Lighthouse in the Basement

This time the X Prize Challenge contest is looking at the Earth instead of space.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gmssGQEVQFNLJVYkklgAUa9p6qqg

Try TRAIL (Technical Report Archive and Image Library)

http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/techreports/index.php

“collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975.

Organizations Involved:
The Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA – www.gwla.org) and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL – www.crl.edu) are collaborating on a pilot project”—-Source http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/techreports/index.php?c=1

Civil Engineering & Environmental Engineering

• Fundamentals of water utility capital financing: AWWA manual (3rd ed.)
  TD 491 .A49 no. M29 2007
• Guide to the  Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
  TD 171.3 .T4 G85 2010
• Introduction to environmental impact: a guide to principles and practice
  TD 194.6 .N63 2009
• People and Rail systems: human factors at the heart of the railway
  TF 153 .P415 2007
• Principles of soil dynamics (2nd ed.)
  TA 711 .D27 2011
• Renewable energy handbook: the updated comprehensive guide to renewable energy and independent living
  TJ 808.3 .K46 2009
• Risk and decision analysis in maintenance optimization and flood management
  TC 530 .R575 2009
• Water and wastewater engineering: design principles and practice
  TD 345 .D36 2011

Mechanical Engineering & Aerospace Engineering

• Advanced direct injection combustion engine technologies and development (v. 2 Diesel engines)
  TL 214 .F78 A244 2010
• Algorithmic foundations of robotics VIII
• Another science fiction: advertising the space reace 1957-1962
  TL 789.8 .U5 P74 2010
• Automotive model predictive control: models, methods and applications
  TJ 212.2 .A88 2010
• Bouncing-bomb man: the science of Sir Barnes Wallis
  TL 540 .W27 M87 2009
• Ceramic gas turbine design and test experience
  TJ 778 .C39 2002
• Ceramic gas turbine component development and characterization
  TJ 778 .C385 2003
• Chemistry and technology of lubricants (3rd ed.)
  TJ 1075 .C44 2010
• Design and analysis of ASME boiler and pressure vessel components in the creep range
  TS 283 .J39 2009
• Dream machine: untold history of the notorious V-22 Osprey
  TL 685 .W46 2010
• Mister Mech Mentor: hydraulics & piping
  v.1 Hydraulics, pipe flow, industrial HVAC & utility systems
  TA 357 .W56 2005
• Optimization of observation and control processes
  TL 3250 .M35 1992
• Powering the future: a scientist’s guide to energy independence
  TJ 163.25 .U6 B68 2010
• Renewable energy handbook: the updated comprehensive guide to renewable energy and independent living
  TJ 808.3 .K46 2009
• Simple solutions to energy calculations (4th ed.)
  TJ 163.3 .V35 2008

Industrial Manufacturing and Systems Engineering

• Production systems engineering: cost and performance optimization
  TS 176 .G86 2010

Congratulations to Dr. Ali Abolmaali!!!!!  He has received a ”research gift and $50,000 from the Texas Research Incentive Program to develop nonlinear fracture and plasticity-based, 3-D finite element algorithms or formulas that will determine the structural behavior of several types of underground pipes and culverts.”   This research may prevent future underground infrastructure failures.  
from Press Release by Roger Tuttle, Engineering Public Relations Director