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Gateways, Portals, and Guides

EEVL (Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library) is a web engineering meta-resource.
www.eevl.ac.uk/

eFunda, which stands for Engineering Fundamentals, is a single source for mechanical engineering reference information. The site is divided into six main areas: Materials, Processes, Formulas, Design Center, Units and Constants, and Mathematics.
www.efunda.com/home.cfm

MechEngineer.com is a portal for mechanical engineering reference resources, providing links to software, reference data, discussion forums, product reviews, and career information.
www.mechengineer.com/

The WWW Virtual Library for Mechanical Engineering is a collection of links to Internet resources for mechanical engineers and allied professionals. The site includes a searchable database as well as listings for academic departments; institutes and societies; vendors; forums and newsgroups; industry sites; and free on-line services (including job listings, online calculators, catalogs, software, and databases).
dart.stanford.edu/vlme/

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Education - Tutorials

Aerodynamics for Students is as an online aerodynamics textbook for college students. The material is divided into several main categories. These include fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, gas dynamics, aircraft performance, and propulsion.
www.aeromech.usyd.edu.au/aero/contents.html

CYBERMAN: A Manufacturing Education Experience offers resources related to manufacturing processes. The bulk of the material is contained in the CYBERMAN primers, which describe machining methods and tools, cutting fluids, and much more.
www.mfg.mtu.edu/cyberman/

Engineer On A Disk is a resource for undergraduate engineering students studying for a fundamentals exam. The material covered on the site spans nearly every engineering discipline.
claymore.engineer.gvsu.edu/eod/

The Expert System for Thermodynamics (TEST) is an interactive site designed to provide students, educators, and professionals a visual environment to solve problems, pose scenarios, and perform numerical experiments. The TEST site includes an introductory slide show and tutorial on using the system, thermodynamic calculators with unit converters, and an archive of thermodynamics problems and solutions.
www.thermofluids.net/

The Gallery of Fluid Dynamics web site features numerous images and animations illustrating the behavior of moving fluids. The author includes images on auroras, condensation, shock waves, supersonic cars, vortex flows, and waves, as well as explanations and discussions on the physics behind the images.
www.galleryoffluidmechanics.com/

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Information Centers

The CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) has links to academic institutions, companies, organizations, software, references, online calculators, documents, conferences, and special topics, jobs, related project databases; a book guide with descriptions, reader reviews; and general, news, and software-related discussion groups.
www.cfd-online.com/

CIMAC, the International Council on Combustion Engines, works with member companies around the world to promote the exchange of scientific and technical information; to improve relations among manufacturers, suppliers, and users; and to support work in the development of standards. CIMAC's web site offers details of its various working groups, a calendar of its meetings and events, and numerous services such as a multilingual lexicon, which translates technical terms into French, English, Italian, Spanish, German, and Dutch.
www.cimac.com/

The Electronic Parts and Packaging Program (NEPP) at NASA investigates a variety of technologies that ultimately could be applied to future NASA missions. This site offers project descriptions and accompanying documents, a detailed calendar of events, meeting abstracts, and video files of a virtual conference for download. There are also searchable databases of NEPP experts, tasks, and publications.
nepp.nasa.gov/

The Engineering Electronic Library, Sweden (EELS) has a searchable database of several thousand Internet engineering resource pages.
eels.lub.lu.se/ei/6.html

Introduction to Microengineering, Microsystems, Microsensors, and Microactuators.
www.dbanks.demon.co.uk/ueng/

Langley Technical Reports Server, from NASA has access to unclassified and publicly available NASA published documents, including meeting presentations, journal articles, conference proceedings, and technical reports. These documents date back to 1960.
techreports.larc.nasa.gov/ltrs/

Marshall Technical Reports Server provides access to the technical reports of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama. There are currently more than 500 reports covering an array of topics, including aeronautics, astronautics, materials, electrical engineering, remote sensing, and computer sciences.
trs.nis.nasa.gov/

The MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) Clearinghouse provides news, a calendar of events, discussions groups, employment listings, and links to other nanotechnology and MEMS web resources.
www.memsnet.org/

RETScreen International - Renewable Energy Decision Support Centre offers free, downloadable renewable energy software for analyzing the energy production and costs of small to medium scale projects. The renewable energy types covered include wind energy, small hydroelectric systems, photovoltaics, biomass heating, ground-source heat pumps, passive solar heating, solar air heating, and solar water heating.
www.retscreen.net/ang/menu.php

Shock & Vibration Information Analysis Center is a central information resource for Government activities, contractors, and academics concerned with structural dynamics design, analysis, and testing, and shock physics and weapon effects.
www.saviac.org/

The Thermal Connection is a clearinghouse for resources in thermodynamics. In addition to providing links to a wide range of heat- and cooling-related product vendors, research facilities, and web-enabled interactive tools, the site provides some proprietary product information.
www.tak2000.com/

The Thermodynamics Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago offers features numerous links to other related thermodynamics and mechanics web resources.
www.uic.edu/~mansoori/TRL_html

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Jobs

The Job Search for Engineers Website is a resource for engineering jobs in all fields of engineering.
www.interec.net/

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Societies and Associations

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers includes information about organizational structure and services, membership, meetings, government affairs, awards, education, fellowships and scholarships, courses, and job openings. A section of the site deals with ASME accreditation, certification, and standards programs.
www.asme.org/

ASHRAE is the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. This site has access to news, product announcements and reviews, general membership and organizational information, descriptions of research efforts, educational resources, and information about the development of industry standards.
www.ashrae.org/

The British Society of Rheology provides organizational information, lists of conferences and courses, and links to other rheology resources on the Web.
http://innfm.swan.ac.uk/bsr/frontend/home.asp

The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) provides the latest news from this association, which concerns itself with the advancement of a safe, reliable, economically, and environmentally sustainable and renewable energy sources.
www.canwea.ca/en/

The Combustion Institute promotes and disseminates research in combustion science primarily through its biennial International Symposium on Combustion. The Institute's web site offers information on its symposium, a calendar of related conferences, a database of employment and graduate studies opportunities,
combustioninstitute.org/

The Compressed Gas Association (CGA) web site provides information on socisty publications and standards, an events calendar, and safety alerts and guidelines.
www.cganet.com/

The Cryogenic Society of America (CSA) enables the sharing of information concerning low-temperature processes and techniques, brings together researchers across various disciplines, promotes the research and development of low-temperature processes. The CSA site offers membership information, employment notices, a directory of corporate sustaining members, and a calendar of events.
www.cryogenicsociety.org/

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) presents information on the organization, publications, and other activities of this well-established organization in the United Kingdom. This site also has updates on the numerous meetings and conferences held by IMechE, as well as news, a calendar of events, educational and professional development opportunities, awards and membership information.
www.imeche.org.uk/

The International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE) provides information on conferences, its publications (including proceedings and journals), membership requirements, and available scholarships.
www.isope.org/

The International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (ISSMO) provides membership information, an overview of the mission of the ISSMO, and announcements of upcoming competitions, links to related sites with relevant content and information, including conference pages, and more conference-specific resources.
www.issmo.org/menu_page.html

The Mechanical Engineering portion of the Scholarly Societies Project is a directory of links to the home pages of scholarly societies in this particular field of engineering. Each entry provides a URL, stability ranking and the official acronym of the organization. Selected links contain information about the society. The page also includes a description of the guidelines followed for site selection.
www.scholarly-societies.org/mecheng_soc.html

The Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors' National Association (SMACNA) is an international trade association representing member contractor firms in the sheet metal and air conditioning industries. The web site contains industry news, information on publications (some may be downloaded for free and others may be purchased on online), legislative updates, and a calendar of events.
www.smacna.org/

The Society for Experimental Mechanics encompasses all aspects of the study of the physical properties of materials, modeling and analysis, strain measurement, and structural testing. This web site provides organizational information, descriptions of publications, conference schedules, a list of short courses, membership information, and a buyer's guide, which is divided into three sections: equipment and products, professional services, and company listings.
www.sem.org/

The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) - SAE International - includes membership information, student activities and scholarships, continuing education resources, a resume database, job listings, extensive conference and seminar calendar, and links to online forums.
www.sae.org/

The Society of Rheology web site has information on membership, publications, continuing education opportunities, and upcoming meetings, news, and a links to other web resources.
www.rheology.org/

The Society of Vacuum Coaters is concerned with the science, technology, and manufacture of vacuum coatings. This offers a history of the society and of vacuum coating; information on membership, publications, conferences, and courses; employment listings; scholarship information; and a database of relevant products and services.
www.svc.org/

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Prepared by
Dr. Philip Barnett
Reference Librarian
The City College Libraries
The City College of New York
160 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031
pbarnett@ccny.cuny.edu
December 2, 2005

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