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Hours During Spring Break--March 7 - March
16 |
| Friday, Mar 7 |
7:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
| Saturday, Mar 8 |
Closed |
| Sunday, Mar 9 |
Closed |
| Monday - Friday, Mar 10 - 14 |
7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
| Saturday, Mar 15 |
9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. |
| Sunday, Mar 16 |
1:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. |
EndNote Training
Learn how to use EndNote
to assist you in writing papers for publication. EndNote is an easy-to-use
way of managing citations and footnotes. Citations can be exported
from Google Scholar and databases such as Academic Search Premier,
then formatted instantly in a large variety of citation styles in
either EndNote or a Microsoft Word document. This class will focus
on the PC version of the software.
Two sessions will be offered:
Wednesday, April 16
at 1 pm
Friday, April 18 at 12
pm
If you are unable to come
to either session, please call and we can schedule a one-on-one
meeting.
Web
Sites of Interest
Drawing inspiration
from different sources, teams work to build an
environmentally sound car--1 Gallon Gas, 100 Miles-$10 Million:
The Race to Build the Supergreen car
http://www.wired.com/cars/futuretransport/magazine/16-01/ff_100mpg
100 Years after the Ford Model T, what does the future hold
for our cars?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=506493&in_page_id=1965
Automotive X Prize
http://auto.xprize.org/
Howstuffworks: "How Electric Cars Work"
[Macromedia Flash Player]
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/electric-car.htm
Aptera [Macromedia Flash Player]
http://www.aptera.com/
Classic Car Commercials
http://www.tvparty.com/vaultcomm.html
Walkable Communities [pdf]
http://www.walkable.org/
The first link offered here will take users to a nice piece from
the December 2007 edition of Wired Magazine. Along with learning
about the Automotive X Prize, they can find out more about the teams
working on this
project. The second link leads to an article from this Sunday's
Daily Mail by Michael Hanlon that delves into the past, present,
and future of automotive technology. Moving on, the third link will
whisk visitors away to the homepage of the Automotive X Prize. Here,
visitors can learn about the competition, read their weblog, and
read a bit more about their other activities. The fourth link will
take users to a video-enhanced site that will teach interested parties
how electric cars work. The fifth link leads to the homepage of
Aptera, which is one of the companies working on making a fuel-efficient
vehicle. For those who might be longing for a bit of old-school
automotive history, the sixth link provides a selection ofcommercials
for such legendary vehicles as the 1957 Plymouth Sport Suburban
and the 1965 VW Bug. And finally, for those who are interested in
creating
and living in pedestrian friendly places, the last link provides
access to resources for doing just that. [KMG]
Rhetoric for Engineers
http://www.tcnj.edu/~rgraham/rhetoric/
As a field of study, rhetoric has enjoyed a popular resurgence in
at the college level, and when deployed effectively, various rhetorical
devices can make any piece of writing much more compelling. Ron
Graham has created this site designed to help engineers and "other
practical people" with the practice and art of rhetoric. The
site includes a summary of basic rhetoric, along with some "Two-Minute
Drills", which are designed to help engineers with developing
answers to questions like "Are engineers made or born?"
and "Define 'reliability'". Visitors can also look over
the site's complete contents via an interactive guide which covers
everything from abstraction to workplace distractions. [KMG]
Writing Guidelines
for Engineering and Science Students
http://www.writing.eng.vt.edu/
Crafting meaningful and articulate lab presentations and correspondence
can be difficult for anyone, including engineers and other scientists.
This particular set of resources is deigned to teach engineering
and science
students about creating and writing materials such as resumes, formal
laboratory reports, presentation slides, and so on. The guidelines
are gathered into several different sections, including "Introduction",
"Presentations", "Correspondence", and "Formal
Reports". There is material for instructors here as well, and
the offerings include pieces on the design of writing assignments,
the interactive teaching of writing, and the evaluation of writing
assignments. Finally, the site also contains a number of writing
exercises on grammar, punctuation, and word usage. [KMG]
From The Scout Report,
Copyright Internet Scout 1994-2008. http://scout.wisc.edu/
Comments
or suggestions for the newsletter are welcome and appreciated.
Please reply to:
JaNae Kinikin, Science Librarian
Stewart Library
(801) 626-6093
jkinikin@weber.edu