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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... -
Xpress Class on Compendex
Posted on April 3, 2013 | No CommentsLearn more about Compendex during a 15 min Library Xpress class tomorrow, April 4th at 10:00am and again at 2:30pm in 2001c Seamans Center Computer classroom. -
Eiffel Tower Day
Posted on April 1, 2013 | No CommentsDid you know? March 30th is Eiffel Tower Day. Here are some facts about the Eiffel Tower: http://ow.ly/jdsKB that you might find interesting. The facts contain construction facts, Eiffel Tower... -
Xpress Class
Posted on March 27, 2013 | No CommentsLearn more about Scifinder during a 30 min Library Xpress class tomorrow, March 28 at 10:00am and again at 2:30pm in 2001c Seamans Center Computer classroom.
