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Xpress Class–Patents
Posted on April 17, 2013 | No CommentsLearn more about Patents during a 15 minute Library Xpress Class, April 18th at 10:00am and 2:30pm in the Engineering Library. -
ebrary new titles
Posted on April 17, 2013 | No Commentsebrary currently hosts 630,401 documents with 13, 634 added in the past 30 days. This month, ebrary added more than 5,500 e-books from Encyclopedia Britannica, Peter Lang Publishing, University of... -
National Rubber Eraser Day
Posted on April 15, 2013 | No CommentsApril 15th Tax Day is when you celebrate this weird and wacky holiday called national Eraser Day. Office supply geeks, eraser collectors, artists, writers, librarians school children and rubber eraser... -
Happy birthday Leonardo da Vinci
Posted on April 15, 2013 | No Commentsborn on April 15, 1452 Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. He epitomized the Italian Renaissance, a period... -
The MECCA Exhibit
Posted on April 11, 2013 | No Commentscheck out the Engineering Library’s MECCA exhibit an Engineering celebration very popular from the 1920-1970 celebrated with parades, long beard contests, finding and kissing the Blarney stone by upper classman.... -
A fly and a ship
Posted on April 11, 2013 | No CommentsWhenever a fly alights on an ocean liner of about 35000 tons, the ship tends to sink lower in the water by one tenth of the thickness of an atom... -
Xpress Class: Genome Database
Posted on April 10, 2013 | No CommentsLearn more about the Genome Database during a 15 minute Library Xpress Class, April 11th at 10:00am and 2:30pm in the Engineering Library -
Beaty’s Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers
Posted on April 8, 2013 | No Commentsannouncing that the 16th Edition of Beaty’s Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers is now available on the site. The new edition of this definitive Handbook includes coverage of green technologies,... -
Bicycles: Machines that changed the course of history
Posted on April 8, 2013 | No CommentsThe word bicycle is from the Latin, bis, twice and the Greek, Kyclos, circle. This fashionable mode of transport was denounced by a Baltimore preacher in 1896 as a “diabolical... -
MECCA Celebration
Posted on April 3, 2013 | No CommentsDid you know? There is a MECCA exhibit at the Engineering Library celebrating the different colleges within the engineering department. MECCA was very popular around 1910-1970. It featured activities like...
