{"id":864,"date":"2014-05-15T18:21:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T18:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/?p=864"},"modified":"2014-05-15T18:23:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T18:23:57","slug":"clocks-and-stocks-and-socks-oh-my-gifts-for-the-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/clocks-and-stocks-and-socks-oh-my-gifts-for-the-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Clocks and stocks and socks…oh, my! Gifts for the engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are grandparents, aunts & uncles and friends stumped as to what to purchase for\u00a0your graduation gift? Let an engineering librarian research and suggest a few ideas including wall-frame patent art, stylish pens & pencils and interesting magazines and books.<\/p>\n

\"Mechanical<\/a>
Mechanical Pencil Patent Art Print OccupationGifts.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Books<\/a>
Henry Petroski is a professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University as well as a published author. ComputerGear.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Irrational<\/a>
Irrational Numbers Wall Clock Signals.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"iPad
An iPad with a magazine subscription Apple<\/a> The Institution of Engineering & Technology<\/a> NextIssue.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Engineer's<\/a>
Engineer’s Triangular Scale Tape EngineerSupply.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Automatic<\/a>
Automatic Drafting Pencil set Amazon<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The Givenchy Pi Collection for Him Macy’s<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Cufflinks<\/a>
Cufflinks by Jewelry Mountain Amazon<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Culinary<\/a>
Throw in a few BBQ tools to complete the gift. CafePress.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"engineering<\/a>
How about an iPhone, too? Zazzle.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"iRobot<\/a>
Choose stocks from iRobot, Boeing, John Deere & more. GiveAShare<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Binary<\/a>
For the fashionable engineer Zazzle.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jewelry<\/a>
Jewelry for Her ComputerGear.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Design<\/a>
Duct tape fixes everything. Amazon<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
\u201cI am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer…” \u2013 Neil Armstrong<\/b><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are grandparents, aunts & uncles and friends stumped as to what to purchase for\u00a0your graduation gift? Let an engineering librarian research and suggest a few ideas including wall-frame patent art, stylish pens & pencils and interesting magazines and books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}