Compiled by Lori Calcaterra and Chet Bunnell
Maintained by John Montre, Engineering Liaison Librarian
Last updated: December 4, 2007

This selective guide identifies resources for Mechanical Engineering found in the Reference Department of the Pius XII Memorial Library and on the Web.  This guide is not comprehensive; rather it should be supplemented with other guides for Pius Library such as Aerospace Engineering & Technology, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, General Engineering, and Aviation.  Call numbers pertain to locations within Pius XII Memorial Library.
 

The Saint Louis University Libraries Catalog is available on computers throughout the library, or with unrestricted access via the Internet. Access the catalog through Pius Library's home page. Searching can be expanded to include the MOBIUS holdings, the consortium which includes the Washington University Libraries and most of the other academic libraries in Missouri.

Books, periodicals and other materials in Pius XII Memorial Library are arranged by Library of Congress classification (call) numbers.  The broad classification for mechanical engineering is:

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PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Society for Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)

ASME International

Institution of Mechanical Engineers (ImechE)

International Society of Biomechanics

Resources of Scholarly Societies-Mechanical Engineering
Lists professional associations worldwide which are related to mechanical engineering.

Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

Society for Experimental Mechanics, Inc.

Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)

Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE)

United States Association for Computational Mechanics

TRADE ASSOCIATIONS

Air-Conditioning & Refrigeration Institute

The American Solar Energy Society (ASES)

American Wind Energy Association (AWEA)

National Tooling and Machining Association (NTMA)

Robotic Industries Association (RIA)

Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA)

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Great Jobs for Engineering Majors
     Ref. TA 157 .G327 2002
To view the electronic version of this book, go to netLibrary.com and search for the title.

Practice Problems for the Mechanical Engineering PE Exam
     TJ 159 .L53 10th ed. 2000

Peterson's Guide to Graduate Programs in Engineering and Applied Sciences
     Ref. L901 .P446 39th ed. 2005

Peterson's Job Opportunities for Engineering and Computer Science Majors
     Ref. TA 157 .P445

ASME International
A valuable site for education and career links for mechanical engineers.

Engineering Central
Includes job ads and a resume service for engineers.

Graduate Professional Study-Mechanical Engineering
Provides a listing of schools with graduate programs in Mechanical Engineering.  A companion Web site to the paper directory (see above, Ref. L901 .P446 34th ed. 2000).

MechEngineer.com
Includes job postings for mechanical engineering positions.

www.MechanicalEngineer.com
Provides listings of jobs for mechanical engineers.

See also General Engineering Resource Guide section on Career and Education Information.

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Access to the following resources is available to anyone in Pius Library.  "In-library access" means that access is available in the Reference Department.  Those resources identified as being available via "remote access" are on the Web.  Note:  Remote access is restricted to current SLU students, faculty, and staff.

Academic Search Premier. 1975- .  EBSCOhost.  In-library and remote access.
     Updated daily.  This multidisciplinary database provides indexing and abstracting for 8,040 journals (6,679 are peer-reviewed) with over 4,060 in full text. Of the peer-reviwed journals 3,529 are full text. Covers subjects found in college and university curriculums such as biological and medical sciences, chemistry, education, engineering, humanities, physics, psychology, religion & theology, sociology, and women's studies.

Applied Science & Technology Index/Abstracts.  October 1983- .  In-library and remote access.  Also available in paper format.  
     Updated weekly.  Includes full text of every article from over 100 publications back to 1997, in addition to abstracts for articles back to 1993 and indexing for 480 publications back to 1983.

ArticleFirst. 1990- .  FirstSearch.  In-library and remote access.
     Updated daily.  Indexes articles from approximately 12,500 journals and magazines covering the subjects of science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.  Most articles are available by mail or fax for a fee using a credit card; however, Pius Library may own the journal or you may request the article through Interlibrary Loan.

Compendex. 1980- .  Engineering Village 2.  In-library and remote access. 
     Updated weekly.  The premier interdisciplinary engineering database in the world, this database provides abstracts and full bibliographic citations from worldwide engineering and technical literature that encompasses all engineering disciplines, as well as related fields in science, and management.  The entries are drawn from over 2,600 published journals, conference proceedings and individual conference papers, technical reports, monographs, and other materials.  The print counterpart is Engineering Index.

DOE (Department of Energy) Information Bridge.  1996- .  Free Web access.
Covering fields such as energy technologies, engineering, renewable energy, physics, chemistry and other fields, this site provides full-text to full-text DOE reports.

Dissertation Abstracts.  1861- .  Ovid.  In-library and remote access. 
     Updated monthly.  Indexes dissertations and masters theses produced in accredited North American colleges and universities from 1861 forward and from international universities since 1988.  Abstracts are present for some dissertations beginning in 1973 and masters theses from 1988.

Journal of Mechanical Design
Bibliography of articles found in the journal.  For full-text, see Pius subscription (1995- ) at TA 174 .I692.

NTIS Database. 1990- . 
Produced by the National Technical Information Service, this database indexes scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related research reports and media products sponsored by the U.S. government and international sources but carried out by organizations such as research centers, universities, and organization.

PapersFirst.  1993- .  FirstSearch.  In-library and remote access.
     Updated 24 times per year.  Indexes papers from every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, or meeting received at The British Library.

ProceedingsFirst.  1993- .  FirstSearch.  In-library and remote access.
     Updated 24 times per year.  Includes references to every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, or meeting received at The British Library.

Recent Advances in Manufacturing (RAM)
RAM is a bibliographic database for manufacturing.  It indexes more than five hundred periodicals, some received at Pius.

SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Publications & Standards Database.  In-library access. 
     Updated annually.  Provides comprehensive coverage of all of the SAE's technical publications, including standards, specifications, articles, books, and all technical papers since 1906.  (See also Cumulative Index of SAE Technical Papers, 1906-1964 at Ref. Z 5170 .S618x.

Web of Science^®.  1995- .  ISI.  In-library and remote access.
     Updated weekly.  Includes thousands of research journals from hundreds of disciplines.  Do a Cited Reference search by Cited Author, Cited Journal Title, or Cited Year or do a General Search by Author, Journal Title, or Address such as institution name, city, country, or even zip code.  The Web of Science consists of Science Citation Index Expanded®, Social Sciences Citation Index®, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index®; © Copyright Institute for Scientific Information 2000.

WorldCat.  FirstSearch.  In-library and remote access.  Updated daily.  This database includes all types of library materials cataloged by libraries that contribute their records to OCLC, the U.S. national database.  Use to search for books, recordings, etc.  This index will not locate journal articles.

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MachineDesign.com
This site describes various technologies of interest to the mechanical engineer.

Mechanical Design Engineering Resources on the World Wide Web
Links to sites of interest to ME designers.

Mechanical Engineering Electronic Design Library
From the University of Massachusetts, the target audience for this site is mechanical engineering design students.

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Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering (4th ed.) 
     Ref. TJ 9 .N28 1996

Illustrated Engineering Dictionary Bildwortrbuch Maschinenbau und Elektrotechnik (Englisch/Deutsch-Deutsch/Englisch)
     Ref. TA 9 .F53 1999

McGraw-Hill Illustrated Encyclopedia of Robotics & Artificial Intelligence
     Ref. TJ 210.4 .G53 1994

Thomas Register of American Manufacturers and Thomas Register

See also: General Engineering Guide

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Approximately twenty-four mechanical engineering periodicals are available in full text in Applied Science and Technology Index/Abstracts FT database (as of 12/00).  Check availability of a title using the Pius E-journal Portal.

DOE (Department of Energy) Information Bridge
Free access to full-text Department of Energy research and development reports on many topics.

Design News
Selected articles from the latest issue can be found here.

Machine Design

The Manufacturing Report
Selected articles are online.

Mechanical Engineering Magazine Online 
Selected articles only.

The On-Line Books Page
University of Pennsylvania listing of digital books in mechanical engineering (call numbers begin with TJ).

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ASME Engineer's Data Book
     Ref. TJ 151 .C73 2001

CRC Handbook of Mechanical Engineering
     Ref. TJ 151 .C73 1997

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Gears and Gearing
     Ref. TJ 184 .S76 1995

Engineers' Data Book
     Ref. TJ 151 .M38 2000

Machine Devices and Components Illustrated Sourcebook
     Ref. TJ 243 .I45 2005

Machine Design Data Handbook
     Ref. TJ 230 .L718 1994

Machinery's Handbook (26th ed.)
     Ref. TJ 151 .M

Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers (10th ed.)
     Ref. TJ 151 .S82 1996

Mechanical Design Handbook
     Ref. TJ 230 .M433 1998

Mechanical Engineers' Handbook. Kutz. (2d ed.)
     Ref. TJ 151 .M395 1998

Mechanisms & Mechanical Devices Sourcebook (3d ed.)
     Ref. TJ 181 .C399 2001

Pump Handbook (3d ed.)
     Ref. TJ 900 .P79 2001

Society of Automotive Engineers. S.A.E. Handbook. (3 vol.)
     Ref. TL 151 .S6

Standard Handbook of Machine Design (3d ed.)
     Ref. TJ 230 .S8235 2004

ThermoDex:  An Index of Selected Thermodynamic Data Handbooks
From the University of Texas at Austin.  Selection of a specific property for a group of compounds leads to the title or Web site for a possible data source.

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See Resource Guide for General Engineering.

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Engineering Research Guides (Cornell University)

Google Web Directory:  Mechanical Engineering
The Google directory links to more than 2,528 sites in fifteen categories for mechanical engineering.

ICrank.com
Includes links for vendor and newsgroup directories, reference data and many other categories.

The Scout Report Archives:  CYRUS Classification Search & Browse
An important site that tracks Web sites. Search by subject headings.

Yahoo! Mechanical Engineering
Links to over 700 sites in eighteen categories.

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Allexperts:  Mechanical Engineering

eFluids.com
Described as a one-stop web information resource for anyone working in the areas of flow engineering.

efunda:  engineering fundamentals
A good site for basic formulas and other information for mechanical engineering.

Eng-Tips® Forums:  Mechanical Engineers
Features technical support forums.

Engineering Central
Links to miscellaneous and software sites for mechanical engineers.  Also a resume and job service.

Mechanical Engineering Web Resources
"A collection of information useful for mechanical engineers in the Systems Engineering Competency." Produced by NASA Langley Research Center.

Robotcafe.com
A large collection of robotics links can be found here in a directory format.

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