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Informationen zum Autor James L. Mullins, PhD, is the dean of Libraries and Esther Ellis Norton Professor. In his role as an academic library administrator for over forty years, he has been involved in facility planning and construction at Indiana University South Bend, Villanova University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Purdue University. Since his arrival at Purdue in 2004, he has championed the construction of a building on the site of the Old Power Plant that would combine the science and engineering libraries and classrooms to address the changing use of libraries by Purdue students in the twenty-first century. Klappentext An edited volume that speaks to the history of the Purdue Power Plant, from the initial need for increased power and heat to meet a growing campus and its Romanesque, to the people who worked to bring heat and power to the campus by keeping the boilers up and the students who experienced the principles and applications of mechanical engineering through active learning. Zusammenfassung An edited volume that speaks to the history of the Purdue Power Plant! from the initial need for increased power and heat to meet a growing campus and its Romanesque! to the people who worked to bring heat and power to the campus by keeping the boilers up and the students who experienced the principles and applications of mechanical engineering through active learning.

Product details

• Authors: James Mullins, James L. (EDT) Mullins
• Assisted by: James Mullins (Editor), James L Mullins (Editor), James L. Mullins (Editor)
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9781557537829
• ISBN: 978-1-55753-782-9
• No. of pages: 152
• Series: Founders; The Founders Series; The Founders Series; The Founders
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Heat, energy and power station engineering