Lighthouse in the Basement

Civil & Environmental Engineering

• Acoustic beamforming: mapping sources of truck noise
  TE 7 .N25 no.635
  Also available online
• Carbon capture and storage
  TD 885.5 .C3 R33 2010
• Carbon footprint wars : what might happen if we retreat from globalization?
  QC 981.8 .G56 S5496  2009
• Dawn of green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and modern environmentalism
  TD 264 .M3 R58 2009
• Desalination of seawater and brackish water
  TD 478 .D445 2006
• Early contractor involvement in building procurement : contracts, partnering and project management
  TH 438 .M62 2009
• Electrochemical remediation technologies for polluted soils, sediments and groundwater
  TD 878.47 .E44 2009
• Environmental impact assessment: practice and participation
  TD 194.68 .C2 E59 2009
• Fundamentals of corrosion: mechanics, causes and preventative methods
  TA 418.74 .S3847 2010
• Green solvents for organic synthesis
  TP 247.5 .A35 2009
• Guidebook for selecting airport capital project delivery methods
  TL 725.3 .P5 T68 2009
• Handbook of sustainable refurbishment: non-domestic buildings
  TH 3401 .B35 2009
• Helping airport and air carrier employees cope with traumatic events
  TL 553.5 .H456 2009
• Inside the Civano Project: a case study of large-scale sustainable neighborhood developement
  TH 24 .A6 N53 2010
• Manhole inspection and rehabilitation (2nd ed.)
  TD 696 .M36 2009
• Mathematical methods for accident reconstruction: a forensic engineering perspective
  TA 219 .F73 2010
• Modeling indoor air pollution
  TD 883.17 .P47 2009
• Passenger air service development techniques
  TL 725.3 .P5 M37 2009
• Principles of water resources: history, development, management, and policy
  TC 405 .C42 2010
• Road to Yucca Mountain : the development of radioactive waste policy in the United States
  TD 898.118  .W35 2009
• Safety maintenance and surface weather
  TE 1 .N61 no.2107
• Seventh CANMET/ACI International Conference on fly ash, silica fume, slag and natural pozzolans in concrete
  TA 439 .I6267 2001 (2 vol. set)
• Tolley’s domestic gas installation practice (5th ed.)
  TH 6810 .T658 2009
• Transport simulation: beyond traditional approaches
  TA 1165 .T73 2009
• Using reclaimed wter to augment potable water resources: a special publication
  TD 429 .U85 2008
• WONDERmasonry: workshop on design for rehabilitation of masonry structures (in Italian)
  TA 670 .W665 2009

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

•  Conquering the sky : the secret flights of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk
  TL 540 .W7  T569 2009
• J. Robert Oppenheimer, the Cold War, and the atomic West
  QC 16 .O62  H86 2009
• Modern electric, hybrid electric, and fuel cell vehicles: fundamentals, theory, and design (2nd ed.)
  TL 221.15 .G39 2010
• Science and engineering of cutting: the mechanics and processes of separating, scratching and puncturing bi0materials, metals and non-metals
  TA 350 .A77 2009
• Simple science of flight: from insects to jumbo jets (rev. & expanded ed.)
  TL 570 .T4613 2009
• Soviet V/STOL aircraft: the struggle for shipborne combat capability 
  TL 685 .H56 1997
• Waves and mean flows
  QC 880.4 .A8 B84 2009

Industrial Manufacturing and Systems Engineering

• 1000 package designs: a comprehensive guide to packing it in
  TS 195.4 .A15 2008
• Design revolution: 100 products that empower people
  TS 171.4 .P55 2009

Of Interest

• Building integrated photovoltaics: a handbook
  TK1087 .R63 2009
• Offshore risk assessment: principles, modelling and applications of QRA studies
  TN 871.3 .V56 2007
• Science and engineering of cutting: the mechanics and processes of separating, scratching and puncturing biomaterials, metals and non-metals
  TA 350 .A77 2009

Talk about initialisms – it is confusing!   I am talking about Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management, not the latest sports news.
The database provides coverage to abstracts and much full-text back to 1967.

It is a great database for a wide variety of researchers: environmental engineers, civil engineers, chemists, ecologists, toxicologists, health & safety specialists, and the list goes on.
Rather than re-invent the wheel, I will “borrow” the description of ESPM from our A-Z list of databases.

ESPM is a “Multidisciplinary database that provides abstracts and references to literature covering all issues of air, land, water, and noise pollution as well as bacteriology, ecology, toxicology, risk assessment, environmental engineering, environmental biotechnology, waste management, and water resources.”

If you are looking for environmental impact statements or reports from the EPA, etc., this is the database to go to.    There is even a direct link to RefWorks – an online bibliographic management tool for managing your research citations.

Though I personally have not & don’t plan to read the series of books called “Twilight”, a workshop in the afternoon of this day will use the books as a source of data. And I don’t believe in vampires.

“Spatial analysis and vampires are topics covered during GIS Day Wednesday, Nov. 18, in the sixth floor parlor of the Central Library. The programs on global information systems are part of the National Geographic Society’s Geography Awareness Week, Nov. 15-21.

A GIS Research Showcase features how the geographic information system is used around campus. The showcase is set for 11 a.m.-noon and 1-2:30 p.m.

Darren Hayunga, an assistant professor in finance and real estate, will explain GIS use for spatial statistics, spatial econometrics and statistics in research. His talk begins at noon.

Josh Been, GIS librarian, leads the whimsical, hands-on workshop “Vampires in North America: Map Settlements and Migration Patterns” from 3-5 p.m. in B-20/21 of the Central Library. The workshop uses the “Twilight” books for data.

Participants can play games, win prizes and partake of the giant GIS Day cake.

GIS Day is free and open to the public. Register to attend.”

Source: MavWire

Believe it or not the government is Twittering.   See http://twitter.com/NTISInfo

The UT Arlington Library has established the ResearchCommons, a new repository to house electronic versions of important University research, including papers, books, images, recordings and other data. UT Arlington is one of 18 Texas universities that have established stable and secure digital environments in which scholars may deposit their completed work.

So far, the new communities in the ResearchCommons include the Department of Linguistics and TESOL, Department of Psychology, Department of Mathematics, School of Architecture and the Library.

Visit dspace.uta.edu to access the ResearchCommons, which is available to the public.

Source: MavWire

Actually, reading the next post about Scholarly Communication will help you understand the importance of the ResearchCommons.

What is scholarly communication?   Well, (and that is a “mighty deep subject”)  it sounds like intellectual jargon.  Actually, I feel I’m getting in over my head with this blog post.  Instead of re-inventing the wheel, I will “borrow” a definition from a colleague here at University of Texas/Arlington Library to explain what Scholarly Communication is.
“Scholarly communication is the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use.”

If you want to read more about scholarly communication or are very interested in the topic, click on this link http://libguides.uta.edu/scholcomm
The guide was created by UT-Arlington Library staff to help all of us learn about scholarly communication.

On Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Focus on Faculty speaker will be Dr. Pamela Jansma, Dean of College of Science.  Her presentation is entitled ”The Earth Moves Beneath Our Feet” .   The presentation is from 12-1 pm, reception and light refreshments 1-1:30 pm. The venue is the Central Library, sixth floor Parlor.  Free and open to all.

Civil Engineering & Environmental Engineering

• Art of resisting extreme natural forces:
  TH 1094 .I58 2007
• Belowground pipeline networks for utility cables
  TK 3261 .B45 2009
• Buried flexible steel pipe: design and structural analysis
  TD 491 .B865 2009
• Communicating the value of transportation research: guidebook
  TE 7 .N25 no. 610
• Construction 2009 (Transportation Research Record-Journal of the Transportation Research Board)
  TE 1  .N61 no. 2098
• Contaminants of emerging environmental concern
  TD 174 .C66 2009
• Geomaterials 2009 (Transportation Research Record-Journal of the Transportation Research Board)
  TE 1 .N61 no. 2104
• Groundwater hydrology of springs: engineering, theory, management, and sustainability
  TD 403 .G76 2010
• Guidebook for managing small airports
  TL 725.3 .M2 G85 2009
• Inspecting pipeline installation
  TA 660 .P55 I544 2009
• Investment opportunities for a low carbon world
  TD 195 .E25 I58 2009
• Mayordomo: chronicle of an acequia in northern New Mexico
  TC 824 .N6 C73 2004
• Nanotechnologies for water environment applications
  TD 477 .N36 2009
• Navigation engineering practice and ethical standards (ASCE Manuals and Reports on Engineering Practice No. 116)
  TC 423 .N355 2009
• Nutrient control actions for improving water quality in the Mississippi River Basin and Northern gulf of Mexico
  TD 427 .N87 N38 2009
• Role of technology in water resources planning and management
  TD 345 .R65 2009
• Safety data, analysis, and evaluation 2009 (v.2) (Transportation Research Record-Journal of the Transportation Research Board)
  TE 1 .N61 no. 2103
• Transit: intermodal transfer facilities, rail, commuter rail, light rail, and major activitty center circulation systems
  TE 1 .N61 no. 1930
• Urban style = Maison de ville = Städtische Häuser
  TH 4860 .U73 2008
• Using reclaimed water to augment potable water resources (2nd ed.)
  TD 429 .U85 2008
• Water ethics: Marcelino Botin Water Forum 2007
  TD 201 .M3752  2009

Mechanical Engineering & Aerospace Engineering

• Acoustics of fluid-structure interactions
  TA 357.5 .F56 H69 2008
• Conjugate problems in convective heat transfer
  TJ 260 .D64 2010
• Guide of thermal storage technology
  TJ 260 .O43 2009
• History of North American small gas turbine aircraft engines
  TL 709.3 .T83 L48 1999
• License to orbit: the future of commercial space travel
  TL 790 .P35 2009
• Nuclear Rocket: making our planet gree, peaceful and prosperous
  TL 783.5 .D47 2009
• Offshore wind power
  TJ 820 .O34 2009
• Predictive functional control: principles and industrial applications
  TJ 217.6 .R53 2009
• Vehicle aerodynamics, 2009
  TL 245 .V42 2009
• Vortex wakes of aircrafts
  QA 851 .V67 2009

Industrial Manufacturing and Systems Engineering 

• Fine line: how design strategies are shaping the future of business / Hartmut Esslinger
  TS171 .E85 2009
• Managing innovation from the land of ideas and talent: the 10-year story of SAP Labs India
  TS 171.4 .N37 2009
• Quality concepts for the process industry (2nd ed)
  TS 156 .S685 2010
• Social embeddedness of idustrial ecology
  TS 161 .S58 2009

Of Interest

• Nancy Clark’s Sports nutrition guidebook
  TX 361 .A8 C54 2008 (located in Central Library)
• Down to the wire: confronting climate collapse
  QC 981.8 .C5 O77 2009
• Rising plague: the global threat from deadly bacteria and our dwindlying arsenal to fight them
  QR177 .S64 2009
• Vitamin discoveries and disasters: history, sicnece, and controversies
  QP 771 .F73 2009  

Congratulations are in order for Dr. Atilla Dogan and Dr. Kamesh Subbarao of MAE and Dr. Jay Rosenberger of IMSE.  They were promoted to Associate Professors with tenure!  Way to go …

Congratulations are also in order for Dr. Ali Abolmaali.  He is now a full Professor!  Kudos to you Dr. Abolmaali!