Knovel’s Fall Issue of K-News is here! As the season turns and the year winds down, Knovel’s content offerings continue to heat up, with new subject areas, expert webinars and more. . .

Engineers design around welds and joins, and they need to know how to best streamline the welding process to bring tomorrow’s most innovative products to market.

Subscribers to our new New Welding Engineering and Materials Joining Subject Area will gain vital tips to increase the flexibility and quality of their welds and essential content from leading publishers, institutes and societies including: American Welding Society (AWS), the Hobart Institute, Wiley, Elsevier and ASM International.

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Cleaning products, cosmetics and paints have more in common than you think. They are everyday products, and they all have a negative environmental impact.

Tune into our on-demand expert webinar, Biobased Surfactacts: Your Cost-Effective Sustainable Alternative, to learn how biobased surfactants can not only make these products healthy and sustainable, but more cost-effective to manufacture.

The webinar, held on October 25, features a panel of experts address the cost effectiveness of biobased feedstock, reducing environmental impact, increasing product safety and how biobased surfactants perform against petroleum-based materials.

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Engineering and Science students from all corners of the globe are logging on to test their knowledge and compete for prizes, and the 2011 season of the University Challenge is shaping up to be our most successful installment yet.

Launched in September, the Knovel University Challenge started breaking records almost instantly. To-date, the contest has clocked nearly 8800 entries from over 500 universities.

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Solution Stories follow engineers as they use Knovel to solve real-life problems.

Knovel’s latest Solution Story comes from a marine engineer who  needs to order new welding equipment at the shipyard where he works. He decides to use Knovel to find out about advanced welding technologies suitable for marine applications.

Follow along to see which welding technologies best suit the shipyard’s modernization plan!

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What’s going to happen to companies without skilled engineers to replace aging baby boomers?  This problem threatens the competitive edge of industries worldwide.  Concerns are growing among educators, corporations, and government not only about the lack of experienced and graduating engineers, but how to capture, retain, and transfer the knowledge between retiring baby boomers and new hires.

The webinar will stream live from Knovel’s offices in the UK at 10am GMT ( 5am EST; 2am PST). A recorded version will be available to accommodate all time zones.  Register to participate live or receive a recorded version.

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On December 13, Knovel will roll out its 28th Subject Area, Computer Hardware Engineering, to keep engineers and designers on the forfront of new technology for the computing, display, communications and manufacturing of computer hardware.

This collection will help electronics, computer, aerospace, and mechanical engineers design and integrate computer systems, networks, sensors and components for a broad range of products and equipment–from airplanes to excavators, power plants to cars.

Topics areas include:

•    Circuit Design
•    Embedded Systems and Programming
•    Networks and Sensors
•    Processors, Memory and Peripherals
•    Computer Architecture

Knovel’s easy-to-access content will help engineers and designers execute core projects in this rapidly changing industry. The next step toward design perfection starts here.

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On University College of London (UCL) campus, like many others, Knovel is changing the way engineering students conduct research.  Just ask UCL’s Subject Librarian Lynn Meehan.

With over 14 years of experience, Lynn Meehan is a bonified expert at delivering vital resources to engineering staff and students, and she says Knovel is her most valued resource.

“When people ask me for data, I always go to Knovel,” Meehan says.  The seasoned librarian affirms that Knovel saves students valuable time and provides valuable tools, such as interactive graphs and tables that make research even simpler.

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Knovel periodically highlights it’s Corporate and Academic. For More Customer Spotlights, click here.

Engineers have an insatiable need for reliable data, often the data must meet specific requirements. To meet this need, Knovel will launch a series of databases to provide engineers with information that is otherwise difficult or time-consuming to source. The databases, commissioned and exclusively offered by Knovel, are interactive tables and graphs compiled from authoritative, publicly available and unpublished sources. The data will supplement Knovel’s existing subject areas, covering information that is not available in existing references and will be discoverable via Knovel’s Data Search.

In December, we’ll roll out the first two: a Magnesium Alloy Database to extend Knovel’s coverage of the properties of light-weight, high-strength alloys, and an Optical and Filter Glass Database that will include properties of commercially-available optical and filter glasses from 16 manufacturers around the world. Both databases aim to facilitate material selection in product design. The databases will be available in the Metals & Metallurgy, Optics & Photonics and Ceramics and Ceramic Engineering subject areas.

 Look out for additional information on Knovel’s New Databases in the coming weeks.