Engineers are required to adhere to standardized policies, procedures, and specifications that have been adopted by professional societies and organizations and to ensure that these standards guide the design process. Standards from organizations such as American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), American National Standards Institute (ANSI), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE) are located on the first floor of the Grainger Library in the standards area.

Specific standards can be found by searching online standards databases, or printed indexes. You can find more information regarding the organizations that issue standards and industry related standards by reading Grainger's Standards web page.