Stanford Engineering Library Blog

You asked we listened, additional Engineering Library hours have been added during Winter Break. Our hours for Intersession and Winter Break are posted on the door and on our website.

For a chart of the hours, see our website: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/eng/about/index.html

Winter Intersession Schedule: Monday Dec 15 -- Friday Dec 19 9am-5pm

Open During Winter Break on :

Dec 22 & 23 Dec 29 & 30 Jan 4
9am-5pm 9am-5pm 1pm-5pm

Regular library hours resume Monday January 5th

Congratulations to the winners of the Stanford Global Innovation Tournament. See the winners and watch videos of the entries here: http://eweek.stanford.edu/global2008/recognition_global.html

Wind, water And sun beat biofuels, nuclear or coal for clean energy according to Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford. Read the full aritcle in the Dec. 10th edition of The Stanford Report.

New coatings designed to better protect materials from the effects of environmental exposure with applications range from automotive paints and marine varnishes to the thick, rubbery coatings on patio furniture and park benches are being developed at the University of Illinois.
Read more at UIUC News Bureau.

Public Lecture
Tuesday, December 16, 2008. 7:30 PM.
Location:
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's Panofsky Auditorium
URL: http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/lectures/

Eighty years ago, William W. Hansen joined the Stanford Physics Department as a student and soon after started on a journey to build the first linear electron accelerator at the university.
His success spawned the construction of a 1 Billion volt machine on campus which in turn led to the proposal to build the three-kilometer long electron accelerator at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Since 1966, this accelerator, its added storage rings and detectors have produced an incredible series of discoveries, resulted in four Nobel prizes, and opened the road to new projects currently underway, one of them in outer space, the other one an X-ray laser. In this Public Lecture, Gregory Loew, who has been at SLAC for five decades, will guide you through SLAC's origins, highlight its scientific achievements, and give you a glimpse of its future.

ASM has released a number of additions to the Materials for Medical Devices database

New ISO Standard Added

ISO 10993 Biological Evaluation of medical devices – Part 18: Chemical characterization of materials

Characterization of medical device materials is clearly identified as one of the first steps in ISO 10993’s overall evaluation. ISO 10993- Part 1 “Guidance on Selection of Tests” states that “in the selection of material to be used in device manufacture, the first consideration should be fitness for purpose having regard to the characteristics and properties of the material, which include chemical, toxicological, physical, electrical, morphological, and mechanical properties”.

PMA/510(k) Updates

This latest version of the database features all the new PMA and 510(k) approvals up to November 12th, 2008, in both the Orthopaedic and Cardiovascular modules, fully integrated for ease of searching, and linked to materials and supplier data.

New Materials with Bioresponse Information Added:

Orthopedic:

* Demineralized Bone Matrix
* Poly(ester urethane urea)
* Hydroxyapatite
* Hydroxyapatite, Silicon Substituted
* Hydroxyapatite/Tricalcium Phosphate
* Tricalcium Phosphate

Schematics Added:

* Intra-Aortic Balloon (General) 870.3535
* Phalangeal (General) Toe 888.3730
* Semi Constrained (General) Ankle 888.3110

New Database Functionality Added
There is a new function in the database that allows the user to see a list of materials used in a chosen Device Category (e.g.. Spinal, Hips, Knees etc). See below!

To use this new functionality:

1. Click on "Select" button and choose "Materials" Table and "All Materials" Subset then click GO
2. Don't enter anything in "Required Properties” section, just click GO again (bottom right hand side of screen) to have a list of all materials.
3. Click on "Advanced Selection" in the upper right-hand corner (located in the black tab area)
4. About half way down the page, go to the “Cross-tabular selection…” area just below the gray spreadsheet
5. Open "Devices" section by clicking on the “crossbar”.
6. Click on “General Information”. You will then see a drop down box on the right hand side of the screen. You can then choose a category of interest e.g. Orthopaedic-Hips
7. Click GO on the bottom of the page and list of materials used in Hips devices will appear on the left hand pane
8. You can save this information, place it in a report or modify your search accordingly.

PARC Recruiting: Highly qualified students invited to apply for 2009 internships

PARC is inviting highly qualified graduate, MBA, and undergraduate students to apply to be interns at one of the most prolific innovation centers in the world. PARC interns are fully integrated into the daily activities of our highly collaborative, multidisciplinary culture. Interns will have the opportunity to work with leading scientists in the physical, computer, biological, and social sciences; engage in different stages of the research or business-development pipeline; and receive authorship on publications or patents.
www.parc.com/internships
http://www.parc.com/contact/employment/parcinternship.pdf [flyer]

ABOUT PARC
PARC (Palo Alto Research Center, Inc.) works closely with varied enterprises and new ventures to discover breakthrough business and technology concepts that solve real needs, and transform how enterprises deliver value to customers. PARC takes an agile, multidisciplinary approach to open innovation – by bringing together physical, computer, biological, and social scientists who have the vision, expertise, and instinct to convert groundbreaking scientific findings into industrial-strength prototypes. Incorporated in 2002 as an independent research business, PARC is celebrated for such innovations as laser printing, distributed computing and Ethernet, the graphical user interface (GUI), object-oriented programming, and ubiquitous computing. PARC is a wholly owned subsidiary of Xerox Corporation.