Kate

Kate Thomes
Head, Bevier Engineering Library
126 Benedum Hall
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA. 15261
kthomes@pitt.edu; 412-624-9620
412-624-8103 fax

• Authors have the ability to self publish on the web, providing immediate, free dissemination of their work.
• Peer Review can occur after the initial dissemination by relevant communities of scholars.
• Journals could exist as collections of articles that have been through a peer review process.
• Publishers could enter into the picture at this stage to provide value added services such as hard copy production of journals, formatting, editing, etc.
• Scholars would handle all stages of the process related to the content of research including creation, dissemination, and scrutiny.
• The role of libraries would be to help maintain the "culture of gifts" that is the essence of the academy. Libraries would do this by collecting and making the literature available, and by maintaining it for posterity utilizing appropriate technologies and practices.
• Another role for libraries would be to work with their institutions to build and maintain repositories of the research generated by that institution.

Forum Summary:
Ken Frazier, General Library System at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and former President of ARL, opened the session by reflecting on changes that have occurred in the past 3 years. Discussion of scholarly communication is now occurring within a much larger community including faculty, formal library structures such as ACRL, and academic administrations (for example the Big 12 provosts have set scholarly communication as one of the top priority issues for the coming year). The nonprofit publishing community has also come forward with new ventures and new publishing partnerships. On a cautionary note Frazier said that the current economic downturn might have a negative impact on some of the new initiatives, such as BioOne or MIT CogNet. These new startups need to be supported during their early years of development and a weak economy could present even more challenges.

International Association of Technological University Libraries (IATUL)
Report after Annual IATUL Meeting, June 2002
by Jay Bhatt
I truly enjoyed the IATUL conference, great learning experience and had several opportunities to discuss possible collaborative opportunities on several projects between IATUL and ELD. Michael also gave me an opportunity to talk about partnership, and was also able to show the powerpoint to the entire membership. I distributed copies of my handout to most members who came to the meeting.

Michael, Judith and I brainstormed several ideas:

1. Powerpoint will be distributed on the IATUL list. It will also be linked from the IATUL website.

2. EEVL
Michael suggested that we need to get feedback from ELD members about EEVL. Critical evaluation of EEVL will be extremely useful for further improvement of EEVL. Several issues such as interface, scope, coverage, links, suggestions to add links, evaluated resources, and any other ideas can be explored. I can compile the feedback from ELD as a group, and send it to Michael. One possible suggestion was to have a presentation on EEVL during the next year's conference by an IATUL member. Martin Boemeke, Engineering Subject Gateway ViFaTec, from the University Library of Hannover and Technical Information Library also approached me about having his presentation at the next year's conference.

3. Electronic 24x7
This generated a lot of interest among the members. Several members approached after my talk about the possibility of integrating and collaborating with the ELD task force. We thought about creating a committee or a task-force from IATUL members comprising several geographical regions. Chair of this task force then collaborates with ELD for global representation. Michael and I talked about sending an email message on the IATUL listserv to seek volunteers. Three members have already talked to me about their strong interest.

4. JSTOR Engineering titles
We will seek International perspective from IATUL. Again, an email will be sent to the members for investigating JSTOR engineering titles. We will think about possibility of a member who can coordinate this with John Saylor.

5. Scholarly Communication
This generated stimulated discussion among several members. Are there any engineering titles that can be supported by SPARC? How do we help SPARC determine those titles? How do we motivate faculty in publishing SPARC supported journals? Before we suggest our engineering faculty to consider SPARC, there should be some more SPARC supported journals available.

6. International adaptation of information literacy competencies for engineering. Investigate possible ways of collaborating with ELD and IATUL.

I truly enjoyed my conversation with the international and other members from US and Canada. My special thanks to IATUL committee for their excellent organization and hospitality.

SLA SCI-Tech Division Report
from SLA Annual Meeting, June 2002
by Ginny Baldwin
Reported July 2002

Division Web Site: http://www.sla.org/division/dst/

A. Business and Board Meeting Activities

During my reporting to the SCI-Tech Division at the incoming board meeting as liaison from SLA SCI-Tech to ALA/ACRL/STS (Science & Technology Section), I discussed possibilities for coordination of these two organizations and perhaps with ELD as well. As a result, SCI-Tech board members discussed the possibility of an Internet survey partnership between SCI-Tech Section (STS) of ALA/ACRL, SLA SCI-Tech Division, and ELD. This could be coordinated with the Continuing Education Committee of STS to produce topics that are wanted and needed by conference attendees, and also with the STS committee Comparison of Science and Technology Libraries, with which incoming SLA/SCI-Tech board Chair Mitchell Brown has been involved for a number of years. Survey results would be posted on the websites of all three organizations. The most recent survey topic that has been discussed by Comparison of SCI-Tech Libraries is a database use survey. Mitchell Brown can be contacted at Princeton University, 609-258-3150, email: mcbrown@Princeton.EDU.

Another area of discussion raised by me was that of the STS Task Force for Information Literacy of which I am chair. This is another possible area of coordination between the three organizations. As part of this discussion I reported on my liaison position with ELD to SLA/SCI-Tech, talked about the ELD liaison structure, and relayed some of ELD's goals for promoting cooperation between ELD and other organizations. I gave a copy of the ELD Engineering Literacy Standards draft to James Manasco, next year's incoming chair of SLA/SCI-Tech, and encouraged cooperation between the three groups in adapting the ACRL information literacy standards for applicability to SCI-Tech librarianship.

I also reported that there was a session on the Patriot Act at ALA midwinter, January 2002 in New Orleans. There is embodied in the Patriot Act an ultimate threat to our libraries' patron information protection and members of all three organizations, STS, SCI-Tech, and ELD need to familiarize themselves with this act and its possible consequences. Here is a possibility for multiple organizations to speak together on a specific issue.

SCI-Tech Division board members are examining the possibility of an online ballot for elections. The biggest problem is getting an accurate membership list from SLA.

Conference session descriptions are submitted to the listserv, to SCI-Tech News, and will be posted on the SCI-Tech web page.

The next annual SLA conference is in New York City, June 7-12, 2003. Winter meeting is in New Orleans, LA, January 23-25, 2003. Because of the cost of the conference at the New York location, SLA is looking at having tracks by day to facilitate attendance on one day only in order that an attendee might more thoroughly cover a single topic or issue. The 2004 conference will be in Nashville.

At the annual business meeting this year there were numerous drawings for donated gifts, including a special drawing from among the vendors for the receipt of a free ad in the Division's newsletter, SCI-Tech News.

B. Programs and Events at the 2002 SLA annual conference that were sponsored or cosponsored by the SCI-Tech Division are the following:

Newcomers Brunch for first time attendees as well as current members.
Science and Technology Annual Business Meeting - a breakfast meeting with awards
Computer Science Literature Roundtable
SCI-Tech Searching on the Internet
Assessing the Impact of E-Journals on Libraries and Users: What's Been Learned so Far.
Needs Assessment
Teaching Science Information: Taking Users to the Next Level.
Consolidation of Companies
Sci Tech Contributed Papers
"Marketing Library and Information Services: Comparing experiences at Large Institutions"
"Homing in on Our Customers: How the Praxair Information Resource Center Reevaluated and Implemented a New Marketing Strategy"
"Collaborative Marketing: Library and Vendor Partnerships"
New Paradigms of Information Access. Topics: Data Mining, Knowledge Management, and Distance Education for Libraries.
SCI-Tech Farewell Reception

C. Division Objectives and Contact Information for past, present, and future chairs can be found at http://www.sla.org/content/chdiv/divisions/division.cfm

American Chemical Society, Chemical Information Division Report
from ACS National Meeting, August 2002
by Ibironke Lawal
I was at the American Chemical Society (ACS) 224th National Meeting in Boston August 18th-22nd, 2002.

I am liaison to Chemical Information Division (CINF) of the American Chemical Society (ACS). CINF is a large body comprised of academic and corporate librarians, chemical information specialists, information producers such as indexers and abstractors and database producers. There are 15 committees and 3 liaisons. Committees are ACS Nomenclature, Archivist, Audit, Awards, Careers, Constitution and Bylaws, Education, Fundraising, Membership, Legislative issues, Nominations, Procedures Manual, Program, Publications and Tellers. The Liaisons are t Special Libraries Associations (SLA), ASIS, Biotechnology Secretariat (BTEC). The Biotechnology Secretariat of the American Chemical Society promotes interdisciplinary, divisional activities in areas of broad and current interest to ACS membership in area of biotechnology. It allows more programming flexibility among ACS Divisions. (http://membership.acs.org/b/btec/btechome.html)

I attended the Education Committee meeting as well as the executive committee meeting of the Division of Chemical Information (CINF).

At both meetings I made a short presentation on behalf of ASEE/ELD about who we are, what our goals are and what activities we are involved in. I mentioned our interests in Scholarly communication and information literacy. Also that we will be interested in collaborating with them on any projects that straddle our areas, chemistry and chemical engineering. They are very much interested. We will just keep it mind when a new project comes up or if we have one we can initiate.

At the Education Committee Meeting, discussions centered on how they can help small schools with small budgets gain access to Scifinder Scholar and the ACS journals in order to comply with the guidelines of the Committee on Professional Training (CPT) for Chemical Education.
At the Spring Meeting in New Orleans, there will be a symposium of all stakeholders, members of the ACS governing board on publishing, CAS, producers of Scifinder Scholar and CPT members.
A survey of small schools is being proposed to find out their total budget and what percentage of that need to be spend on chemical information resources to meet accreditation standards
They have just prepared a supplement to the CPT guidelines. This supplement calls for Librarians' participation in chemical education. Librarians in some schools are already teaching credit courses, solo or in collaboration with teaching faculty.
The education committee teaches chemical information workshop at least twice a year. One at the National Meeting and the other at the Regional Meeting, on a regular basis. They charge $100.00 per person. 
 

At the Executive Meeting, the chair of each committee gave a report. The most significant are the reports of the Membership, Education, Awards, Careers and Publications Committee.
Membership reported on a recently completed successful survey to determine what areas of service members are interested in. This is expressing interest in serving on one of their fifteen committees, or carrying out some other chores such as editor of the Chemical Information Bulletin, or web author.
Education (see 1 above)
Awards Committee. CINF has four major awards:
Herman Skolnik Award to recognize outstanding contributions to and achievements in the theory and practice of chemical information science. This award is $2,000 and a plaque.
Lucille M. Wert Scholarship, to recruit people into the profession of chemical information. This scholarship has a stipend of $1,000.
Meritorious Service Award to recognize outstanding contributions to the Division.
Chemical Structure Association Trust. This is an internationally recognized Trust established to promote education, research or development in the area of systems methods for the storage, processing and retrieval of information of chemical structures, reactions and compounds. The chair of this committee talked about getting money for the award. They have sources of funding, from corporate sponsorship to the parent body, ACS. They write grant proposals to solicit for funding. They already have the steady income to fund these awards. More information about the awards can be found at: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/cinf/cinf_awards.htmld.
Careers Committee did a salary survey for 2000. Another one is being planned for 2003, to be published in 2004.
The Publications Committee publishes two publications: The Chemical Information Bulleting (CIB) and the CINF E_News. Their listserv is CHMINF-L .
For more information, see the CINF web site at http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/cinf/

Brief Report on IFLA Science & Technology Section - Glasgow August 2002
by Julia Gelfand, Chair IFLA, Science and Technology Section 2001-03 and ELD IFLA Liaison
The Section held two official Standing Committee meetings. All 15 members with the exception of four attended Glasgow meeting and we had several visitors at each SC.

Major agenda items included reviewing the Section homepage and other IFLA-based communications including planning for the next distribution of our newsletter, composing articles for INSPEL, examining how we want to interact with our other library association partners (IATUL, ALA/ACRL Sci/Tech Section, ASEE/ELD, SLA, MLA); distribution of our new membership brochure, planning for future IFLA meetings in 2003 and 2004; and our IFLA sponsored research initiative on science library services/resources for libraries in undeveloped countries.

The program for our Open Session was on Electronic Licensing and had three speakers: a mathematician from France, a Swedish librarian and a Scottish librarian from Glasgow University. From the evaluations it was clear that it was well received and combined a progressive framework with practical advise and structure. Our Open Session attracted about 80 persons and would have had more had IFLA HQ not scheduled an Industry Update delivered by the CEO of Elsevier, an obvious conflict for our section.

We held a full-day Field Trip/Site Visit to Heriot-Watt University outside of Edinburgh and our host there arranged for 3 speakers to address our group that included 45 participants. The speakers included Roddy MacLeod who directs development of the EEVL database, a highly recognized and successful interactive search engine in engineering, computer science and technology; an administrator from the Scottish National Library who addressed issues of shared resources and licensing among Scottish public and academic institutions; and a librarian from the University of Edinburgh who gave us an update on models in distance learning environments.

As far as plans for our Section - we will co-sponsor the 2003 Open Session with the Health & Biomedical Libraries Section on 5 August on the topic of Bioinformatics and will have a joint field trip to several appropriate institutions in Potsdam on 7 August; we are formulating a program for IFLA 2004 on continuing education/distance education for science librarians; pull together some articles for a future issue of INSPEL; and hope to make significant progress on our research/service initiative which is led by Tovah Reis.

Current documentation about the Section and the work of the Standing Committee is available at: http://www.ifla.org/VII/s7/sstl.htm #6 and will soon have meeting minutes, reports and latest issue of Fall 2002 Newsletter.

ASIST Annual Meeting - Philadelphia, November 18 - 21, 2002
- Report by Deborah Helman
ASIST '02 was an excellent conference this year. However, I did not go to ASIST tasked with summarizing the conference for ELD so I will only briefly mention sessions that our colleagues in the Special Interest Group (SIG) for Scientific and Technical Information (SIG STI) sponsored and highlight opportunities for us to work with them.

SIG STI won "SIG of the Year" for their active involvement in sponsoring programs at the annual conference, working with BIOSIS and CAS to provide two student travel awards, and co-sponsoring a symposium held at SLA. SIG STI co-sponsored six sessions this year that covered NSDL [the highlight a talk by John Saylor], various aspects of scientific communication, e-books, and virtual reference.

In the SIG STI planning session, in addition to discussing potential programs for next year, the desire to bring the SIG together during the year, perhaps virtually, was expressed and will be investigated. This is a potential opportunity for ELD to work with SIG STI on some type of joint online program, bringing us together around a mutually interesting topic and trying a new format for a program as well. SIG STI already works with the SLA Chemistry Division and the ACS Division of Chemical Information to sponsor a Trisociety Symposium on chemical information every four years and would be interested in discussing the benefits of other such ventures.

SIG STI is also working with Michael Leach of Harvard University to put together a "summit" on digital archives in science and engineering. This would likely be held sometime in August or September of 2003. It could prove to be a very interesting conference for ELD members as well.

The members of SIG STI are an active and fun group of people to work with. They are open to new ideas and working with other groups to create interesting and innovative programs.

Submitted by Deborah Helman, MIT, dhelman@mit.edu, December 26, 2002

ASEE Annual Meeting June 2002
Session 1609; June 17, 2002
New Programs and Textbooks in BME - Report by Jay Bhatt
1. Teaching Biology from an Engineering Perspective: Integrating Biology into Undergraduate Engineering Education - Kjell Nelson, University of Washington
Mr. Nelson is a Ph.D. candidate in Bioengineering, investigating surface modification of biomaterials, and protein patterning. He holds a position at the UW Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching, developing curricula that integrate biology into undergraduate engineering education.His modular course design approach focuses on topics such as:

DNA Forensics:

Support/Refute Anna Anderson's Claim.
(http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/AEPC/geneconn/fingerprint/anastasia.html)
Learn basics of central dogma inheritance, DNA variation
Laboratory experiments
Osteogenesis Imperfecta:

From genes to tissues
Point mutation in collagen gene results in severely weakened bone
Study protein expression, integration of cells into tissues
Image analysis
Bioremediation

Energy metabolism and Ecology
Microbial solutions to environmental contamination.
In the process, students apply modular approach to learn different aspects of biology that include elaborate mechanisms of DNA variation and repair, bioimaging, and modeling. The course also stresses the design projects involving biology in engineering. In future, they expect to develop a junior level biology course targeted for engineering students which will be a fundamental course for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.No text books were used in the class. Students were required to do research using web resources.

To follow up, during the question-answers session, I talked about the ELD, relationship to the ASEE, and tried to make sense of what they meant by 'web resources'. Are the electronic subscription based databases and ejournals being used by the students? Whether faculty recommend them or point out the library contact to the students? Dr. Nelson pointed out that the University of Washington has good library subscribed electronic resources and he usually recommends them to his students in the class. Except his comments, no other faculty in the audience appear to have a clear grasp of the point that I was trying to make.

2. Biology for Engineers: Progress on a New Text - Arthur T Johnson, University of Maryland - College Park
http://www.agnr.umd.edu/users/Bioreng/johnson.htm
Dr. Johnson is the author of the following books:

1. Transport Processes in Biological Engineering
2. Biological Process Engineering.
http://www.chipsbooks.com/biolproc.htm

His interests include bioengineering, food engineering, and exercise physiology in animals and humans, development of the biological engineering program, research on optimization of respiratory masks, and physiological response to respiratory stress. According to him, even though engineering students may have taken Biology courses earlier, they may not have integrated them into their thinking. A new approach in writing textbooks is required to overcome this problem. His upcoming book "Predictive Biology for Engineers and Technologists" is written from the conceptual and predictive standpoint and stresses the importance of the knowledge of biological principles and how its expertise can lead to the development of new products. The books contain numerous illustrations, and are crucial in understanding concepts introduced. Major subject areas covering Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics principles as applied to Biology are covered in the book.The book comprises of sections such as Introduction to Biological Engineering, Principles from Science, Utilizing Living Systems as in Biomics (Living system used as as a part of the Design). Its mission is to develop abilities to transfer known information about living systems in the development of new products.Future plans:Dr. Johnson plans to use this book with with Seniors at the University of Maryland. Other sites are welcomed to participate in testing his book. The book has undergone 4-5 drafts and will be thoroughly student tested.

NOTE:Coincidentally, Dr. Johnson and I were in the same flight from Montreal. I had a brief talk with him about ELD, future partnership with the Faculty, and electronic resources and how they are viewed by Faculty. We talked about ELD and how dynamic we are; what we do and so on. I casually asked him about possible partnership with ELD by having his presentation (which in addition to textbooks would include other resources, how faculty are using them, and possible other innovative ideas). He is very much interested in having a joint meeting. He also thought that many other faculty may be interested in such a session.)

3. New Directions for Textbooks and Courses in Biomaterials field - Kirk Bundy, Tulane University
(Powerpoint file for this talk)Dr. Bundy's main research areas include Biomaterials, Bioadhesion, Corrosion and Environmental Science. He also teaches a course titled Surgical Applications of Biomaterials.He outlined limitations of previously published Biomaterials texts: In summary, they are:

Restricted breadth of coverage
Inclusion of Materials Science elsewhere rather than in the same books
Limited discussion of clinical applications and case studies
Omission of salient aspects of 'Biology' (Previous presentation addressed this problem, (eg.Teaching Biology for Engineers by having course on biology for engineers; presenter seem to concur with this since he did not use texts in his class)
Little or no discussion of history on biomaterials.
Insufficient coverage of biomolecules, biomaterials, tissue engineering, biotechnology
No glossary of terms.
No list of variables.
Inadequate amount of homework problems. According to Dr. Bundy, his book 'Fundamentals of Biomaterials' addresses many of these limitations. It emphasizes new areas currently being explored. Single authorship tends to provide added value to students. Book includes 130 tables, 550 figures and 265,000 words, and contains 544 pages. Some of the topics covered include: materials science and engineering basics, material science of natural tissues, failure analysis, implant design, tissue engineering, experimental methods, history and summary of biomaterials, physics, biology and chemistry of the interface between tissue and materials, failure and surgical implant materials and devices, implant failure modes of mechanical and chemical origin and many other evolutionary topics on Biomaterials.
Current status and future directions are also covered in this book.He provided some useful hints to the textbook writers:
Start early.
Invest time and energy.
If you are not enthusiastic, forget it.
Work on it every day.
Develop a plan for writing that works for you.
Get feedback from students.

IEEE User Group Meeting (August 2002)
- Report by Jay Bhatt

These are some highlights of the IEEE User Group Meeting which I attended on August 15th, 2002. I may have missed something so anyone who attended this meeting can add to those points.

The IEEE User Group Meeting took place at NEC in Princeton. It was an environment where all participants communicated, shared ideas and provided valuable recommendations to IEEE Staff on what they would like to see on future versions of IEEE Xplore.

Both Corporate and Academic librarians including those from AT&T, GE, IBM, Lucent, NEC, Philips Research, Columbia, Lehigh, Penn, Princeton, City College of NY represented in the User Group.

The Meeting started with presentations by IEEE staff on Customer Service Enhancements, new IEEE Online Products and IEEE Xplore enhancements.

The highlights of their presentation:

IEEE Biomedical Engineering Library will be launched in April 2003.
Those who have the complete IEL package, will have the complete content available.

One of the unique futures will be the ability to see the Biomedical Engineering related articles in subject groupings. Subject categories will be expandable and are based on INSPEC classification. For example, Under a category of Medical Physics, possible subject sub-categories will include Biomedical Measurements and Biomedical Imaging. In that it will be an article-based package, it will be delivered through a unique interface. IEL subscribers will be able to add on this package to their existing subscription for $7,995, list price is $19,995. New content will be updated weekly.

IEEE Information Technology Library
Again, for IEL subscribers, complete content will be available. This package is a subset of the content, also delivered through the Xplore interface so it will not be necessary to purchase it as an add-on to IEL.

IEEE Xplore Enhancements:
Ability to search and find articles accepted for future publication (select titles)
Future Email alerts enhancements ­ability to receive by search keywords
Conferences are now linkable in OPAC. See http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/opac.jsp
List of conference proceedings. See http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/cnfopac.jsp

Customer usage statistics web site will be launched in January 2003
Abstracts included with references for IEEE Journals from 1996
Plans for CrossRef outbound links - (IEEE Journals back to 1988, AIP, ScienceDirect)
Plans for including conference proceedings metadata deposits starting in Nov. 2002
Full Text in HTML form ­ with IEEE Spectrum and Proceedings of the IEEE; Other titles will be added in phases
Some of my recommendations included: start thinking about publishing full text books in IEEE Xplore; notify users when new announced journals begin to appear in IEEE Xplore; link all conferences and journals from 'What can I access Button'?; think about IEEE JSTOR partnership; Improve email alerts feature to include conferences, keyword search alerts, and linking from emails to full articles. (In my opinion, is not functioning properly; have not yet received alerts on my selected titles.)
IEEE 1952 -1988 Content
Some society content already digitized. Content available for access starting January 2003. Included in ongoing IEL subscription. About 6% price increase next year but IEEE archives are included in that price for IEL subscribers

Technical support in Transition
Migrate customers from IHS to IEEE Customer Support ­ hours extended to 8 pm. Plans to respond user feedback, suggestions and notifying them when they are implemented.

Promotional Training Materials
Will be provided upon request. Include: bookmarks, tip sheets, posters, shelf labels to indicate availability of ejournals. Please contact Ruth Wolfish from IEEE at r.wolfish@ieee.org for training materials you need.

Very Brief Report:
InetBib Internet Bibliothek Conference at the University of Goettingen, Germany (September 2002)
and the Colloquium of the ASEE, the European Society for Engineering Education, and the Technical University of Berlin, Germany (October 2002)
-- Report by Thomas De Petro
Thomas De Petro, reporting "live, as in right now" (Thursday, November 28, 2002, 10:20 a.m., Middle European Time). Greetings from Germany and the European Union! In February I will begin a new job here in Karlsruhe at the FIZ (Fachinformationszentrum) with STN-Europe, representing it to clients in France and elsewhere in northern Europe. STN is a joint partnership between the FIZ here, the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the JIST (Japan Institute of Science and Technology). The latest STN innovations in customer service are STN-Express, STN-Web, and STN-Easy. My appointment is for two years. This note for the Newsletter marks my "So long for now!" and includes my following report to ASEE ELD:

In September 2002 I attended the InetBib Internet Bibliothek conference at the University of Goettingen. Librarians and "documentalists" from all over Germany attended to share experiences in content management, metadata, and other current topics. The bottom line: lots is being done in Germany in spite of the severe shortage of funds at the universities and other centers. All meetings were conducted in German.

In October I was in Berlin to attend the Colloquium of the ASEE, the European Society for Engineering Education, and the Technical University of Berlin. There is a grand movement to convert European engineering degree programs to the Anglo-American model with bachelor's and master's degrees while maintaining the local professional engineer designations. This event had been planned for September 2001 but was then postponed until this year. All events were conducted in English. Kevin Lindstrom also attended.

That is all the news from Germany, i.e., the European Union and nearby countries for now, at least from my perspective. I look forward to contact with all of you in the future. Thanks to everyone for making ASEE ELD so great!