Library News for Engineering

New Resource: Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences

The Libraries have purchased Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences.

'Regularly updated with new articles and revisions to previously published articles, the Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences includes the full text of the second print edition, the entire original edition, plus supplements and updates all rolled into one fully searchable site.'

Key Features

• Includes the full text of the first and second print editions, plus the supplemental volumes.
• Thorough cross-referencing and up-to-date bibliographies facilitate quick access to specific information and provide an indispensable platform for further study and research.
• A powerful search engine provides easy searchability of the full text, tables and figures.
• More than 3000 combined authorships, spanning five continents, in over 30 countries.
• Over 10% of the contents are updated annually, with revisions and new articles added quarterly
• The series is viewed as the cutting-edge reference of choice for those working in statistics, probability theory, biostatistics, quality control, and economics with emphasis in applications of statistical methods in sociology, engineering, computer science, biomedicine, psychology, survey methodology, and a host of other client disciplines.

(from database homepage)

New Books: Week of February 26, 2008

Advanced safety management focusing on Z10 and serious injury prevention	Analyses for durability and system design lifetime : a multidisciplinary approach
Design matters : the organisation and principles of engineering design	Fuel cells : principles and applications
Global production : a handbook for strategy and implementation	Multiobjective problem solving from nature : from concepts to applications
Protecting the Gulf's marine ecosystems from pollution	Scaling issues and design of MEMS

New Books: Week of February 17, 2008

3D manufacturing innovation : revolutionary change in Japanese manufacturing with digital data	Biological applications of microfluidics
Biomedical surfaces	Closed captioning : subtitling, stenography, and the digital convergence of text with television
Fundamentals of composites manufacturing : materials, methods and applications	Poison in the well : radioactive waste in the oceans at the dawn of the nuclear age
Power and security in the information age : investigating the role of the state in cyberspace

News: 'The Scientist' Names Best Places to Work for Postdocs

The Scientist' Names Best Places to Work for Postdocs

As an annual exercise, the magazine The Scientist asks readers’ opinions about the places where they work. This month it announces the best places (according to the 3,086 respondents) for postdoctoral researchers.

The best? The J. David Gladstone Institutes, a three-part biomedical-research foundation affiliated with the University of California at San Francisco. Gladstone ranked second last year, behind the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston, which fell this year to fifth place. The second-best this year was the National Jewish Medical and Research Center, in Denver.

Internationally, British institutions took spots one through four, with the Universities of Cambridge, Liverpool, and Nottingham followed by the University of Edinburgh.

Read the fine print: Only 17 international institutions (and 82 in the United States) received five or more survey responses; the magazine did not rank those that received fewer entries. —Lila Guterman

New Books: Week of February 10, 2008

Fixed mobile convergence : voice over Wi-Fi, IMS, UMA/GAN, femtocells, and other enablers	Inorganic materials synthesis and fabrication
Modular design for machine tools	Next generation mobile access technologies : implementing TDD
Public or private economies of knowledge? : turbulence in the biological sciences	Technological change and environmental policy : a study of depletion in the oil and gas industry