Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook --by Neil Schlater and Nicholas P. Chironis.
PLDL Ref TJ181 .S28 2007 (4th edition.)
Hundreds of mechanical devices are succinctly described: how they work, advantages, design hints, diagrams, and principle formulae are included.

1. Beginning ME students will find basic mechanisms
   
2. Continuing students will find advanced mechanisms
   
3. EE applications in ME are well represented (control, robotics)
   
4. Excellent source of ideas for design projects
   

Ergonomics: Major Writings --edited by, Neville Moray PLDL Ref TA166 .E693138 2005 (4 vols.) An excellent four volume reference of principle writings in ergonomics.

1. History and scope of human factors
2. Skill, displays, controls, and mental workload
3. Psychological mechanisms and models in ergonomics
4. Manual control, industrial processes, and automation

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: Challenges and Realities
This book is available in the print Reference collection, 2nd floor, Dunbar Library.

Use Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining to get grounded in practical applications of data mining when only low quality data is available. Courses: CS405/605, CS499,699, CS701, CS705, CS711.

The Publisher describes the book's content: "This book provides a focal point for research and real-world data mining practitioners that advance knowledge discovery from low-quality data; it presents in-depth experiences and methodologies, providing theoretical and empirical guidance to users who have suffered from underlying low-quality data. Contributions also focus on interdisciplinary collaborations among data quality, data processing, data mining, data privacy, and data sharing."

Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction

Available electronically to WSU faculty, staff and students through the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Use the Encyclopedia of Human Computer Interaction to get quick perspectives on many topics within the field of human computer interaction (HCI) such as concepts, design, usability, evaluation, innovations, and applications of HCI in organizations. Identify principle authors in HCI. Courses: ISE451, HFE651, HFE753.

New to the reference collection:

Biomems and Biomedical Nanotechnology
by Mauro Ferrari, ed. PLDL Reference: TP248.25.N35 B56 2006

• V1. Biological and biomedical nanotechnology
• V2. Micro-nano technology for genomics and proteomics
• V3. Therapuetic micro/nanotechnology
• V4. Biomolecular sensing, processing and analysis

Springer describes the set: The frontiers of microtechnology and nanotechnology are changing the face of medicine through the efforts of researchers to build biomedical microelectromechanical systems, or bioMEMS - tiny working machines so small, they measure only a few millionths of a meter across. BIOMEMS AND BIOMEDICAL NANOTECHNOLOGY, edited by Mauro Ferrari, comprises the first comprehensive reference devoted to all aspects of research in the diagnostic and therapeutic applications of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), microfabrication, and nanotechnology. Contributions report on fundamental and applied investigations of the material science, biochemistry, and physics of biomedical microdevices. (Read more.)

WSU just got online access to the Encyclopedia of Medical Devices & Instrumentation.

The encyclopedia should be particularly useful to students who require background information on the integration of technology and medicine.