The development and instruction of an original and novel course in the School of Engineering, Vanderbilt University, is described. The seminar, aimed at first-year engineering students, explored excellence in quantitative display and asked students to study and critically examine a variety of maps, charts, and graphs as well as the underlying information and data sets. The instructor was a librarian with a dual purpose: to explore excellence in quantitative display in a way that just so happened to involve learning how to extract data from a library.
This paper identifies a selection of papers presented at the NSREC and published in the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NUCLEAR SCIENCE that have had measurable impact on radiation effects research and the radiation effects community. Criteria include papers selected for the Outstanding Paper Award at the NSREC or papers from the NSREC that have been highly cited by authors of other journal publications. Additionally, several papers are identified that, even though they are not selected by the above criteria, have impacted the technical areas served by the NSREC. Some observations are made on the methodology used here for selecting high-impact papers.Index Terms-Radiation Effects, NSREC, outstanding paper award.
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