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Research Guides-- Technical Trades:

Electrician

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Web Resources

Occupational Outlook Handbook: Electricians
Job outlook, earnings, and employment information from the .
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos206.htm

IEE International organisation for electronics, electrical, manufacturing and IT professionals.
http://www.iee.org/

EC&M magazine website for electrical professionals
http://www.ecmweb.com/

Electrical Safety from OSHA
http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/electrical/

NECA National Electrical Contractors Association
http://www.necanet.org/

 Learning Objects for electricians from Wisc-Online

The Electrician's Wheel of Laws Quiz
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index_tj.asp?objID=ENG15704

Resistor Color Code Recognition Drills
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index_tj.asp?objID=DCE10804

Methods of Producing Electricity
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index_tj.asp?objID=DCE702

Electrical Units, Abbreviations, and Symbols
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index_tj.asp?objID=ENG902

Electrical Switches & Pushbuttons
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index_tj.asp?objID=DCE2002

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Electronic Databases

Available by clicking on the title of the database below. Access from home or work is available for these databases, please read the instructions for Off Campus Users.

Business & Company Resource Center
Contains detailed information on 448,000 U.S. and international companies and over 1,000 major U.S. and global industries.

General Reference Center Gold
Includes full text articles from magazines such as Appliance, Computers & Electronics, Power Engineering, Transmission & distribution world, and Wireless design & development . Use this general interest/business database to search magazines, newspapers, and reference books for information on business and industry

Career and Technical Education
Fulltext and indexed (with abstracts) of Vocational and technical periodicals newsletters and publications covering all aspects of the Vocational and Technical curriculum. Titles include magazines such as Electric Light & Power, Electrical World, Electric Perspectives, Wireless Systems Design, Building Design & Construction, and Electrical Wholesaling .

Proquest Online Newspapers
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

The call number for most books on electricity in the MATC Libraries will start with 621. 

See books in the MATC Library on the subjects of electricity, electrician, etc.

You can also limit these results. Add another search term (e.g. wiring) into the search box below.

Search the online library catalog for more books and audiovisual materials.

 

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