Subject Guide for Mechanical Engineering

Online Databases

ASME International
Full-text journals of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers from 2000 to the present.

Ei Engineering Index
Citations and abstracts only (no full text) from 5000 journals and conference proceedings in all engineering fields dating back to 1969. Most comprehensive overall engineering database. 

ENGnetBASE
Full text of 700+ CRC Press and other publishers’ engineering handbooks.

SAE Digital Library (Library SAE holdings)
Full-text ground vehicle technical papers from 1998-current from the Society of Automotive Engineers + comprehensive indexing of all SAE publications back to 1906.  (Standards are available in the Library.)

Science Direct
Indexing for over 2000 engineering, science and technical journals with full text back to 1995 for over 600 of them.

Full Text Electronic Journal Holdings

Engineering & Applied Sciences

Print Resources

Library Catalog

Library of Congress Call Numbers for Mechanical Engineering = TA, TJ, TL

Encyclopedia of Vibration – Reference TA 355 .E497 2002
ASM Handbook (Metals Handbook) – Reference TA 459 .A5 1990-2006
Machinery’s Handbook – Reference Desk TJ 151 .M3 2004
Marks’ Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers – Reference TJ 151 .M37 2007
Mechanical Engineers’ Handbook – Reference TJ 151 .M395 2006
Standard Handbook of Machine Design – Reference TJ 230 .S8235 2004
McGraw-Hill Machining and Metalworking Handbook – Reference TJ 1185 .W35 2006

Societies

American Association of Engineering Societies
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
National Society of Professional Engineers
Scholarly Societies Project: Mechanical Engineering
Society of Automotive Engineers
Society of Women Engineers

Internet Resources

Academic Info Engineering Gateway - Directory of Online Engineering Resources
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
BUBL LINK : Engineering and allied operations
Computational Fluid Dynamics
Internet Resources for Mechanical Engineering (University of Delaware)
Intute Engineering Gateway
Martindale's Engineering Center
Materials Research Society
NASA Technical Reports Server

Librarian contact information

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810-762-7818
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