Engineering Standards Research Guide

Engineering standards are documentation of engineering practices; i.e., standard or accepted ways of doing things. Committees, affiliated with societies or organizations, and made up of specialists from universities and industry, write standards. All design engineers rely on standards for guidance and to give authority to their work.

Finding and Accessing Standards

  1. If you are trying to find an appropriate standard, search Engineering Workbench by keyword. If the full text of a standard isn't available there, proceed to the next step.
  2. Once you know the specific standard you need, check the table of available engineering standards to determine if we have access to standards from the organization that developed it (e.g. AATCC, ISO, UL).
  3. If we don't have access, request the standard via Tripsaver.

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