LibGuides: College Park: Engineering

What is engineering?

The American Engineers' Council for Professional Development defined "engineering" as: The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to forecast their behavior under specific operating conditions; all as respects an intended function, economics of operation and safety to life and property.

Engineering News

Engineering Databases

Environmental Studies and Policy - Gale OneFile
Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reference souces covering environmental issues and policies. covering diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy, and corporate interests.
PubSpace (free resource)
NASA PubSpace is a repository of all peer-reviewed scientific research publications and associated data, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration beginning in 2016.
Vocations and Careers - Gale OneFile
Provides access to journals and magazines for researching a vocation, finding an appropriate institution of learning, job searching, and maintaining a career.

Engineering Websites

Engineering.com
Engineering.com informs, inspires and engages engineering minds to be and do better by sharing in-depth original content that excites and educates.
The Engineering Toolbox
Resources, Tools and Basic Information for Engineering and Design of Technical Applications.
Instructables
Instructables is a website specializing in user-created and uploaded do-it-yourself projects. The original content focused mostly on such projects as building electronic or mechanical devices to solve common problems around the home. The scope of the project has expanded to include a larger array of categories, including Food, Living, Outside, Tech, Play and Workshop.

Engineering Professional Organizations

Engineering Videos

Engineer Guy on YouTube
Bill Hammack is an American chemical engineer, and professor in the department of chemical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. His YouTube channel explores the world of engineering.
ENR- YouTube
Engineering News Record on YouTube
Films on Demand: Engineering
Interesting Engineering
Things That Build Themselves on TED

Open Engineering Courses

MIT- How and Why Machines Work
Subject studies how and why machines work, how they are conceived, how they are developed (drawn), and how they are utilized. Students learn from the hands-on experiences of taking things apart mentally and physically, drawing (sketching, 3D CAD) what they envision and observe, taking occasional field trips, and completing an individual term project (concept, creation, and presentation). Emphasis on understanding the physics and history of machines.
Stanford Engineering Everywhere
Stanford Engineering Everywhere expands the Stanford experience to students and educators online and at no charge. The SEE course portfolio includes one of Stanford's most popular sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science, taken by the majority of Stanford’s undergraduates, as well as more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering.

College Park: Engineering

Engineering Books (Select book cover for more information and availability.)