Engineering professor named IEEE fellow

Congratulations to Professor Flynn for being named a fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions to biometric identification!

"A  faculty member since 2001, Flynn’s interests include computer vision, biometrics and 3D sensing and modeling. He directs the biometrics research group with Kevin W. Bowyer, the Schubmehl-Prein Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Flynn, his students and collaborators have been researching the feasibility of image-based biometrics and multi-biometrics since 2001.
Federal agencies have frequently used the Notre Dame biometrics research group’s expertise to obtain objective analysis of commercial biometrics technologies.

In addition to this most recent honor, Flynn is a fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, a distinguished member of the Association for Computing Machinery, a member of the American Society for Engineering Education, and an associate member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the International Association for Identification. He has also received numerous teaching awards throughout his career.

He joins several other Notre Dame faculty who have been named IEEE fellow, including: Panos Antsaklis, Peter Bauer, Gary H. Bernstein, Kevin Bowyer, Daniel J. Costello Jr., Thomas Fuja, Yih-Fang Huang, Peter M. Kogge, Ruey-Wen Liu, James L. Merz, Anthony Michel, Wolfgang Porod and Alan Seabaugh."

http://newsinfo.nd.edu/news/27579-computer-science-professor-named-fellow-for-biometrics-contributions/

Tau Beta Pi 2011 Indiana Laureate

The Bulletin of Tau Beta Pi is now available online. The September 2011 issue features details of the Association’s 106th annual Convention t in Indianapolis, IN. Special news includes profiles of four new district directors, membership recruitment ideas, and highlights of the 2011 TBP award winners.

"Rosary T. Abot has been named a 2011 Tau Beta Pi Laureate for her diverse achievements.
Rosary  graduated in May 2011, with a dual major in chemical engineering and philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. She has a broad range of interests as a volunteer in her community as well as her own academic career. She spent the 2008-09 school year at the University of Cambridge, where she participated as a coxswain on two college rowing teams.
She has also been a successful teacher and mentor. Rosary was a substitute teacher for 4th and 5th graders in San Francisco, a mentor to exchange students at Notre Dame, and a teacher’s aide for eight weeks. Most recently, she spent the summer traveling in Mongolia, on a grant from Cambridge, teaching English.
On campus, she served as captain of the Mock Trial Association and led the team to awards at regional and invitational events. In May, Rosary was named a Lilly graduate fellow and received a stipend for three years of graduate study as well as summer conferences and mentoring." (Tau Beta Pi Press Release, July2011)

Congratulations Rosary!

Open Access Week Presentation

Celebrate Open Access Week – Join the Hesburgh Libraries in celebrating Open Access Week by attending a series of short presentations on publishing issues in higher education on Thursday, October 27, 2011, from 3:30pm to 5pm, in  Hesburgh Library Room 222.  Presenters will include Kasturi Haldar (Julius Nieuwland Professor of Biological Sciences and Founding Director of the Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases), Peter Cholak (Professor of Mathematics, College of Science), and Anthony Holter (Assistant Professional Specialist in the Mary Ann Remick Leadership Program, Institute for Educational Initiatives).  No registration is required.

http://openaccessweek.org/events/presentations-on-publishing-issues-in-higher-education?xg_source=shorten_twitter

Knovel

Knovel is a web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools to drive innovation and engineering! Knovel provides trusted technical reference quickly and efficiently. According to Knovel, Engineers who use Knovel save an average of four hours per week. Try out Knovel today!

The Knovel University Challenge continues till December 1st! Answer 3 questions correctly and enter to win an iPad, cash, or other great prizes!  

http://www.knoveluniversitychallenge.com/

Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) Service through Teaching program

The Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) Service through Teaching program is beginning its eighteenth year of placing graduates of Notre Dame and other universities as teachers in under-resourced Catholic schools across America. To serve these needy schools, ACE has created a two-year program in which participants earn a Master in Education degree as they serve as full-time teachers. With its fully accredited M.Ed. and multiple levels of professional and personal support, ACE truly prepares its participants to meet the challenges they will encounter in their classrooms. After their two-year service commitment, ACE graduates contribute to diverse disciplines and varied professions, including public policy, teaching, law, and doctoral studies in fields from education to physics.

Beginning in 1994 with just 40 teachers, ACE currently places over 175 teachers in 30 communities throughout the United States. Much of this incredible growth has resulted directly from your willingness to inform your students about ACE. This year we ask for your continued assistance. We are happy to attend a class during this semester to present on ACE for 5 to 10 minutes and answer any questions that your students may have. Please fill in the linked form if you are interested and we would be happy to coordinate a classroom visit. (The form may be found here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/nd.edu/viewform?formkey=dE53THdsOXlGNGZRQms1Um95Tzdvbnc6MQ.) If you have any questions about our program, please feel welcome to stop in our office in our new home, Carole Sandner Hall, located just north of the Basilica, or call 574-631-7052.

Free Journal Articles and Resources from AIP

The American Institute of Physics congratulates this year's Nobel Laureates in Physics “for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae.” Sharing half the prize is Saul Perlmutter from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley. Sharing the other half jointly are Brian P. Schmidt from the Australian National University, and Adam G. Riess from Johns Hopkins University and Space Telescope Science Institute.

AIP is pleased to make available free of charge a selection of research papers these Nobel Laureates have published in our journals, Conference Proceedings, and Physics Today magazine. To view any of these materials go to http://journals.aip.org/Nobel2011.html.

First Year Engineering Tips

Here are some tips for first year engineering students adapted from the article "Surviving Engineering School" from Richard M. Felder, North Carolina State University, Chem. Engineering Education, 37(1), 30–31 (2003).

1. Go to Class
Attendance is important, but so is participation. Pay attention in class and ask questions when you don't understand something. Chances are someone else has the same question.

2. Use Office Hours
Visiting Professors and T.A.'s during office hours allows you to ask questions and get clarification on assignments.Could you give an example of how you would use that formula?" "Could you sketch what that (device, solution, plot) might look like?" "Where did that equation you just wrote come from? Never ask your instructor for help on a problem until you have made a serious effort to solve it by yourself.

3. Study with a group
Working with others helps you ask questions and figure things out. Studying together with peers can show you ways to solve problems. Outline problem solutions by yourself first and then work out the details in your group. Get group members—especially the weaker ones—to explain all completed problem solutions before ending a problem-solving session.

4. Do your Homework
Completing your homework on time help you prepare for exams. If you are having difficulty, seek out help from a tutor or T.A. Start early: waiting until two days before the final exam probably won’t cut it.

5. Use the Engineering Library (scan your ID to use the library 24 hrs.) http://engineering.library.nd.edu/

6. Math Library Tutors are available to help you with any type of math.
http://mathematics.library.nd.edu/about/tutors.shtml

7. Find a good study spot
There are lots of great places to study on campus, but branch libraries like Engineering, Math, and Chemistry Physics are favorites for being quiet places. The lower level of Hesburgh is also nice and quiet!

8. Make an exam schedule
Don't stress about tests! Make a calendar of exams and study for one at a time.

9. Ask questions
If you can't figure something out on your own, seek out an expert. Professors, grad students, librarians, or professional engineers can be a great resource for students.

10. Believe in yourself!

ACM Digital Library Institution Bibliometrics

The ACM Digital Library now provides institutional bibliometrics profiles. Check out the University of Notre Dame's Profile!

http://dl.acm.org.proxy.library.nd.edu/inst_page.cfm?id=1017072&CFID=42848082&CFTOKEN=22418365

Knovel University Challenge

The Knovel University Challenge begins today! Answer 3 questions correctly and enter to win an iPad, cash, or other great prizes!

http://www.knoveluniversitychallenge.com/

Free Math Tutoring

The O'Meara Mathematics Library is pleased to announce that starting on Sunday, September 11, a mathematics tutor will be available from 7pm to 10pm in the Math Library. The plan is to have a tutor available from Sundays thru Thursdays, 7pm – 11 pm.

Tutors are available to help *any* undergraduate who's having trouble with mathematics.

Tutoring can be scheduled for an individual or a small group for half-hour sessions. Interested students can email (mathlib.1@nd.edu) or phone (631-7278) the O'Meara Mathematics Library to schedule a time. If a time is arranged in advance there will be a better chance of getting help at the time needed.

Students are asked to provide their names and the name of their class. It would also be help to explain briefly what sort of help they're looking for. Specifics will give the tutor time to prepare in advance of the session.

The tutors will also try to accommodate drop-in students.

ASTM Standards and Enginering Digital Library

ASTM Standards are now available electronically from the Engineering Library! This Electronic edition of nearly every ASTM book, paper, or chapter from nearly every piece of work published by ASTM. The new ASTM Digital Library provides over 30,000 papers and chapters and more than 400,000 pages of information in a self-service environment."--ASTM home page.
Access info: Select "Standards and Engineering Digital Library" then click "Yes, I agree with the License".
The ASTM 2009 Annual Book Standards are also available in the Engineering Library Reference (TA 401 .Am35sb). Older editions of the ASTM Annual Book of Standards are available for check out.

Resources for Engineering Students

Happy First Day of School! Here is a list of resources for engineering students, some helpful links, and library guides to specific types of information. Engineering students can access the Engineering Library 24 hrs. with ND student ID. Students can also access the Engineering Library homepage on or off campus with access to electronic databases and e-books with ND net ID and password @ http://engineering.library.nd.edu/
Good Luck with the fall semester!

Tables, Data, and Calculators

• Knovel Unit Converter- The unit converter allows you to convert values from a table's existing units of measurement to other units that you select.
• Knovel Data Search -Data Search retrieves numeric and other tabular data contained in Knovel's interactive graphs, equations and tables.
• ASM Alloy Phase Diagrams Center
  Explore, search and view more than 32,500 binary and ternary phase diagrams and associated phase data for more than 6200 systems.

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Fall Library Workshops

Welcome back students! It's time for another school year to begin and Hesburgh Libraries is offering workshops to help get you started on your research. Check out the link below to sign up for Graduate Student Orientation or any of the other workshops offered through Hesburgh Libraries!

http://www.library.nd.edu/instruction/workshops.shtml

Science Express

What is Science Express?

Science Express provides rapid electronic publication of selected research papers, Perspectives, and other articles that have recently been accepted for publication in Science. Each week we select several papers for online publication in PDF format within two weeks of acceptance. For authors, it's a chance to get their peer-reviewed results in front of the scientific community as much as four to six weeks before they would otherwise appear in print. For readers, it's an opportunity to connect with these hot results immediately.

http://www.sciencemag.org.proxy.library.nd.edu/content/early/recent

ND users can set up an RSS feed or have the TOC sent to their email. This is a new resource that the sci-eng librarians purchased the end of last fiscal year. Let us know what you think of Science Express!

What's New

Here is a look at what new resources are available at the Engineering Library:

http://engineering.library.nd.edu/about/engineers-week.shtml

IEEE Wiley ebooks

IEEE Wiley ebooks now available.

Sanborn Maps, Geo Edition now available

Sanborn Maps Geo Edition provides digital access to thousands of large-scale maps of American towns and cities, searchable by address and GPS coordinates.

Sanborn® fire insurance maps are the most frequently consulted maps in libraries. The maps chart the growth and development of thousands of America towns and cities across a century. Because of this scope, urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, and others will find the maps a valuable tool.

ProQuest® Sanborn Maps Geo Edition™ allows for increased discovery and greater ease of use by making maps searchable by address and location. Examining temporal (time) changes is made even easier with tools that layer maps from different years on top of each other and over modern street, satellite, and hybrid layers via a Google™ map interface.

Knovel Reference now available

Knovel is a web-based application integrating technical information with analytical and search tools to drive innovation and deliver answers engineers can trust.

New Books in the Engineering Library

We have made it easy for you to get the latest list of new books in the Engineering Library! Called the "virtual new book shelf", you can find it at http://www.library.nd.edu/vnb/.

Specify the location as “Engineering Library” and choose New Since “number of days ago”. Then click on the Submit Search button.

In the Engineering Library, the new books are shelved on our new book shelf which is located in front of the circulation desk.