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http://www.healthfinder.gov (health pathfinder) Internet resources on HEALTH STATISTICS and other health issues: GENERAL Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov AGING Administration
on Aging http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov/aoa/stats/statpage.html
Social
Security Administration Office of Research and
Statistics CANCER http://www.cancer.org/ ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH http://cedr.lbl.gov The Department of Energy has developed the Comprehensive Epidemiologic Data Resource (CEDR) to provide public access to health and exposure data concerning health and mortality data sets, epidemiologic studies, classic radiation data sets, and more. ETHNIC HEALTH ISSUES http://www.os.dhhs.gov/progorg/aspe/minority/index.html INTERNATIONAL STATISTICS SUBSTANCE ABUSE For over 9,000 prescription and over-the-counter drugs, go to the National Library of Medicine's consumer site, MedlinePlus. http://www.mentalhealth.org OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, PROFESSIONAL GROWTH http://www.collegegrad.com/
College Grad Other job related sites include: The Chronicle of Higher Education for science and technology Mathematical Sciences Career Information Association for Computing Machinery, ACM at http://www.acm.org/ is the world's oldest and largest educational scientific computing society. Since 1947 ACM has provided a vital forum for the exchange of information, ideas, and discoveries. It has a membership of over 80,000 computing professionals in more than 100 countries in all areas of industry, academia, and government. There are Special Interest Groups (SIGs) in major computing subdisciplines; ACM sponsors events, conferences, career opportunities, and continuing education courses. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is another major professional society, particularly important in the areas of electrical engineering and computer science. Among their many services to its members, it offers career opportunities and training, job listings and students activities. IEEE publications http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/ include IEEE Journal & Transactions Online, standards http://standards.ieee.org well as Women in Engineering http://www.ieee.org/women , IEEE History Center, IEEE Code of Ethics, and IEEE Strategic Planning. The Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), founded in 1871, is one of the largest professional engineering with its international membership of over 130,000 professionals in all areas of engineering. IEE is of the major publishers of engineering information sources, including INSPEC http://www.iee.org.uk/publish/inspec/ INSPEC is available in hard copy, online via MELVYL®, and on CD-ROM. Grantsnet (American Association for the Advancement of Science) membership is free. You are required to register befor first use. It offers funding news, discussion forums, resources, and more. RETIREMENT Social Security Administration gives SS, disability, and medicare benefits; individuals can submit the personal data required for Personal Earning and Benefit Estimate Statement online and receive the results by mail from the SSA. Code of Ethics for Engineers by ASME International Board on Professional Practice and Ethics http://www.perc.com/bppe/ covers fundamental principles and canons, history (since the inception of the Society in 1880), and organization. "Careers in Science and Engineering: An International Perspective" by the National Academy of Sciences http://www.nap.edu/ is published in 1996. Project Galileo http://galileo.harvard.edu leads you to, "your way to innovative science teaching methods." The main thrust of this project, in part funded by the National Science Foundation http://www.nsf.gov , is to disseminate innovative instructional techniques and materials widely available to instructors worldwide. This instructional environment is documented in a book Peer Instruction: A User's Manual, by Eric Mazur (1997). Mazur shows teachers how to challenge students in large introductory physics classes to think about the physics instead of having his students memorize equations. Mazur's instructional techniques are transferable to other areas, and offer numerous class-tested ready-to-use instructional scenarios. The method is applicable to graduate teaching assistants, and in general, if you aspire to any type of teaching career (e.g., high school, college, and beyond). Exchanges:
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SPECIAL ISSUES IN ENGINEERING: from DIVERSITY to WOMEN in ENGINEERING http://www.usc.edu/Library/Ref/Ethnic is an excellent Web site, created at the University of Southern California (USC) in 1995. It covers a wide range of subdisciplines including African American Artists to The Harlem Renaissance, Immigration and the United States, Mexican American Literature, racial discrimination and prejudice, and more. Women in Engineering http://www.ieee.org/women Exploring ancient world cultures http://eawc.evansville.edu by Bill Hemminger contains numerous hyperlinks to Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, Islam, and Europe. From
the Library of Congress home page http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
visit the Learning page, then select Research tools,
Internet resources, and go to US History resources. These
are grouped into General, Chronological amd Primary sources.
Explore ADMOCS, documents for the Study of American History
and the Avalon Project at the Yale Law School at: http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL. The University of Oklahoma Law Center maintains a site with a chronology of US historical documents, ranging from Pre-Colonial Era (1600-1649) to present http://www.law.ou.edu/ushist.html . The Historical Text Archive http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History originated in 1990 as an anonymous site in response to the need of historians to have an electronic storage and retrieval site and to demonstrate the advantages of such sites for the purposes of teaching history. Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States from Washington to Clinton are all available on the Web http://www.bartleby.com/ . Primary historical documents from Western Europe, EURODOCS, shed light on key historical happenings within countries from Andorra to Sweden and Vatican City http://library.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/homepage.html . Other sites of interest include: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex
is Digital Library SunSITE with librarians' index to the
Internet Websites; also visit the Internet public Library
address http://www.ipl.org Start with LISZT http://www.liszt.com. You can search the entire list, main topics and their subtopics. Alternatively, combine your own keywords; for example, I just compiled a list of about 160 mailing lists all related to engineering. Each explains standardized protocols to subscribe/unsubscribe, get "help," and "information" menus, as well as introductory messages for novice participants who wish to contribute to lists. |