ACRL 2009 STS Research Forum Presentation

This coming Sunday July 12, I will presenting a paper at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, Ill. My presentation is entitled “Assumptions of Originality: Plagiarism, Patchwriting and the Engineering Master’s Thesis.” This presentation will be part of the ACRL Science Technology Section’s Research Forum, which will take place from 3:30-5:30pm that afternoon, in the Chicago Hilton Conference Room 4D.

You can view my presentation online here or by going to the following URL at Google Docs:

http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=ddsj5mvw_127cg4qv8fb

Three other papers will be given at that same research forum:

One Person, Many Responsibilities: An Analysis of Science and Technology Library Job Descriptions,” by John Meier, Pennsylvania State University.

“Rocket Science Can Be Understood: Librarians as STEM Faculty Outreach Partners,” by Melanie Sellar, Marymount College.

“The Case for a Scientific Institutional Repository: A View from the Laboratory,” by Cecelia Brown and June Abbas, University of Oklahoma, Norman.

If you a librarian who is interested in any of these issues, I hope you’ll stop by.

Springer engineering eBooks

In addition to our purchase of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (1997 – present), Waldo Library has also purchased a number of other Springer electronic book collections in the last year. The full text of most of these books is available to the WMU community only.

Some of the largest eBook collections we have from Springer are the following:

Advances in Database Systems (19 books)

Advances in Industrial Control (35 books)

Advances in Materials Research (5 books)

Advances in Pattern Recognition (10 books)

Advances in Polymer Science (95 books)

Communications and Control Engineering (19 books)

Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics (6 books)

Computational Imaging and Vision (11 books)

Decision Engineering (12 books)

Electronic Materials: Science and Technology (5 books)

Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications (18 books)

Foundations of Engineering Mechanics (9 books)

Frontiers in Electronic Testing (19 books)

Fundamental Materials Research (7 books)

Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (7 books)

Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering (8 books)

Green Energy and Technology (6 books)

Heat and Mass Transfer (5 books)

History of Mechanism and Machine Science (6 books)

Human-Computer Interaction Series (8 books)

IFSR International Series on Systems Science and Engineering (7 books)

Information Retrieval Series (15 books)

Information Security and Cryptography (3 books)

Information Technology: Transmission, Processing and Storage I (9 books)

Information Technology: Transmission, Processing, and Storage II (10 books)

International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (70 books)

International Series on Biometrics (4 books)

International Studies in Entrepreneurship (19 books)

Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering (28 books)

Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences (163 books)

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (36 books)

Lecture Notes in Nanoscale Science and Technology (5 books)

Mechanical Engineering Series (22 books)

MEMS Reference Shelf (3 books)

Microtechnology and MEMS (8 books)

Monographs in Computer Science (8 books)

NanoScience and Technology (26 books)

Nanostructure Science and Technology (17 books)

Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design (19 books)

Power Electronics and Power Systems (8 books)

Power Systems (17 books)

Series on Integrated Circuits and Systems (22 books)

Solid Mechanics and its Applications (55 books)

Springer Series in Optical Sciences (50 books)

Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (58 books)

Studies in Computational Intelligence (210 books)

Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing (90 books)

Understanding Complex Systems (23 books)

IEEE Xplore Upgrade

WMU Library Users now have access to more content through IEEE Xplore. Additional journals are available with articles available from 1988-present.  You now will have access to additional conference proceedings and all current IEEE standards.   For more information about what is included see: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/subscriptions/prod/iel_overview.html

IEEE Xplore
http://libproxy.library.wmich.edu/login?url=http://www.ieee.org/ieeexplore/

Full-text access to all journals, transactions, and magazines published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers with coverage from 1988;  Includes IEEE conference proceedings and
all current IEEE standards.

Note: this resource is limited to fifteen simultaneous users. Please logoff when you are finished.

This database is listed on the “A-Z” list of databases and in the computer science and electrical/computer engineering subject guides.

New civil engineering reference books at Waldo

Waldo Library has just received the 2009 edition of the ACI Manual of Concrete Practice (6 volume set, plus index). It is located in our Science Reference collection at call number TA 439 .A358 2009, on the lower level of Waldo Library and may not be checked out.

You can read a brief description of the contents here.

In addition, we now have the AASHTO LRFD Bridge Design Specifications (2007 edition with 2008 interim revisions).  This is also located in Science Reference at call number TG 310 .A52 2007. This book is accompanied by two CD-ROMS, that may be checked for seven days from the Access Services desk on the first floor.

CEAS Faculty Publications – Spring 2009

The following list (no doubt incomplete) shows recent conference and journal publications for the faculty in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences. This gives you some idea of the breadth of our researchers’ work. The data was gathered from searches in the Web of Science and Scopus databases, as well as scanning as many faculty CVs as I had time for yesterday. I would like to congratulate all these fine researchers for their work.

Recent Faculty Publications – College of Engineering and Applied Sciences – Spring 2009

Ale, B. B., & Bade Shrestha, S. O. (2009). Introduction of hydrogen vehicles in kathmandu valley: A clean and sustainable way of transportation. Renewable Energy, 34(6), 1432-1437.

Bliznyuk, V., Singamaneni, S., Sahoo, S., Polisetty, S., He, X., & Binek, C. (2009). Self-assembly of magnetic ni nanoparticles into 1D arrays with antiferromagnetic order. Nanotechnology, 20(10), 105606.

Chavez, Hector Miguel, Wuwei Shen, & Shaoying Liu. (March 2009). An Approach to Detection of UML-Based Ownership Violation, Proceeding of ACM SAC 2009, Hawai, USA.

Chen, K. H., Johnson, J. P., Merati, P., & Leong, C. H. (2009). Investigation of buoyancy driven flow in a simplified full-scale underhood – numerical study. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, 41, 75-99.

Dong, L. (April 2009). Turbo equalization with channel prediction and iterative channel estimation, in Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).

Dong, L. (April 2009). Cooperative network localization via velocity estimation, in Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).

Du, X., Guizani, M., Xiao, Y., & Chen, H. (2009). A routing-driven elliptic curve cryptography based key management scheme for heterogeneous sensor networks. Ieee Transactions on Wireless Communications, 8(3), 1223-1229.

Fajardo, C., & Sick, V. (2009). Development of a high-speed UV particle image velocimetry technique and application for measurements in internal combustion engines. Experiments in Fluids, 46(1), 43-53.

Gustafson, P. A., & Waas, A. M. (2009). A bonded joint finite element for a symmetric double lap joint subjected to mechanical and thermal loads. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, published online 10 Feb 2009.

Gustafson, P. A., & Waas, A. M. (2009). The influence of adhesive constitutive parameters in cohesive zone finite element models of adhesively bonded joints. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 46(10), 2201-2215.

Jayatissa, A. H., Guo, K., Gupta, T., & Jayasuriya, A. C. (2009). Spin coating of transparent zinc oxide films using novel precursor. Journal of Materials Science-Materials in Electronics, 20(6), 577-581.

Kim, H., Oh, J., & Jayakrishnan, R. (2009). Effects of user equilibrium assumptions on network traffic pattern. Ksce Journal of Civil Engineering, 13(2), 117-127.

Kujawski, D., & Sree, P. C. R. (2009). Generation and analysis of FCG data using a single specimen and K max-ΔK testing matrix. International Journal of Fatigue,

Lee, H. S., & O’Neill, A. T. (2009). Forced convection and nucleate boiling on a small flat heater in a rectangular duct: Experiments with two working fluids, a 50-50 ethylene glycol-water mixture, and water. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part D-Journal of Automobile Engineering, 223(D2), 203-219.

Liou, W. W., Peng, Y., & Parker, P. E. (2009). Analytical modeling of capillary flow in tubes of nonuniform cross section. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 333(1), 389-399.

Liu, T., Liou, W. W., & Schulte, M. (2009). Aeroship: A hybrid flight platform. Journal of Aircraft, 46(2), 667-674.

Liu, T., J. Montefort, W.W. Liou, S. Pantula, Y. Yang, Q. Shams “Post-Stall flow control using a flexible fin on airfoil,”, 47th AIAA AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Orlando, FL, 5-8 January 2009. AIAA-2009-1106.

Lu, M., & Liou, W. W. (2009). New two-equation closure for rough-wall turbulent flows using the brinkman equation. AIAA Journal, 47(2), 386-398.

Lu, M., & W.W. Liou, “Numerical study of roughness effects on a NACA0012 airfoil using a new second-order closure of the rough wall layer modeling,” 47th AIAA AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Orlando, FL, 5-8 January 2009. AIAA-2009-0052.

Merati, P., Leong, C. H., Chen, K. H., & Johnson, J. P. (2009). Investigation of buoyancy driven flow in a simplified full scale underhood – PIV and temperature measurements

Pantula, S., M.-H. Lu, W.W. Liou, “Calculations of turbulent flow around airfoils with attached flexible fin using an immerse boundary method,”, 47th AIAA AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, Orlando, FL, 5-8 January 2009. AIAA-2009-0721.

Shen, Wuwei, & Eric Wong: Flexible Aspect-Oriented Design Model Checking, Proceeding of APSEC, December 3-5, 2008, Beijing, China.

Shrestha, S. O., Bade, Wierzba, I., & Karim, G. A. (2009). Prediction of the extent of diluents concentrations in flammability limited gaseous fuel-diluent mixtures in air. Applied Thermal Engineering.

Sivaselvan, M. V., Reinhorn, A. M., Shao, X., & Weinreber, S. (2008). Dynamic force control with hydraulic actuators using added compliance and displacement compensation. Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, 37(15), 1785-1800.

Wang, J., Y. Fu, & L. Dong. (April 2009). Modeling of UHF voltage multiplier for radio-triggered wake-up circuit, in Proc. 10th Annual IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON).

Xiao, Y., Chen, H., Du, X., & Guizani, M. (2009). Stream-based cipher feedback mode in wireless error channel. Ieee Transactions on Wireless Communications, 8(2), 622-626.

Yang, Z., Wang, C., Gupta, A., & Ivanĉić, F. (2009). Model checking sequential software programs via mixed symbolic analysis. ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, 14(1)

Zhao, D., & Yang, L. (2009). Incremental isometric embedding of high-dimensional data using connected neighborhood graphs. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 31(1), 86-98.

GM and Segway Team Up

General Motors and Segway (the company that gave us those nifty personal mobility devices) are teaming up to create a new urban vehicle that is small, electric and can carry two people. I think this is definitely where we need to go in the future. If (and that’s a BIG IF) GM is able to pull off this “reinvention” by teaming up with Segway, it might actually survive. Read about it here:

BBC News: “GM and Segway create new vehicle”

Wall Street Journal: “GM, Segway to make vehicle”

LA Times: “GM, Segway think 2 wheels”

New York Times: “G.M. Conjures Up a People-Moving Pod”

N.B. Remember where most of us bloggers get our news. From our newspaper companies!!!

Concrete Canoe 2009

I would like to present the following link to an article by Paula Davis in Tuesday’s Kalamazoo Gazette entitled “Can You Float a Concrete Canoe?” This article discusses the work of a group of students in the student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers at the College of Engineering, creating a concrete canoe out of concrete created from recycled or reused materials to enter into a regional engineering contest. You can access the article either via the link above or the URL below – you probably should access it soon as I don’t know how long MLIVE keeps stuff free.

http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2009/03/can_you_float_a_concrete_canoe.html

National Technical Reports Library – Free Trial

WMU Library users have temporary trial access to an additional resource:

National Technical Reports Library

Provides the full text to 500,000 federally-funded technical reports covering such topics as Medicine & Biology, Behavior & Society, Military Sciences, Physics, Administration & Management, Urban & Regional Technology & Development, Environmental Pollution & Control, and more.  Another 1.5 million technical reports are available in brief abstracts or citations, which you can order via Interlibrary Loan.
Trial ends: March 31, 2009

Wired Blog: Toyota Wants to Build Car form Seaweed

This just in from Wired Blog:

Toyota Wants to Build Car from Seaweed – By Ben Mack

February 24, 2009

Quote: “Toyota is looking to a greener future — literally — with dreams of an ultralight, superefficient plug-in hybrid with a bioplastic body made of seaweed that could be in showrooms within 15 years.”

SAE Digital Library Free Trial – until March 8, 2009

Waldo Library is currently running a free trial of the SAE Digital Library.  This database, which would be an upgrade of our current SAE Publications database, would provide the full text of all SAE Technical Papers from 1998 to the present.  Caution – no PDFs will be downloadable for this trial. When you search for a paper and click on the “View Document” link, you will all be looking at the same article in PDF.  This free trial is just to test the interface. But do not worry – we’re hoping to subscribe to this product after the free trial, barring any access or technical issues.  Access information is below.  Note also that there is a different password for each week of this two week free trial.  The trial ends: March 8, 2009.

SAE Publications and Standards (full text upgrade)
http://www.elecpubs.sae.org/dl
The purpose of the trial is for you to see the functionality of the full text upgrade to the SAE Digital Library. Although you will be able to view the full-text of SAE documents, you are not permitted to download, save to a hard drive, or print any full-text documents during the trial.

Trial username: dldemo

Trial passwords:
kqwpfuy5 (valid from: 2/18/2009 to 2/22/2009)

draztkkp (valid from: 2/23/2009 to 3/8/2009)

Trial ends: March 8, 2009