Standards are important to engineering students as you experiment with new solutions to old problems. Understanding and applying existing standards will help you to create safe, reliable, and marketable designs. As you enter the engineering workforce, your employers will depend on your knowledge of standards as you tackle new engineering problems.
But what's a standard?
To wrap up the celebration of Women’s History Month, check out some of these resources to learn about women in science, engineering, and architecture.
The Materials Collection at the Art, Architecture and Engineering Library has vast potential as a learning resource. I interviewed Rebecca Price to get her thoughts about how faculty, students, and visitors can profit from the collection’s existence at U-M Library.
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the publication of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, here are some resources to help you learn more.
For the month of March, we decided to highlight some of the books in our collection that explore the idea of being "retro." Though most of us have a general idea of what people mean when they refer to something as retro, it's interesting to explore some of the different facets of the term, from interior design patterns to video game themes.