Reddit mentions of Machinery's Handbook, Large Print

There are dozens of casting processes. It depends on what you're trying to do. Is it commercial or hobbyist? Industrial or artistic? Reusable molds or unique molds? Lost foam? Centrifugal? Carbon Dioxide? Green Sand? Bronze? Aluminum? Steel?

Need a little bit more info, but if your paper is just a general overview of casting processes, you should touch on at least Green Sand, Carbon Dioxide, and Lost Foam casting processes.

edit Here are some good resources. If you're at an engineering or technical college, you should be able to dig up a copy of Degarmo's which has an excellent section on commercial casting. Also, your school ought to have the Machinery's Handbook in their online archives. If not, check the libraries. It's got to be there somewhere.

I hear what you're saying, it's just that from what I've seen, Universities are not particularly great at teaching manufacturing techniques and that sort of thing. The kind of knowledge and expertise you're talking about rarely (if ever?) comes from academic programs, but from roles and responsibilities of current/past employers.

If you're going to pay $XX,XXX/year to attend a University, where you can be taught by people who study their fields for at least 10+ years, the last thing you need to discuss in that setting is tool-cutting paths or dimensional tolerances for sheet metal or whatever else may be of relevance. That's what referencing the machinery's handbook is for. That knowledge is best acquired from industry, and through the right attitude/management of employers of (recently graduated) engineers, usually yields the engineers that are able to be most productive in the fashion you describe.

TL;DR Engineering at a University isn't a trade school.