Electrical Engineering

Do you have an idea that could benefit humanity and revolutionize the way we live? IEEE is hosting a global competition for students who develop unique solutions to real-world problems using engineering, science, computing and leadership skills. Winners could walk away with up to US$10,000. Stanford students Drew Hall, a fourth-year student in electrical engineering, and Richard Gaster, a medical and bioengineering student won the award in 2009 for their NanoLab: A Hand-Held Diagnostic Laboratory. Other winning projects included Electronic Aids for Physically/Mentally Handicapped Children, Engineering Innovators Without Borders - Human Powered Grain Crusher, and many others who have had a positive impact on the world.

Entries must be submitted by 31 January 2010. Details at the IEEE Presidents' Change the World site.

Speaker: Pushkar P. Apte, Vice President of Technology, Semiconductor Industry Association.

Time: 6:00 PM - Pizza & Networking. 6:15 PM - Lecture

Cost:Free
Location: National Semiconductor, Building E1, Conference Center ,
2900 Semiconductor Drive, Santa Clara , CA 95051.
See the NSC Building location map and directions
Web link: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/eds/

Opportunity for UC Berkeley and Stanford Students
Qualcomm announces a new kind of fellowship that promotes Qualcomm's core values of innovation, execution and teamwork.
The fellowships will be awarded to teams of two students, for submitting the most innovative ideas. The department of each winning team will receive $100,000 to fund the two student's fellowship and other research expenses for the calendar year of 2010 (total prize of two teams x two students x $50,000 = $200,000).

Happy Birthday to the "Father of Electromagentism".

Read more in The Guardian Newspaper (UK)

Re-enact his compass experiment online courtesy of the Magnet Lab at Florida State University.

Stanford Dissertations and Theses
The Engineering Library shelves print copies of dissertations and theses for the two most recent years only. Earlier print dissertations and theses are shelved off site and can be requested via Socrates.

Electronic theses
Free downloading of full text PDF versions is available for Stanford dissertations (for Stanford users only) from the year 1989 forward are available from Dissertations & theses @ Stanford University, hosted by UMI.

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IEEE Xplore Mobile provides free search of all IEEE Xplore documents directly on your mobile device. You can view up to 10 article abstracts per search. To view full-text articles, send the article links to your e-mail address. Stanford students and faculty can click on the link to view the fulltext as part of the SU Libraries subscription. Non-subscribers and guests will be prompted for purchase options. A link to the Main IEEE Xplore Site is provided from the mobile 'Search' page ('Get your know-how on the go') as well as from the search results page.

Mobile millennium: using smartphones to monitor traffic in privacy aware environments

Date: Thursday July 9, 2009 4-5pm

Speaker: Dr Alexandre Bayen, University of California Berkeley

Location:
George E. Pake Auditorium, PARC
3333 Coyote Hill Rd, Palo Alto, California, USA
http://www.parc.com/util/map.html

This presentation is FREE and open to the public. There is free parking, and the venue is handicapped accessible. No registration is required. Seating is on a first come first served basis.

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Yale University researchers have created the first solid-state quantum processor. Another step toward the ultimate dream of building a quantum computer. Their findings will appear in Nature’s advanced online publication June 28.

A group of theoretical physicists led by Steven Girvin, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics & Applied Physics, the team manufactured two artificial atoms, or qubits.

Two Stanford University graduate students have won the inaugural IEEE Presidents' Change the World Competition for a handheld laboratory capable of diagnosing illness in remote corners of the globe.

A group of product/service specific vertical directories. Resource for finding products,services, manufacturers and suppliers.

Database of Integrated Circuits covering over 345 manufacturers and more than 135,000 base part numbers.

Components database plus other products, manufacturers and services.

EngNet is a directory/search engine/buyers guide service aimed specifically at the engineering industry to enable engineers, technicians, tradesmen, etc. to find information and communicate effectively with suppliers in the engineering industry.

Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is the trade organization for 2,100 companies within the U.S. consumer technology industry. CEA produces the International CES, the world's largest consumer technology tradeshow.

This site contains numerically and functionally ordered chip lists, chip pinouts and lists of manufacturers, electronics books, CDROM's, magazines, WWW sites and much more.

Web resources for products including information on parts, manufacturers and suppliers

Chip Directory
This site contains numerically and functionally ordered chip lists, chip pinouts and lists of manufacturers, electronics books, CDROM's, magazines, WWW sites and much more.

Consumer Electronics Association

Justin Rattner, Intel Corporation's Chief Technology Officer takes a fascinating look at how technology will bring man and machines much closer together. He predicts big changes are ahead in social interactions, robotics and improvements in computer's ability to sense the real world. Rattner believes that we may be approaching an inflection point where the rate of technology advancements is accelerating at an exponential rate, and as a result, machines could overtake humans in their ability to reason, in the not so distant future.

IEEE held the first IEEE Engineering the Future Day on 13 May to commemorate its 125th Anniversary. IEEE Engineering the Future Day recognizes the contributions and impact that IEEE, its members, and engineering and technology professionals have made for the benefit of humanity. Exciting activities were planned by IEEE members around the world to honor IEEE's heritage and focus on ways to advance technology and make the world a better place. Grass roots events took place in nearly two dozen countries including Ecuador, Nigeria, Portugal and Russia.

This list includes those databases used most by engineering students and faculty. A more complete list of science and engineering databases is available, or consult the full list of databases available at Stanford.

ACM Digital Library
The ACM Digital Library includes the full text of every article published by ACM, including archives.

AIAA Digital Library

Don't Miss the Latest IEEE Expert Now Courses
Five new courses have been added to the IEEE Expert Now portfolio of continuing education.

Smart Fabrics and Interactive Textile: State of the Art and Future Challenges

To celebrate National Engineers Week (Feb 15-Feb 21) and the 125th anniversary of the IEEE as an organization of electrical and electronics engineers, the Engineering Library created an exhibit highlighting the early founders of IEEE (Edison, Bell, Marconi) and the Stanford IEEE Fellows and IEEE Award Recipients. As part of the "Stanford Salutes IEEE" exhibit, the Engineering Library also featured the 2009 Dream Jobs issue of IEEE Spectrum. Three speakers from this issue were featured at an IEEE Stanford Student chapter event on Feb 19th, 2009.

On May 27 (5:30 - 6:30 pm) the Stanford Biodesign program will present the final installment of From the Innovators Workbench with a presentation from David Dvorak, President & CEO of Zimmer, Inc. In addition to his other accomplishments, David Dvorak has been responsible for Zimmer, Inc.'s Dental, Spine, Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgical Products divisions.

For more information:
http://biodesign.stanford.edu/bdn/people/dvorak_david.jsp

Microprocessor Report , the leading technical publication for the
microprocessor industry is now available at the Engineering Library.
Print issues for 2008 and 2009 are at the circulation desk. Access to
the eight-year archive is restricted to Stanford students and faculty.
Logon information for access to the archive is also at the circulation
desk. If the "business of microprocessors" (system logic chips, DSP

Attention MathCAD Users

Knovel will soon be featuring live Mathcad enabled equations in select titles starting with Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain and Hick's Handbook of Civil Engineering Calculations