LibGuides: Biological Systems Engineering: Bioengineering

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Tools to find articles

Using "FindIt @ WSU" when searching databases:

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If you see the above icon next to an article you are searching for, click on it to see if there is an electronic version of the journal or magazine available in another database. You will be taken to Search It and shown the options for obtaining the article whether it be here at WSU or through ILL (Interlibrary Loan).

AGRICOLA
AGRICOLA contains bibliographic records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library.
Biological Abstracts
1926-Present The Biological Abstracts/BIOSISPreviews database is also included as a subset of the BIOSIS Citation Index. It is a comprehensive database covering all aspects of the life sciences journal literature, including botany, developmental and organismal biology, ecology, molecular and cell biology, microbiology, pharmacology, genetics,kinesiology, neurosciences, toxicology, and psychology.
CAB Abstracts
Comprehensive database that covers: agriculture; animal and veterinary sciences; human health, food and nutrition; microbiology and parasitology; plant sciences. Excellent international coverage
Medline
1965/66 -Present The National Library of Medicine's premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.
PubMed
A database that allows you to search Medline which covers bioengineering, biomedicine and health, bioethics, medicine, history of medicine, environmental health, genetics, gerontology, microbiology, and a variety of other subjects.
USDA Current Research Information System
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's documentation and reporting system for ongoing and recently completed research and education projects in agriculture, food and nutrition, and forestry.
Web of Science
Includes Arts & Humanities, Social Sciences and Science Citation indexes. This multidisciplinary database has searchable author abstract covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities, sciences and social sciences. Updated weekly.

Tools to find books

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Use the WSU Library's ILL/document delivery service when you need a book or video that is not available at the WSU Libraries or through Summit but can be found on WorldCat. It is also used to get copies of articles that are not available online from the WSU Libraries
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Methods in Bioengineering by Kaushal Rege (Editor); Igor L. Medintz
Call Number: Owen Science and Engineering Library Stacks R857.N34 M48 2009
ISBN: 1596934107
Publication Date: 2009-09-01
This book presents practical, step-by-step methods to help professionals synthesize, characterize, functionalize and apply the nanomaterial that is most suitable for handling a given nanoscale bioengineering problem.
Introduction to Bioengineering by Y. C. Fung (Editor)
Call Number: Owen Science and Engineering Library Stacks TA164 .I684 2001
ISBN: 9810240236
Publication Date: 2001-05-01
Bioengineering is attracting many high quality students. This invaluable book has been written for beginning students of bioengineering, and is aimed at instilling a sense of engineering in them.Engineering is invention and designing things that do not exist in nature for the benefit of humanity. Invention can be taught by making inventive thinking a conscious part of our daily life. This is the approach taken by the authors of this book. Each author discusses an ongoing project, and gives a sample of a professional publication. Students are asked to work through a sequence of assignments and write a report. Almost everybody soon realizes that more scientific knowledge is needed, and a strong motivation for the study of science is generated. The teaching of inventive thinking is a new trend in engineering education. Bioengineering is a good field with which to begin this revolution in engineering education, because it is a youthful, developing interdisciplinary field.
Fundamental Bioengineering by John Villadsen (Editor); Sang Yup Lee (Contribution by); Jens Nielsen (Contribution by); Gregory Stephanopoulos (Contribution by)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 3527697462
Publication Date: 2015-10-07
A thorough introduction to the basics of bioengineering, with a focus on applications in the emerging "white" biotechnology industry. As such, this latest volume in the "Advanced Biotechnology" series covers the principles for the design and analysis of industrial bioprocesses as well as the design of bioremediation systems, and several biomedical applications. No fewer than seven chapters introduce stoichiometry, kinetics, thermodynamics and the design of ideal and real bioreactors, illustrated by more than 50 practical examples. Further chapters deal with the tools that enable an understanding of the behavior of cell cultures and enzymatically catalyzed reactions, while others discuss the analysis of cultures at the level of the cell, as well as structural frameworks for the successful scale-up of bioreactions. In addition, a short survey of downstream processing options and the control of bioreactions is given. With contributions from leading experts in industry and academia, this is a comprehensive source of information peer-reviewed by experts in the field.
Biomaterials and Bioengineering Handbook by Donald L. Wise
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 0824703189
Publication Date: 2000-03-01
A report on progress in the development of materials used in or on the human body, ranging from biopolymers used in controlled-release drug delivery systems and prosthetic devices to metals used in bone repair and plastics used in absorbable mechanisms such as sutures.

Dissertations

Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest) database

Free online access to most WSU dissertations and theses.
"Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637."
In addition to citations and abstracts, the service provides free access to 24 page previews and the full text in PDF format, when available. In most cases, this will be graduate works published in 1997 forward.

Libraries

Biological Systems Engineering

Research Tools

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Dissertations