A guide to finding resources in engineering design.
- Reference works and handbooks
- Subject Headings
- Indexing and Abstracting Services
- Locating the Source Document
- Full Text Electronic Journal Data Sets
- Selected Full-Text eJournal Titles
- Web Sites
- Other Relevant Subject Guides
Reference works and handbooks
Gardens Point Sources
Works with the R prefix are shelved either in the Reference Collection on level 4. Other work are from the main collection on level 6.
| Location | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
293 /3
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Handbook of materials for product design 3rd ed. (2001) McGraw-Hill |
Designed to: Generate ideas for new products; Specify expertly for robust, manufacturable, economical, customer-pleasing products; Compare options easily with plentiful data tables, charts, graphs, and illustrations; Cut costs and improve new product performance; Create unique materials with expert guidance; Find needed data on design, testing, specifications, standards, recyclability, and biodegradability. |
R 214/2 |
CRC handbook of mechanical engineering 2nd ed. (2005) |
Chap. 11 - Engineering Design (by Kumar, Suh, Arakere & Kim) Elements of the design process; Design tools; Geometry analysis; Finite element analysis; Structural design criteria; Fatigue failure; Design optimization. |
R 224/2 |
Mechanical engineers' handbook 2nd ed. (1998) |
Part 1 - Materials and Mechanical Design (25 chaps. covering topics including): Structures of solids; Metals; Stress analysis; CAD; Concurrent engineering; Virtual reality; Ergonomic factors in design; Reliability; TQM; Design optimization; Lubrication of machine elements; Seal technology; Failure considerations. |
R 3 /12 |
Mechanical engineer's reference book 12th ed. (1998) Butterworth- Heinemann |
Chap. 6 Design Standards: Standardization in design; Drawing and graphic communications; Fits tolerances and limits; Fasteners; Ergonomic and anthropometric data; Total quality. |
Subject headings
For precision information retrieval, search the library catalogue using the controlled vocabulary Library of Congress Subject Headings LCSH. You can consult LCSH (the big red books) kept at the level 2 Help Desk. Here are a few examples of subject searches, using terms from this dictionary:
- Engineering design
- Structural design
- Computer-aided design
- Materials
- Design, Industrial
- Engineering graphics
- Rapid prototyping
- Maintainability (Engineering)
- Machine design
- CAD/CAM systems
- Mechanical movements
- Engineering ethics
- Reliability (Engineering)
- Safety factor in engineering
- Human engineering
Indexing and abstracting services
| Database | Description |
|---|---|
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Produced by H.W Wilson Co.
Indexing 1983+ Abstracting 1993+ Click on the blue Thesaurus button (left-hand frame) for subject heading lookup. |
Search Applied Science Abstracts via the WilsonWeb platform.
Indexes high quality applied science and technology journals including leading trade and industrial publications, peer-reviewed professional and technical society journals as well as specialised buyer's guides, directories and conference proceedings.
Subject coverage includes: Acoustics, Aeronautics, Applied Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Atmospheric Sciences, Automatic Control, Automotive Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Communication & Information Technology, Computer Databases & Software, Construction, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Engineering & Biomedical Materials, Energy Resources & Research, Environmental Engineering, Fire & Fire Prevention, Food & Food Industry, Geology, Industrial Engineering, Machine Learning, Machinery, Marine Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgy, Mineralogy, Mining Engineering, Neural Networks, Nuclear Engineering, Oceanography, Optical & Neural Computing, Petroleum & Gas, Physics, Plastics, Robotics, Solid State Technology, Space Science, Textile Industry & Fabrics, Transportation, Waste Management, Other Industrial & Mechanical Arts. |
| INSPEC You can perform an online "look up" of the controlled vocabulary subject terms used in INSPEC. Having selected the INSPEC database, click on the Thesaurus button in the grey top menu bar. |
Search INSPEC via the Engineering Village platform. Produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (U.K.). Covers primarily electrical and electronics engineering, computer science and cognate disciplines. |
| Compendex Produced by Engineering Information Inc. Covers all engineering disciplines. The controlled vocabulary subject (index) terms used in Compendex come from the Ei Thesaurus. 4th ed. (2001) |
Search Compendex via Engineering Village platform. Recommend you first create a personal login in order to turn search history on. |
| Engineered Materials Abstracts via CSA Illumina |
Engineered Materials Abstracts indexes over 180,000 records from 1,300 journal titles. |
ISI Current Contents Connect (Engineering, Computing and Technology) |
Search the Engineering, Computing & Technology (ECT) edition |
Locating the source document
To locate the full text of the cited document (commonly a journal article or conference paper) search the QUT Library catalogue (and perhaps other library catalogues) for the source publication. The source publication is usually either a periodical title, or a published conference proceeding.
QUT library holds / subscribes to only a selection of the source publications indexed by services such as INSPEC, Compendex, CSA and ISI.
Methods of searching for the source publication can vary. Commonly, you search by title, corporate author (useful for conferences) or keyword.
A quick, initial (but not a 100% reliable) search can be done using the international standard numbers (ISSN or ISBN). Note that library catalogues list only periodical titles, never the titles of articles. Each periodical title has a unique, eight digit identifying ISSN, which can be searched in the library catalogue.
Subscribed periodical titles are listed in our catalogue, regardless of whether they are print copies shelved on level 4 of the Gardens Point Library, or if they can be downloaded from electronic datasets over the Internet.
Note that if the source publication is an IEEE or IEE journal, transaction, magazine, conference proceeding, or a current IEEE standard you should be able to obtain the full text in electronic PDF format from IEEE Xplore.
Full text electronic journal data sets
| Database | Description |
|---|---|
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Full-text society publisher database. (most content back to 1988, select content back to 1952). Nearly 1.2 million documents. |
Provides all 120 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) journals, 600 annual conference proceedings and 875 technical standards in full text. The database also provides 'forward linking' to newer articles that cite an older reference. Now indexed by Google. Sign up to receive regular email notification of recently posted journals and magazines. Each email contains a direct link to the latest issue’s table of contents. |
| ScienceDirect Full-text publisher database. Over 1,900 Elsevier / Pergamon / Academic Press / North-Holland journal titles, in full-text online (from 1995). |
Browse Engineering titles available via ScienceDirect. Registering to create a personal user ID and password on ScienceDirect will enable you to take advantage of ScienceDirect personalization and alert services, which can greatly increase the efficiency of your research. |
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Full-text publisher database. SpringerLink offers more than 1,250 journal titles full-text online (most dating back to 1995). |
SpringerLink is the premier electronic data source from Springer for researchers in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics. |
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Full-text publisher database. Over 450 journal titles in PDF format (from 1997). |
Sign up for My Profile, which serves as a centralized base of operations to organize and store the services, links, searches, and other tools that add value and efficiency to your research. Content Alerts are available for all titles, and provide you an email update of the latest table of contents for Wiley titles that interest you. |
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Journal content aggregation service. 376 periodicals in science and technology (from 1994). |
Subject coverage includes computers, engineering, physics, telecommunications, and transportation. Search full text and images. |
Selected full text electronic journal titles
A showcase of just a few of the subscribed journals on Engineering Design (available in electronic full-text) to QUT students.
| Journal Title | Description | Database Platform |
|---|---|---|
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Elsevier (14 issues p.a.) ISSN 0010-4485 Peer reviewed |
Reports new research and novel or particularly significant applications within a wide range of topics, including: CAD in conceptual design, Design automation and optimization, AI in design, Geometric methods and applied computational geometry, Surface and solid modelling, Parametric constraint-based and feature modelling, CAD interfaces to testing and analysis, including finite-element methods, Design and planning for manufacturing, including numerical control, Rapid prototyping, Design and planning for assembly, maintainability, recycling etc, Engineering data management and exchange (including design databases), Component selection, product models, and life-cycle modelling, Space and facilities planning and layout, CAD user interfaces. |
ScienceDirect |
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Reed Business Information (18 issues p.a.) ISSN 0011-9407 Trade publication |
Covers the latest tools, components, and materials used in mechanical and electromechanical design of a broad range of products. Articles feature successful engineering projects and new technologies that will spark ideas and assist readers in the design of new products. |
ProQuest |
International journal of mechanics and materials in design Kluwer (4 issues p.a.) ISSN 1569-1713 Peer reviewed |
Recent advances and original works in mechanics and materials' engineering and their impact on the design process in an integrated, highly focused and coherent format. The goal is to enable mechanical, aeronautical, civil, automotive, biomedical, chemical and nuclear engineers, researchers and scientists to keep abreast of recent developments and exchange ideas on a number of topics relating to the use of mechanics and materials in design. |
SpringerLink |
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Taylor & Francis (6 issues p.a.) ISSN 0954-4828 Peer reviewed |
Topics covered include: Industrial design and total design, Product design and form design, Evolutionary design activity (product improvement & refinement), Ergonomics, Styling and the design process, Product introduction process, Quality, reliability and robustness, Design management and best practice in design, Design information sources & component selection , Design for manufacturability, Maintainability, Sustainability, Safety and standards, Use of existing improved and new materials, Design methodologies (including CAD/CAM). | ProQuest |
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Elsevier (8 issues p.a.) ISSN 0264-1275 0261-3069 Peer reviewed |
Publishes articles which describe the properties of a material which influence or control any practical design. All types of materials are covered, and all scales of application from micromachinery to large structural components. Selection of the best material based on an awareness of the capabilities and opportunities afforded by all candidate materials, coupled with a design which takes full advantage of those capabilities. Technical level: postgraduate (but not specialist) development rather than theory is stressed. |
ScienceDirect |
Quality and reliability engineering international Wiley (8 issues p.a.) ISSN 1099-1638 Peer reviewed |
Devoted to practical engineering aspects of quality and reliability. A refereed bimonthly technical journal, it covers the development and practical application of existing theoretical methods, research and industrial practices. Articles in the journal will be concerned with case studies, tutorial-type reviews and also with applications of new or well-known theory to the solution of actual quality and reliability problems in engineering. Papers describing the use of mathematical and statistical tools to solve real life industrial problems are encouraged, provided that the emphasis is placed on practical applications and demonstrated case studies. The scope of the journal is intended to include components, physics of failure, equipment and systems from the fields of electronic, electrical, mechanical and systems engineering. The areas of communications, aerospace, automotive, railways, shipboard equipment, control engineering and consumer products are all covered by the journal. Quality and reliability of hardware as well as software are covered. Papers on software engineering and its impact on product quality and reliability are encouraged. | Wiley InterScience |
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MCB University Press (5 issues p.a.) ISSN 1355-2546 Peer reviewed |
Publishes research results and case studies which report on the development and application of rapid prototyping, direct manufacturing and related technologies. International in scope. | Emerald Fulltext |
Research in engineering design Springer-Verlag (4 issues p.a.) ISSN 1435-6066 Peer reviewed |
Papers on design theory and methodology in all fields of engineering, focusing on mechanical, civil, architectural, and manufacturing engineering. Papers emphasize underlying principles of engineering design and discipline-oriented research where results are of interest or extendible to other engineering domains. General areas of interest include theories of design, foundations of design environments, representations and languages, models of design processes, and integration of design and manufacturing. Representative topics include functional representation, feature-based design, shape grammars, process design, redesign, product data base models, and empirical studies. The journal also publishes state-of-the-art review articles. Technical level The journal is designed for professionals in academia, industry and government interested in research issues relevant to design practice. |
SpringerLink |
Web sites
| Web site | Description |
|---|---|
| IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers |
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). |
| CADD Education Portal |
The site offers links to CAD directories and gateways, CAD resource centres, CAD organisations, CAD magazines, CAD software, selected CAD books, CAD vendors, and academic sites. |
| Institution of Engineering Designers (Great Britain) | The Institution of Engineering Designers is a professional body for designers who operate in widely diverse fields of design practice. |
ASME Design Engineering Division American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
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| EEVL Originally the 'Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library', now nominally known as the 'Enhanced and Evaluated Virtual Library'. |
EEVL is the Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics and Computing. Access the Engineering subject area on the homepage. |
Other relevant subject guides
- Finding Information Resources in Industrial Design
- Finding Information Resources in Materials Science
- Finding Information Resources in Mechanical Engineering
- Patents - Searching for Patents
- Standards - Searching for Standards