SciTech News Volume 71, No. 1 (2017)

Columns and Reports From the Editor 3 Division News Science-Technology Division 5 Chemistry Division 8 Engineering Division Aerospace Section of the Engineering Division 9 Architecture, Building Engineering, Construction and Design Section of the Engineering Division 11 Reviews Sci-Tech Book News Reviews 12 Advertisements IEEE

SciTech News Volume 71, No. 3 (2017)

Columns and Reports From the Editor.........................3 Division News Science-Technology Division....5 Chemistry Division....................8 Conference Report, Marion E, Sparks Professional Development Award Recipient..9 Engineering Division................10 Engineering Division Award, Winners Reflect on their Conference Experience..15 Aerospace Section of the Engineering Division .....18 Architecture, Building Engineering, Construction, and Design Section of the Engineering Division................20 Reviews Sci-Tech Book News Reviews...22 Advertisements IEEE..........................................

SciTech News Volume 71, No. 2 (2017)

Columns and Reports From the Editor 3 Division News Science-Technology Division 5 Chemistry Division 8 Engineering Division 9 Aerospace Section of the Engineering Division 12 Architecture, Building Engineering, Construction and Design Section of the Engineering Division 14 Reviews Sci-Tech Book News Reviews 16 Advertisements IEEE

SciTech News Volume 70, No. 4 (2016)

Columns and Reports From the Editor 3 Division News Science-Technology Division 4 SLA Annual Meeting 2016 Report (S. Kirk Cabeen Travel Stipend Award recipient) 6 Reflections on SLA Annual Meeting (Diane K. Foster International Student Travel Award recipient) 8 SLA Annual Meeting Report (Bonnie Hilditch International Librarian Award recipient)10 Chemistry Division 12 Engineering Division 15 Reflections from the 2016 SLA Conference (SPIE Digital Library Student Travel Stipend recipient)15 Fundamentals of Knowledge Management and Knowledge Services (IEEE Continuing Education Stipend recipient) 17 Makerspaces in Libraries: The Big Table, the Art Studio or Something Else? (by Jeremy Cusker) 19 Aerospace Section of the Engineering Division 21 Reviews Sci-Tech Book News Reviews 22 Advertisements IEEE 17 WeBuyBooks.net 2

SciTech News- 69(2)-2015

Columns and Reports From the Editor..........................................5 SciTech News Call for Articles.......................5 Division News Science-Technology Division.........................6 Chemistry Division.................................... 15 Engineering Division................................. 21 Aerospace Section of the Engineering Division................... 25 Architecture, Building Engineering, Construction and Design Section of the Engineering Division................... 26 Award & Other Announcements Stacey Mantooth Receives 2015 Marion E. Sparks Award for Professional Development...................................... 17 Engineering Division Awards Recipients....... 24 Engineering Division Mentoring Program...... 26 Conference Reports Post International Chemical Congress Report Held in Malaysia and Vietnam 2014, by Malarvili Ramalingam, PhD............... 18 Reviews Sci-Tech Book News Reviews...................... 2

SciTech News- 69(1)-2015

Columns and Reports From the Editor.....5 SciTech News Call for Articles....5 Conference Report, Momentum Press SLA Annual Conference Grant Recipient.. 20 Division News Science-Technology Division...6 Chemistry Division... 11 Engineering Division... 17 Aerospace Section of the Engineering Division.. 23 Architecture, Building Engineering, Construction and Design Section of the Engineering Division.. 24 Call for Nominations & Applications Sparks Award for Professional Development... 16 Reviews Sci-Tech Book News Reviews.... 25 Advertisements Annual Reviews.....3 IEEE....

SciTech News Volume 70, No. 2 (2016)

Table of Contents: Columns and Reports From the Editor 3 Division News Science-Technology Division 4 New Members 6 Chemistry Division 7 New Members11 Engineering Division 12 Aerospace Section of the Engineering Division 17 Reviews Sci-Tech Book News Reviews 1

SciTech News Volume 70, No. 3 (2016)

Table of Contents: Columns and Reports From the Editor 3 Division News Science-Technology Division 4 Chemistry Division 6 Conference Reflections (SPARKS Award Recipient) 12 Engineering Division 14 Engineering Division Awards Report 23 Aerospace Section of the Engineering Division 25 Reviews Sci-Tech Book News Reviews 26 Adverstisements IEEE 24 WeBuyBooks.net 2

Engineering features of the San Fernando earthquake of February 9, 1971

Because of its consequences, the San Fernando earthquake was a major earthquake from the engineering point of view, even though it was only a moderate shock in seismological terms. As a result of the many effects of the earthquake, a large number of detailed studies and reports will be forthcoming from a wide variety of sources, and the papers collected in this volume are only preliminary studies of some of the more important and interesting engineering features of the earthquake. The papers were prepared by staff and students working in earthquake engineering within the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology. The timely financial support of the Engineering Division of the National Science Foundation and the Earthquake Research Affiliates of the California Institute of Technology in conducting the research and preparing this report is gratefully acknowledged

A coarse-grained protein model in a water-like solvent

Simulations employing an explicit atom description of proteins in solvent can be computationally expensive. On the other hand, coarse-grained protein models in implicit solvent miss essential features of the hydrophobic effect, especially its temperature dependence and have limited ability to capture the kinetics of protein folding. We propose a free space two-letter protein (“H-P”) model in a simple, but qualitatively accurate description for water, the Jagla model, which coarse-grains water into an isotropically interacting sphere. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we design protein-like sequences that can undergo a collapse, exposing the “Jagla-philic” monomers to the solvent, while maintaining a “hydrophobic” core. This protein-like model manifests heat and cold denaturation in a manner that is reminiscent of proteins. While this protein-like model lacks the details that would introduce secondary structure formation, we believe that these ideas represent a first step in developing a useful, but computationally expedient, means of modeling proteins.We thank C. A. Angell, M. Marques, S. Sastry, and Z. Yan for helpful discussions. S. S. and S. K. K. acknowledge the DOE - Basic Engineering Sciences for funding this research. P. G. D. gratefully acknowledges the support of the National Science Foundation (Grant CHE-1213343). P.J.R. gratefully acknowledges the support of the National Science Foundation (Collaborative Research Grants CHE-0908265 and CHE-0910615). Additional support from the R.A. Welch Foundation (F-0019) to P.J.R. is also gratefully acknowledged. HES thanks the NSF Chemistry Division for support through grants CHE 0911389, CHE 0908218 and CHE-1213217. S. V. B. acknowledges the partial support of this research through the Dr Bernard W. Gamson Computational Science Center at Yeshiva College. (DOE - Basic Engineering Sciences; CHE-1213343 - National Science Foundation; CHE-0908265 - National Science Foundation; CHE-0910615 - National Science Foundation; F-0019 - R.A. Welch Foundation; CHE 0911389 - NSF Chemistry Division; CHE 0908218 - NSF Chemistry Division; CHE-1213217 - NSF Chemistry Division; Dr Bernard W. Gamson Computational Science Center at Yeshiva College)Published versio