engineering [n.]

the branch of science and technology concerned with the design, building, and use of engines, machines, and structures.
Definitions for specific types of engineering are also available.

Oxford Dictionaries

This page provides links to information and resources for units and topics covered in this subject at a range of Australian universities. It does not attempt to include all these. Be aware some units/topics have different titles in different universities, even though content may be the same or similar. Australian information is supplied wherever possible.

They are at undergraduate level and listed in alphabetical groupings for ease of access. Some information may be useful at a higher level.

In addition, there are journals, search engines, reference material and other general information where these are seen to be relevant.

All standard Glossaries are now found on this page, listed alphabetically.

Additional unit material will be included as time permits.

If you are aware of any worthwhile information which is not included, suggestions or additions are welcome and will be given every consideration.

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Chemical Engineering

• Chemical Engineering
  Journal ‘for engineers by engineers’.
• Chemical Engineering Links
  Caltech, USA. Databases and journals may be most relevant for Australia. Not annotated
• Cheresources
  ‘Since 1997, Cheresources.com has been providing the very best online content and tools to chemical engineers all over the world. We provide many Free chemical engineering resources as well as premium content and software’.
  Check Free resources, quite extensive.
• History of Chemical Engineering
  Past & present, charts & tables, case study [petroleum], timeline, bibliography, more.
• Institution of Chemical Engineers
  ‘Professional body for chemical and process engineers. A leading engineering organisation with an international membership across more than 80 countries approaching 25,000’. Careers, training, publications, online shop, links, more.
• International Directory of Chemical Engineering URLs
  Links in multiple directories.
• The Chemical Engineers’ Resource Page
  Equations, articles, newsletter, message boards, resources, publications, links. Many Free.
• What Is Chemical Engineering ?
  ‘Introduces Chemical Engineering, skills and training of chemical engineers, describes how chemists and chemical engineers work together to put chemistry into practice’.

Civil Engineering

Bridge Building

• ASCE Research Library
  ‘Comprehensive online tool for locating articles of interest across all disciplines of civil engineering’. Other links to blogs, podcasts, more.
• Bridge Building
  ‘Try to describe simply the structures of the most common types of bridge’. The art and the science of bridge building. Looks at structures, designs, examples.
• Bridges
  The Building Big section of PBS. Basics, forces, Bridge Webography, more.

• Civil Engineering
  ‘A set of subject pages in the Scholarly Societies Project, which facilitates access to websites of scholarly societies across the world’.
• Civil Engineering Database
  ‘Provides easy bibliographic access to all ASCE publications. The database covers all the journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, newspapers’. All aspects of civil engineering.
• Civil Engineering Magazine
  ‘Official publication of the American Society of Civil Engineers’. Online magazine. Mostly abstracts, some full length articles.
• Civil Engineering Research Foundation
  ‘Focused on advancing the design and construction industry through innovation. CERF promotes and facilitates the advancement of innovation to improve productivity. In particular, CERF operates innovative technology programs to speed the use of innovation into practice in the areas of transportation, public works, infrastructure security, energy systems and applications, materials, IT and environment’.
• Civil Engineering Resources on the Internet
• Electronic Journal of Structural Engineering
  University of Melbourne. Abstracts, full text [PDF] articles.

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Examples of Civil Engineering Feats

• Extreme Engineering
  ‘Unveils some of the most ambitious architectural plans of our times. Some theoretical; others in the works. But all must face challenges that stretch the definition of what’s possible’.
• Millau Bridge, France [Viaduc de Millau]
  The world’s highest bridge [374m above ground, more than 2km long].

• iCivilEngineer
  News, Free magazines, career centre, IT Centre, Tools Centre, Resource Centre, more.
• Master Builders Australia
  Features & services, news [includes archive], links, industry events, more.
• National Association of Women in Construction
  ‘To promote and improve the construction industry by the advancement of women within it’.

Software

• Engineering Software Centre
  Extensive listing. Most is Fee-based.
• Free Structural Engineering Analysis Software
  Extensive listing provided.

• Structural Engineers Association [International]
  Papers, material archives, publications, job forum, media matters, engineers online.
• The Institution of Civil Engineers
  UK, but with branches around the world including Australia. Set up with ‘the aim of encouraging the exchange of knowledge and information about civil engineering’. Among the best pages are the following.

• Downloads Library
• Information Resources
  ‘Browse our full list of downloadable documents, or find out more about our infrastructure policy and research [including State of the Nation] put together by leading experts in civil engineering’.

• ICE Journals
  Expensive for individuals but may be available through university libraries. Some Free material & abstracts. Tables of contents also Free. ‘The largest collection of civil engineering papers on the web’.
  Previously known as Thomas Telford Journals.
• Using Failure Case Studies in Civil Engineering Education
  From ASCE. Many case studies provided.
• Internet Resources - Engineering & Technology - Civil

Engineering Economics & Finance

Understanding of, and the ability to deal with, the business side of engineering.

• Books on Engineering Economy
  Links to books to purchase [or find in libraries].
• Engineering Economics Tutorial
  US university. Fundamental concepts, cash flow diagrams, interest formulae, economic equivalent involving interest.
• Engineering Economy
  Article.
• Engineering Economy Links
• The Engineering Economist
  ‘Articles, case studies, surveys, book and software reviews, readers’ comments that represent current research, practice, and teaching involving problems of capital investment’.
• Using Simulation Software …
  To Solve Engineering Economy Problems. Abstract, references. Check your university for access or Register Free for a limited service.

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G - L

General Sites

• Discover Engineering - Links
  While geared more to secondary students, they apply at all levels. Access this section through the Cool Stuff tab.
• Engineering
  Now part of Intute Science, Engineering & Technology area. Among other sections are the following.

• Civil Engineering
• Engineering Design
• Engineering General
• Nanotechnology

• A Sightseer’s Guide to Engineering
  US. Tries to develop the idea of engineering as the basis of most things in our lives. Search by keyword, category, discipline.
• CareerPlanning & Advice
  Categories, discipline, FAQs, professional development, links, articles, job search, more. Australian.
• Engineering [iCademic]
  Links to pages for Biomedical, Chemical, Civil, Computer, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering. Each page has multiple links grouped under topics such as websites, journals & books, news, departments, research, events.
  Well presented !
• Engineering Village
  Assists engineers to connect with each other and with the sharing of engineering information. Aspects from research to careers. Free trial, but Full Access is Fee-based, from 1 day up.
• Engineering Heritage Committee
  ‘Encourages understanding of Engineering and Industrial Heritage in the Sydney and New South Wales region. This committee advises, promotes and assists in conservation and recognition both of engineered works and documents in order to record the significant achievements and social history that engineering has achieved in this country’.
• Engineering Links
  Links for areas from aerospace to marine engineering.
• Engineers Solve Problems
  A set of activities, demonstrations, readings, teaching notes and more.
• Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century
  ‘How many of the 20th century’s greatest engineering achievements will you use today ?’ What they believe the achievements are, how they came about, their use today.
• ImplosionWorld
  Engineering is also about effective destruction.
• International Directory of Chemical Engineering URLs
  Grouped in a series of directories.
• National Engineers Week
  Only one aspect. Forums, information, resources, more.
• Online Ethics Centre for Engineering and Science
  ‘This section provides curriculum ideas and teaching advice for incorporating ethics into the engineering classroom at the university and pre-college level’.
• The World-Wide Web Virtual Library-Structural Engineering
  ‘The intent of this site is to provide an information resource for Structural Engineering related topics’.
• The WWW Virtual Library - Engineering
  Topic Links from Acoustics to Wastewater Engineering.

Journals

Specific topic journals are also included in other sections.

• Mechanical Logic [Industrial Engineer]
  Journal with some publicly accessible articles, others restricted to subscribers.
• Journal of SMET Education Innovations and Research
  Abstracts for all articles.

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M - R

Mathematical Modelling

The relevance of Mathematics to engineering, use of mathematical tools, terminology and concepts.

• Applied Mathematical Modelling
  Online journal.
• ESAIM : Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis
  Journal with abstracts, full text in PDF format.
• Mathematical Modelling - Bibliography
• Mathematical Modelling in a Real & Complex World
  Online text. Gives a basis for the concept then examples, not all of which will be relevant in engineering.
• Some Perspectives on …
  The Mathematical Modelling of Materials Processing Operations. PDF article [1.23mb] on ‘mathematical modelling in the materials field, including accomplishments and challenges’.

Project Management

Project integration, human resources, communications, procurement management … .

• APM Body of Knowledge 5th Edition
  Now Fee-based, though bibliography for each separate section still available online.
• Australian Institute of Project Management
  ‘Peak body for Project Management in Australia. Our vision is for project management to be recognised as the preferred process to achieve objectives at all levels in industry, govt. and the community’. Specific pages of value include the following.

• YourPM Construction Projects Links
• AIPM Project Management Links

• Basic Management Skills
  Series of articles from IEE Engineering Management Journal, student created resources, more.
• Construction Project Management
  ‘A Resource for Construction Project Managers’. FAQs, handbook in preparation, user groups, more.
• MIT OpenCourseWare - Project Management
  One course is Project Management [see below]. Other Engineering topics [Civil & Environmental] can be found here.
• PM Boulevard
  ‘Most complete online resource for professionals and executives working in : Program Management, Portfolio Management, Project Management’.
  Free to Join.
• PMWorldToday
  ‘A resource for information on international project management affairs’. Significant information.
  Previously listed as PMFORUM.
• Princeton Project Office - Project Office Templates
  About 50 templates covering all aspects.
• Project Management for Construction
  Online book in 14 chapters, with introduction.
• Project Management Training
  ‘Project management planning, milestones, objectives, dependencies, scope, wbs, cpm, control, estimating, quality, risk, human factors, more’.
• Project Management Wisdom
  Max Wideman. Extensive glossary, articles [PDF], book information, more. Worth visiting.
• Risk Management
  ‘Includes proactive and reactive planning, triggers, monitoring, control, risk combination, Monte Carlo distribution, more’.
• System Dynamics Modeling for Project Management
  Excerpt. PDF full-text version available.

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S - Z

Search Engines

• Engineering Village 2
  ‘The premier web-based discovery platform meeting the information needs of the engineering community’. Fee-based. Check your institution about possible access.
• IEEE Xplore 2
• Interscience
  ‘Ullmann’s Encyclopaedia of Industrial Chemistry’.

Software

• Copan for Windows
  ‘Efficient, easy-to-use geomatics engineering tool for computing and managing plane survey coordinates. It does numerous COGO calculations, processes and adjusts field survey data, computes and adjusts map traverse data, performs map checks, calculates areas and perimeters, performs coordinate transformations, and imports/exports Ascii files’.
• Free Civil Engineering Software
  Annotated links to software.
• Uconeer Freeware Units Conversion for Engineers
  ‘Designed specifically for engineers. In addition to the standard categories, Uconeer includes engineering categories like Diffusivity, Enthalpy, Entropy, Fouling Factor, Heat Capacity, Heat Transfer Coefficient, Moment of Inertia, Stress, Surface Tension, Thermal Conductivity, Torque and Viscosity. Total of 383 units in 43 categories’.

Technology Assessment

Understanding technology as a process, its use within an engineering culture.

• From TA to Innovation and Sustainability
  Article. Christian Clausen [Denmark].
• Links for the study of “Technology Assessment”
  Nine major headings. For a course at a US university.
• Mixed Prospects Of Engineering Ethics
  Abstract of an article covering technology assessment and implementation and the ethics involved with this. Now Fee-based.
• Stakeholder Participation In Technology Assessment
  Text article, bibliography.
• The International Center for Technology Assessment
  ‘Committed to providing the public with full assessments and analyses of technological impacts on society. CTA is devoted to fully exploring the economic, ethical, social, environmental and political impacts that can result from the applications of technology or technological systems’.
  Opens to the Global Warming & Environment Page.
• What is TA ?
  General information, methods, approaches, institutionalisation, bibliography.

Texts, Documentation, …

• ASME Professional Practice Curriculum
  ‘Free on-line learning resource for engineering students and early career engineers to help prepare them to enter into and advance in the engineering profession’. Extensive sections.
  Brilliant !.
• Cornell Engineering Library
  A second engineering library can be found at University of Auckland and another at the Terman Engineering Library.
• Engineering Fundamentals
  ‘Online destination for the engineering community, where working professionals can quickly find concise and reliable information to meet the majority of their daily reference needs’.
• SMETE Digital Library
  ‘Dynamic online library and portal of services by the SMETE Open Federation for teachers and students. Access a wealth of teaching and learning materials as well as join this expanding community of science, math, engineering and technology explorers of all ages’. Backup server directs to Engineering Pathway for similar results.
• Wiley InterScience : Engineering
  Select Physical Sciences & Engineering from the main list, then specific areas from the new box.

Tutorials

• Civil Engineering Online Courses [Video Lectures from Top colleges and Universities]
  Part of the FreeVideoLectures site. There are also videos for Electrical Engineering.
• Notes on Diffy Qs : Differential Equations for Engineers
  ‘A first course in differential equations, aimed at engineering students. This free online book should be usable as a stand-alone textbook’. Also available as a PDF file. By a teacher at the University of Illinois.
• Stanford Engineering Everywhere
  ‘SEE programming includes one of Stanford’s most popular engineering sequences : the three-course Introduction to Computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford undergraduates, and seven more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering’.
• Web Tutorials : The RDN Virtual Training Suite
  ‘Part of … a national initiative designed to teach internet information skills to the higher and further education communities. They offer a subject-based approach to internet skills training’. A range of engineering fields covered. Each includes links. Select individual areas from the listing provided.

Women in Engineering

• Engineer Girl
  Why be an engineer ?, sample women engineers, careers, becoming an engineer, fun facts, more.
• NerdGirls
  ‘Breaking the stigmas and stereotypes of women in engineering’.
• Women in Engineering
  ‘For parents, teachers, engineers and others interested [in] helping girls discover the opportunities in engineering careers’.
• Women in Engineering
  Engineers Australia. Events, news, activities, What’s new, resources, more.

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