APSC 381: Fundamentals of Design Engineering

Welcome to APSC 381 Course Guide, the purpose of this course guide to provide you with some useful resources that you could use for your projects. Please note that this is only a list of some resources that you have access too and that it always depends on what type of information you need. Please feel free to contact me at nasser.saleh@queensu.ca if you have any questions and you need any help to find information for your project.

Company and Product Information

You may need to get products specifications and prices for your project, you can check the following websites to find products' information


Global Specs
The website is updated daily, free registration required and you can create a profile with personalized settings.

Canadian Company Capabilities from Industry Canada website

Frasers Canadian Trade Directory
Also available in print, Call number: HF3223. F8 (Stauffer Library, Ref)

Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
Also available in print, Call number: T12.T46 (Eng/Sci folios)

KellySearch.com Mainly US based with an option to search worldwide, the website includes a document library where you can view and download product specs

Technical Articles

To find articles in magazines and journals you need to:

  1. Select an index ( see choices below)
  2. Enter keywords
  3. Click on "Get It" button, or "Full text" link, to go to article

Core Research Databases

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Academic Search Complete
(more info)
Publication coverage: 1865 - present
Find articles in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, monographs and reports covering a broad spectrum of topics.
INSPEC
(more info)
Publication coverage: 1896 - present
Comprehensive coverage of physics, electronics, computing, control engineering and information technology. Indexes technical and scientific journals, and conference proceedings.
Scholars Portal Journals
(more info)
Publication coverage: Varies by journal title
A digital repository of over 30 million scholarly articles drawn from journals covering every academic discipline.

Get the Article

In all databases follow the button to either the full text of the article or to QCAT to search for a print copy of the journal.

E-books and Handbooks

Online Collection

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Knovel
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Publication coverage: Varies by title
Access to hundred of reference books and databases in major engineering areas, many titles come with interactive tools that allow you to work on engineering and scientific data and create your own tables and graphs.
ENGnetBASE: Engineering Handbooks Online
(more info)
Full-text access does not work in Macintosh web browsers.
Search and browse access to the full-text of more than 300 engineering handbooks and reference titles on all aspects of engineering, published by CRC Press.
Collection of more than 1,600 professionally focussed engineering e-books.
SpringerLink E-books
(more info)
Publication coverage: 2005 - 2013, some earlier
Cover-to-cover search and browse access to the full-text books published by Springer.
Books24x7 - ITPro Collection  Access limit
(more info)
Access restricted to the Queen's community (4 user limit)
Cover-to-cover search and browse access to the full-text of recent texts and manuals on information technology topics published by commercial and technical imprints. Access limit: 4 Queen's users at a time.
All of these e-books and other print books can be searched on QCAT

If the book is available in print check the location to find out which library has your book (Stauffer, Eng/Sci etc) and the call number tells you where to find it on the shelf (Engineering and Science Library floorplans). If the book is out on loan you can place a hold on it.

Standards and Codes

Indexes to Standards

AISC (American Institute of Steel Construction)

ASTM Standards
Full-text access to active ASTM standards

CSA Online Subscription Service (Canadian Standards Association)
Full-text access to the entire collection of CSA standards and standard-related documents. Please Note:

  • If you're using your personal computer/laptop, please make sure that FileOpen Plug-in for Adobe Acrobat/Reader is installed, you can download it from http://plugin.fileopen.com/
  • The database is too slow compared to other databases when you open a PDF document, please wait till the document is fully loaded and opened.
  • Please use Internet Explorer to access the database.

Global Engineering Documents
This service indexes national, international and industry standards. Use keywords or document number to identify standards or search for known ones to check currency.

NSSN
Searches National and International Standards

TechStreet
Search the history of standards and their current status, please note that we do not have subscription to this collection, but it is a good starting point to define the needed standards for your project.

List of Standards compiled by the University of Waterloo
Most standards writing organizations(e.g. ANSI and CSA) maintain indexes to their own standards at their web sites. The University of Waterloo Library keeps a comprehensive list of these organizations.

Ordering Standards

You can purchase standards from the organizations themselves or services such as Global Engineering Documents. Remember to check Queen’s library collection before ordering.

Queen's Collection – selected titles

AASHTO Provisional Standards
( American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials)
TE200 .A615 ENG/SCI

ACI Manual of Concrete Practice TA439 .A51 ENG/SCI REF

Annual Book of ASTM Standards TA401.A5S ENG/SCI REF

ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code TJ291 .A51 2004 ENG/SCI REF

2010 ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Section II - Materials

ASTM Standards (Annual book)
Print: TA401.A5S ENG/SCI REF
Search for standards by keyword or document number

Canadian Electrical Code, Part I Safety standard for electrical installations
Ref TK277 C362 2006t

Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code 10th Ed (2006)
"amalgamates and supersedes both CSA standard CSA/CSA-S6-88, Design of highway bridges, and the OHBDC-91-01, Ontario bridge design code 3rd ed"
CSA S6-06 ENG/SCI REF

CGSB (Canadian General Standards Board) are in Stauffer Library – Documents

CSA Online Subscription Service (Canadian Standards Association)
Full-text access to the entire collection of CSA standards and standard-related documents.

Design of Concrete Structures (CAN/CSA A23.3-94) TA682.25 .C36 1994t

Handbook of Steel Construction TA684 .C33 2007 ENG/SCI REF

IEEE Standards 1950-present on IEEE Xplore

LEED reference package for new construction & major renovations (LEED Canada-NC), version 1.0, including reference addendum (2007) and rating addendum (2007)
TH6025 .L43 2004 ENG/SCI

National Building Code of Canada 2010
TH226.C23 ENG/SCI REF

SAE Handbook TL151 S6 ENG/SCI REF

Patents

A patent is an exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor that allows him or her to prevent others from making, using, selling or importing an invention.

1. Where to Find Patents

2. Tutorials on how to Read Patents

3. How to Download U.S. Patents

4. More Information on Patents