Guides @ UF: ENC 3246: Professional Communication for Engineers: Tools 4 U

Books and E-Books

The best way to find books and E-books is to use the Primo search tool. This tool searches across many of our resources, including the UF Libraries catalog. Click on the red buttons below to learn more about how to search in Primo.

Some e-book services for engineering:

Access Engineering

A collection of engineering books and textbooks from McGraw-Hill.

Knovel has handbooks, encyclopedias, reference books, and standards from the world's leading publishers and professional societies in engineering, biotechnology, life sciences, chemistry and materials. Knovel's productivity tools, (including interactive tables, graphs and live equations) allow users to work within Knovel to analyze the data they find.

ENGnetBASE

ENGnetBASE has handbooks in civil, mechanical, electrical, industrial, and mining engineering from CRC Press.

IEEE-Wiley eBooks

This collection focuses on electrical engineering and includes Bioengineering, Power & Energy, and Communication technologies as well as other growing areas of research.

SPIE Digital Library's eBooks

A collection of books on optics and photonics.

EBSCO eBook Collection

E-books from a variety of disciplines and publishers on the EBSCOhost platform.

Articles & Papers via Databases

Research, peer-reviewed, refereed, review, and conference articles and papers.

Want to know if an article is peer reviewed? Check Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory. Search by journal title, ISSN, etc. and look for the tiny referee shirt as an indicator.

Patents

A patent for an invention is the grant of a property right to the inventor.

I recommend The Lens because it is easy to use and searches the US Patent and Trademark office as well as patent offices from around the globe.

Utility

Utility patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, article of manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof.

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Design

Design patents may be granted to anyone who invents a new, original, and ornamental design for an article of manufacture.

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Plant

Plant patents may be granted to anyone who invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant.

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Standards & Codes

A standard is defined by the National Standards Policy Advisory Committee as:

"A prescribed set of rules, conditions, or requirements concerning definitions of terms; classification of components; specification of materials, performance, or operations; delineation of procedures; or measurement of quantity and quality in describing materials, products, systems, services, or practices."

Four (4) sets of standards are available to UF-affiliated patrons:

IEEE Standards

IEEE standards are available through IEEExplore along with other scholarly and technical literature such as peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, and technical reports.

ASTM Standards

Access to the ASTM database is available through the link above. Print versions of the 2012 Annual Book of ASTM Standards are in the Science Library (main floor) TA 401 .A653 as well as 2009 and 2006 sets (4th floor). Many older ASTM standards can be retrieved from storage.

2017 ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Section II - Materials

ANSI University Outreach Program for ISO and IEC Standards

ANSI makes available complimentary copies of ISO and IEC standards to individual professors for use in their classrooms. Instructors must request from training@ansi.org.

Florida Building Code and Standards

Access to Florida's building codes and standards.

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Technical Reports

Trade Publications

You may find app examples in these trade publications. You can also find relevant trade publications, by browsing to an industry on Industry Information Resources.

Aerospace America
Aerospace America is the flagship publication for the American Institute Of Aeronautics And Astronautics (AIAA).
Automotive Engineering
An industry magazine produced by SAE International
Civil Engineering Magazine
Established in 1930, Civil Engineering is the award-winning monthly flagship magazine of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Design News
Coverage at Design News is based on four key pillars, which are the backbone of just about every design project: Electronics & Test, Automation & Control, Materials & Assembly, and Design Hardware & Software. A few of the application areas popular with readers include consumer electronics, automotive, medical, industrial controls, and military/aerospace/defense.
Engineering & Technology (IET)
The scope of E&T’s coverage is very broad and is aimed at professionals working in all areas of engineering and technology, including the key industry sectors of the built environment, design and production, energy, information and communications and transport.
IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, & Science News
IEEE Spectrum is the flagship magazine and website of the IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization devoted to engineering and the applied sciences.
Make:
Make: is published bi-monthly in print and features dozens of DIY technology projects. Called the “bible” for makers, Make: and its companion website, Makezine.com, cover makers, their projects and technologies as well as the communities that grow up around them.

Finding Trade Journal Articles

Locating these types of articles can be tricky, but here are some engineering-related databases that can be helpful:

IEEE Xplore Digital Library
You have the ability to filter your search to magazine articles (which are often from trade publications).
Technology Collection
Search your topic and then select Trade Journal from the Source Type filter options.