Engineering Library

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.

The Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) is a ten week summer research opportunity for undergraduate Juniors & Seniors, and Graduate students, under the guidance of a mentor, at a participating Navy Laboratory (list of participating universities is available at http://www.asee.org/nreip). The stipend amounts for the program are $7500 for undergraduate students and $10,000 for graduate students. U.S. citizenship required; Permanent residents accepted at certain labs.

Title: How Wowd Leverages the Power of Human Attention to Build a Better Search Engine

Date: Thursday 19 Nov 2009 4:00pm-5:00pm

Speaker: Bill York, Wowd

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.

The Engineering Library has added a new page to assist our users with patent information. Whether you are looking for U.S., European or Japanese patents, our page can proved a starting point for you. Our librarians are also available to help you with your searches or demonstrate the different sites.

Go directly to our Patent Resources page or find it listed on our "How do I find..." page.

Title: Location-based Advertising 101

Date: Thursday 12 Nov 2009 4:00pm-5:00pm

Speaker: Blair Swedeen, Placecast

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.

Searching via Stanford’s paid resources

Derwent innovations index 1963+
An enhanced comprehensive database of international patent information. Descriptive titles and indexing have been added. (Patent titles are ambiguous by design). Find “equivalent” patents published in a language you can read. Also contains both citing and cited patents and literature references, allowing users to move both forward and backward in time from a selected patent.

LexisNexis mid-1970's+
Includes full-text of U.S. Patents from mid-1970's, patent case law and administrative decisions, patent statutory and regulatory materials, and patent news and publications.

Scitopia.org
Cross search U.S., European and Japanese patent documents in the Advanced Search mode.

Microprocessor Marketing Wars: Chip Makers Discover the Consumer

Panel: Jack Browne, Claude Leglise, Melissa Rey, Dave House, and Moderated By David Laws

DATE & TIME
Friday, November 20, 2009
12 p.m. - Bring your lunch. Beverages will be provided.

LOCATION
1401 N. Shoreline Boulevard
Mountain View, CA 94043

REGISTER HERE

Title: Information on the go
Date: Thursday 5 Nov 2009 4:00pm-5:00pm
Speaker: Vint Cerf, Google, Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist

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.

Update! Our first three classes are full, so we have added 2 additional dates 11/23 and 11/30. Send your RSVP today to reserve a spot.

Please bring your lunch and join us for the third in a series of workshops. Did you know Stanford Libraries provide free access to RefWorks and EndNote Web? Join us to learn how citation management tools can help you track your research and simplify creating your papers.

All faculty, students, and staff are welcome to attend!

Dates: Monday 11/2, 11/9, 11/16, 11/23 or 11/30
Time: Noon to 1 pm
Where: Yang and Yamazaki Environment & Engineering Building (Y2E2), Conference Room 105 (across from Coupa Café) Y2E2 is at the corner of Via Ortega & Panama St.

To sign-up, send email with your name and preferred workshop date to: engreference@stanford.edu

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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/

Location: NASA Exploration Center, Moffett Field, Mountain Views, CA
Date: November 11, 2009; 6:30 pm

Cost: Free and open to all who wish to attend.
Anyone may join our mailing list at no charge, and receive announcements of upcoming events.

Speaker: Khosrow Habibi, KXEN

ABSTRACT:
In last 20 years, the application of Predictive Modeling has gradually evolved and has become popular in many B2C companies. These applications range from offline targeted marketing to real-time credit card fraud detection. In these uses, an entity (typically a customer) is characterized by its static (demographic, psychographic, etc) and more importantly dynamic behavioral attributes usually derived from transactional data.

The New Media Team at NASA Ames Research Center has developed the first NASA iPhone application to deliver up-to-the-minute NASA content directly from Agency sources in one easy-to-use mobile platform. The software makes extensive use of built-in iPhone features and usability to offer NASA information in a clear and intuitive way. The application aggregates and delivers a compelling range of dynamically updated information, images and video links. The NASA App is available free of charge on the App Store from Apple directly to the iPhone and iPod Touch or within iTunes.

Title: The Internet in Everyday Life: Some Hows, Wheres, Whys and Why Nots.

Date: Thursday 22 Oct 2009 4:00pm-5:00pm

Speaker: Elizabeth Churchill, Yahoo!, Principal Research Scientist

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.

Title: Spamalytics – Measuring Spam Botnet conversion rate

Date: October 21, 2009
Location: HP Cupertino Site
Pruneridge & Wolfe Road
- Oak Room

Speaker:
Christian Kreibich - International Computer Science Institute Berkeley
Kreibich is a staff research scientist at ICIR. His research focuses on topics in network architecture, distributed systems, and network security.

Topic:
The subject is from a recent CACM article which describes how the authors infiltrated a spam botnet and looked into how many people fall for those offers flooding inboxes.

Title: The Siri Virtual Assistant: Bringing Intelligence to the Interface
Date: Thursday 15 Oct 2009 4:00pm-5:00pm

Speaker: Tom Gruber, Siri, co-founder, CTO, and VP Design

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.

Much More Than Meets the Eye
This year students and faculty will notice that the Engineering Library seems to be shrinking, but nothing could be further from the truth. Ask about our growing list of online resources.

NTRL Makes NTIS Reports Full Text
The National Technical Reports Library delivers high-quality government technical content in the areas of science, technology, engineering and business.

New Knovel G.E.T. Search
G.E.T. (Graphs Equations Tables) Search retrieves numeric and other tabular data contained in Knovel's interactive graphs, equations and tables.

This weekend the San Jose Mercury News published an interview with Jen-Hsun Huang, President and CEO of Nvidia. Here's your chance to find out a bit more about the man whose name will be on the new School of Engineering building.

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_13528296

This year's contest kicked off on September 14th and so far over 700 students have qualified for a chance to win prizes including Kindles, Wiis, the new iPod Nano and iTunes gift cards.

Practice searching in Stanford's subscription to Knovel e-books and you can qualify as well.

The Branner Earth Sciences Library and Map Collections has launched a new website to provide indepth information on GIS data,software and courses available at Stanford. The new site is available at this link: http://lib.stanford.edu/gis

The Durand-Lesley propellers in the Engineering Library are the surviving artifacts of a famous experiment in early aviation history which defined a process method in engineering research still in use today.

The work created a comprehensive methodology that was widely used by engineers but little studied by historians, until Walter G. Vincenti wrote about it as a case study in his book, “What Engineers Know and How They Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History” (1993).

The Durand-Lesley propeller studies at Stanford were an attempt to determine the best performance of various propeller shapes by systematically altering parameters over the course of the experiments. The variable parameters were the five qualities that defined the shape of propeller blades, and two others - the speed of the airstream and the speed of propeller rotation.

You are invited to join the Stanford Amateur Radio Club, W6YX, for College Satellite Night *today* Thursday October 1st, starting at 4:15PM. The goal is to contact several other Universities across the country via various low Earth orbit satellites. W6YX will be operating from their impressive "shack" ( http://www-w6yx.stanford.edu/w6yx/site530.html ) located in the foothills.

Title: Opportunities and Challenges with Graphene Production and Application

Speaker:
Xiaogan Liang, Ph.D
Nanofabrication Facility, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Description:
Graphene has been extensively studied as a material for making future electronic device. In comparison with conventional semiconductors graphene exhibits exceptional properties, however, two of the challenges for scale-up applications are incorporating graphene over large areas and patterning nanostructures to achieve desirable electronic characteristics.

Date: Tuesday October 20, 2009

Looking for an internship? Cisco Systems is recruiting interns for summer, 2010. There will be an information session on October 5 (Monday). Stanford alums will speak about their Cisco experience. Former intern will also present. Please join for a raffle, free food and fun. All are welcome to come!

Event: Information Session
Date: Monday, October 5, 2009
Location: Stanford Computer Forum, Gates Building, Room 104
Time: 5:30pm – 6:30pm

Title: A Post-Rational take on People and Computing

Date: Thursday 1 Oct 2009 4:00pm-5:00pm

Speaker: John Canny, Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Director, Berkeley Institute of Design, UC 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.