ECE6900 Presentation 1.28.09

The augmented presentation for my library session for Debbie Dawson’s ECE6900 class for graduate students may be viewed via the link below (it is posted on Google Docs):

http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=ddsj5mvw_108dbvn6xdf

A couple other useful links for this class:

Electrical and Computer Engineering Subject Guide

Computer Science Subject Guide

IME 3160 Library Session 1.27.09

The augmented presentation slides for my IME3160 (Report Preparation – Instructor Tom Swartz) are available for viewing here:

http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=ddsj5mvw_102gmnv6rgt

Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

The “cultural issue of change” (to quote Dr. Sheri D. Sheppard at Stanford University”) in engineering education is the subject of a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (January 30, 2009). In “Engineering Schools Prove Slow to Change” By Paul Basken, engineering colleges are taken to task for being resistant to the changes needed to attract bright young minds (particularly female and under-represented minorities) and keep engineering education relevant in a changing professional world.  The resistance of faculty to changes in teaching methods and curricula, as well as a continuing inability to show young people how engineering can matter, are among the issues discussed in this brief article.

You can read this article either online at the link above (if your institution has a subscription) or in the print edition January 30, 2009, Page A4.

Paper and Imaging Conference Proceedings

Waldo Library has the following selected titles and years of paper science and imaging conference proceedings in its print collection.  Most of these titles are located in the Lower Level of Waldo Library.  Call numbers are given for sets that are shelved together.  Note that this is a selective list of the main paper and imaging conferences we have.  Papers for years not listed here will need to be ordered via our Interlibrary Loan service.

• Proceedings of SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering) – numerous titles
  • Years: For specific titles, search in WestCat by the title of the volume
• TAPPI Coating Conference – a.k.a. the Coating Conference (TS 1118 .F5 C62a)
  • Years: 1969-1973, 1975-1979, 1988-1997, 1999, 2000
• TAPPI Conference Papers – Annual Meeting (TS 1080 .E5)
  • Years: 1987-1988, 1991-1996
• TAPPI Hot Melt Symposium (TP 967 .H68a)
  • Years: 1987-1989, 1991, 1993-1996, 1998-2000, 2002
• TAPPI International Chemical Recovery Conference (TS 1176.6 .S915 I55)
  • Years: 1992, 1998, 2004
• TAPPI International Printing and Graphic Arts Conference (Z 120.5 .I59)
  • Years: 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2000
• TAPPI Papermakers Conference – a.k.a. the Papermakers Conference
  • Years: 1985, 1987-1989, 1991-1992, 1994-2000, 2006
• TAPPI Pulping Conference (TS 1171 .T36a) – Years: 1989, 1991-1999