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		<title>Farewell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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
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		<link>http://blog.uta.edu/~bhowser/2010/08/31/farewell/</link>
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		<title>Accolades</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;An Examination of Air Temperatures and Soil Temperatures in the United States Gulf Coast and Implications Related to Nitrous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.uta.edu/~bhowser/2010/08/31/acc/</link>
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		<title>Volcanoes and Airlines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may remember earlier this year (April 2010), the  eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which caused airlines to cancel many flights into &#38; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.uta.edu/~bhowser/2010/08/31/volcanoes-and-airlines/</link>
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		<title>Plagiarism and Engineering Master&#8217;s Thesis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s theses know to cite their sources and how to not plagiarize when paraphrasing.
http://www.istl.org/10-summer/viewpoint.html
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		<link>http://blog.uta.edu/~bhowser/2010/08/26/plagiarism-and-engineering-masters-thesis/</link>
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		<title>August 2010 Selected New Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Civil Engineering &#38; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.uta.edu/~bhowser/2010/08/09/447/</link>
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		<title>The Next X Prize Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This time the X Prize Challenge contest is looking at the Earth instead of space.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gmssGQEVQFNLJVYkklgAUa9p6qqg
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		<link>http://blog.uta.edu/~bhowser/2010/07/30/the-next-x-prize-challenge/</link>
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		<title>Need a Technical Report from before 1975?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Try TRAIL (Technical Report Archive and Image Library)
http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/techreports/index.php
&#8220;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 &#8211; www.gwla.org) and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL &#8211; www.crl.edu) are collaborating on a pilot project&#8221;&#8212;-Source http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/techreports/index.php?c=1
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		<link>http://blog.uta.edu/~bhowser/2010/07/29/need-a-technical-report-from-before-1975/</link>
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		<title>July 2010 Selected New Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Civil Engineering &#38; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.uta.edu/~bhowser/2010/07/15/july-2010-selected-new-books/</link>
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		<title>July Accolades</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Dr. Ali Abolmaali!!!!!  He has received a &#8221;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.&#8221;   This research may prevent future underground infrastructure failures.  
from Press Release [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.uta.edu/~bhowser/2010/07/01/july-accolades/</link>
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		<title>More Accolades</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.
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		<link>http://blog.uta.edu/~bhowser/2010/06/07/more-accolades/</link>
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