Education

  • B.S.E. Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
  • M.S.E. Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan-Dearborn
  • USDA Graduate School Certificate in Basic Indexing

 

Work Experience

Since 2000, I've provided professional freelance indexing services. Prior to that, I spent seven years in the automotive industry working as a mechanical engineer, primarily on engine design and development. For samples of my indexing work, please click here. Also, I will gladly provide references upon request.

 

Professional Involvement

  • American Society for Indexing, member
  • Chicago/Great Lakes Chapter, ASI, member
  • Science/Medicine Special Interest Group, member (SIG chair for two years; membership coordinator for two years)
  • contributed chapter "Software for Database Indexing" to Software for Indexing (Schroeder, ed.): American Society for Indexing, 2003.
  • regular participant in professional development through regional and national meetings

 

Selected Back-of-the-Book Indexing Projects

  • Advanced Macroeconomics, 4th ed. (Romer): McGraw-Hill
  • The Braces Cookbook, Vols. 1 & 2 (Waterman): The Discovery Box
  • Contemporary Business, 15th ed. (Boone and Kurtz): Wiley
  • Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources (Lerner, ed.): Thomson/Gale
  • Digital Human Modeling for Vehicle and Workplace Design (Chaffin): Society of Automotive Engineers
  • Elementary Number Theory, 7th ed. (Burton): McGraw-Hill
  • Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, & Addictive Behavior, 2nd Ed.(Carson-DeWitt, ed.): Gale
  • Ford: The Dust and the Glory: Volume 2 (1968-2000) (Levine): Society of Automotive Engineers
  • Fourier Series and Boundary Value Problems, 8th ed. (Brown and Churchill): McGraw-Hill
  • Fundamentals of Machine Elements, 2nd ed. (Hamrock et al): McGraw-Hill
  • Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine, 3rd ed. (Fundukian, ed.): Gale Cengage
  • General Aviation Law (Eichenberger): McGraw-Hill
  • Government, Politics & Protest: Essential Primary Sources (Lerner, ed.): Thomson/Gale
  • Heat Transfer, 9th ed. (Holman): McGraw-Hill
  • History of Mathematics, 7th ed. (Burton): McGraw-Hill
  • Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Food Rights (Gumpert): Chelsea Green
  • Masonry Heaters (Matesz): Chelsea Green
  • New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2011 supplement (Fastiggi, ed.): Gale Cengage
  • New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Koertge, ed.): Gale (member of index team)
  • Raw Milk Revolution (Gumpert): Chelsea Green
  • Semiconductor Device Fundamentals (Neamen): McGraw-Hill
  • Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise (Byers, Dorf and Nelson): McGraw-Hill
  • World of Forensic Science (Lerner and Lerner, eds.): Gale
  • UXL Encyclopedia of Weather and Natural Disasters (Hill, ed.): UXL/Gale
  • The Zero Waste Solution (Connett): Chelsea Green

 

Database Indexing Projects

Over the years, I have indexed thousands of articles, essays, and book chapters for online databases, using a controlled vocabulary/taxonomy. Subject matter covered includes education, health, literary biography, mathematics, medicine, religion, science, and the social sciences.

 






Shana K. Milkie, Freelance Indexer