Reviewer Guidelines

The objective of the Technology Interface is to provide an on-line information resource which is easily accessible and easily shared by our colleagues in the ET Profession. All articles appearing in the Technology Interface will be peer-reviewed.

Elements in the peer-review process include:

1. Reviewer guidelines are published regularly (available online)
2. Style requirements are published regularly (available online)
3. A minimum of two reviewers will be used for each article to do the preliminary screening. At least one editor and one outside reviewer are involved in all decisions to publish an article.
4. The author(s) name and affiliation will be blind to the reviewer.
   
   
5. The following criteria is critical when evaluating articles.
   
   
   1. QUALITY (Is the paper's topic presented in a manner representative of the high quality expected from Engineering Technology?)
   2. ACCURACY (Is the material accurate?)
   3. USEFULNESS (How useful is this material to the Engineering Technology profession? For example, would you encourage a colleague to read this article? Would you encourage your students to read this article? Could you use this material at your place of employment?)
   4. OVERALL COMMENTS (What is your overall feeling about this article?)
   
   
6. Please state whether this publication should be:
   • accepted as is
   • accepted with changes (please cite changes)
   • not accepted

We do not review articles based on length or if the information is new. Many old methods are still very useful yet people in our profession may not be aware of the old mouse-traps.

These guidelines may differ in some respects to many academic journals. An obvious difference is that length is not an issue. Reviewers are free to use their own judgment as to whether length is an issue. This is usually only an issue when the length detracts from the usefulness of the paper.

Authors are given time to make changes in their article after the review process and their paper has been accepted. However, once a paper has been placed online, the article can not be changed.

Please complete your review as soon as possible. Email me your review at jbeasley@nmsu.edu.

Thank you again for supporting the Technology Interface.