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.

Business Source Complete from EBSCO now includes a business video collection with 55 videos from the Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series, at no additional charge. Business Source Complete is available to the Stanford University Community from the SULAIR Databases page and from the Jackson Library home page.

The series features engaging video lectures from renowned professors and experts at the Harvard Business School. All lectures are captured from executive education programs, and offer groundbreaking ideas, insightful research, and practical advice on management issues.

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.

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

Cookies will be provided.

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.

The Engineering Library in undergoing a lot of change in preparation for our move to our new library next summer. Stop by and pick up a brochure about our new space or check out our Future Engineering Library page.

While you're at the library, check out our display, "Engineering Library Donors: Giving for the Future".

Have a great weekend!

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.

The Engineering Library is launching a pilot project that allows users to borrow either the print or Kindle edition of a number of our reserve titles. We have two Kindles available for you to try. For the list of titles available, see the Engineering Library Kindle Page.

The reserve Kindles will circulate for two hours just like the print book. Anyone who borrows the Kindle version will be asked to complete a short survey about their experience.

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration's Center for Devices and Radiologic Health (CDRH), in partnership with the Stanford Biodesign Program, is seeking Stanford students interested to learn more about the medical device regulatory process and the journey a technology travels as it progresses from the lab workbench to a patient. The fellowships provide a unique opportunity to learn about the FDA approval process for medical devices, including topics such as:

• Medical device design
• Clinical trial design
• Safety and efficacy evaluation

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.

We'd love to have your feedback on some of the furniture ideas for the new School of Engineering library and public lounge areas! Please take a moment to share your likes and dislikes with us.

Samples of some of the furniture is on trial both inside and in the lobby area outside the the current Engineering Library. Look for the red and white striped comment box on the library counter. Thank you!

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

Journal articles on various topics, ranging from applied and chemical physics to renewable energy, are now available on Apple iPhone and Apple iPod touch devices. The American Institute of Physics (AIP) (www.aip.org), one of the world's largest publishers of information in the physical sciences and a leader in the field of electronic publishing, announced the launch today of its new mobile e-Reader application, iResearch. iResearch was developed to provide physicists, engineers, scientists, and students, with mobile access to valuable physics journal content.

iResearch is an offline e-reader that enables users to save PDF files locally to their device and view them offline without a Wifi or cellular connection. Users navigate through the journals, the volumes and issues to select an article they wish to read. Stanford iPhone users can access our institutional subscription to AIP titles from any Stanford IP Address. When the PDF has been loaded to the device the user can select to save the file locally onto the iPhone/iPod touch. Once the PDF is saved locally the user can read the article off-line.

More information from AIP: http://scitation.aip.org/iphone

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

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

Learn About the New Cross Search Tool and Enhanced Searching

Please bring your lunch and join us for the second in a series of workshops. Comprehensive searching of multiple databases in related disciplines uncovers articles, books and reports critical to your research. Search examples using ISI Web of Knowledge and the new Stanford Libraries’ Cross Search tool. E-mail alerts for subject, titles, and authors will also be covered. 

All faculty, students and staff are welcome to attend

Date: Monday 10/5; 10/12; 10/19; or 10/26
Time: Noon to 1 pm
Where: Y2E2 Conference Room 105 (across from the Coupa Café)

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

Cookies will be provided.

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.

The prize winners from our Friday tours are:

• Stephen Comello - Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Yu Zhou - Materials Science & Engineering

In a major new extension to the ASM Materials for Medical Devices database, information has been added for all FDA classifications of catheters and other related interventional devices, including: clamps, vascular strippers, and catheters and related devices.

Characterization, numerical information and links to specific devices have now been completed for the following materials:

• Fe-17Cr-4Ni-4Cu (17-4 PH)
• Fe-19Cr-10Ni (Grade 304)

The prize winners from our Wednesday tours are:

• Drew Hosford - Mechanical Engineering
• Jammie Peng - Materials Science & Engineering

The third annual Sparky Awards invite contestants to submit videos of two minutes or less that imaginatively portray the benefits of the open, legal exchange of information. Your challenge is to create a short video presentation that illustrates what you see as the value of sharing information. Use your imagination to suggest what good comes from bringing down barriers to the free exchange of information.

The prize winners from our Tuesday tours are:

• Pengli Feng - Mechanical Engineering
• Michael Gucwa - Management Science & Engineering

The prize winners from our Monday tours are:

• Radoslav Stanchev - Civil & Environmental Engineering
• Keith Candelaria - Fluid Mechanics & Hydrology

A group of leading research universities including Stanford University has launched Futurity (futurity.org), an online site designed to showcase the latest research discoveries in science, engineering, the environment, health and more. All current partner universities are members of the Association of American Universities, a nonprofit organization of leading public and private research universities.

Title: Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything
Date: Thursday 24 Sep 2009 4:00pm-5:00pm

Speakers: Gordon Bell, Microsoft Research, Principal Researcher
Jim Gemmel, Microsoft Research, Senior Researcher

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

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.

Thanks to all the new graduate students who attended our second Science and Engineering Libraries orientation on Thursday morning. We really appreciate everyone taking time out of your busy week to come to the library.

Congratulations to our raffle winners (each received an IEEE T-shirt):

Vibhav Bukkapatanam
Vijay Narasimhan
Lili Ca
Ricky Roesler
Sonia Buckley
Felix Huber

If you missed this weeks orientations we'll be having tours at 11am and 2pm everyday next week, and we'll have lots more prizes to give away!

The library will be holding two tours daily at 11am and 2pm, September 21-25th. Join us to learn the Four Key Things you need to know to navigate our library.

For more information see our Orientation page.

NASA has chosen Michael S. Hopkins, an alumnus of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, to be one of its newest astronauts. Of the nine-member class, two others are also alumni of Stanford University. For a full list of the 2009 astronaut candidate class with photos and bios click here: http://www.nasa.gov/astronauts/ascans2009.html

Thanks to all the new graduate students who attended our second Science and Engineering Libraries orientation on Wednesday afternoon. We had overwhelming attendance with standing room only again!

Congratulations to our raffle winners (each received an IEEE T-shirt):

Anand Ramachandean
Daniel Li
Eric Grossman
Yinfeng Qin
Arne Bech

If you missed the other graduate student orientations, there is one more this week Thursday, September 17 at 11:30 a.m.

Thanks to all the new graduate students who attended our first Science and Engineering Libraries orientation on Monday afternoon. We had overwhelming attendance with standing room only.

Congratulations to our raffle winners (each received an IEEE 125th Anniversary T-shirt):
Adrit Lath
Sam Emaminejad
Morris Hsu
Derek Pang
Zhenchen Wu
Armand Rundquist

If you missed the orientation Monday, there are two more this week Wednesday, September 16 at 2:30 p.m. and
Thursday, September 17 at 11:30 a.m.

Title: Lessons from the List
Date: Thursday 17 Sep 2009 4:00pm-5:00pm

Speaker: Craig Newmark - Founder, Craigslist.org

Location:
George E. Pake Auditorium, PARC,
3333 Coyote Hill Rd, Palo Alto, California, USA
Map

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.

Please bring your lunch and join us for the first in a series of workshops. This workshop will give an overview of the options within CourseWork and CCNet for linking to licensed content for required or supplemental course reading. Examples of e-books, e-book chapters and journal articles will be covered.

All faculty and teaching assistants are welcome to attend.

Date: Monday, 9/14; 9/21; or 9/28
Time: Noon to 1 pm
Where: Y2E2 Conference Room 105 (across from the Coupa Café)

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

Cookies will be provided.

What if you could remember everything? Join Jim Gemmell and Gordon Bell as they discuss their new book, “Total Recall – How the E-Memory Revolution will Change Everything.” Bell and Gemmell will draw on their experience from the MyLifeBits project at Microsoft Research to explain the benefits that will come from an earth-shaking and inevitable increase in e-memories.

New Features in IEEE Xplore
IEEE is pleased to announce a partnership with two of the leading physics organizations, the American Institute of Physics (AIP) and the AVS, and the addition of five of their journals into IEEE Xplore.

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).

The NASA Aeronautics Scholarship Program, which is administered by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) is officially accepting applications for the 2010 Aeronautics Scholarship Program. It is expected that approximately 20 two-year undergraduate, and 5 two-year with an option of a third year graduate scholarships will be awarded annually to students pursuing aeronautical engineering and related fields such as Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Physics and Mathematics.

Speaker: Sean K. Murphy, SKMurphy, Inc.
Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009, 6:30 PM
Location: Hewlett Packard (see directions),
Bldg. 48, Oak Room
Pruneridge and Wolfe, Cupertino, CA

Cost: Free, and open to all who wish to attend.

Note: All attendees will qualify for Door Prizes donated by O'Reilly Media. Refreshments will be served.

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

Date: Thursday September 10, 2009 4-5pm

Speaker:
David Hammond
Environmental Chemist
GO2 Water, Inc.

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.