Mathematics and Engineering:
A Guide to
Recommended Resources
Marvin Library
library.hvcc.edu
Finding Articles:
Research Databases
Academic Search Premier is the world's largest scholarly multidisciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,650 serials,
including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications.
General Science Collection offers full text coverage for more than 60 of the
most popular science publications. Providing information on all aspects of the
scientific world, the General Science Collection offers full text information
dating back as far as 1992.
ScienceDirect provides access to over 4 million articles and 59 million
abstracts from all fields of science, including psychiatry.
Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that
provides access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database
contains full text for nearly 640 science encyclopedias, reference books,
periodicals, etc.
Periodicals (Journals) –Print and Online
Increasingly, Marvin Library’s journals (periodicals) are becoming
available electronically. Users have access to a large number and variety
of mathematics and engineering sciences journals through our many
online databases and in our print collection.
Below is a list of some of the titles available:
Advances in Applied Mathematics
Advances in Mathematics
Applied Mathematics and Computation
Applied Mathematics & Optimization
Applied Numerical Mathematics
Applied Mathematics Letters
Civil Engineering
Discrete Mathematics
Educational Studies in Mathematics
Hydraulics & Pneumatics
ID: Magazine of International Design
Industrial Engineer (IE)
Industrial Physicist
International Journal of Mathematics
Journal of computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching
Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education
Journal of Surveying Engineering (ASCE)
Machine Design
Mathematics and Computer Education
Mathematics Education Research Journal
Mathematics Educator
Mathematics Magazine
Mathematics Teacher Education & Development
Mathematics Teaching
Mechanical Engineering
MIT’s Technology Review
Modern Materials Handling
Modern Metals
Modern Plastics
New Scientist
New Steel
Popular Science
Progressive Architecture
Science
Science News
Scientific American
Technology and Culture
T.H.E (Technological Horizons in Education) Journal
Finding Internet Sources:
Selected Websites:
Biographies of Women Mathematicians
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm
National Council of Teachers of Mathematic
http://www.nctm.org/
The Math Forum
http://mathforum.org/
Math on the Web
http://www.ams.org/mathweb/
Engineering.com: the Engineer’s Ultimate Resource Tool
http://www.engineering.com/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx
Mechanical Design Engineering Resources on the World Wide Web
http://www.gearhob.com/
efunda: Engineering Fundamentals
http://www.efunda.com/home.cfm
TryEngineering.org Provides a lot of information to help young people,
ages 8-18 to consider a career in engineering
http://www.tryengineering.org/
Society of Women Engineers. This organization, founded in 1950, is a
not-for-profit educational and service organization. SWE is the
driving force that establishes engineering as a highly desirable career
aspiration for women.
http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/
Finding Books:
Use the Online Catalog to find books on various topics in mathematics and
engineering. You can search by Words Anywhere, Title Words, Subjects, etc.
Below is a select list of books that may be found in the library:
Books in the Marvin Library:
REFERENCE: (materials that cannot leave the library)
Encyclopedia of environmental science and engineering
Ref TD 9 .E5 2006
Building the world: an encyclopedia of the great engineering projects in
history
Ref T 56 .I44 2006
Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: pioneering lives from
ancient times to the mid-20th century
Ref Q 141 .B5285 2000
Notable Mathematicians: from ancient times to the present
Ref QA28 .N661998
Standard handbook of engineering calculations
Ref TA332 .S73 1995
CIRCULATING: (books that may be checked out)
Children are born mathematicians: supporting mathematical
development, birth to age 8
QA 135.6 G45 2009
40 puzzles and problems in probability and mathematical statistics
QA 273 S39 2008
Bringing science and mathematics to life for all learners
Q 181 A286 2008
College mathematics for business, economics, life sciences and social
Sciences
QA 37.3 B37 2008
Applied statistics for civil and environmental engineers
TA 340 .K67 2008
Fundamental statistics for the behavioral sciences
HA 29 .H78 2008
Simple statistics: applications in social research
HA 29 .M563 2008
Making sense of data: a practical guide to exploratory data analysis and
data mining
QA 276 .M92 2007
Poincare’s prize: the hundred-year quest to solve one of math’s greatest
puzzles
QA 43 .S985 2007
Making sense of statistics: a conceptual overview
QA 276.18 .P97 2006
Coincidences, chaos, and all that math jazz: making light of weighty ideas
QA21 .G63 2005
Real-life math (E book) Available via Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Click here to access
A computational introduction to number theory and algebra
QA241 .S465 2005
For More Help:
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Last modified November 2008
Maintained by Barbara Via