Nanotechnology and nano-scale science are of critical importance to organizations focused on smart materials (smart memory alloys, smart memory polymers) and solar cells whether their focus is biotechnology, aerospace, or electronics.

Partnering with leading publishers like Springer, Smithers-Rapra, Elsevier, World Scientific, McGraw-Hill, and Woodhead this upcoming subject area will help support engineers in their efforts to bring to market some of the most innovative materials being used today. [ LEARN MORE ]

Meet Our New Featured Blogger, Craig the Rocket Scientist

Quick Bio: His name is Craig and yes, he’s really a Rocket Scientist.

Every Thursday, Craig contributes to Knovel’s blog, K-Exchange, and he’s heating up the blogosphere with poignant questions like what really makes an engineer and the real benefit of joining professional societies.

Have you ever questioned whether a colleague is really an engineer? Are you having second thoughts about shelling out for that society membership?

Read what Craig has to say, and then let us know what you think!

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This year’s contest kicked off on September 14th and so far over 700 students have qualified for a chance to win prizes including Kindles, Wiis, the new iPod Nano and gift cards.

The contest-within-the contest is also already heating up: Colorado School of Mines, MIT and Georgia Tech are all front runners with 97, 83 and 62 entries respectively. Remember, 100 entries will automatically guarantee an iPod prize for a student!

September was a strong month, let’s make October even better. If you are a current student and haven’t already, ENTER THE CHALLENGE

Share your experience- whether you found background information for a project or implemented best practices for product design- if we publish your story, you will win a gift card valued at $500 or we’ll donate $500 to a charity of your choice.

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In this issue, our team  takes several considerations into account, including total weight for lights and equipment, load on cables and accomodating the necessary stage hands. Read along as Knovel Math is put to work designing a  stage platform. [ READ MORE ]

See This Solution Story in Action on October 15th!

Mark your calendars for 2:00 PM Eastern on Thursday, October 15th. You’re invited to watch as we walk through every step of this use case. We’ll show you how to leverage Knovel Math’s powerful features in real-life projects and open the floor up to questions, comments and user feedback! [ Register Here ]

Powerful Personalization Features!

If you’ve ever wanted to save a search, share links with colleagues, or set up folders that contain only the information you need…personalization is coming.

Knovel users soon will be able to create a personal space for saving frequently used references, searches, and results and place them into customized project folders for easy access, retrieval and sharing!

Check in on Knovel Lab to try these features as they develop. Not one piece of feedback goes unread so please tell us what you think!

Over the last few months, you may have noticed a series of enhancements that make searching easier and new features like GET Search that take the guesswork out of pinpointing numerical data. We are building on the upgrades released in August and September to help Knovel users find trusted technical information more easily – and to do it faster. The result is a new search interface look and feel with simplified navigation, an improved browsing experience, results display pages and a new ‘recent searches’ feature to help users access and retrieve data quicker.

To learn more and get a walkthrough of all the new features now on Knovel, we invite you to join us for a free online webinar. We’ll be hosting a series of walkthrough sessions throughout October.

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