National Engineers Week
National Engineers Week is February 22-28, 1998. This site, provided
by the National Society of Professional Engineers, provides information
on how to participate and make the most out of this week for engineers
and engineering students, teachers, and K-12 students. Also provided is
a link to an electronic roundtable, "Engineering the Workplace of the Future,"hosted
by Engineering News Record on February 19. Visitors can also read about
the winner of the 1997 Charles Stark Draper Prize, Vladimir Haensel. Other
features of the site include lessons on snowboarding, engineering sports,
profiles of selected engineers, and a chance to explore the International
Space Station. [KH] (From the Scout Report)
IEEE Women-In-Engineering Home Page
Welcome to the IEEE Women-In-Engineering home page, sponsored by the
IEEE Committee on Women in Engineering. This page is dedicated to presenting
information regarding issues and activities important to the Woman Engineer.
The site contains links to newsletters, on-line articles, other websites
of interest, and more.
National Inventors Hall of Fame
Portraits and biographies of important inventors. Lot’s of engineers
are represented!
Invention Dimension
The Invention Dimension, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
highlights a different American inventor every week with a biographical
sketch covering his or her accomplishments and their impact on society.
Previous Inventors of the Week are archived. Although the tone of the text
is not too serious, more substantial information is offered via list of
links concerning Copyrights, Patents, & Resources for the Inventor,
a list of research labs in the US, and links to other related sites.
Society for the History of Technology
SHOT is a non-profit, independent, interdisciplinary organisation,
concerned with the history of technological devices and processes, and
with the relations of technology to politics, economics, employment, business,
the environment, public policy, science, and the arts. Membership is international,
open to all. Newsletters, conference notes, job listings, announcements
of fellowships and grants, and other information are on-line, as well as
selected articles and tables of contents from the society’s journal Technology
and Culture: The International Quarterly of the Society for the History
of Technology.
Engineering Ethics Cases
Cases covering public safety and welfare, conflicts of interest, international
engineering ethics, fair trade, and research ethics Or visit the excellent,
very comprehensive link page for History of Technology http://www.tectrix.com/links/tech_hist.html
An annotated collection of links to some of the history of technology,
emphasizing little-known subsites buried on many well-known commercial
sites.
SUCCEED Engineering Visual Database
The SUCCEED Engineering Visual Database at the Southeastern University
and College Coalition for Engineering Education, is a collection of over
800 engineering images. The collection can be browsed by keywords or title
and all images are in .jpeg format. Because of the heavy use of images
this site can be slow to use.
Engineering Quotes and More Quotes
A collection of interesting engineering quotations. Some are humorous
and some are serious.
FAQ on What Engineers Are and Do
This Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on "What Engineers Are and Do"
originates from the sci.engr.* family of newsgroups. Four sections are
currently provided including a definition and summary of what engineering
is, a listing of professional engineering references which includes books
and films, pointers to sources of information about engineering (professional
societies, trade magazines, web sites, newsgroups), and the results of
a survey of of engineers regarding their views on the profession.
FAQ on Engineering Failures
This Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on "Engineering Failures" originates
from the sci.engr.* family of newsgroups. The first section introduces
the concept of an engineering failure, provides examples of notable failures,
discusses what lessons can be learned and how such failures can be avoided.
Section two provides summaries of some major engineering failures including
Apollo 1, Union Carbide at Bhopal, and USS Thresher. A listing of references
and links to further web resources are provided.
National Engineering Education Delivery System
The National Engineering Education Delivery System (NEEDS) is
a US based online database of multimedia Engineering education courseware
and other educational material. Originally developed by Synthesis, a National
Engineering Education Coalition, the NEEDS database is expanding to include
quality courseware nationwide.
Of particular interest is the World Lecture Hall - Engineering, which contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver class materials.
Virtual Laboratory [by Michael Karweit]
The Virtual Laboratory is a virtual engineering/science laboratory course
produced by Michael Karweit at the Department of Chemical Engineering at
Johns Hopkins University. It is an element of the What is Engineering?
course, an introduction to engineering problem solving.
The Virtual Laboratory aims to introduce students to experimentation, roblem solving, data gathering, and scientific interpretation early in their careers. It is written in Java, and offers the following basic experiments: logic circuits (creating logical circuits using elementary logic "gates" to effect computer calculations and robotic control); diffusion processes (using Diffusion Simulator - a tool for modelling and analyzing diffusion processes); drilling for oil (the goal is to find this stratum by drilling a sequence of pilot holes and deducing its contour); robotic arm control (to program the rotational motions of the segments so that the tip of the robotic arm traverses along a specified path); heat transfer in a duct (to deduce the rate at which heat is transfered from a heated, ribbed surface in an air duct); bridge designer (to design a truss bridge); and how many trees? (to estimate the number of trees from a Landsat image). More experiments are planned.
Engineering Software Database
A Service of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, this is a
searchable database of available shareware with FTP information.
And, a terrific web directory:
Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL)
If you haven't found this site, and you are interested in engineering,
you are missing a treat! This is an extremely comprehensive and easy to
use site, with every WWW link you ever wanted in any of the many fields
of engineering! BOOKMARK this one!