Electrical & Computer Engineering

The Claire T. Carney Library has an excellent collection of books on engineering on the 5th floor.

You're welcome (and encouraged) to browse the books in person, but you also can plan ahead and see what our library and other libraries have from wherever you are. This page will help you with both approaches to finding books.

If there's a book you're interested in that we don't have, see the Interlibrary Loan tab for information on how to get it!

Use the search box below to run a quick search for books, or use the advanced search page to limit your material type to books prior to searching. 

We have several e-book and some print titles in our collection for electrical and computer engineering.  If you are searching the stacks on the fifth floor, best to check our Primo search above to find the call number before you go to the stacks.  We use the Library of Congress classification system and call numbers in these areas are in the TK's.    

• TK1-9971 Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering
• TK301-399 Electric meters TK452-454.4 Electric apparatus and materials. Electric circuits. Electric networks
• TK1001-1841 Production of electric energy or power. Powerplants. Central stations
• TK2000-2891 Dynamoelectric machinery and auxiliaries Including generators, motors, transformers
• TK2896-2985 Production of electricity by direct energy conversion
• TK3001-3521 Distribution or transmission of electric power
• TK4001-4102 Applications of electric power
• TK4125-4399 Electric lighting
• TK4601-4661 Electric heating
• TK5101-6720 Telecommunication Including telegraphy, telephone, radio, radar, television
• TK7800-8360 Electronics
• TK7885-7895 Computer engineering. Computer hardware
• TK8300-8360 Photoelectronic devices (General)
• TK9001-9401 Nuclear engineering. Atomic power
• TK9900-9971 Electricity for amateurs. Amateur constructors' manuals

Here are a few of the titles we have in print and as e-books:

UMass Dartmouth dissertations and thesis are online in our digital archives.  If you need one from 2016 or earlier, search the title or author in Primo.

Electrical and Computer Engineering Thesis Collection

Electrical and Computer Engineering Dissertation Collection

Here's a quick guide on how to read call numbers in our library (and most other academic libraries).

The first line is read in alphabetical order.

ex. PN would be before the PQ's but after the PM's.

Read the second line in numerical order.

ex. PN 6747 would be after PN 6746 and before PN 6747.1 or PN 6748.

The third line is tricky. Read the letter in alphabetical order then the number as a decimal.

ex. PN 6747 .S245 would come before PN 6747 .S5, because .5 in decimal is really .500!

Sometimes the fourth line will have another combination of letter and numbers, and you read it exactly like the other line.

ex. PN 6747 .S245 P4713 would come before PN 6747 .S245 P8, because .8 in decimal is really .800!

When you see a line near the bottom that looks like a year, it is a year! This goes in numerical order.

ex. If there was a book just like this except the date was 2003, it would go before the 2007 edition.

You could think of a call number like a detailed address in reverse: planet, country, state, city, street, street number. Each line helps you narrow down the book's exact location!