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Resources AT UC. CS / ECE GSA Presentation. Some resources at UC. Research: Engineering Library GSA / GSGA Career: Career Development Center Watch out for pop quiz questions!. Guess Who?. Portrait of Herman Schneider, 1920. Where can you find this at UC?.

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Resources AT UC

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  1. Resources AT UC CS / ECE GSA Presentation

  2. Some resources at UC • Research: • Engineering Library • GSA / GSGA • Career: • Career Development Center Watch out for pop quiz questions!

  3. Guess Who? Portrait of Herman Schneider, 1920

  4. Where can you find this at UC? North Side of the Mural Room (Quiet Reading Room), Engr Library

  5. Dean Schneider • Inventor of cooperative education • Believed that engineers not only need the practical experience (co-op), but also an appreciation of the fine arts, not as something remote and rarefied but as a part of their daily experience.  • The murals reflect the civil and industrial life in Cincinnati and show its river front, woodlands, bridges and buildings.

  6. Did you know? • In January of 1920, when there was a fire in the roof of Baldwin, engineering students carried art works with them as they “marched single-file into the winter air of the quadrangle.” Fact: In 1920, women were first admitted to the College of Engineering at UC.

  7. Engineering Library • URL: www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/engr • Accessible from: www.eng.uc.edu www.uc.edu • Location: 850 Baldwin Hall

  8. What Library has… Online catalogsDatabases for finding articles & other material Books (paper & online) Conference proceedings Technical reports Textbooks on reserve(2-hour use) Technical journals (paper and online)

  9. Services Learn about databases Information, Research assistance Interlibrary Loan - ILLiad Quiet Reading Room 24 x 7 Information Commons Group Study Rooms Get materials not at UC Photocopy and scan

  10. ECE / CS Databases • Which databases to use? • IEEE Xplore • ACM Digital Library • INSPEC • SCOPUSand others… • Accessible from: www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/engr

  11. Inter-Library Loan • Looking for full-text of an article that is not available? • Use Inter-Library Loan ILLIAD • Provide citation & get full text • Accessible from (under “Services”) : www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/engr • Can also use for unavailable books, etc. • Not for text-books!

  12. Workshops • Engineering Library workshops: • LaTeX, RefWorks, IEEE, ACM & INSPEC, etc. • University Libraries workshops: • Photoshop, PowerPoint, EndNote, etc. • URL: www.libraries.uc.edu • Upcoming Engineering Library workshops • RefWorks - April 22, 2-3PM, 850D Baldwin • LaTeX- April 23, 2-3PM, 850D Baldwin

  13. Guess Who? Ezgi Akpinar, President, GSGA

  14. GSGA • Graduate Student Governance Association • Graduate Student Body • Address student concerns, issues • Fund research travel • Fund GSA activities • Travel / Research Grant: • Up to $400 each year • Conference travel / Research Grant

  15. CS GSGA & ECE GSA • GSAs of CS & ECE Depts. • URL: • CS GSA: www.cs.uc.edu/~csgsa/ • ECE GSA: www.ece.uc.edu/~ecegsa/ • Remember… • Feel free to contact us with any stuff • Watch out for emails from CS GSA / ECE GSA • Elections in Fall

  16. Career Development Center (CDC) • URL: http://www.uc.edu/career/ • Getting maximum benefits from CDC: • Attend career fairs • Join their student listservs • Go to their office in person! • Resume tips / feedback, mock interviews, etc. • Question: Where is their office? • 140 University Pavillion (Below Onestop)

  17. Final Comments Use available resources and… experience the campus

  18. History of the Library • Link: • http://www.libraries.uc.edu/libraries/engr/about/index.html

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