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October 10, 2007

A quick reminder to all our readers - we’d love to hear from you!

Delighted as we are that so many of you are taking time out to read our news, there’s no hiding the fact that we’re a bit short on feedback. So, please feel free to offer comment, be it a recommendation of a particularly useful resource or perhaps you need to vent your spleen over the type of information we’re covering (or that you’d like included maybe).

Whatever it is you want to say, we’d love to hear it. Remember, this is your Blog, so click on ’comments’ at the foot of any posting and let the discussions begin…..


Engineering Website News

October 9, 2007

From October’s edition of the Internet Resources Newsletter, we’ve extracted the following engineering highlights:

PinakesSubject launchpad, Pinakes, has recently been updated. It includes links to two engineering-specific subject gateways, Intute (science, engineering and technology) and aecportico (architecture, engineering and construction). Resources are of high quality and hand-selected.

Courses and Conferences: A five-day course on High Performance Computations for Engineering takes place in Hungary at Pecs University from 18th May – 23rd May 2006. It is aimed at PhD students and Research Assistants. Details available from  http://morpheus.pte.hu/~peteri/hpc2008/.

The International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering, CIS2 07, will be held on Dec. 3rd -12th, 2007. This will be an entirely virtual, Internet conducted event. Full details at http://www.cisse2007online.org/.

Recruitment: InterEC.NET provides an engineering-related job search and discussion forums. 

Popular downloads: Lists of the most frequently downloaded engineering articles on ScienceDirect can be viewed at ScienceDirect TOP25 Hottest Articles  

Patents: “Patent Lens is an independent, public-good global resource for increasing patent patent-lens.giftransparency … Search the full-text of more than 8 million patent documents from US, Europe, Australia and WIPO, including their status and counterparts in up to 60 countries” –Website