15 links to useful or interesting stuff from ASEE 2008

1. Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future (2007) Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309100399
2. Patent Lens - www.patentlens.com
3. Patents at Mach 2: Workshop wiki - http://patentsatmach2.wikispaces.com/
4. PAIR (Patent Application Information Retrieval ) - http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair
5. TRAIL-Technical Report Archive and Image Library: a collaborative project to digitize, archive, and provide persistent and unrestricted access to federal technical reports issued prior to 1975: http://digicoll.manoa.hawaii.edu/techreports/
6. Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering - http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12187
7. Science and Engineering Indicators 2008, published by the National Science Board, provides a broad base of quantitative information on the U.S. and international science and engineering enterprise http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind08/
8. Management & Economics Library Business Research Concept Map at Purdue: http://www.lib.purdue.edu/mel/bizmap/BusinessResearch.html
9. Engineering Libraries Division Conference 2008 – Schedule/PowerPoints & handouts - http://eld.lib.ucdavis.edu/conf/conf08.php
10. ASEE ELD Blog – Conference Notes - http://asee-eld.blogspot.com/
11. NSPE Code of Ethics and the Engineers' Creed - http://www.nspe.org/ethics/index.html (Wichita State U library incorporated into their online tutorial)
12. Vivo: Cornell’s Research & Scholarship portal - Vivo.library.cornell.edu
13. Richard Sweeney’s Millenial 2-page overview handout - http://library1.njit.edu/staff%2Dfolders/sweeney/Millennials/Millennial-Summary-Handout.doc
14. John J. Meier and Thomas W. Conkling, Google Scholar’s Coverage of the Engineering Literature: An Empirical Study, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, May 2008. John is working on a follow study to determine where the references are coming from. - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2008.03.002
15. Entrez – the life sciences search engine - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/gquery