EurekAlert: "Science News that's just a click away" is how this AAAS web site is billed and includes a Nanotechnology portal. Take a look:

http://www.eurekalert.org

August is National Inventor's Month

In honor of National Inventor's Month, here are some sites to help get your own creative juices flowing!

Time Magazine's Coolest Inventions of 2008: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1852747,00.html
Fast Company's Top 50 Innovative Companies:
http://www.fastcompany.com/fast50_09
Greatest Engineering Achievements of the Twentieth Century:
http://www.greatachievements.org/
Invention City:
http://www.inventioncity.com/design.html

And when you're ready to patent your invention:
http://www.uspto.gov/

The Engineering Library announces online access to Springer eBooks!

Celebrate Energy Week by linking to selected ebooks on Sustainable Energy and Be Enlightened!.

Fuel Cell Technology
Ocean Wave Energy
Offshore Wind Energy
Renewable Energy
Solar Energy Fundamentals and Modeling Techniques
Sustainable Energy Technologies
Wind Energy

For a full list of Springer ebooks, visit:
http://www.library.nd.edu/eresources/ebooks/springer_index.shtml

Notre Dame to break ground Sept. 26 for Innovation Park

By:	Ann Hastings and Dennis Brown
Date:	September 22, 2008

A groundbreaking ceremony for Innovation Park at Notre Dame will be held at 3:30 p.m. Friday (Sept. 26) at the park’s future site near the corner of Twyckenham Drive and Edison Road in South Bend.

To be located on 12 acres of land adjacent to the south side of the University, Innovation Park will be home to a variety of start-up businesses, including expected commercial applications from the new Notre Dame-based Midwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery (MIND) and other University core research areas.

The park’s first building, to be completed by fall 2009, will be a three-story, 54,000-square-foot structure that will include collaborative areas, conference rooms, administrative offices, incubation facilities and lab space. Plans are being developed for future expansion.

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LaTeX and BibTeX

Greetings from the Engineering Library!

I invite you to contact me if you would be interested in giving a lecture on LaTeX and BibTeX to your fellow grad students in a library-sponsored informational session using Windows.

The library will be holding information sessions on RefWorks which manages references and creates bibliographies very soon and we want to have a session about LaTeX/BibTeX but do not have expertise in it.

I also have a few questions about your use of LaTeX. Which journals or publishers require you to submit articles for publication using LaTeX? Does the College of Engineering or your department require you to use LaTeX for your thesis?

Thanks very much and hope to hear from you!

Carol A. Brach
Engineering Librarian
University of Notre Dame
(574)631-5070

Dunn named managing director of nanotechnology centers

By:	William G. Gilroy and Nina Welding
Date:	August 29, 2008

Robert M. Dunn, most recently the director of the Integrated Engineering and Business Practices Program in the University of Notre Dame’s College of Engineering, has been named the managing director of the Center for Nano Science and Technology (NDnano) and the recently established Midwest Institute of Nanoelectronics Discovery (MIND).

In this new role, Dunn will serve as both an advocate of the organizations and a facilitator for them, working closely with faculty, staff and industry and government partners as the research activities in these centers continue to grow. He also will coordinate outreach and commercialization efforts, including the development of an industrial affiliate’s network, and assist the transition from his previous position by helping to identify and train a new director of the college’s business practices program.

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Exploring the life-saving aspects of engineering

By:	Gail Hinchion Mancini
Date:	August 11, 2008

Some academic experiences are built from moments and memories.

Tracy Kijewski-Correa remembers being at her home in downtown South Bend on Dec. 26, 2004, when the television began broadcasting news of a tsunami that hit Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand, killing more than 225,000.

“I just felt sick to my stomach,” says Kijewski-Correa, Rooney Family Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. “We’ve all seen the damage Katrina caused, and how long rebuilding is taking. Imagine, then, the effects of a tsunami on a village where the homes are simple shacks and family members are having breakfast when a tsunami strikes with no warning.”

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