Engineering: Organizations and Websites

ACM is the largest and oldest computing society. ACM fosters the exchange of ideas and discoveries among computer scientists worldwide.

ASM International serves practicing engineers, researchers, students, and industry specialists. It publishes handbooks and other research tools and provides training opportunities for its members.

The ASME publishes, sets standards, and provides conferences and courses worldwide. IT fosters technical competency and professional quality through accreditation.

The ASTM is a source of voluntary consensus standards and technical information.

Biomedical Engineering Society; dedicated to promoting biomedical engineering knowledge and applications.

International Council on Systems Engineering; develops, nurtures, and enhances interdisciplinary approaches to system development and the realization of successful systems.

Promotes the discovery and exchange of knowledge concerning the characteristics of human beings that are applicable to the design of systems and devices of all kinds.

IEEE COS is dedicated to advancing the theory, practice, and application of computer and information processing technology. The IEEE Computer society hosts conferences and publishes journals, transactions, magazines, and conference papers.

The Institute of Electrical Engineers: IET interests include physics, electronics, electrical engineering, electronics manufacturing, and IT. Search INSPEC to find conference papers and journals.

The MRS fosters research leading to technological uses of materials. It stresses interdisciplinary approaches and cooperation among all types of research centers.

Bad Human Factors Designs is Michael Darnell’s scrapbook of commonly encountered bad designs. Michael provides a fascinating, illustrated commentary of bad designs and their influence on everyday lives. This is a good site to review for design improvement project ideas.

The Circuits Archive organizes circuit information for researchers and students. Categories include circuits, data sheets, models, microprocessors, software, reading capacitors, and resistor codes.

MAP is sponsored by the National Physical Laboratory and the Phase Transformation Group of the University of Cambridge, UK. MAP is a central distribution point to validate and test algorithms used in modeling materials.

The MIT Open Courseware project contains undergraduate and graduate MIT course material. Use MIT OCW material to supplement your own course activity.

The MIT Open Courseware project contains undergraduate and graduate MIT course material. Use MIT OCW material to supplement your own course activity.

ThermoDex contains records for selected printed and web-based compilations of thermochemical and thermophysical data for chemical compounds.

Search ThomasNet for engineered product specifications, options, and to identify costs through supplier catalogs.

The VHDL tutorial compliments a student's investigation into hardware description language. Sections include data types, data objects, operators, and modeling.