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Research Guides--Engineering:

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Web Resources

Occupational Outlook Handbook: Engineers
Job outlook, earnings, and employment information from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos027.htm

American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE
http://www.asce.org

American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME
http://www.asme.org/

Cities and Buildings Database University of Washington Libraries
http://content.lib.washington.edu/buildingsweb/index.html

Civil Engineering Virtual Library
http://www.ce.gatech.edu/WWW-CE/

I on Infrastructure
http://www.nypl.org/admin/exhibitions/ioni/index.html

Illustrated Classics of Engineering from the William Barclay Parsons Collection and Others
NYPL Digital Collection
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?col_id=168

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE
http://www.ieee.org/portal/site

MATC Civil Engineering Technology webpage
http://matcmadison.edu/civiltech/

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Electronic Databases

Available by clicking on the title of the database below. Go to the MATC Libraries Find Articles page for a complete listing of databases. These selected databases below have a variety of engineering and technology titles included and may be good starting points for your research. Access from home or work is available for these databases, please read the instructions for Off Campus Users.

EBSCOhost
Search multiple EBSCO databases simultaneously. Very large and diverse general and subject specific databases providing full-text and indexing. Business Source Elite, Academic Search Elite, and MasterFile Premier may prove useful for engineering research. For example, titles include Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Professional Engineering.

Powersearch
Search multiple Gale databases simultaneously. Very large and diverse general and subject specific databases providing full-text and indexing. Includes engineering titles such as Engineer, Process Engineering, or Control Engineering.

Proquest All Collections
Search multiple Proquest databases simultaneously, except for the Historical collection. Includes the Proquest Career and Technical Education database which has Vocational and technical periodicals, newsletters and publications covering all aspects of the Vocational and Technical curriculum, as well as Proquest Online Newspapers database which provides full-text, abstracts, and indexing for national, international, and Wisconsin newspapers.

Scientific American
Fulltext of the magazine from January 1993 to the present in high-quality PDF files.

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Books and Audiovisual Materials

In the MATC Libraries, the call number for most books on engineering will fall in the range of 620s or 670-699. 

Search the MATC Library Online Catalog for more books and audiovisual materials.

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Last Modified: March 31 2008