Seminar to Civil Engineering Graduate Students

Today I gave my standard lecture to civil engineering graduate students on how to use the NJIT databases to support their research. I was pleasantly surprised this time that the students were attentive. They were not surfing the webs with laptops or playing with cell phones. I got some very good questions indicating that the students had used these resources before. One student asked about cited references which I usually don't discuss. I was also asked about impact factors which are found in Journal Citation Reports not available at NJIT. There is a world of difference in lecturing to graduate students. The databases have more relevance to their current studies.