Fields of Engineering
This web site is designed to complement the engineering curricula at San Diego State University. It focuses on the information needs of the undergraduate student, but the resources included may be useful to graduate students, faculty, and practicing engineers.- Aerospace engineering
- Civil engineering
- Computer engineering
- Electrical engineering
- Environmental engineering
- Materials engineering
- Mechanical engineering
Aerospace engineering
- Aerospace Engineering Resources
- San Diego Aerospace Museum
This site depicts the history of aviation through its display of foreign and domestic aircraft and spacecraft. Contains collections, exhibits, hours, museum history, vital statistics and chronology, and detailed history of the museum.
- World Wide Web Virtual Library: Aerospace
Civil engineering
- Bibliographies
- BTS - Bureau of Transportation Statistics
The site contains safety data, population statistics, surface transport of commodities, and any other kind of data useful for engineers planning future highway projects.
- City Rail Transit
Contains maps, guides, prices, pictures, and some history on metro/city rail transit systems, including subway trains, U-bahns, Light Rail Transit (LRT), and trams for over twenty-five countries.
- Civil Engineering on the Internet
- Civil Engineering Resources
- clay.net Environmental Professional's Homepage
- CTA - Center for Transportation Analysis (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Analysis of highway engineering problems is given here. Contains bibliographies and the Oak Ridge Highway Network, which is a geographically-based analytic link-node network of major roadways.
- DOT - Department of Transportation
Consists mainly of links to agencies within the administration of the Department.
- DOTs - State
Provides access to DOT and Transportation web sites for each state in the U.S. Arranged alphabetically by state.
- DWR Information - California Department of Water Resources
- Earthquake Information
Earthquake information from around the world. Provides data, maps of seismic activity, and material concerning California.
- IRIS Consortium
The Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) is a consortium of 91 US Universities with research interests in seismology. The SeismiQuery Database allows users to search available data by day, month, station, event, and more.
- Mechanics of Materials and Solids
- NOS Map Finder
The National Ocean Service provides internet access to images and data for coastal photography, charts, survey maps, hydrographic surveys, etc.
- San Diego County Water Authority
- Software
- Boss International - USA Site
- Boss International - Europe Site
- Boss International - Asia Site
A recognized world leader in the field of civil & environmental engineering software, offering state-of-the-art software programs for professionals in the fields of hydraulics, hydrology, water resources, groundwater modeling and surface modeling.
- Southern California Seismic Network
The site provides links relating to earthquake happenings, technology, map of faults in Southern California, and much more.
- Structural Engineering and Materials
- Transportation Documents
A collection of documents from UCDavis, Institute of Transportation Studies. The studies are concerned with the effects of the transportation on the environment. They cover social, legal, technical and economic problems and economically feasible solutions.
- Transportation Engineering and Technology
- Transportation Engineering resources on the Internet
- Transportation Research Board
This homepage links to information about the organization, its publications, meetings, calendar, etc. Has searching capabilities.
- TRB Publications Index
The material is displayed as a citation or a full record with an abstract.
- Transportation Resources
- Water Resources Engineering
- WWEVL - Wastewater Engineering Virtual Library
Contains links to municipal water resources, academic and research institutions, and other wastewater information.The site may be searched by keywords.
- World Wide Web Virtual Library: Civil Engineering
A comprehensive site to web servers, gopher servers, and ftp archives located at universities, organizations, government bodies, and commercial places. International in coverage. - Boss International - USA Site
Computer engineering
Electrical engineering
- Bibliographies
- EE Circuits Archive (University of Washington)
A collection of circuit designs. Contains information on circuits, models, microprocessors, reading capacitors, etc. Includes the Consumer Electronics Design Library of Instructional Material.
- Microelectronic Research Center
The Microelectronic Research Center (MRC) is one of six Centers of Excellence established in 1983 by the University of Idaho. It was selected by NASA (1988) to become a NASA Space Engineering Research Center for VLSI Design. It is also a repository for CAD software.
- Ptolemy Project
"Ptolemy is a research project and software environment focused on design methodology for signal processing, communications, and controls systems. Its scope ranges from designing and simulating algorithms to parallelizing algorithms, distributed computation, synthesizing embedded hardware and software, and rapid prototyping of real-time systems." Ptolemy Project
- VLSI information
Provides internet links to resources such as job opportunities, IC design house, IC products, conferences, usenet groups, educational research, etc.
Environmental engineering
- Bibliographies
- Environmental Chemistry and Engineering
- The Chemical Scorecard
A yearly compilation of toxic substances released into the environment. Reports are arranged geographically. Includes pollution rankings by state, county, zip code, and facility. Discussed the chemicals and their health effects. Has a glossary.
- DOE - Department of Energy
- EnviroLink Network
Comprehensive site of environmental resources. Information is listed under overview, projects, and news. Discusses donations, sponsorship and volunteering.
- Environmental Engineering
A web site with comprehensive information on environmental engineering. Links refer to databases and services, products and consultants, professional associations, journals, human resources for information, list of conferences, web pages of university departments, and table of contents of core journals.
- Environmental What's Hot
- Environmental Information Resources
A web page that provides access to other internet sites; focuses on California. Encompasses a selection of databases from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts and imaged documents. The Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management Database is a multidisciplinary database covering pollution, energy, biotechnology, engineering, waste, etc. It indexes articles, proceedings, reports, government documents, and books.
- EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
- EPA - Environmental Protection Agency - Office of Water
Contains proposed revisions to the water quality criteria.
- EPA - Environmental Protection Agency - Terms of Environment
Defines in non-technical language, the terms used in EPA documents; lists abbreviations and acronyms with their meanings.
- World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Environment
All aspects of the environment are covered (hydro-, bio-, litho- and atmosphere, civilization, and general). Contents are searchable and a list of resources is included. - Environmental Chemistry and Engineering
Materials engineering
- CenBASE/Materials on WWW
Provides data on plastics, metals, composites, ceramics, rubbers, adhesives. Mostly a fee based database, but has a free public section. The public section has access to product descriptions, but contains only 50 data sheets.
- Corrosion Information Server
- Materials Related Sites
Gives commercial and university links.
- Superelasticity on the Web
Covers deformation, history, processing; will have sections on fracture-cavitation, forming, and diffusion bonding. Information included can be searched for papers, some articles, listings of conference proceedings, and upcoming conferences.
- World Wide Web Virtual Library: Materials Engineering
Mechanical engineering
- Bibliographies
- BIR for Mechanical Engineering
- BIR for Energy: Technical and Social Aspects
- The Computer Vision Homepage
Centralizes links relating to computer vision research. Emphasizes research rather than products. Includes nine specific sites (vision, demos, test images, etc.)
- DOE Information Bridge
Gives access to full text of DOE research documents in energy technologies and related fields. Retrospective since January 1996.
- Energy Information Administration
This group is an independent statistical and analytical agency in the U.S. Department of Energy. Provides statistical data on fuel groups (petroleum, gas, coal); has information on other energy groups (forecasting, finance, end use consumption). Lists customer services (contacts, press releases, frequently asked questions) and has a special features section.
- Energy Links
- Engineering Software Database
- EREN - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network
Contains information on energy and renewable energy technologies.
- ErgoWeb
Contains ergonomic information, case studies, standards and guidelines, news, etc. Has subscription access to job evaluations, analysis, and design software.
- International Gas Turbine Institute
- Manufacturing
- Recent Advances in Manufacturing
A bibliographic database of manufacturing and related areas. Indexes 500+ journals, books, conferences, and videos from 1990 to the present. Topics covered are the industry, management, environment, development, systems and processes, education.
- Materials Information Website
- PolyLinks Web Site
- Robotics
Contains robotics internet sites, links to university laboratories, and companies.
- Robotics Internet Resources Page
Refers to internet resources related to robotics. Includes web pages, gophers, ftp sites, software, and demos.
- Rotor Dynamics
Designed at the University of Bradford (UK), this site studies rotating machines. Discusses rotating shaft, bearings, and instability. Includes links to commercial and non-commercial sites.
- Concentrating Solar Power Program
Provides technical support and economic/policy analyses to industry for converting solar power into renewable energy. The site includes a program interview and strategic plan. Covers power towers, disk/engine systems, and trough plants.
- Solistice
- von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
Contains information about the Institute, educational programs, its lecture series, etc. Discusses consulting and research activities in its three departments: environmental and applied fluid mechanics, turbomachinery, and aeronautics and aerospace. Provides e-mail addresses for staff.
- Wind Energy
Detailed guide to wind energy. Covers resources, design, research and development, the environment, history, and economics.
- Wind Energy Guided Tour Introduction
- World Directory of Renewable Energy Suppliers and Services
- BIR for Mechanical Engineering
