Engineering Education Research: Books & eBooks
Books Intro
Electronic book resources are provided below. To search for both print and electronic books, please use the UB Libraries OneSearch (click here to access). The OneSearch will search all 4 million+ print books available at UB, hundreds of thousands of ebooks, as well as all print books (not e-books) from all SUNY libraries.
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eBook Collections
- Knovel E-Books: Science and Engineering This link opens in a new windowFull-text of a thousand science and engineering handbooks with a focus on books containing numeric data. More InfoPartial Full-Text UB ONLY
- ProQuest Ebook Central This link opens in a new windowOver 200,000 authoritative ebooks at your fingertips. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
- Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science This link opens in a new windowFull-text access to 'born-digital' books in engineering and computer science. More InfoFull-Text UB ONLY
Select Book Titles
- Teaching Engineering
This book is organized to start with specific, practical teaching applications and then lead to more general psychological theories. - Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century
This report is a result of an initiative of the National Academy of Engineering that offers recommendations on how to enrich and broaden engineering education so graduates are better prepared to work in a constantly changing global economy. - Engineering Education: Designing an Adaptive System
This book addresses the development of long-term strategies for an engineering education system that will reflect the needs and realities of the United States and the world in the 21st century. - Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research
Lockwood Library, 3rd Floor, T65 .C345 2014
This book critical reference source for the growing field of engineering education research, featuring the work of world luminaries writing to define and inform this emerging field. - A Whole New Engineer: The Coming Revolution in Engineering Education (1st edition)
Lockwood Library, 3rd Floor, T171 .F73 G65 2014
New ideas for education in the field of engineering, including real-world examples, plans for reinventing education, and more.
Open Textbooks
More and more open education resources (OERs) are being developed in engineering! The Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) has compiled a list of open textbooks in various areas of engineering. Use the link below view available open textbooks.
Citation Management Software
UB has a site license to EndNote, software that allows you to collect, store, organize, retrieve, and automatically format references to journal articles, books, patents, and more in your papers. For help using EndNote, visit the EndNote Basics Guide.
Zotero, an open-source citation management tool similar to EndNote, is also available. For help using Zotero, visit the Zotero Basics Guide.