Toolkit Addition

Toolkit: Engineering Professional Associations Here's a list of Engineering Associations. Given the rapidly deteriorating status of the search engines, it might be a good exercise to try to map several of these sites using the tools from the seminar.

Professional Associations:

• American Society of Civil Engineers -- http://www.asce.org
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers -- http://www.asme.org
• American Society for Healthcare Engineering -- http://www.ashe.org/
• Asian American Society of Engineers -- http://www.columbia.edu/cu/aase/aase.html
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility -- http://www.cpsr.org
• IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) -- http://www.ieee.org
• National Society of Black Engineers -- http://ww.nsbe.org
• Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers -- http://www.ips.net/shpe
• Society of Women Engineers -- http://www.swe.org -- You may also call 408-733-3697 for more information.
• Society for Software Quality -- http://www.ssq.org
• Usenix System Administrators Guild (SAGE) -- http://www.usenix.org/sage

Search Tips

Search Tip: Search Engine Decay

Please take a moment to read todays column on the ZDNet Anchor Desk . It describes the rapid decay of the search engines as, well, search engines. The push towards profitability drives these companies to ignore their core business (at their peril, we think). Over the long haul, it will pay great benefits to pull the tools off of the Seminar CD and get to know them.

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