Research Guides: Electrical Engineering: Books & Background Research

Encyclopedias, Handbooks, & Dictionaries

These selected resources are available online to University of Michigan affiliated students, staff & faculty or in print at the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library. For more online engineering reference books, visit:

AccessEngineering
Complete online access to McGraw-Hill's Engineering Handbooks. This resource has powerful searching capabilities, global engineering news, interactive tables and graphs, instructive videos and student study guides and time-saving curriculum guides.
Knovel: Engineering & Scientific Online References
Provider of electronic versions of popular reference books in engineering and applied sciences. Titles include Lange's Handbook of Chemistry and books from the AIAA.
SpringerLink
Provides online full-text access to many of the Springer electronic journals; along with many electronic books and series.

Provides online full-text access to many of the Springer electronic journals along with many electronic books and series. Personal copies of some books can be purchased for $24.99 each through a service offered by Springer called MyCopy. The MyCopy offer is currently valid for over 20,000 Springer eBooks. Books are new soft cover editions with a color cover and black and white book content. NOTE (March 6, 2015): The online ordering system for MyCopy titles is not working correctly and sometimes indicates the price to order a book is the full retail price of the title. You can call Springer Customer Service at 1-800-777-4643 to order a MyCopy title at the correct price. To be eligible for the MyCopy service, books must be: Fewer than 1,200 pages Single titles (not part of a multi-volume set) Published 2005 or later English language
Taylor & Francis eBooks
Online access to over 100 selected academic books published by Taylor & Francis, primarily in the humanities and social sciences and approximately 6,000 titles published by CRC Press in science, technology and medicine. Includes selected books published under the imprints Routledge, Psychology Press, and Focal Press, as well as Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, AK Peters, Apple Academic, Chapman and Hall, and Pan Stanford.

American Electricians Handbook by Wilford Summers; Frederic Hartwell; Terrell Croft
Call Number: TK 151 .A52 2002 - Reference
Publication Date: 2013-07-23

2002 edition available in print.
Comprehensive Dictionary of Electrical Engineering by Phillip A. Laplante
ISBN: 0849330866
Publication Date: 2005-04-12
Electronic Instrument Handbook by Clyde F. Coombs
Call Number: TK 7878.4 .B32 2000
ISBN: 0070126186
Publication Date: 1999-09-24

Also available in print.
Electronic Packaging and Interconnection Handbook by Charles A. Harper
Call Number: TK 7870.15 .E421 2005
ISBN: 0071430482
Publication Date: 2004-09-28
Handbook of Practical Electrical Design by Brian J. McPartland; Joseph F. McPartland
Call Number: TK 3271 .M351 1999
ISBN: 0070466424
Publication Date: 1998-10-30
Handbook of Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology by Yoshio Nishi (Editor)
Call Number: TK 7871.85 .H33351 2000
ISBN: 1574446754
Publication Date: 2007-07-09

2000 edition available in print.
Lexicon of semiconductor terms
Standard Handbook of Electronic Engineering by Donald Christiansen; Charles Alexander; Ronald K. Jurgen
ISBN: 0071384219
Publication Date: 2004-12-20
The Electrical Engineering Handbook by Richard C. Dorf (Editor)
Publication Date: 2006

Series of handbooks including:
"Circuits, signals, and speech and image processing"
"Computers, software engineering, and digital devices"
"Sensors, nanoscience, biomedical engineering, and instruments"
"Electronics, power electronics, optoelectronics, microwaves, electromagnetics, and radar"
"Broadcasting and optical communication technology"
and more...
The Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits by Rudolf F. Graf; William Sheets
Call Number: TK 7867 .G661 1985 - Reference
ISBN: 0070151164
Publication Date: 1985 - 1998

Volumes 1 - 7 available in print.
The National electrical code handbook
Call Number: TK 260 .N295
Publication Date: 1999
The Resource Handbook of Electronics by Jerry Whitaker
Call Number: TK 7825 .W481 2001
ISBN: 0849383536
Publication Date: 2000-08-23

Also available in print.

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