This guide is for students in Penn State Harrisburg's MET 332 course. It includes databases, research tips, and other resources for various assignments.
Compendex is the most comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database in the world with over 9 million records referencing 5,000 engineering journals and conference materials dating from 1884.
Full text access to the American Society of Mechanical Engineer’s online journals
ASME Digital Collection (mechanical engineering) contains full-text access to the American Society of Mechanical Engineer’s online journals since 1960 and conference papers since 2002.
video and text material focusing on engineering failures and successes
Engineering Case Studies Online will dramatically improve teaching and research by providing a single, comprehensive source for a wide range of video and text material focusing on engineering failures and successes. At completion, the collection will contain 250 hours and 50,000 pages of quality documentaries, accident reports, experiments, visualizations, case studies, lectures and interviews from leading engineering institutions around the world.
Do we have that eJournal?
Browsing both current and archived issues of scholarly journals can be helpful too. One relevant source: