The purpose of this award was to honor the best new reference work in engineering information.
Award History
Established 1998, ceased 2010. Replaced by the Innovation in Access to Engineering Information Award.
Criteria
1. Single or multiple authors are eligible. Works authored by Awards Committee members are ineligible during the members’ term of service.
2. Reference works must have been published during the previous two years prior to the year in which the award will be made.
3. Reference works should represent a significant contribution to the field of engineering information.
4. Works in all media are eligible.
Past Recipients
2008: Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science, Collection I.
2007: Osif, Bonnie A. Using the Engineering Literature. Routledge studies in library and information science, 1. London: Routledge, 2006
2006: Information Sources in Engineering, 4th ed., edited by Roderick A. MacLeod and Jim Corlett. München : K.G. Saur, 2005.
2005: Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, edited by Hari Singh Nalwa. Stevenson Ranch, Calif. : American Scientific Publishers, 2004.
2004: Comprehensive Structural Integrity, edited by Ian Milne; Robert O. Ritchie; Bhushan L. Karihaloo. Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Pergamon, 2003.
2003: Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology, edited by Jacqueline I. Kroschwitz. 3rd edition. John Wiley: Hoboken, NJ, 2002 & 2003.
2002: International Encyclopedia of Ergonomics and Human Factors, edited by Waldemar Karwowski. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2001.
2001: ENGnetBase, a collection of full text handbooks published by CRC Press.
2000: McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, 4th edition, 1998, edited by Sybil P. Parker.
1999: The Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, edited by John G. Webster. New York: Wiley and Sons.
1998: Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook, 7th ed. Robert H. Perry, editor; Don W. Green and James O. Maloney, associate editors. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997.