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Technology Transfer Research Guide: Engineering and Optics

Background Information

The quickest way to get acquainted across all areas of engineering is Knovel. You can find handbooks, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and numeric property and substance data in interactive tables. 

You can use the links below to find encyclopedias and handbooks in engineering in the library catalog.

Physical Properties Data

Standards

Students, faculty, and staff have full access to the ASTM and IEEE standards databases. The Global IHS database can be searched to find other current standards. Any standard that is needed for a class project or research can be acquired for UA faculty, staff, or students by contacting Paula Johnson for assistance. Please send the standard number, title and any other useful information to pcjohnson@arizona.edu.

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Articles

Use library search to find more ejournals in engineering.

Find Technical reports

"A technical report (also scientific report) is a document that describes the process, progress, or results of technical or scientific research or the state of a technical or scientific research problem. It might also include recommendations and conclusions of the research. Unlike other scientific literature, such as scientific journals and the proceedings of some academic conferences, technical reports rarely undergo comprehensive independent peer review before publication. They may be considered grey literature. Where there is a review process, it is often limited to within the originating organization. Similarly, there are no formal publishing procedures for such reports, except where established locally." - from Wikipedia

Engineering Librarian

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Paula C Johnson
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