Mechanical Engineering Library News

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Walter Library will have shortened hours this week including being closed on Thursday and Friday of this week (November 26 and 27).

The library will open again on Saturday. Reference services will start up on Monday.

Here's the full schedule for the weekend:
11/25 (W) 8:00 am- 6:00 pm
11/26 (Th) CLOSED
11/27 (F) CLOSED
11/29 (Sa) 10:00 am - 9:00 pm
11/30 (Su) 12:00 pm - 12:00 am

Enjoy the long weekend!

Here's a selection of new books that we've recently purchased at the Physical Science and Engineering Library that may be of use to Mechanical Engineers.

New Books for October 2009

Decision Behaviour, Analysis and Support
By Simon French, John Maule and Nadia Papamichail
T57.95 .F73 2009
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Spreadsheet Tools for Engineers Using Excel ® 2007
By Byron Gottfried
TA345 .G6832 2009
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A First Course in the Finite Element Method (4th Edition)
By Daryl L. Logan
TA347.F5 L64 2007
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Reliability Methods for Finite Element Models
By M. Rajabalinejad
TA347.F5 R34 2009
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Our Energy Future: Resources, Alternatives and the Environment
By Christian Ngo and Joseph Natowitz
TJ163.2 .N49 2009
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Impacts on U.S. Energy Expenditures and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions of Increasing Renewable-Energy Use
By Michael Toman
TJ163.4.U6 T66 2008
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Noncircular Gears: Design and Generation
By Faydor L. Litvin, Alfonso Fuentes-Aznar, Ignacio Gonzãlez-Perez, and Kenichi Hayasaka
TJ184 .N66 2009
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Distributed Control of Robotic Networks: A Mathematical Approach to Motion Coordination Algorithms
By Francesco Bullo, Jorge Cortes, and Sonia Martinez
TJ211 .B82 2009
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Robotics: Control and Programming
By J. Srinivas, R.V. Dukkipati, and K. Ramji
TJ211.35 .S65 2009
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Automatic Control Systems (9th Edition)
By Farid Golnaraghi and Benjamin C. Kuo
TJ213 .K8354 2010
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System Dynamics (2nd Edition)
By William Palm III
TJ213 .P228 2010
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Handbook Of Pi And Pid Controller Tuning Rules
By Aidan O'Dwyer
TJ223.P55 O38 2009
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Proceedings of 2009 US-EU-China Thermophysics Conference--Renewable Energy : Abstract Book: Presented at 2009 US-EU-China Thermophysics Conference--Renewable Energy, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China, May 28
TJ807.2 .U8 2009
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Wind Energy Generation: Modelling and Control
By Olimpo Anaya-Lara, Nick Jenkins, Janaka Ekanayake, Phill Cartwright, and Michael Hughes
TJ820 .W56955 2009
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Urban Wind Energy
By Sinisa Stankovic, Neil Campbell, and Alan Harries
TJ820 .S83 2009
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Nanofluidics
By Patrick Abgrall and Nam-Trung Nguyen
TJ853.4.M53 A24 2009
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Optofluidics: Fundamentals, Devices, and Applications
By Yeshaiahu Fainman, Luke Lee, Demetri Psaltis, and Changhuei Yang
TJ853.4.O68 O684 2010
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Practical Lubrication for Industrial Facilities (2nd Edition)
By Heinz P. Bloch and Ray Thibault
TJ1075 .B57 2009
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Building Integrated Photovoltaics: A Handbook
By Simon Roberts and Nicolò Guariento
TK1087 .R63 2009
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Running Small Motors with PIC Microcontrollers
By Harprit Sandhu
TK2851 .S26 2009
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If you've accessed Google Scholar in the past few days you may have noticed some changes.

For those of you new to Google Scholar--it's a Google search engine that allows you to search for scholarly material. And they've now added the ability to include patents in the search results in Google Scholar.

Google also has a search engine that searches only patents and patent applications at Google Patents.

To learn more about the changes you might want to read this blog post.

If you're interested in learning more about some of Google's uses for research check out the new online version of the Walter Library Workshop: Google for Researchers. (Note: The workshop is still in beta--if you have any feedback feel free to send me an email or leave a comment below.)

And don't forget when using Google Scholar to link it to the University of Minnesota's rich online journal collection.