Save the Date: IEEE Breakfast and Presentation at SLA
Information professionals and their colleagues are invited to attend the IEEE breakfast at the 2008 SLA Annual Conference this June. Discover why researchers around the world rely on IEEE scientific literature to innovate and why leading organizations access IEEE articles and papers to support R&D, develop new patents and expedite time-to-market. At the breakfast, IEEE will present tips to demonstrate the value of IEEE information to your organization, highlight results from a recent new patent development study of the large impact of IEEE research and demonstrate upcoming enhancements to the IEEE Xplore® digital library. Both IEEE customers and those interested in obtaining access to IEEE online publications are welcome. The breakfast will be held Tuesday, 17 June at the Washington State Convention Center at 9:00 am, and registration is required. Please RSVP to Phyllis Buchta at p.buchta@ieee.org.
ASEE New Member Reception
IEEE is sponsoring the ELD Welcome Reception for new members at the 2008 ASEE Annual Conference on Monday, 23 June from 6:00 to 9:00 pm at the Bevier Engineering Library in Benedum Hall, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Transportation to and from the reception will be available from the Westin Convention Center starting at 5:45 pm. The 2008 ASEE Annual Conference is being held 22-25 June in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA and will provide a three day forum for over 3,500 leaders in the field, including professors, deans, instructors and students, to present their research and interact with colleagues and industry counterparts interested in furthering engineering education. Be sure to visit us at Booth #216. Go to the 2008 ASEE Conference web site.
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Training and Tools to Help You Get the Most Out of Your IEEE Subscription
IEEE provides a number of ways to help you take advantage of everything an IEEE subscription has to offer. Instant, self-paced training modules covering the most requested training topics are available for users new to the IEEE Xplore® digital library, or for those just looking for a refresher. These short digital overviews are all under five minutes and perfect for catching up on useful pointers. Additionally, you can link to IEEE information with a search box or banner ad located directly on your organization’s web site. A variety of downloadable search buttons, with simple directions for installation, are available to help make searching with IEEE Xplore quick and easy. Customized materials and quick reference guides are also available to help increase awareness of your IEEE subscription. From IEEE Xplore user guides, customizable IEEE digital library flyer, poster and promotional event templates to industry impact flyers, there are a variety of tools to help you showcase the benefits of using IEEE Xplore. Learn more
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Visit IEEE at Upcoming Conferences
Stop by and see us at the following conferences to talk about the benefits of subscribing to IEEE information and share tips on making the most of your current subscriptions.
2008 Canadian Library Association National Conference & Trade Show
21–24 May
Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Booth #36
NSTI Nanotech 2008
1–5 June
Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Booth #803
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IEEE Hosts Customer Meetings in Three Latin American Cities; Plans Meeting in Germany for Early 2009
Last month, IEEE hosted three important customer meetings in the Latin American cities of Rio, Brasilia and Sao Paolo, Brazil. The meetings, supported by IEEE’s local representative Ebsco Brazil, invited customers and prospects from around the region to learn more about IEEE, our mission and our partnerships with libraries and research communities. George Plosker, IEEE Client Services Manager, conducted an in-depth training on IEEE Xplore® and presented information on Expert Now, IEEE’s online course collection. Interested customers in Germany and Austria will have the opportunity to participate in a similar meeting during the early part of 2009. Look for coming details about this exciting opportunity to provide feedback for ongoing IEEE Xplore developments.
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IEEE Library Advisory Council Welcomes New Members
IEEE proudly welcomes eight new members to the Library Advisory Council (LAC) this year. Formed in 1999, the Library Advisory Council is a group of international corporate, academic and government librarians who consult with the IEEE to develop products and policies. New members include:
René Bourbon, European Patent Office
Susan G. Braun, The Aerospace Corporation
Rebekah Cerame, Northrop Grumman Corporation
Helen Josephine, Stanford University Libraries
Salvatore Rinaudo, STMicroelectronics
Andy Shrimp, Yale University
Frank Toolenar, Philips Research
Amy Van Epps, Purdue University Libraries
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First Issue of IET Power Electronics Now Available in IEEE Xplore®
IET Power Electronics, a new journal from the IET brings together five principal power electronics themes. The journal, now available in IEEE Xplore, focuses on the specific power electronics areas of applications of power semiconductor technology, circuits, devices, techniques and performance management. The inaugural issue of IET Power Electronics highlights concerns in novel power converter topology; isolated zero-voltage transition PWM converters; forced oscillation in LC circuits; and new options for large power and high-quality AC-DC conversion. Read the first issue
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IEEE Online Training Seminars
Be sure to register for and encourage your colleagues to attend IEEE’s online training seminar, “Searching with IEEE Xplore®.” The online tutorial provides existing and potential customers with free demonstrations, including tips on how to search in the IEEE Xplore digital library.
Tutorials have been scheduled for the following dates in 2008:
16 May at 10 am
3 June at 10 am
1 July at 10 am
All times noted are Eastern Time (ET).
Advance registration is required for all scheduled seminars and space is limited, so please sign up early. Customized tutorials are also available; please contact training@ieee.org for more information on designing a training seminar to fit your needs.
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Expert Now Course Teaches Active-RC Filter Design Techniques
Make sure your faculty, researchers, and engineers know that they can learn about the latest developments in active-RC filter design in a course taught by George Moschytz. The Expert Now course, “Design of Active-RC Filters for the Analog Front End (of Integrated Circuit System Chips),” is sponsored by the IEEE Circuits & Systems Society and will focus on active-RF filters as they relate to the concepts of ‘analog front end’. After a review of introductory and basic concepts, the course will consider some of the most important and established active-RC filter-design techniques. Examples, taken from typical modern communication systems, are given for the conversion of classical LCR filter structures into inductorless active-RC filter circuits that are amenable to IC chip design. Finally, filters designed using the design techniques covered in the course are compared in terms of practical performance criteria such as thermal output noise, sensitivity to component tolerances, and tunability. Learn more about this course
To learn more about other Expert Now courses, as well as flexible pricing and subscription options, visit the IEEE Expert Now web site.
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IEEE.tv Releases Two New Programs
Two new free, public access special programs, one featuring a team of female engineering students that are breaking down the stereotypes of women in engineering and the other profiling fascinating and innovative approaches to meeting humankind’s growing energy needs, are now available from IEEE.tv.
Nerd Girls
They’re Beauty and the Geek all in one package! Meet the NERD GIRLS—an impressive team of female engineering students a year away from landing top jobs. Whether building a solar car or harnessing wind power on a remote island, these girls fully intend to change the planet with their own ingenuity and hard work. Working to break the stigmas and stereotypes of women in engineering, the Nerd Girls at Tufts University are engineers who have danced in the Nutcracker ballet, sang at the Apollo Theater, are award-winning pianists and nationally ranked athletes. The engineering team’s task for Nerd Girls is to build a solar car. The program documents this process and shows how successful these students are as they work together to design and construct an engineering system.
The Grid: Energy Innovations—Solar Goes Small
This series profiles fascinating and innovative approaches to meeting humankind’s growing energy needs. A solar panel manufacturing plant that will be the first facility to make renewable energy products using only renewable energy is being built in Cardiff, Wales. While the manufactured solar panels will be for small, personal devices like cell phones and laptops, the panel is not just solar—their technology also generates power using indoor lighting and moonlight. The group plans to target the third world market, enabling millions of potential consumers to skip the traditional interface with the Grid and rely solely on an abundant and free source of energy.
Both of these new programs can be found on the IEEE.tv web site.
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In Brief: New Documents Now Available on the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library
Over 100 journal issues, conference proceedings and standards have been added to the IEEE Xplore digital library in April. Some of the highlights include:
IEEE Pervasive Computing
Features articles on designing personal robots for education; activity-based computing; rapid prototyping for functional electrical stimulation control; and the mobile sensing platform.
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Highlights reversible, fast and high-quality grid conversions; the robust generation of feature maps for region-based visual attention; algorithmic and architectural optimizations for computationally efficient particle filtering; and using spanning graphs for efficient image registration.
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Covers topics in dynamic wavelength allocation; performance bounds for free-space optical MIMO systems; quasi-dynamic network design considering different service holding times; and optical burst switching networks.
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