Help at hand for project students!

Are you starting your Final Year Mechanical Engineering Project, or undertaking your 3rd year Group Business & Design Project?   If so, why not check out the webpages we’ve put together to support you in your research?  These pages explain resources and publications you may not have used in your course up until now, and should be of help if you’re not quite sure where to look for  information beyond Wikipedia and Google.  There are notes relating to journals and conference papers, an introduction to some of the databases the library subscribes to, and some (hopefully) helpful tips to make your searches more effective and refine results to get the articles most relevant to you.

You can access these  Project Pages here, or just follow the link toward the bottom of the Mechanical Engineering ‘Resources for Subject’ Library webpage.  

While the focus of these pages is on Mechanical Engineering resources, the search strategies and introductory notes are relevant to any Engineering and Design department.

Best of luck with your research projects and do tell me if there is anything else you think I should add to these pages!

Training Sessions This Week

For Taught Students:
Using the Web of Knowledge – 4:15pm-5:05pm, Thur 12th Nov,  Library Level 5 Training Room
You can use the Web of Knowledge to search for information in journal articles from all areas of science. This session will explain what is included in the database and give you hints and tips on how best to search it.  See the Library web page to book a place.

For Research Postgraduates:
Literature Searching in Sport & Exercise Science and Health – 10:15am-12:15pm, Fri 13th Nov, Library Level 1 Training Room
If your research is in areas related to sport or medicine you might find this session helpful.   You will find out more a bout literature searching using, amongst other databases, Web of Knowledge, Cochrane Library and Pubmed.  Book a place through the University’s Postgraduate Skills Programme

Information on all our training sessions is given on the Library’s Infoskills web pages

Properties of metals data

We’ve had a few enquiries on Level 3 from first year Mech Eng students looking for data on the properties of metals.

A really useful resource for finding this kind of  information is Smithells Metals Reference Book.  It’s  available in print at 669(02) SMI on Level 3, and also as an electronic book which you can access from your PC either on or off campus.   For example, Section 22 covers Mechanical Properties of Metals and Alloys.

Do let us know if you need any help using the hard copy or ebook!

New Electronic and Electrical Engineering Books

And another batch of books added to the Library in October!  These ones are on subjects realted to Electronic and Electrical Engineering – follow the links for details of the books on the Library catalogue:

Patterson, D, A., 2009
Computer organization and design : the hardware/software interface

Davies, P. J. , 1995
The indispensable guide to C : with engineering applications

Nixon, M. S., 2008
Feature extraction and image processing

Croft, T. and Davison, R., 2008
Mathematics for engineers : a modern interactive approach

Singh, K., 2003
Engineering mathematics : through applications

Holzner, S., 2008
Differential equations for dummies

Palm, W.  J. 2005
Introduction to MATLAB 7 for engineers

Wiese, P. R., 2003
Engineering design in the multi-discipline era : a systems approach

Bovik, A. C. , 2009
The essential guide to image processing

Koschan, A. and ,Mongi A., 2008
Digital color image processing

Petrou, M., 2006
Image processing : dealing with texture

Stathaki, T., 2008
Image fusion : algorithms and applications

Storey, N., 2009
Electronics : a systems approach

Bloch, I., 2008
Information fusion in signal and image processing : major probabilistic and non-probabilistic numerical approaches

Roberts, M.  J., 2003
Signals and systems : analysis using transform methods and MATLAB

Richardson, I.  E. G., 2003
H.264 and MPEG-4 video compression : video coding for next-generation multimedia

 Bovik, A.  C., 2009
The essential guide to video processing

Dorf, R. C., 2008
Modern control systems

New Chemical Engineering Books

The following books are all new titles added to the Library in October.  Click on the link to see the catalogue record and find where the books are shelved:

Ludwig, F. , 2009
Climate change adaptation in the water sector

National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on Strategies and Methods for Climate-Related Decision Support, 2009.
Informing decisions in a changing climate

Albright, L.  F., 2009
Albright’s chemical engineering handbook

Pabby, A. K., 2009
Handbook of membrane separations : chemical, pharmaceutical, food, and biotechnological applications

Press, R.  J., 2009
Introduction to hydrogen technology

New Architecture and Civil Engineering Books

Below is a list of Architecture and Civil Engineering books added to Library stock in October.   The links will take you to the catalogue records which show you where the books are shelved.

McIntyre, A., 2006
Library book : an architectural journey through the London Library, 1841-2006

Uren, J., 2006
Surveying for engineers  4th ed.
Gaiddon, B., et al., 2009
Photovoltaics in the urban environment : lessons learnt from large-scale
projects

Dickinson, P. R., 2004
Cracking and building movement

Cantor, S. L., 2008
Green roofs in sustainable landscape design

Watts, A., 2005
Modern construction facades

Baker, N., 2009
The handbook of sustainable refurbishment : non-domestic buildings

Littlefield, D., 2009
Liverpool One : remaking a city centre

Unwin, S., 2003
Analysing architecture

Cook, P., 2008
Drawing : the motive force of architecture

Weston, R., 2004
Plans, sections and elevations : key buildings of the twentieth century

Plummer, H., 2009
Stillness & light : the silent eloquence of Shaker architecture

Unwin, S., 2000
An architecture notebook

Levitt, D., 2010
Housing design handbook : a guide to good practice

French, H., 2008
Key urban housing of the twentieth century : plans, sections and elevations

Davies, C., 2006
Key houses of the twentieth century : plans, sections and elevations

Musson, J., 2008
The country houses of John Vanbrugh : from the archives of Country life

Plummer, H., 2009
The architecture of natural light

Barron, M., 2010
Auditorium acoustics and architectural design

New Mechanical Engineering books

Below are listed a selection of books added to the Mechanical Engineering Library stock over the last few weeks . Click the weblinks to view the catalogue records and availability for each title – in some cases we have multiple copies.

Clifford, M. et al.,  2009
An introduction to mechanical engineering: Part 1 

Gibbings, D., 2009.
Fairey Rotodyne

Lieuwen, T.C. et al., ed., 2009
Synthesis gas combustion : fundamentals and applications

Rolls-Royce, 2005
The jet engine (5th edition rev.)

Renewing Books Online

Remember, if you’ve borrowed 7 day, or 28 day loan books you can renew them without coming into the Library, as long as nobody else has place a hold on them (and you don’t have outstanding fines over £10!).   From the Library catalogue: http://www.bath.ac.uk/library/catalogue select ‘Your use of the Library’ followed by  ’Renew your loans’ .  Login with your Library card number and PIN and select ‘List items on loan’.    All you then need to do is select the books you want to renew and click on the ‘Renew Selected Items’  button (and remember to make a note of the date they’ll be due back next time!)

Loan reminders – sign up and avoid overdue fines!

It can be easy to forget when your books are due back, so why not sign up to the Library’s ‘loan reminder’ service?   It’s simple to set up, and means you’ll get a reminder email before you start incurring overdue fines!   All you need to do is log into ‘Your use of the Library’ via the Library Catalogue, and select the ‘loan reminders’ option.   

Following requests via the talkback board and SSLCs, there are now options to receive loan reminders three days or seven days before the due date, in addition to those sent one day before which already existed.  Log into “Your use of the Library” to change your preference.