NIST Reference on Constants, Units and Uncertainity Physical Reference Data - From NIST Physics Laboratory Physical Quantities, Constants, Units and Conversion of Units From the Universitat Freie in Berlin (in English) ThermoDex From the University of Texas, an index to over 120 handbooks of thermodynamics and thermophysical data. Check the CAT to see of PSU owns the handbook. General Engineering Reference Materials IEEE Virtual Museum Scientists and Engineers Statistics Data System Labor force information, demographics Community of Science Expertise Database Registry of experts in different fields of engineering Funded Research Projects Links to major funding resources National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics Conference Information Many society homepages will list dates, registration forms and other important information about upcoming conferences and list publications, speakers and some text of past conferences. Another resource is to go to the WWW Virtual Library page for you engineering discipline Engineering Web Sites Government Web Sites National Laboratories Argonne Brookhaven Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos Oak Ridge Princeton Plasma Physics Sandia Dept of Defense Dept of Energy Energy Information Administration statistics, energy production, reserves, demand, etc. Environmental Protection Agency NASA National Institute of Standards and Technology Occupational Health and Safety Administration Dept. of Transportation Instructional Materials University of Texas World Lecture Hall World Wide Web Ethics Center for Engineering and Scientists International Engineering Consortium On-line Education Tutorials Thermodynamics Educational Sites Patents The University Libraries is a patent depository. The print collection is located in the PAMS Library in Davey Lab. The University Libraries at Penn State maintains a Web site on patent information which should be checked for evaluated patent information. There is also a very useful tutorial. Additional useful links include: United States Patents and Trademark Office includes full text with images from 1976- Google Patents Easy to search access to full text US patents esp - European Patents United Kingdom Patent Office Society Information Most societies have Web sites. An excellent general source of society Websites is the Society Site at the University of Waterloo Some of the major societies in engineering are listed below. American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Acoustical Society of America (ASA) American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) American Nuclear Society (ANS) American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) American Society for Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning (ASHRAE) American Society for Quality Control (ASQC) American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) SPIE International Society for Optical Engineering Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Standards Standards from a variety of sources are located on the Web. Some sites are full text, others have indexes and ordering information. Several sites include excellent lists of standards Web sites. These include: DOD Standards Index of Standards ANSI - American National Standards Institute Many societies and government agencies have web sites which lists catalogs of standards and ordering information. In addition, there are a number of commercial companies that have web pages to make location and ordering of standards easier. Full text access to standards from the American Society for Testing and Materials Full text access to standards from the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Document Center Commercial site to order standards and specifications Information Handling Services Commercial site for ordering standards and specifications ISO - International Organization for Standardization MUTCD Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices from the US Federal Highway Administration NISO - National Information Standards Organization NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology NSSN: Global Standards Network Index to standards from NIST/ANSI Underwriters Laboratories World Standards Services Network For more information see Engineering Library How to Guide - Standards. Technical Reports There are a number of sites available to locate technical reports. NTIS (National Technical Information Service) database is available to registered Penn State patrons via the E-Resources List. In addition, a number of sites are available that provide indexes to reports, or the full text report. More reports are listed on the Electronic Reference Page. Full text sites Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute CoRR - Computing Research Repository DOE Information Bridge from the Department of Energy GrayLIT Network Reports from several US agencies NASA Technical Report Server Over a dozen databases can be searched simultaneously Networked Computer Science Technical Report Library (NCSTRL) PATH - Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways Texas A&M Computer Aided Manufacturing Laboratory Virtual Technical Reports Center from the Unversity of Maryland Indexes DTIC Technical Report Database For more information see Engineering Library How to Guide - Technical Reports