Collection Development Guide: Engineering Technology: Selection Criteria

Collection development will emphasize, but are not limited to the following:

• Architectural design
• Architectural drawing
• Building codes
• Commercial construction
• Computer aided design (CAD)
• Computer animation
• Computer visualization
• Construction (economic aspects)
• Construction (environmental aspects)
• Construction contracts
• Construction equipment
• Construction estimating
  
• Construction management
  
• Construction materials (including ceramics, ferrous, non-ferrous, and organic materials)
• Construction project management
  
• Development of technology (including sociological aspects)
• Digital electronics
  
• Drafting, electronic
• Driver education (automobile, motorcycle)
  
• Electrical systems
  
• Electricity fundamentals
• Electronic circuits
• Electronic instrumentation
  
• Electronics fundamentals
• Ergonomics
• Facility design
• Flight instruction (for Federal Aviation Administration private pilot's license written exam)
  
• Foundry and heat treatment
  
• Furniture design and construction
• Highway construction
• Industrial construction
  
• Industrial design
• Industrial research
  
• Industrial safety
• Integrated circuits
  
• Machining
  
• Manufacturing processes
• Materials selection
• Materials (statics and strength)
  
• Mechanical drawing
• Mechanical systems
• Metal-cutting
  
• Methods engineering
• Microelectronics manufacturing
  
• Plumbing
  
• Polymer properties
• Polymer processes (including injection molding, blow molding, thermoforming, compression molding, extrusion, filament winding, vacuum molding, and poltrusion)
  
• Power technology (including internal combustion, electric motors, hydraulic systems, pneumatic systems, solar energy systems, and gearing systems)
• Quality management
  
• Residential construction
• Structural engineering
  
• Surveying
• Thermodynamics (basic)
  
• Welded joints
  
• Welding
  

Material will be purchased at level 2 (instructional level), in support of B.A. and B.S. undergraduate degrees.

Material will be purchased at level 3 (research level), in support of the following Graduate Degrees

• Master Science in Technology
• Master of Business Administration with Technology Emphasis

Material will be purchased at level 3 (research level) or level 4 (exhaustive) by request in support of faculty research.