Lafayette College Library

Indexes core periodicals in engineering and other technical fields.

Index covering the journal literature of science and technology. Allows you to search for a topic, an author, or for articles that cite a known author or work. (Help using Web of Science for cited reference searching)

Authoritative encyclopedia covering biomedical engineering, biomechanics, and biomaterials.

Full text of articles reviewing the scholarly literature for a variety of topics in the physical sciences and engineering.

Colorado State University site covers thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics involved in engine operation. Includes Java applets which illustrate physical properties and dynamic processes.

Database of information on international patents in chemical, electrical and electronic, and mechanical engineering. Allows for patent citation searching.

Database of European patent information provided by the European Patent Office and the national offices of its members states. Abstracts in English are available for most patents; original language page images of the complete patent are available for many.

Brief videos explaining manufacturing processes (e.g., injection molding, hydroforming) and how some products (e.g., plastic bottles, golf clubs, chocolate) are made. From the Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing at Stanford.

Non-technical descriptions of manufacturing processes for a variety of objects, from bulletproof vests to mayonnaise to silly putty. Also available in the print reference collection (Ref TS146 .H67).

Consumer-oriented descriptions of how things work, from aspirin to routing algorithms to billiard tables.

Provides information on manufacturers of industrial products. A valuable aid in design projects.

Full text of all US patents issued since 1976, and full-page images for all US patents issued since 1790. (Note: Full-page images can be viewed using pat2pdf.org, which generates PDFs based on patent numbers, or by downloading one of the TIFF image viewer plugins recommended on the USPTO website.)