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American National Standards Institute :This is the ANSI's web catalog. It includes a
searchable database of more than 11,000 approved American National Standards, all of which
are available for purchase from ANSI. It also contains information about other ANSI
publications and services.
The American Nuclear Society :The American Nuclear Society's Worldwide Electronic Resource (the ANSWER) is the official web source for information on nuclear sciences, technologies, issues.
The American Society for Engineering Education :ASEE is a nonprofit organization of individuals, institutions, and companies dedicated to improving all aspects of engineering education. This site has a very interesting precollege section which attempts to explain what engineers do and to help high school students determine whether they have the interest and the aptitude to study engineering.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) :American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is dedicated to ensuring that mechanical engineers are current, safety conscious, and committed to improving international technical safety. This impressive site has information about the organization, jobs, FAQ, a magazine, lots more of interest to current and prospective engineers.
The American Solar Energy Society :This home page contains a publication catalog, membership info, and much more.
American Wind Energy Association :The AWEA home page has all the info on wind energy, "the world's fastest growing energy technology."(!)
AutomationNET :For those who make, integrate, or need automation systems, this database offers products, companies, job and technical information, and links.
The Art of Motion :Motion control is the process of computer controlled kinetics-- the foundation of robotics. The ability to precisely control the path of a tool enables fabrication of objects that would not be possible or practical by hand held methods.
CAEDE Home Page :This NASA site provides center-wide state-of-the-art computer based tools for electrical and optical engineering, design, and development. CAEDE hosts an agency wide online integrated circuit, discrete component, and passive component database and also provides access to the NASA Assurance System (NAS) database.
Coastal and Engineering Geology Group :The British Geological Survey here details the work of its Coastal and Engineering Geology Group (coastal geology, engineering geology, geophysics, environmental science), offers categorized links to related sites, and lists title, author and description of the most recent publications in the field.
Computational Fluid Dynamics: Introduction to CFD : This document is intended to be an introduction to the science of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD for short). It is written for audiences with varying degrees of scientific background, from those with limited technical know-how, to readers with some scientific schooling, such as college students or professors, through practicing scientists and engineers in other fields.
Computational Fluid Dynamics Resources Online :Just as titled, this is a collection of links to information related to Computational Fluid Dynamics.
Computer Engineering by Nerd World Media :Tons of computer and engineering sites here, but also a 27-category index search tool with site summaries. Excellent.
Crazy About Constraints :A web site dedicated to providing resources and information about the Theory of Constraints, the Thinking Processes, Synchronous Manufacturing, and other techniques developed by Dr.Eliyahu Goldratt.
EE Times Online :Some reviews say this online version of Electronic Times is better than their hard copy version. It's timely, extensive, well organized, and visually attractive: give it a try!
EE Toolbox :This is a major WWW resource for design engineers in the embedded systems, DSP, real-time, and industrial embedded areas. The aim is to inform engineers of all important EE resources wherever they may be.
Electric Power Research Institute : The Electric Power Research Institute delivers the science and technology to make the generation, delivery, and use of electricity affordable, efficient, and environmentally sound.
Engineering Case Studies :This site contains accounts of real engineering projects written for use in engineering education.
Engineering Information Inc.:Engineering Information Inc. identifies, organizes, and facilitates easy access to published engineering literature.
Engineering: Mechanical and Industrial:Summaries of useful texts in the field of Engineering, covering many topics: experimental versus computational mechanics, numerical methods in fluid mechanics, heat mass transfer, biofluid mechanics, and more.
GeoWeb: Environmental Engineering :This is a source for environmental engineering sites in the US and elsewhere, including government sites, companies, and software.
HQC’s SciEng Online Solution Library: This site contains "many interactive science and engineering solution tools." If you’re computing problems in math, geometry, linear algebra, curve fitting or regression, integration, differentiation, statistics and more, there are tools here that you can use. You may also download the library and pay a shareware fee.
Industry.net: Industry.net is "the Internet's largest provider of value-added services for the industrial market." Engineering news and resources as well as business search.
Input Shaping Input Shaping is a feedforward control technique for reducing vibrations in computer controlled machines.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) Self-proclaimed as "the world's largest technical professional society," IEEE here provides a website offering information on their upcoming conferences, education, and organization. For a fee they provide a "Career Asset Manager" for engineers. This site is also available in text-only from.
Institute of Industrial Engineers This site is for anyone interested in the field of Industrial Engineering. They even answer the question, "Why become an Industrial Engineer?" You'll find all the IIE's recent publications, but in order to join one of their forums, you must be a member.
Integrated Manufacturing Lab In the interest of improving U.S. industrial capacity, the Integrated Manufacturing Lab gives designers the tools to move products to market faster. Electro-mechanical types, read all about it here.
International Organization for Standardization The mission of ISO is to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and services, and to developing cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological, and economic activity.
Introduction to Engineering Design Here you will find a nice introduction to engineering design. It offers information about engineering concepts and the design process. One really nice feature is several case studies focusing on conventional design processes.
Journal of Mechanical Design The Journal is published quarterly and available through The American Society of Mechanical Engineers. It publishes technical design articles and here gives information to prospective authors and a bibliography of past articles, but no text.
MEMS Microelectromechanical Systems Clearing House An online respository of information about MicroElectroMechanical Systems.
Machine Design Online "The World Wide Web site dedicated to Design Enigineering" offers a product locator, back issues of design and product newsletters, links to other design engineering sites, and information on shows and conferences.
Mechanical Engineering Laboratory of Production and Design Engineering Here you will find some interesting information about research projects carried out in the labs of the University of Twente, Netherlands. Some of these include FROOM, the missing link between CAD and CAM, Die Design Control Project, and Parametric Pump Design.
Metalcasting Information Center There is interesting historical information here, as well as current trends and job opportunities in foundry businesses.
Nanothinc Enter The Nanogate. Get the latest information about Nanotechnology.
National Society of Architectural Engineers NSAE does a good job of defining their organization and architectural engineering as a field. They include educational requirements and the schools which offer them.
NIST Virtual Library The National Institute of Standards and Technology offers you surprisingly easy, clearly instructed access to a wide range of scientific data. In addition to evaluated links, you get electronic journals, databases, and other online resources.
Online Learning Environment Geared for grade 9-12 science, engineering, and technology students, this site allows you to select from dozens of subjects from robotics to hovercraft, study the information provided, and then take an online quiz to test your comprehension.
PartNET The parts information network was developed at the University of Utah as a means of making it easier for design engineers to locate parts. This site is well organized, with explanations and advantages included in addition to actual search technology.
Photonics Yellow Pages Corporate, research, and information sites are indexed here for those interested in photonics. (That's "the technology of generating and harnessing light" for the rest of you.)
Process Pumps & Filtrations OnLine Process Pumps & Filtrations is an electronic publication. Here you can find information regarding positive displacement pumps and centrifugal pumps along with lots of other information pertaining to pumps and filtration systems.
SAVIAC, the Shock and Vibration Information Analysis Center SAVIAC serves "as a central information resource for Government activities, contractors and academics concerned with structural dynamic analysis." Their history, aims, journal, newsletters, articles, and links are here.
SRS: The Division of Science Resource Studies This part of The National Science Foundation collects and interprets data and provides "information on the nation's science, engineering, and technology enterprise." Included here: US Government statistics, data briefs, survey descriptions, working papers, related sites, and more.
Scientific Applications on Linux SAL is "a collection of information and links of software that scientists and engineers will be interested in." Linux applications are covered and linked (1250 entries!) in such categories as Mathematics, Programming, Parallel Computing, and Scientific Data Processing & Visualization.
Semiconductor Subway This site provides links to all manner of information related to semiconductors and microsystems, including fabrication facilities, research activities, standards work, etc.
Society for Experimental Mechanics This is the extensive Web site of SEM, an international professional association dedicated to furthering the knowledge of material response (stress/strain) phenomena and the failure of materials and structures from a research and current technology perspective.
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Primary mission at the NRC is to ensure that public health and safety are protected in the many different peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
The Virtual Nuclear Tourist The Virtual Nuclear Tourist! Yes, that's right !! Visit 6 nuclear power plants. Lots of information on nuclear power. This is one you must experience for yourself.
AAAS Directorate of Education and Human Resources Programs The American Association for the Advancement of Science promotes science, math, and technology education improvements and an even playing field for all students. This site offers news, programs, their film and book review journal, and the most recent issue of Science Education News, offering current science, math, and technology education news and activities. Past issues are archived.
Adrenalin A site for Java enthusiasts! The creator is nuts about Java, and has done some pretty cool stuff with it. He dabbles in a few other things as well. You'll find source code and a number of programming tips for Java.
BABEL An online dictionary of computer terms and acronyms.
Bio Online Biotechnology information supplied by industry, government, and research sources is offered here. Includes a Career Center with job search and HR links.
BotSpot This is "the spot for all bots (robots) on the Net," and you can learn a lot about them here. Begin with the summary of Eliza, the first Bot, developed in 1966 and originally programmed with 240 lines of code. Site also includes a book store, answers to questions, articles, conferences, and 14 searchable Bot classification data bases.
CDT Privacy Demonstration Page Concerned about Net security? Find out what information you reveal about yourself when you visit a Web site from this clear, concise, and brief page. Scary or fascinating, depending on your viewpoint.
CERN: European Laboratory for Particle Physics Information about the World Wide Web from the place where it was invented. Just about anything you'd want to know about the Web can be found here or in links from here. The main thrust of the site is the Laboratory's work in Particle Physics.
Cool Tool of the Day Keep up with the latest and neatest Web tools on this site, which features a new tool each day. Archives of past tools are sorted by category for easy browsing and locating.
Cornell Theory Center An excellent resource for video and animations of scientific theory, as well as information on current scientific theory.
Cumulative Units of Binary Excellence (CUBE) If you're looking for sites that explore the outer limits of known physics, this is the place to start.
The Cyberspace Museum of Natural History and Exploration Technology This content-rich and well designed page is a little slow to load in some spots, but it's absolutely worth it. Extensive online exhibits are abundant here; some are permanent and others change monthly, similar to an IRL museum. Nice job.
The Data Communications Home Page The author wants to share "great educational resources in the subject areas of Data Communications, Networks and Telephony." He does a great job. There are lists of Glossaries, Tutorials, DataCom Pages, and more, constantly updated as befits work in this area.
FEED This online zine is a great source of news and information on politics, media, technology, and the arts.
Fluids Movie Archive MPEG clips demonstrate fluid dynamics. A great multimedia training on this topic.
GE Medical Systems This is a neat site if you're interested in medical technology. You can go to diagnostic imaging or radiation services and check out explanations and pictures of the different machines.
GINA: Global Internet News Agency Get the latest scoop on all the newest developments on the Internet, plus new reports on existing technologies. A great resource for business, techies, and the individual user...finally, a way to keep up with the Net!
GoVictory.com If you're interested in the technology of racing cars, check this out. The site includes Digger Jr. Explains, featured in Jr. Drag Racer, discussing "everything from Horsepower to Thermodynamics." There's also a free racing technology training course, plus how-to and tech info.
GrafoManiac This site introduces you to "Web Graphics with Paint Shop Pro 4." The author offers tips, tricks, and tutorials, plugin help, answers to questions, and a resource page. If you're into Web graphics or would like to be, this is a good place to get some help.
Intel Extensive support and technical information including white papers. The site also features the Uniquely Intel Shop, where you can order interesting Intel merchandise.
Inquiry This excellent site helps users research technology development tools using the full text of more than 100,000 indexed and searchable articles, reviews, and more. It's a much faster way to research tools you might want to use.
Jargon Files Resources This page indexes all the WWW resources associated with the Jargon File and its print version, The New Hacker's Dictionary.
Lifestyle Finder Andersen Consulting offers a hands-on demonstration of agent technology by asking the user a series of questions and then generating a list of Web sites you might like to see. Provide feedback and you'll get access to a number of interesting and thought-provoking articles on how agent technology could change the way we use the Web.
Los Alamos National Lab The lab is experimenting with encoding technical videos and sharing them from a video file server; information is available on their Web site.
Mailing List Searchers This site includes a searchable list of Internet mailing lists, as well as directories of online journals, zines, and more. A great research resource.
Mars Academy This is the ambitious project of the American School in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The plan is to design and simulate a Mars Mission, and an impressive amount of work has already been done and documented here. You can learn about the mechanics, read the chats with space experts, and take part in planning sessions.
The MBone Information Web The Multicast Backbone is the part of the Internet that supports live video transmissions. (Remember the Rolling Stones concert broadcast live on the Net? That used the MBone.) You can also check out a directory of MBone sites on the Web, as well as get information on how it works and what research is underway at the main link, above.
MICE No, not the ones you use with your computer. Or the kind the cats are always after. MICE stands for Multimedia Integrated Conferencing for Europe, and they're developing a video server to make video viewing feasible over the Internet. Check it out; this is the future.
Microsoft Technical and developer information are only a small subset of the information on Microsoft products and technologies available on this site. Read about OLE, ODBC, and Microsoft's vision of the Net. Lots of free software to download as well.
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Information on one of the world's leading computing technology centers; they're also experimenting with video over the Net.
NASA An overall directory of information and resources about the U.S. space agency and its programs. A very content-rich and informative site, and a great place to go when you're bored!
NCSA The National Center for Supercomputing Applications has one of the most extensive and informative sites on the Web. A goldmine of technology information.
NIST Virtual Library The National Institute of Standards and Technology offers you surprisingly easy, clearly instructed access to a wide range of scientific data. In addition to evaluated links, you get electronic journals, databases, and other online resources.
NanoCAD in JAVA This is a chemistry-related java applet which allows you to look at a molecule, spin it, modify its structure, and zoom in and out. The site offers plenty of source and procedure information and a great list of nanotechnology links as well.
Narrative Check out Enliven, a neat new animation technology for the Web.
National Institute of Standards and Technology An agent of the U.S. Department of Commerce, the NIST is "working with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements, and standards." NIST provides answers to frequently asked questions and two search engines. This is a worthwhile site for those who are interested in science.
Net Lingo This handy online guide containing definitions of hundreds of Internet terms is a great resource for Web users.
Netscape Keep up with the latest news on the World Wide Web with the company that made it accessible and easy for most of us in the first place. Check out the latest version of the Netscape browser, and find out what news is breaking on the Internet.
News.Com C|Net's newest service offers the most up to date computer and software industry news online in a neat, easy to use format. A great service...and typical of C|Net.
NeXT A rich resource of object-oriented technology and programming information. An object-oriented edition of CNN's Moneyline is also available here.
Online Learning Environment Geared for grade 9-12 science, engineering, and technology students, this site allows you to select from dozens of subjects from robotics to hovercraft, study the information provided, and then take an online quiz to test your comprehension.
PC World Tips and Tricks To get the most out of your PC, make sure you visit this excellent site from PC World Online. Keyword and concept searchable and loaded with information, it makes your computer a much more fun and productive place to be.
Planet9 Planet9's site offers a virtual tour of the solar system, the opera, and a cool tour of New Orleans using VRML technology.
Play Incorporated Video technology company. Makers of the Snappy Video Snapshot. Cool page.
RGB If you're interested in electronic publishing, this is a gold mine. There's information on just about every aspect you could ask for, from design ideas to production issues. Don't miss the 101 Hot Tips, either.
SIMON SIMON (School Internet Manager Over Networks) is a NASA Learning Technologies Project, "a Macintosh application for K-12 teachers that provides affordable Internet connectivity, smart searching, an automatic lesson builder and a lesson library." This site also offers NASA K-12 resources--tons of great NASA links!
SRS: The Division of Science Resource Studies This part of The National Science Foundation collects and interprets data and provides "information on the nation's science, engineering, and technology enterprise." Included here: US Government statistics, data briefs, survey descriptions, working papers, related sites, and more.
STS-86:Shuttle-Mir VII This site has wonderful information about the planned September 18, 1997 launch of the U.S. shuttle to rendezvous with the Russian space station Mir. There are pictures and facts about the crew, mission information and figures, and lots more. Great stuff!!
Silicon Graphics Well, here's cool for you! This is the neatest equipment out there.
Slate Microsoft Corporation's new online technology magazine offers a lot of good content. Worth a visit.
Space Day This is a great site! Lots of graphics, so be prepared, but they're very well done. You can check out current headlines on space topics, look at 101 things to do on Space Day (May 22), send postcards, and look at a page with information and activities for the classroom. A great feature of the site is the Speak Up section. There's a question (such as, "Should humans live on Mars?") and exploration of the issues surrounding the question. You can participate in surveys concerning the question and compare your answers to those of others.
Sun Microsystems Lots of info on Java, and a technology and research page with new goodies.
The Tech Museum of Science An online scientific playground for kids and adults, and a great way to learn about how technology impacts our lives. The interactive exhibits are a delight.
TechWeb This always informative site has a huge archive of articles from CMP's technology publications. It's recently been relaunched and now includes a user tech support area, product reviews, and much, much more. Oh, yeah...it's a lot easier to use now, too.
United Space Alliance The real goodies on this page are the live shuttle data. When there is a launch you can view a live shuttle tracking monitor or meta-refreshed gif of the positions of the shuttle, sun and (if it's meeting with Hubble or Mir, etc.) other satellites. There's also live video and audio.
Uranium Information Centre This pro-nuclear energy site is rich in information on the uranium industry and nuclear power.
Video Systems Theory A description of videotape systems theory. Of interest to anyone in the industry.
Virtual Computer Library Links to many online computing resources categorized by origin: magazines, books, organizations, journals, and conferences.
The Virtual Nuclear Tourist "Nuclear Power Plants Around the World" form the topic of this large and impressive site. If you have questions about nuclear power (or are planning an energy unit) this is a great resource, including many photographs.
VRML Repository Find out the latest news and developments on VRML technology on this informational site. Decide for yourself if VRML is going to take on the world, or if Quicktime VR has beat it to the punch.
Web Developer's Virtual Library This huge site offers its own search engine, and it's a good thing. They've assembled and catalogued information on every aspect and every type of tool for creating Web sites, administering them, and more. A winner.
Web Review This excellent resource for Webmasters offers information, tips, guidelines, reviews, and more. This zine had ceased publication for a while and is back with support from publisher Miller Freeman. Welcome!
Yohkoh Public Outreach Project This extremely cool site allows you to look at images and movies of the sun, taken over the last 72 hours. Funded by NASA and using images taken by the Yohkoh Satellite launched from Japan in 1991, YPOP offers great information about the sun, light, solar learning activities, and much more.
