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Science & Engineering Library

September Newsletter

Welcome Jane Lah
to the
Science & Engineering Library!

 
Jane is a 2021 graduate of the USC MMLIS program and has worked at the USC Law Library as a student worker then staff member since 2015. Jane earned her an B.S. in Geological Sciences - Environmental Chemistry & Sustainability from USC in 2017. She is an active member of several professional library associations and is an enthusiastic new addition to the SEL team! She will be the librarian liaison to the departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, Environmental Studies, and Civil & Environmental Engineering.

Jane's email is
jlah@usc.edu and her office is SSL 309.
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES GRANT
FOR USC STEM FACULTY

 
Are you a USC STEM Faculty? Have you ever considered using an open educational resource (OER) in your curriculum? Would receiving a $750 grant to incorporate an OER into your course help give the idea serious consideration?
 
The Science & Engineering Library and USC’s Center for Excellence in Teaching (CET) welcome applications from USC STEM Faculty seeking to adopt an OER in a Fall 2022 course. The program will include two OER workshops, individual sessions with a Librarian for OER support, and a consultation with a CET instructional designer.  Participants will be provided a $750 grant upon completion of the program.

No prior knowledge or experience with OER is required for participation. Our workshops and individual sessions will provide the support you need to incorporate an OER into your course.

 
Deadline to apply: Friday, September 10, 2021
Apply here!
National Video Games Day
September 12th
 
You can celebrate National Video Games Day by playing games, but also by learning more about the video game industry and developing games yourself! Here are some resources from the USC Libraries:
 
Research Guides
Journals
Ebooks

Did You Know About?

Cambridge Core Textbooks

 
Find textbooks for many different subject areas including Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth and Environmental Science, Engineering, Health and Medicine, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, and Statistics and Probability.

https://libraries.usc.edu/databases/cambridge-core-textbooks
New Books
Chemical Kinetics: From Molecular Structure to Chemical Reactivity

The book is written for both undergraduate chemistry students, and for the specialist. The newcomer will find the fundamental concepts, the simple experiments, and the underlying theories. For the seasoned specialist, it presents sophisticated experimental and theoretical methods, offering a panorama of time-dependent molecular phenomena connected by a new rationale. The gap between the two is bridged by a logical path that leads the reader from a phenomenological approach of molecular changes, to the formalism of chemical reaction rates, and then to state-of-the-art calculations of rate constants of the most prevalent reactions: atom transfers, catalysis, proton transfers, substitution reactions, energy transfers and electron transfers. In the process, the reader is presented with the details of collision and transition state theories. The coverage includes unimolecular reactions in the gas phase, reactions in solution and reactions on surfaces. Access Chemical Kinetics here.

Warm Dense Matter: Laboratory Generation and Diagnosis

This book provides an introductory overview of warm dense matter research for new postgraduate students entering the field. Author David Riley, based at the Centre for Plasma Physics at Queen's University Belfast, covers a broad range of topics with an emphasis on experimental techniques. The text begins with an introduction to the basic physics of warm dense matter and its important features, then moves on to discuss the principal techniques for creating warm dense matter and approaches to diagnosing it. Topics covered include the generation of warm dense matter via laser driven shocks and X-ray sources, explosives, gas guns and ion beams, as well as X-ray free electron lasers. Principal optical and X-ray diagnostics are also discussed. The book concludes with an overview of the large-scale facilities that are most commonly used for warm dense matter research and the technologies they employ. Access Warm Dense Matter here.

Demystifying Big Data, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning
for Healthcare Analytics

Various techniques, methodologies, and algorithms are presented in this book to organize data in a structured manner that will assist physicians in the care of patients and help biomedical engineers and computer scientists understand the impact of these techniques on healthcare analytics. The book is divided into two parts: Part 1 covers big data aspects such as healthcare decision support systems and analytics-related topics. Part 2 focuses on the current frameworks and applications of deep learning and machine learning, and provides an outlook on future directions of research and development. The entire book takes a case study approach, providing a wealth of real-world case studies in the application chapters to act as a foundational reference for biomedical engineers, computer scientists, healthcare researchers, and clinicians. Access Demystifying Big Data here.

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