Engineering & Technology

Open Courseware and Resources (general)

- Engineering: discipline of acquiring and applying scientific and technical knowledge to the design, analysis, and/or construction of works for practical purposes
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- Technology: a broad concept that deals with a species' usage and knowledge of tools and crafts and how it affects a species' ability to control and adapt to its environment
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Engineering and Technology (general) - Resource Page

Engineers - can they lead a normal life?

Prime Sites

  • Applied Math and Science Education Repository (AMSER) (US) - educational resources and services built specifically for use by those in Community and Technical Colleges but free for anyone to use: resources (Arts, Educational Technology, Foreign Languages, Health, Language Arts, Maths, Philosophy, Physical Education, Religion, Science, Social studies, Vocational Education
  • Engineering Pathway (US) - portal to teaching and learning resources in engineering, applied science and math, computer science/information technology and engineering technology, for K-12 and university educators and students: Higher Education Community, Disciplinary Communities, Broadening Participation, Premier Award, Submit Resources
  • Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology (UK), Engineering - free online service, resources for education and research: general, Aerospace and defence, Bioengineering, Chemical, Civil, design, Environmental, Manufacturing, Materials science, Mechanical and related industries, Mining and mineral processing, Nanotechnology, Occupational safety and health, Petroleum and offshore engineering, Sustainable development
  • MERLOT Engineering Portal (US) - educational resource for teaching and learning: Teaching Engineering Today, People, Learning materials (Engineering collection includes hundreds of learning materials organized into categories, ready for classroom use, Many with peer reviews, user comments, and assignments attached), educator resources, showcase

Other Sites

People-centred Designing

usability and the increasingly important phenomenon of people-centred design, inform consumers of design about this crucial characteristic of design

Engineering Geology

Geologic Structures, Maps and Stratigraphic Sections, Remote Sensing, Properties of Minerals, Crystallography and Optical Properties, Chemical Characteristics, Types of Rocks & Soils, Igneous Rocks, Stress-Strain Behavior, Tunneling, Dam Construction, Groundwater, Plate Tectonics, Earthquake Hazard Assessment, Geologic Hazards, Preparation of Geologic Sections, Index testing of soil & rocks, Identification of minerals and rock samples
 

Structural Geology

study of processes and products of rock deformation, techniques of structural geology through a survey of the mechanics of rock deformation, survey of the features and geometries of faults and folds and techniques of strain analysis, Regional structural geology and tectonics: readings

Electromagnetic Interactions

emphasis on basics and applications to Nuclear Science and Engineering: electrostatics, magnetostatics, electromagnetic radiation, applications include transmission lines, waveguides, antennas, scattering, shielding, charged particle collisions, Bremsstrahlung radiation, Cerenkov radiation

Methods of Risk Analysis

Nuclear Engineering, Methodological approaches for the quantification of technological risk and risk based decision making, Probabilistic safety assessment, human health risks, environmental and ecological risk analysis

Management in Engineering

financial principles, management of innovation, engineering project planning and control, human factors, career planning, patents, and technical strategy

Writing Guidelines for Engineering and Science Students

guidelines for engineering writing and scientific writing designed to help communicate technical work, advice, models, and exercises for common writing and speaking assignments in engineering and science.

Introduction to Environmental Engineering

introduction, mass & energy fundamentals, physical chemistry & principles, organic chemistry, microbiology & microbial growth, erosion control & stormwater management, water, waste, air pollution, global events

Computational Science and Engineering

review of linear algebra, applications to networks, structures, and estimation, Lagrange multipliers, differential equations of equilibrium, Laplace's equation and potential flow, boundary-value problems, minimum principles and calculus of variations, Fourier series, discrete Fourier transform, convolution & applications
 

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