Engineering
General Engineering
- ASTM Directory of
Scientific and Technical Consultants and Expert Witnesses
The ASTM Directory of Scientific and Technical Consultants and Expert
Witnesses is an on-line full text search for individuals/companies who
perform consulting services or act as expert witnesses. Each consultant
has paid a fee to ASTM for their listing. Searchable by subject, consultant
name, geographical location and keyword.
- Digital Engineering
Unit Conversions
A unit conversion program which allows you to switch effortlessly between
thousands of common and technical English and metric units. Conversion factors
are from ASTM E380-93, "Standard Practice for Use of the International
System of Units."
- Engineering Jobs
This site is a free service which lists engineering jobs and resources for
engineers, employers of engineers, engineering organizations. Links include:
Headhunters & Job Databases; Resumes Posted By Job-Seeking Engineers;
Employers; a Contract Engineering & High Tech index; Engineering Tools;
and Engineering Software.
- Graduating Engineering &
Computer Careers Online
Based upon the CASS Recruitment Media publication, Graduating Engineer Online
is an original career information center for young engineering and computer
science majors starting their career. Links include: Company Profiles, Hot
Companies, Regional Job Markets, Interview Preparation, Industry Events,
Profiles of Graduate Schools and a searchable job openings database.
- IEEE Women-In-Engineering
Home Page
This site is dedicated to presenting information regarding issues and activities
important to the Women Engineers. Links include the WIE (Women In Engineering)
Monthly Newsletter, IEEE WIE Jobs File, the WIE Directory and Workplace
Issues for Women.
- Science & Engineering
Indicators
A biennial published report by the National Science Foundation which "provides a broad base of quantitative information about U.S. science, engineering, and technology." It is available full text.
- Standards
- ASTM
- American Society for Testing and Materials
This site allows the user to search by title or ASTM numerical designation
along with offering a standards tracking service which notifies the user
when a standard has changed. There is also an option for searching for
bibliographic information in ASTM journals and technical publications.
- DOD Specifications
and Standards
An index of DOD standards and specification. Search fields include: DODISS
ID Number, Title, Date: Status, Preparing Activity and FSC Code. Some
standards are available full text in pdf format.
- DOE Technical Standards
"The approved and draft DOE technical standards are provided in one
or both of the following formats: browsable HTML versions that can be
viewed through your World Wide Web browser or PDF files that can be viewed
and printed through Acrobat Reader. Keyword searching permits the searching
of Technical Standards documents by title, report number, project number,
author, preparing activity, etc."
- Find Standards & Patents
- IEEE Standards
includes all current IEEE standards with the exception of IEEE 100 The
National Electrical Safety Code ®, and NESC ® and NESC-related
products.
- Links to Other
Standards Organizations
- NSSN - A National Resource for Global
Standards
This site provides bibliographic information from over 600 organizations,
including American National Standards Institute
(ANSI), U.S. private-sector standards organizations, government agencies,
and international standards organizations. NSSN's . Users can also track
the development standards benefit from the Standards
Tracking and Alerting (STAR) Service by setting up profiles.
- Standards Documentation
Civil Engineering
- Seismic Engineering
- Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
- National information Service for
Earthquake Engineering
Produced the University of California, Berkeley, College of Engineering.
The site contains a wide range of information regarding earthquakes and
structural engineering. Links include: Earthquake Engineering Abstracts,
Selected Papers In Earthquake Engineering, the Godden Structural Engineering
Slide Library; the EQISS Image Database; an Earthquake Engineering Software
Repository; a searchable database of earthquake reports and current news
on recent earthquakes.
- Latest Earthquake
Report
Established in 1973 by the United States Geological Survey's National
Earthquake Engineering Center in Golden, Colorado. This site is a 24 hour
service to determine the location and magnitude of significant earthquakes
in the United States and around the world as rapidly and accurately as
possible. The "Quick Epicenter Determinations" (QED), a very
preliminary list of earthquakes, is computed daily.
- The Multidisciplinary Center for
Earthquake Engineering Research
Formerly known as the National Center for Earthquake Engineering (NCEER).
MCEER is headquartered at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
The site includes links to fulltext materials, a link to the Earthquake
Engineering Slide Information System (EASY) and various other links to
earthquake information from around the world.
- Quakeline
Database
QUAKELINE ® is a bibliographic database produced by the Multidisciplinary
Center for Earthquake Engineering. It covers earthquakes, earthquake engineering,
natural hazard mitigation, and related topics. It includes records for
various publication types, such as journal articles, conference papers,
technical reports, maps, and videotapes. QUAKELINE ® was launched
in May 1987. The database currently provides access to 33,000 records.
- The
Wavelet Seismic Inversion Lab
Produced by the Center for Wave Phenomena at the Colorado School of Mines.
The site hosts information on wavelets as applied to seismic inversion.
Links include: Daubechies Wavelets, Seismic Wave Propagations, Traveltime
Tomography; Pattern Recogniation & Transforms and Seismic Data Compression.
- Structural Engineering
- Internet Finite Element Resources
This site describes and provides access to Finite Element (FE) software
via the Internet. A large listing of l public domain and shareware programs
and a selection of pointers to commercial packages. Also includes references
to useful URL's, ftp sites, newsgroups, listservers, bulletin boards etc,
and to some books which contain source code.
- Mesh Generation & Grid Generation on the Web
This site "provide information on mesh and grid generation: people
working in the field, research groups, books and conferences."
- The National Materials
Advisory Board
- Transportation Engineering
Electrical Engineering
- Electrical and Computer
Engineering Programs
Maintained by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the
University of Missouri. A listing of home pages for Electrical Engineering
academic programs throughout the world.
- Electronics
- Electrical Engineering
Circuits Archive
Maintained by the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University
of Washington. This site is described as being "devoted to expanding
the availability of circuit designs to engineering students, and even
engineering professionals." Links include: Circuits, Microprocessors,
Reading Capacitors, Resistor Codes and a Power System Test Case Archives.
- Great Microprocessors
of the Past and Present
A microprocessor reference site to end all reference sites or everything
you wanted to know about microprocessors from the past to the present.
Gives details such as the date a chip came into existence, it's architectural
details and when it went into decline.
- Microprocessor Instruction
Cards
Maintained by Oxford University Computing Laboratory. This page provides
links for a number of programming cards for microprocessors from various.
- Semiconductors
- The Lexicon of Semiconductor
Terms
Maintained by Intersil Inc. (formerly Harris Semiconductors). "This
Lexicon of Semiconductor Terms, Abbreviations and Acronyms to improve
understanding of the exciting world of semiconductors. We have tried to
provide insight into what the terms mean, and we've taken special pains
to clarify the drivers of our own business, which is to provide high performance,
high reliability, standard and custom products for signal processing and
power control applications."
- The Semiconductor Subway
The Semiconductor Subway provides links to all manner of semiconductor
and microsystems related information, including fabrication facilities,
research activities, standards work, etc.
- Signal & Image Processing
- Signal Processing Information
Base (SPIB)
A Signal Processing universal resource locator (url) LIBrary created by
the Digital Signal Processing Group of Rice University. It's purpose to
make registration and searching for Signal Processing related URLs simple.
The focus is on providing URLs for Signal Processing related web sites
and servers.
Mechanical Engineering
- Fluid Dynamics
- CFD Online
An online center for Computational Fluid Dynamics. Links include: CFD
Resources Online, a Jobs Database, and a Discussion Forum.
- Computational Fluid
Dynamics
A list of WWW home pages that pertain to computational fluid dynamics.
Links include: a CFD Books List:, CFD Resources Online, A Commercial Codes
List, FAQs for the Mathematical Topics of Optimization and links to various
Fluids Groups & Laboratories around the world.
- Fluid
& Solid Mechanics Related Pages
Military Science
Finding Budget Information
Finding Opportunities
- Air Force Information
for Industry Office (AFIFIO)
A focal point where the industrial and academic community can readily obtain
information on Department of Defense (DoD) and USAF acquisitions, research
and development (R&D) requirements, plans, and future needs.
- Army Technical
& Industrial Liaison Office (TILO)
Army Research and Development and Acquisition page; provides links to contract
and proposal soliticitations.
- Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is the central research
and development organization for the Department of Defense (DoD). It manages
and directs selected basic and applied research and development projects
for DoD, and pursues research and technology where risk and payoff are both
very high and where success may provide dramatic advances for traditional
military roles and missions and dual-use applications. Links include: planned
procurement, solicitations and budget request information.
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency
- DOD Research & Engineering Homepage
Maintained by the Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering.
This site covers the priorities, programs, and strategies of the DoD RDT&E
program.
- FedBizOpps.gov
The single government point-of-entry (GPE) for Federal government procurement
opportunities over $25,000.
- Navy Business Opportunities
Provides the Navy/Procurement workforce and it's industry partners with
"one stop" quick and easy access to quick to recent policy, relevant
information, resources and tools.
- U.S. Department of Defense
TechTRANSIT
Access to DoD technology transfer programs, policies, and resources with
information on partnering opportunities between the private sector and DoD
Defense laboratories.
- CBD via GPO
Free access to the Commerce Business Daily via the GPO gateway.
- CBD via Loren
Free access to the Commerce Business Daily via the Loren Data Corporation.
Includes an archives back to 1995.
- Federal Acquisition
Jumpstation
Grants and contract connections to many federal agencies.
Finding Information
- Defense Nuclear Safety Board
The Board is responsible for independent, external oversight of all activities
in DOE's nuclear weapons complex affecting nuclear health and safety.
- NACA National Advisory Committee
for AeronauticsTechnical Report Server
- NTRS: NASA Technical Report Server
"NTRS collects scientific and technical information from sites
external to NASA to broaden the scope of information available to
users. NTRS's searches for NASA information
only and its can
search for NASA and non-NASA information. Most of the NASA information
does not have full-text document images and documents can be ordered
by contacting the ."
- Research & Development Descriptive
Summaries
This site provides an online repository of the Department of Defense, Research
& Development, Descriptive Summaries (RDDS). Another common name associated
with RDDS data is PEDS (Program Element Descriptive Summaries). Research
& Development, Descriptive Summaries include narrative information
on Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) Programs and
Program Elements (PE Numbers) within the Department of Defense. The RDDS
repository contains data from the U. S. Air Force, U.S. Army, and a host
of other Defense Agencies.
- Scientific and Technical Information
Network
The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Scientific and Technical Information
Network (STINET) Service helps the DoD community access pertinent scientific
and technical information to meet mission needs more effectively. Public STINET
gives you access to all unclassified, unlimited citations to documents added
into DTIC from late December 1974 to present
Contractor Information
- Central Contractor Registration (CCR)
A new streamlined 2-page Central Contractor Registration (CCR) application
to improve the registration process and reduce the administrative burden
for contractors.
- DOD Potential
Contractor Program
Page provides contact information for assisting potential contractors obtain
defense plans, projects, and information on the management of the contracting
process.
- DOD Contracting Regulations
Links to Defense Acquistion Contracting regulations, notices and news.
Other Useful Information
Nuclear Engineering
- Economics of Nuclear Power
A report put out by the Uranium Information Centre Ltd, Melbourne,
Australia, compares costs of generating electricity using nuclear power
and other forms of energy. Includes many charts and graphs. International
in scope.
- Fast Reactor Database (FRDB)
'This Fast Reactor Database (FRDB) contains detailed data on LMFRs – specifically
plant parameters and design details. Each LMFR is characterized by about
400 parameters; design data and relevant graphic material. The focus is
on practical issues useful to engineers, scientists, managers, students
and teachers.'
- IDNS - Illinois Department of Nuclear
Safety
Through the department's web site, you can learn about some of the incidents
department staff responded to in recent years. There are updates on continuing
programs and projects for protecting the public from the potential risks
from unnecessary radiation exposure. State statutes governing the department,
the rules and regulations, public meeting transcripts and other public notices
also are available through this web site. Special section on Nuclear Power
Reactors / Emergency Preparedness.
- The International Nuclear
Safety Center
Maintained by Argonne National Laboratory. Links include: a map of world's
nuclear power plants, data for research reactors and facilities, data for
fuel processing facilities, and the INSC Material Properties Database.
- List
of World Nuclear Societies
- National
Atomic Museum: The Manhattan Project
Covers the history, principle people, and ethics behind the Manhattan Project.
- NEA Computer Program Databank
The Data Bank operates a computer program service related to nuclear energy
applications. This collection of material contains more than 2000 documented
packages and group cross-section data sets. Material is searchable by keywords
or program category. Maintained by the French Nuclear Energy Agency.
- New Economics of Nuclear Power
“This WNA (World Nuclear Association) Report … provid[es]
an authoritative analysis of the economics associated with the construction
and operation of nuclear power plants in the 21st century. To achieve
this, the report draws upon numerous respected studies published since
2003, describes their premises and parameters, and summarizes the findings.”
- Nuclear Age Timeline
The Nuclear Age Timeline traces the nuclear age from the discovery of x-rays
and radioactivity to the explosion of the first atomic bomb through the
cold war to its thaw to the cleanup of the nuclear weapons complex. This
publication gives you a brief explanation of events on the timeline plus
a guide for further reading and classroom resources. Maintained by DOE's
Office of Environmental Management.
- Nuclear Research Reactors
in the World
- PBS
Frontline: Nuclear Reaction
Homepage of the 1997 PBS report which discussed Americans' fear of nuclear
energy.
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