Research Guides: Entrepreneurship: Engineering

Engineering

BCC Research This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Comprehensive reports addressing very specific technological niches across most high-tech industry sectors, including engineering. The reports contain detailed analysis of the industry including global market data, competitive landscape, trends, and more.
IBISWorld This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US
Current and historic industry research reports for established and niche U.S. industries, including many which touch upon various types of enginerring. Reports include key statistics and analysis of market characteristics, operating conditions, current and forecast performance, key players, and more. Also includes risk reports for established U.S. industries.
PitchBook This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Especially useful for finding up-and-coming companies in emerging industries. Data and research covering the private investment market, including venture capital, private equity, and M&A transactions. Information on companies, deals, investors, and funds.

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Geography: US & Global (limited)
Global industry research reports that integrate seven perspectives (competitive intensity, customer dynamics, industry convergence, disruptive technologies, global mega trends, new business models, and emerging markets) into a complete, overall view of the factors that impact covered industries.
MarketLine Advantage This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
US and global industry profiles including Porters Five Forces Analysis, and company profiles including SWOT analyses, covering many fields of engineering.
Plunkett Research This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US
Industry-specific research portals for the most important business sectors, from energy to e-commerce and retailing to financial services. Includes market research and trends analysis, glossaries, statistics, company profiles and contacts, and industry associations and organizations.

Engineering Village: Compendex This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
The Compendex database provides deep coverage of global engineering literature. Also includes literature in the following related areas: applied physics, optics, bioengineering, biotechnology, food science and technology, materials science, instrumentation, medical devices, and nanotechnology.
Web of Science: Derwent Innovations Index This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Combines unique value-added patent information indexed from various patent issuing authorities. Ability to search across clearly written patent titles and abstracts that highlight the novelty, use, advantage, and claims of each invention.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Scientific research that contains abstracts, tables of contents, and full text of articles in the physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities.
Web of Science (WoS) This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Index for finding scholarly articles in the sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, and humanities.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Content includes scholarly business journals (including open access journals), trade publications, news, conference proceedings, industry reports, country reports, company reports, and more.
Materials Science & Engineering Collection This link opens in a new window
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Geography: US & Global
Includes the renowned METADEX, Copper and Polymer Library databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings and government publications.

Applied Ergonomics
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Aimed at those interested in applying ergonomics/human factors in their design. Areas covered include applications in the office, industry, consumer products, information technology, and military design.
The Design Journal
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An international refereed journal covering all aspects of design, including design practice, theory, management and education.
BioMedical Engineering OnLine
Access: Public
An open access, peer-reviewed journal publishing research in all areas of biomedical engineering. Aimed at readers and authors with an interest in using tools of the physical and data sciences and techniques in engineering to understand and solve problems in the biological and medical sciences.
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full-text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

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ANSI Standards Connect This link opens in a new window
Repository for American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards licensed by the UCI Libraries.

Use “View My Documents” on the right to browse the complete list of standards available.

ASTM Compass This link opens in a new window
A collection of industry-leading standards and technical engineering information. Covers a broad range of engineering disciplines, including aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering.

COVID-19 Standards

Many organizations have made standards related to the COVID-19 health crisis freely available during the pandemic in order to support research and innovation.

AAMI: Coronavirus Resources from the Field
Access: Public
As the COVID-19 crisis unfolds, AAMI is providing this curated collection of resources to assist the health technology field.
ANSI: Freely Available ISO Standards to Help Address COVID-19 Crisis
Access: Public
To support rapid response efforts to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ANSI is providing access to key international standards. Through the portal, select standards are accessible in read-only format at no cost during the crisis; additional standards may be added in the future.
IEEE: COVID-19 Related Research
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IEEE has identified articles and standards from the IEEE Xplore digital library that may help researchers understand and manage different aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and technologies that can be leveraged to combat it. All content in this collection is now free to access for the duration of the global health crisis, with additional rights for all types of reuse, including full text and data mining, and analysis.
ISO: COVID-19 Response
Access: Public
Relevant standards have been compiled to support global efforts in dealing with the COVID-19 crisis. They are freely available in read-only format.

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