Calling all Engineering faculty members and graduate students! You are invited to the Kapihan sa Aklatan, an afternoon of discussion, presentation, and training on EnggLib’s online resources. This will take place on Friday, 27 January, 3:00 pm at the Lecture Hall of the UPAE Centennial Hall.
See you!
Check out the latest and the best resources on Engineering and Technology at the 5th Engineering Library Academic Book Fair, coming next week. For more information, contact us at library AT engglib2.upd.edu.ph or 981-8500 loc 3251-52.
You can always drop by Engglib2’s Serials Section on your leisure time to read our newspapers and magazines or browse at our collection of online databases or printed journals for scholarly reading and research. Happy Reading!
National Geographic – January 2012
Cover feature :
TWINS
Reader’s Digest- January 2012
Cover feature :
A Better You in the New Year
Newsweek – January 9 & 16, 2012
Cover feature :
31 Ways to get Smarter – Faster
Time – January 16, 2012
Cover feature :
Pakistan’s Dark Heart
Time – January 9, 2012
Cover feature :
2012 User’s Guide
Make: Technology on Your Time – October 2011
Cover feature :
Toys and Games
We are pleased to announce that three new e-journal subscriptions are now available at the Library:
The International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) provides an interdisciplinary forum in which AI scientists and professionals can share their research results and report new advances on AI tools or tools that use AI. Tools refer to architectures, languages or algorithms, which constitute the means connecting theory with applications. So, IJAIT is a medium for promoting general and/or special purpose tools, which are very important for the evolution of science and manipulation of knowledge.
The Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology aims to publish high quality, original research articles, expository tutorial papers and review papers as well as short, critical comments on technical issues associated with the analysis of cellular information.
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is the largest professional society in the world for professionals in the field of operations research (O.R.), management science, and business analytics. INFORMS serves the scientific and professional needs of Operations Researchers and those in the Management Sciences including educators, scientists, students, managers, and consultants. The Institute serves as a focal point for O.R. professionals, permitting them to communicate with each other and reach out to other professional societies, as well as the varied clientele of the profession’s research and practice.
These journals are accessible within the UP Diliman Network. For inquiries or concerns regarding our journal subscriptions, feel free to contact us: library@engglib2.upd.edu.ph or 981-8500 loc 3143-44 (EnggLib1) or 3251-52 (EnggLib2).
Newsweek – December 19, 2011
Cover feature :
ACHTUNG! It’s Angela!
Newsweek – Special Issue, December 2011 to February 2012
Cover feature :
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Newsweek – Double Issue, December 26, 2011/January 2, 2012
Cover feature :
Where is my Handbag?!
Time – December 19, 2011
Cover feature :
First Sergio Marchionne fixed Fiat. Then he rescued Chrysler. And he’s not done yet CAR STAR. Inside an industry turnaround by Bill Saporito
Time – Double Issue, December 26, 2011/January 2, 2012
Cover feature :
The PROTESTER from the Arab Spring to occupy Wall Street to Moscow
MSDN – October 2011
Cover feature :
Asynchronous Programming
MSDN Magazine – November 2011
Need to finish a paper during the holiday break? E-mail us at library@engglib1.upd.edu.ph or library@engglib2.upd.edu.ph with your College/Department and student/faculty no. to get a ProQuest Database’s Remote Access Account and take advantage of their multidisciplinary resources
Newsweek – December 5, 2011
Cover feature :
The Sex Addiction Epidemic by Chris Lee
Newsweek – December 12, 2011
Cover feature :
A New Movie. A New Mission. ANGIE Goes to War
Time – December 5, 2011
Cover feature :
Revolution Redux
Time – December 12, 2011
Cover feature :
Brave New Burma
Reader’s Digest – Classic Collection 2011
Cover feature :
The Classic Collection
RESERVE BOOKS
Solar cells : operating principles, technology, and system applications
| Author | Martin A. Green |
| Place of Publication | Kensington, N.S.W. |
| Date of Publication | c1998 |
| Publisher | University of New South Wales |
Explains the operating principles and design of solar cells, the technology used to produce them, improved future technology, and provides a good introduction to the design of systems based on these cells.
Applied photovoltaics, 2nd ed.
| Authors | S.R. Wenham … [et al.] |
| Place of Publication | London Sterling, VA |
| Date of Publication | c2007 |
| Publisher | Earthscan |
A reliable, accessible and comprehensive guide for students of photovoltaic applications and renewable energy engineering. This thoroughly considered textbook from a group of leading influential and award-winning authors is brimming with information and is carefully designed to meet the needs of its readers. Along with exercises and references at the end of each chapter, the book features a set of detailed technical appendices that provide essential equations, data sources and standards. Starting from basics with ‘The Characteristics of Sunlight’ the reader is guided step-by-step through semiconductors and p-n junctions; the behaviour of solar cells; cell properties ad design; and PV cell interconnection and module fabrication. The book covers stand-alone photovoltaic systems; specific purpose photovoltaic systems; remote are power supply systems; and grid-connected photovoltaic systems. There is also a section on photovoltaic water pumping system components and design. Applied Photovolatics is well illustrated and readable with an abundance of diagrams and illustrations, and will provide the reader with all the information needed to start working with photovoltaics.
First course on power electronics
| Author | Ned Mohan |
| Place of Publication | Minneapolis, Minn. |
| Date of Publication | c2009 |
| Publisher | MPERE |
An integrated Electric Energy Systems curriculum consists of three segments: Power Electronics, Power Systems and Electric Drives. This textbook follows a top-down systems-level approach to Power Electronics to highlight interrelationships between these sub-fields. This textbook is intended to teach students both the fundamentals and practical design in a single-semester course. A building-block approach to power electronics allows an in-depth discussion of several important topics that are left out in conventional courses, for example, designing feedback control, power-factor-correction circuits, soft-switching, and SV-PWM which is a PWM technique far superior to Sine-PWM, to name a few. The topics in this book are carefully sequenced to maintain continuity and student interest throughout the course. In a fast pace course with proper student background, this book can be covered from front-to-back in one semester. However, the material is arranged in such a way that an instructor, to accommodate the students background, can either omit an entire topic or cover it quickly to provide just an overview using the PowerPoint-based slides on the accompanying CD, without interrupting the flow.
Low power design essentials
| Author | Jan Rabaey |
| Place of Publication | New York; London |
| Date of Publication | c2009 |
| Publisher | Springer |
This book contains all the topics of importance to the low power designer. It first lays the foundation and then goes on to detail the design process. The book also discusses such special topics as power management and modal design, ultra low power, and low power design methodology and flows. In addition, coverage includes projections of the future and case studies.
Switching and linear power supply, power converter design
| Author | Abraham I. Pressman |
| Place of Publication | Rochelle Park, N.J. |
| Date of Publication | c1977 |
| Publisher | Hayden Book Co. |
This “how-to-design” book written from a power supply designer’s point of view deals with all aspects of power supply design from the initial block diagram systems alternatives to the detailed circuit design of all the electronics within the blocks.
Recommended By Prof. Louis Alarcon, Prof. Raymund Roque
The gm/ID design methodology, a sizing tool for low-voltage analog CMOS circuits : the semi-empirical and compact model approaches
(CoE 143)
| Author | Paul G.A. Vespers |
| Place of Publication | New York |
| Date of Publication | c2010 |
| Publisher | Springer |
IC designers appraise currently MOS transistor geometries and currents to compromise objectives like gain-bandwidth, slew-rate, dynamic range, noise, non-linear distortion, etc. Making optimal choices is a difficult task. How to minimize for instance the power consumption of an operational amplifier without too much penalty regarding area while keeping the gain-bandwidth unaffected in the same time? Moderate inversion yields high gains, but the concomitant area increase adds parasitics that restrict bandwidth. Which methodology to use in order to come across the best compromise(s)? Is synthesis a mixture of design experience combined with cut and tries or is it a constrained multivariate optimization problem, or a mixture? Optimization algorithms are attractive from a system perspective of course, but what about low-voltage low-power circuits, requiring a more physical approach? The connections amid transistor physics and circuits are intricate and their interactions not always easy to describe in terms of existing software packages. The gm/ID synthesis methodology is adapted to CMOS analog circuits for the transconductance over drain current ratio combines most of the ingredients needed in order to determine transistors sizes and DC currents.
Geographic information systems & science, 3rd ed.
| Authors | Paul A. Longley… [et al.] |
| Place of Publication | Hoboken, N.J. |
| Date of Publication | c2011 |
| Publisher | Wiley |
The Third Edition of this bestselling textbook has been fully revised and updated to include the latest developments in the field and still retains its accessible format to appeal to a broad range of students. Now divided into five clear sections the book investigates the unique, complex and difficult problems that are posed by geographic information and together they build into a holistic understanding of the key principles of GIS.
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OneMine.org., the unique online library that brings technical documents, conference papers, articles, pre-prints and late papers on mining research and technology into one search engine and location, is now available for trial. It will be officially subscribed by the College of Engineering Library this coming January 2012. The resources available in this database can be downloaded in pdf format. Many other forms of research documentation will also be added in the future such as Power Point presentations and video clips.
OneMine is a collaborative effort among multiple societies that includes The Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME), The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME), and The Australian Institute of Mining and Mettalurgy (AusIMM).
To access OneMine, Go to www.OneMine.org
If you need assistance or for feedback regarding this database, please e-mail us at library@engglib1.upd.edu.ph or at library@engglib2.upd.edu.ph or call 981-8500 local 3143 (EnggLib1) or 3251 (EnggLib2).
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