Whenever 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…
Author Archives: Ann Khan
Xpress Class: Genome Database
Learn 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
announcing 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
The 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
Did 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
Learn 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
Did 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
Learn 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.
New journal—-Weather, Climate and Society
A quarterly journal of the American Meteorological Society, publishing scientific research and analysis on the interactions of Weather, Climate and Society. For more information: http://www.ametsoc.org/pubs/journals/wcs/index.html
New the Hydrological Sciences Journal
The Hydrological Sciences Journal is the publication of IAHS International Association of Hydrological Sciences. IAHS is the oldest and foremost international nongovernmental organization which deals with hydrology and water resources. The Hydrological…