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Contributors
Michael Chrimes is director, Engineering Policy and Innovation at ICE, the Institution of Civil
Engineers.
Thomas W. Conkling is head of the Engineering Library at the Pennsylvania State University.
From 1975 to 1981, he was assistant librarian at the Princeton University Plasma Physics Laboratory
Library. He has a BS in physics and math from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and
an MLS from Queens College of the City University of New York. His research interests include the
production and use of technical information. He is an active member of the American Society for
Engineering Education (ASEE) Engineering Libra ...