Lighthouse in the Basement

Dear Faculty,

This will be my last blog post for Lighthouse in the Basement.    I hope you enjoy reading the information I have posted and benefit from the new books I have selected to apprise you of.
Sincerely,

Barbara Howser

Congratulations to Dr. Yvette Weatherton,  a senior lecturer in the civil engineering department.  She  has contributed a chapter to a textbook Climate Change and Sustainable Development,  published in March 2010.  Dr.  W eatherton wrote the chapter, titled “An Examination of Air Temperatures and Soil Temperatures in the United States Gulf Coast and Implications Related to Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Soil,” with Edith Womack-Richardson of Southern University.

Congratulations also to Dr. Melanie Sattler.   “Civil Engineering Assistant Professor Melanie Sattler is coordinating the “Engineering Sustainable Engineers” program, which is being underwritten by a $150,000 grant by the National Science Foundation.  Her collaborators include Drs. Yvette Weatherton and Stephen Mattingly from Civil Engineering, Kambiz Alavi from Electrical Engineering, and Victoria Chen and Jamie Rogers from Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering.” 
Courtesy / College of Engineering News

You may remember earlier this year (April 2010), the  eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which caused airlines to cancel many flights into & out of European airspace.   I have a friend who cancelled a trip to Europe because of the situation.   A Math Department faculty member was in Russia for a conference and could not depart afterward due to the cancelled flights.

You may be interested in reading this article on Bloomberg.com Europe Airspace Shutdown Worsened by Lack of Research.   The article implies a lack of research on the effects of volcanic ash on jet engines and over reliance on computer modeling.

I came across this article in an electronic open access library journal, Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship.   I thought it was an interesting piece and wanted to share with you all.  The article is a viewpoint about how students writing master’s theses know to cite their sources and how to not plagiarize when paraphrasing.
http://www.istl.org/10-summer/viewpoint.html

Civil Engineering & Environmental Engineering

• Environmental management accounting for cleaner production
  TD 194.7 .E58 2008
• Homes for a changing climate: adapting our homes and communites to cope with the climate of the 21st century
  TH 4860 .A533 2009
• Safe operation and maintenance of dry dock facilities (ASCE manuals and reports on engineering practice no. 121)
  TC 361 .S34 2010
• Soil engineering
  S604 .S652 2010
• Steel water storage tanks : design, construction, maintenance, and repair
  TD 489 .S74 2010
• Ten technologies to save the planet : energy options for a low-carbon future
  TD 885.5 .G73 G66 2010
  

Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

• Design and analysis of ASME boiler and pressure vessel components in the creep range
  TS 283 .J39 2009
• Hierarchical Voronoi graphs: spatial representation and reasoning for mobile robots
  TJ 211 .H54 2010
• Pipe stress engineering
  TJ 930 .P539 2009
• Pipeline geomatics: practice and innovation
  TJ 930 .P48 2009
• Power supply, energy management and catenary problems
  TF 863 .P68 2010
• Principles of flight simulation
  TL 712.5 .A42 2009
• Prepare for launch: the astronaut training process
  TL 850 .S44 2010
• Storms of controversy: the secret Avro Arrow files revealed
  TL 685.3 .C34 2010
• Unmanned aircraft systems UAVs design, development and deployment
  TL 718 .A97 2010b
• Vehicle noise and vibration refinement
  TL 246 .V44 2010

Industrial Manufacturing and Systems Engineering

• Applied metal forming: including FEM analysis
  TS 213 .V25 2010
• Design for environment: a guide to sustainable product development
  TS 171.4  .D478 2009
• Handbook of research in mass customization and personalization
  TS 155.65 .W67 2010 (2 v. set)
• It’s about time: the competitive advantage of quick response manufacturing
  TS 155 .S888 2010
• Metaheuristic search concepts: a tutorial with applications to production and logistics
  TS 155.6 .Z37 2010
• Operations management for MBAs (4th ed.)
  TS 155 .M393 2010
• Precision assembly technologies and systems: 5th International Precision Assembly Seminar, IPAS 2010 Chamonix, France, 2/10
  TS 155.65 .P74 2010

Of Interest

• Differential equations for engineers
  TA 347 .D45 X54 2010

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

Congratulations to Dr.  Abdolhosse Haji-sheikh, Professor in UT- Arlington MAE Dept.  He is co-author with Kevin Cole and Bahman Litkouhi of  Heat Conduction Using Green’s Functions, 2nd ed.