Recommend a New Collection Acquisition

Collection Policy Outline

General Purpose:

To serve undergraduate and graduate teaching and research programs to the doctoral level.

Languages:

English is preferred but important materials in other languages are collected.

Geographical Areas:

No restriction. Material is selected for its importance.

Type of Material Collected:

• Books: monographs; bibliographies; conference proceedings; etc.
• Serial Publications: series; periodicals
• Technical reports
• Government documents (very selective)
• Preprints
• Indexing and abstracting services
• Standards Note: any of the above may be in print, microform, or electronic format.

Fields of research:

• Environmental engineering
• Geotechnical engineering
• Hydrotechnical engineering
• Structural engineering
• Transportation engineering

Subjects and Collecting Levels:

(Explanation of Collection Policy Levels)

Areas to be collected at level B:

• Environmental engineering:
  • Sanitary engineering:
  • Risk analysis
  • Toxic chemicals
  • Disposal of solid waste
  • Hydrogeology
  • Water treatment / water quality engineering
  • Groundwater flow and transport
  • Numerical modelling
  
  
• Geotechnical engineering:
  • Earth slopes:
  • Engineering aspects of surficial soils
  • Stress, strain behaviour and strength of soils
  • Theoretical soil mechanics
  • Foundation engineering
  • Railroad tract and its support
  • Geosynthetics
  • Permafrost engineering
  
  
• Hydrotechnical engineering:
  • Hydraulic structures:
  • Hydrodynamics of coasts and estuaries
  • Hydrology
  • Theory of turbulent flow
  • Theory of viscous flow
  • Waves
  • Coastal and ocean engineering
  • Transport of sediment
  
  
• Structural engineering:
  • Linear analysis of structures
  • Nonlinear analysis of structures
  • Properties of wood, concrete and bamboo
  • Structural dynamics
  • Stability of structures
  • Structural design in steel, wood and concrete
  • Numerical methods in structural mechanics
  • Rehabilitation and maintenance of structures
  • Advanced composite materials
  
  
• Transportation engineering:
  • Design of transportation elements (road, rail, air)
  • Traffic operation, control and management techniques
  • Transportation planning studies
  • Transportation economics
  • Traffic systems analysis, control and optimization
  • Route guidance systems and algorithms
  • IVHS and ITS evolution and architecture design
  • Treatment of experimental data

Areas to be collected at level C:

• Structural engineering:
  • Structural systems
  • Theory of elasticity and plasticity
  • Modal analysis of structures
  
  
• Transportation engineering:
  • Properties of bituminous materials
  • Traffic safety and transportation risk
  • Structural design of highways and airfield pavements
  • Public transportation and transit
  • Vehicle fuel consumption and emissions
  • Linear and dynamic programming, queuing theory
  
  
• Engineering computation
  
• Town planning:
  • Land use planning
  • Zoning requirements
  • Subdivision and Commercial site design

Areas to be collected at level D:

• Structural engineering:
  • Structural design and masonry
  • Composite materials
  • Building science
  
  
• Surveying:
  • Photogrammetry
  • Geodesy
  • Surveying
  
  
• Professional practice:
  
• Communication:
  • Technical writing
  • Effective public speaking

Policy last revised: 1994/95