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Be a Mechanical Engineer

Iowa State College of Engineering - What does a Mechanical Engineer Do?

Southern New Hampshire University - What Does a Mechanical Engineer Do?

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Compendex
Comprehensive bibliographic database of engineering literature with over 22 million indexed records from 77 countries across 190 engineering disciplines. It also includes complete sets of active standards from ASCE, ASTM, IEEE, and SMPTE.
Knovel Engineering
Includes process and design information, best practice insights, interactive graphs and tables, material and substance properties data, and equations and formulations for Civil, Mechanical, and Transportation Engineering.

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