Selected Internet Resources - Engineering   General Interests Societies & Organizations Federal Government Specialized Federal Government Specialized Non-Government National Laboratories Foreign International The Engineering Profession

Aerial view of Rock Creek Park in Washington, DC. The various roadways, foot trails and bridges illustrate the multipurpose use of this urban resource. Photo - Prints and Photographs Online Catalog, Library of Congress.

GENERAL INTEREST

Coursera
   URL: https://www.coursera.org/
   Coursera is a compilation of internet lectures from University Institutions around the world covering most topics in engineering and the STEM field.

Discover Engineering
   URL: http://www.discovere.org
   Promotes the engineering profession as a career choice among young people and recognizes the accomplishments of the world's engineers. The website offers a multitude of perspectives, including that of the student, parents, professionals, and teachers of engineering.

Ethics Center
   URL: http://onlineethics.org
   Provides engineers, scientists, and science and engineering students with resources for understanding and addressing ethically significant problems that arise in their work, and to serve those who are promoting learning and advancing the understanding of responsible research and practice in science and engineering.

GlobalSpec: the engineering search engine
   URL: http://www.globalspec.com
   Search over 38 million engineering & technical Web pages through this search engine.

Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century
   URL: http://www.greatachievements.org
   Explore a list of the top 20 achievements from the National Academy of Engineering and learn how engineering shaped a century and changed the world.

Internet Scout
   URL: http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/sr/
   A weekly publication of the Internet Scout Project of the Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Scout Report offers a selection of new and newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and educators.

MIT: OpenCourseWare
   URL: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/
   MIT OpenCourseWare is a website that gathers publications of all curriculum content from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

National Academy of Engineering Project: Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education
   URL: http://www.nae.edu/CASEE.aspx
   There is a list of projects and resources that the CASEE reveals in engineering education. CASEE conjoins most of the individual societies and professionals in the field to promote continuous improvement.

NSSN: National Resource for Global Standards
   URL: http://www.nssn.org/
   The NSSN: National Resource for Global Standards is a search engine that provides users with standards-related information from a wide range of developers, including organizations accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), other U.S. private sector standards bodies, government agencies and international organizations.

SciCentral
   URL: http://www.scicentral.com/E-02engi.html
   SciCentral is a team of professionals that sift through the scientific news of the world from prestigious sources to update news links for readers to see at once.

Science Daily
   URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/news/matter_energy/engineering/
   Science Daily is a site that compiles the latest research news. Combined with headlines and full research papers, the website covers development in all the STEM fields.

TenLinks
   URL: http://www.tenlinks.com/engineering/
   TenLinks is an online media company that was founded in February 1999. It operates web sites and distributes newsletters that provide information and tools for engineers, architects, designers and GIS professionals. Its flagship, TenLinks.com, is the only online directory where industry experts organize the Internet into TopTen lists for engineers, designers, architects and GIS professionals.

World Wide Learn
   URL: http://www.worldwidelearn.com/online-education-guide/engineering/index.html
   This website emphasizes the education in engineering as an elementary level. Referring to job trends and characteristics of each of the engineering disciplines, world-wide-learn is an easily accessible resource for people inside or outside the engineering profession.

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SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS    Societies are groups of professionals in engineering disciplines that seek to aid each other in terms of employment opportunities and updates in the field. Sometimes the societies are an umbrella organization with multiple engineering disciplines organized into a single society.   Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology    URL: http://www.abet.org/    An incorporation that seeks to give inspections and approvals to college institutions for its respective engineering programs, ABET has built its foundation as a trustworthy source of information.

Photo: Annual meeting American Society of Civil Engineers, Deer Park Hotel, Deer Park, MD, 1885. Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress

American Association of Engineering Studies
   URL: http://www.aaes.org
   A multidisciplinary group, the society seeks to advance knowledge of engineering in industry, government, and the academic field.

American Concrete Institute
   URL: https://www.concrete.org/
   ACI has produced more than 400 technical documents, reports, guides, specifications, and codes for the best use of concrete; conducts more than 150 educational seminars each year; and has 13 different certification programs for concrete practitioners, as well as a scholarship program to promote careers in the industry.

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
   URL: http://www.aiaa.org
   The nonprofit AIAA is the principal society and voice serving the aerospace profession.

American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
   URL: http://www.aiche.org
   The American Institute of Chemical Engineers is a professional association of more than 50,000 members that provides leadership in advancing the chemical engineering profession.

American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers
   URL: http://www.aimehq.org/
   The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers is organized and operated to advance and disseminate knowledge of engineering and the arts and sciences involved in the production and use of minerals, metals, energy sources and materials for the benefit of humankind.

American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
   URL: http://www.ansi.org
   As the voice of the U.S. standards and conformity assessment system, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) oversees the creation, promulgation and use of thousands of norms and guidelines that directly impact businesses in nearly every sector: from acoustical devices to construction equipment, from dairy and livestock production to energy distribution, and many more. ANSI is also actively engaged in accrediting programs that assess conformance to standards, including globally-recognized cross-sector programs such as the ISO 9000 (quality) and ISO 14000 (environmental) management systems.

American Nuclear Society
   URL: http://www.ans.org
   The American Nuclear Society is a not-for-profit, international, scientific and educational organization. It was established to unify the professional activities within the diverse fields of nuclear science and technology.

American Society for Engineering Education
   URL: http://www.asee.org
   The American Society for Engineering Education is committed to furthering education in engineering and engineering technology. This mission is accomplished by promoting excellence in instruction, research, public service, and practice; exercising worldwide leadership; fostering the technological education of society; and providing quality products and services to members.

American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
   URL: http://www.asabe.org/
   The ASABE is a society of professionals in the agricultural engineering and the biological engineering which certainly corresponds with the genetic developments and farming developments in the United States.

American Society of Civil Engineers
   URL: http://www.asce.org
   Information about ASCE, publications, public policy, history and heritage, career guidance, and research resources.

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
   URL: https://www.ashrae.org/
   American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) aims to advance the arts and sciences of heating, ventilation, air conditioning, refrigeration and related human factors to serve the evolving needs of the public and ASHRAE members.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
   URL: https://www.asme.org/
   Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, today ASME International is a nonprofit educational and technical organization serving a worldwide membership of 125,000. It conducts one of the world's largest technical publishing operations, holds some 30 technical conferences and 200 professional development courses each year, and sets many industrial and manufacturing standards.

American Water Works Association
   URL: http://www.awwa.org
   The American Water Works Association (AWWA) is an international nonprofit scientific and educational society dedicated to the improvement of drinking water quality and supply. Founded in 1881, AWWA is the largest organization of water supply professionals in the world. Its more than 50,000 members represent the full spectrum of the drinking water community: treatment plant operators and managers, scientists, environmentalists, manufacturers, academicians, regulators, and others who hold occupations in the field.

ASM International
   URL: http://www.asminternational.org/
   Founded in 1913 under the name, American Society for Metals, the society gathers together the material scientists and engineers of metal-based research.

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
   URL: http://www.acm.org/
   ACM is the biggest organization in the field of computer technology. By providing a digital library and most recent resources in the field, the association promotes the development in computer technology.

The Association of Consulting Chemists and Chemical Engineers
   URL: http://chemconsult.org/
   The Association of Consulting Chemists and Chemical Engineers is a non-profit membership organization serving the chemical consulting needs of prospective clients and its members since 1928.

Audio Engineering Society (AES)
   URL: http://www.aes.org
   The Audio Engineering Society is the only professional society devoted exclusively to audio technology. The AES serves its members, the industry and the public by stimulating and facilitating advances in the constantly changing field of audio. It encourages and disseminates new developments through annual technical meetings and exhibitions of professional equipment, and through the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, the professional archival publication in the audio industry.

Edison Electric Institute
   URL: http://www.eei.org/Pages/default.aspx
   Edison Electric Institute (EEI) is the association of U.S. shareholder-owned electric companies, international affiliates and industry associates worldwide. Its U.S. members serve over 90 percent of all customers served by the shareholder-owned segment of the industry. They generate approximately three-quarters of all the electricity generated by electric companies in the country and service about 70 percent of all ultimate customers in the nation. EEI's mission focuses on advocating public policy, expanding market opportunities, and providing strategic business information.

Electric Power Research Institute
   URL: http://www.epri.com/Pages/Default.aspx
   Located in six different locations across the country, EPRI brings together the top engineers and academic experts in the field of electric science to follow its mission in improving challenges in electric generation, delivery and usage, environmental impact, and more.

The Infrastructure Security Partnership (TISP)
   URL: http://www.tisp.org/
   The Infrastructure Security Partnership (TISP) was established after the tragic events of September 11, 2001. It is a forum for U.S. based public and private sector non-profit organizations to collaborate on the security issues of the nation's built environment, including natural and man-made disasters. TISP’s objective is to create a collaborative environment, which will raise awareness and will lead to sustainable security improvements of the U.S. critical infrastructure.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
   URL: http://www.ieee.org/index.html
   The IEEE is a non-profit, technical professional association of more than 350,000 individual members in 150 countries. Through its members, the IEEE is a leading authority in technical areas ranging from computer engineering, biomedical technology and telecommunications, to electric power, aerospace and consumer electronics, among others. Through its technical publishing, conferences, and consensus-based standards activities, the IEEE produces 30 percent of the world's published literature in electrical engineering, computers and control technology, holds annually more than 300 major conferences, and has more than 800 active standards with 700 under development.

The Institution of Engineering and Technology
   URL: http://www.theiet.org/
   A prominent engineering association featuring 160,000 members from 121 countries across the world, IET stresses the concept of multidisciplinary approach in engineering. By encompassing resources and programs in a number of disciplines, IET helps to develop engineering in the 21st century.

Materials Research Society
   URL: http://www.mrs.org/home/
   The Materials Research Society is a non-profit organization which brings together scientists, engineers and research managers from industry, government, academia and research laboratories to share findings in the research and development of new materials of technological importance.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
   URL: http://www.nationalacademies.org/
   By focusing on the three fields of science, engineering, and medicine, the non-profit organization focuses its efforts and changing public policy and informing the public to advance the popularity and development of these fields.
   See especially:
   National Academy of Engineering
   URL: http://www.nae.edu/

National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering
   URL: http://nisee2.berkeley.edu
   Providing a large e-library on researches, archives, pictures, and records, NISEE covers a unique field of engineering for earthquakes, terotechnology, and structures.

National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)
   http://www.nspe.org
   The National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) is the national society of engineering professionals from all disciplines that promotes the ethical and competent practice of engineering, advocates licensure, and enhances the image and well-being of its members.

Partnership for Public Service
   URL: http://ourpublicservice.org/
   This partnership focuses on improving efficiency within the federal workplace. By providing assistance in management, outreaching to recruit at college institutions, and advocating for legal changes, it answers to its mission.

Society of American Military Engineers
   URL: http://www.same.org/
   As a premier professional military engineering organization, SAME works to develop workforces in architecture, engineering, construction, and facility management, in the private and public sector.

Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
   URL: http://www.sae.org
   The Society of Automotive Engineers is a resource for technical information and expertise used in designing, building, maintaining, and operating self-propelled vehicles for use on land or sea, in air or space.

Society of Manufacturing Engineers
   URL: http://www.sme.org
   SME, headquartered in Dearborn, Mich., is the world's leading professional society serving the manufacturing industries. Through its publications, expositions, professional development resources and member programs, SME influences more than 500,000 manufacturing executives, managers and engineers. Founded in 1932, SME has some 60,000 members in 70 countries and supports a network of hundreds of chapters worldwide.

Society of Women Engineers
   URL: http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/
   Connecting all the women in the field of engineering, the organization promotes the equivalent hiring and education of women in the engineering industry. Providing resources and scholarships to prospective women engineers, SWE continues to build a voice in the community.

SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
   URL: http://www.spie.org
   The Society was founded in 1955 to bring together engineers from several technical disciplines involved in high-speed, optically based test and measurement. Since then, the field of optical engineering has evolved from a multidisciplinary amalgam of physics, electrical and mechanical engineering, and materials science into an identifiable discipline in its own right. Simultaneously, SPIE has grown into a vital international organization that addresses virtually all subfields associated with optics and photonics technologies and their many engineering, scientific, and commercial applications.

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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SITES

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
   URL: http://www.darpa.mil
   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.

DefenseLink --- Official Web Site of the U.S. Department of Defense
   URL: http://www.defense.gov/
   DefenseLINK is the official web site for the Department of Defense and the starting point for finding U.S. military information online.

Defense Technical Information Center
   URL: http://stinet.dtic.mil/dtic/
   DTIC has served as a military database since 1945 for the States Department of Defense as the source of government funded research, projects, and engineering studies.

National Institute of Standards and Technology
   URL: http://www.nist.gov
   Started in 1901, as a part of the Department of Commerce, NIST promotes the research measurement infrastructure in the United States. Conducting research in areas including biology, chemistry, energy, telecommunications, and more, NIST is a resource that researchers can utilize.

National Science Foundation
   URL: http://www.nsf.gov
   The National Science Foundation is an independent U.S. government agency responsible for promoting science and engineering through programs that invest over $3.3 billion per year in almost 20,000 research and education projects in science and engineering.
   See especially:
   National Science Foundation: Classroom
   URL: http://www.nsf.gov/news/classroom/
   A collection of selected internet resources and lessons on teaching including: astronomy, space, biology, education, engineering, and 8 other topics. Resources are based off of the National Science Digital Library.

National Technical Information Service
   URL: http://www.ntis.gov
   The National Technical Information Service is the Federal Government's central source for the sale of scientific, technical, engineering, and related business information produced by or for the U.S. Government and complementary material from international sources. Nearly 3 million products are available from NTIS in a variety of formats, including microfiche, paper, diskette, audiovisual, CD-ROM, and online.

National Telecommunications and Information Administration
   URL: http://www.ntia.doc.gov
   The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is the Executive Branch's principal voice on domestic and international telecommunications and information technology issues. NTIA works to spur innovation, encourage competition, help create jobs and provide consumers with more choices and better quality telecommunications products and services at lower prices.

Office of Science and Technology Policy
   URL: https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ostp
   The Federal Government plays a critical investment role in maintaining American leadership in science and technology. In 1976 the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) was created to provide the President with timely policy advice and to coordinate the science and technology investment.

Office of Technology and Electronic Commerce
   URL: http://web.ita.doc.gov/ITI/itiHome.nsf/%28HotNews%29/HotNews
   The Office of Technology and Electronic Commerce (OTEC) is located in the Manufacturing and Services division of the U.S. Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration. OTEC has three teams: Electronic Commerce, Information Technology, and Telecommunications.

Science.gov
   URL: http://www.science.gov
   Science.gov is a gateway site created by the science agencies of the federal government. It offers over 60 databases and 2200 websites by the 15 federal agencies.

USA.gov
   URL: https://www.usa.gov/
   USA.gov is the first-ever government website to provide the public with easy, one-stop access to all online U.S. Federal Government resources, including those related to engineering.

USA Jobs
   URL: https://www.usajobs.gov/
   This is the website of the US Government for open positions within all the departments for work, internships, and volunteering opportunities at all levels of experience.

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SPECIALIZED FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SITES

Army Corps of Engineers
   URL: http://www.usace.army.mil
   The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers mission is concerned with the planning, designing, building and operating of water resources and other civil works projects (navigation, flood control, environmental protection, disaster response, etc.); designing and managing the construction of military facilities for the Army and Air Force (military construction); and providing design and construction management support for other Defense and federal agencies (interagency and international services).

Earthquake Hazards Program
   URL: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/contactus/golden/neic.php
   The National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC), a part of the Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, has three main missions. First, the NEIC determines, as rapidly and as accurately as possible, the location and size of all destructive earthquakes that occur worldwide. The NEIC disseminates this information immediately to concerned national and international agencies, scientists, and the general public. Second, the NEIC collects and provides to scientists and to the public an extensive seismic database that serves as a solid foundation for scientific research, principally through the operation of modern digital national and global seismograph networks and through cooperative international agreements. The NEIC is the national data center and archive for earthquake information. Third, the NEIC pursues an active research program to improve its ability to locate earthquakes and to understand the earthquake mechanism. These efforts are all aimed at mitigating the risks of earthquakes to mankind; and they are made possible by the fine international cooperation that has long characterized the science of seismology.

Energy Citations Database
   URL: http://http://www.osti.gov/scitech/
   The Energy Citations Database (1948 - present) was developed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) to improve access to Departmental and predecessor agency scientific and technical information (STI). The Energy Citations Database (ECD) contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related STI from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).

Highway Statistics Publications
   URL: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics.cfm
   This publication brings together annual series of selected statistical tabulations relating to highway transportation in three major areas: (1) highway use--the ownership and operation of motor vehicles; (2) highway finance--the receipts and expenditures for highways by public agencies; and (3) the highway plant--the extent, characteristics, and performance of the public highways, roads, and streets in the Nation.

Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER) Collections
   URL: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/145_habs.html
   The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) are collections of documentary measured drawings, photographs, and written historical and architectural information for over 31,000 structures and sites in the United States and its territories.

National Building Museum
   URL: http://www.nbm.org/
   Created by an act of Congress in 1980, the National Building Museum is America's premier cultural institution dedicated to exploring and celebrating architecture, design, engineering, construction, and urban planning. Since opening its doors in 1985, the Museum has become a vital forum for exchanging ideas and information about such topical issues as managing suburban growth, preserving landmarks and communities, and revitalizing urban centers. The Museum's engaging exhibitions and education programs - including innovative curricula for school children and stimulating programs for adults - annually attract more than 400,000 people.

National Imagery and Mapping Agency
   URL: http://egsc.usgs.gov/nimamaps/
   The mission of NIMA is to provide timely, relevant, and accurate imagery, imagery intelligence, and geospatial information in support of national security objectives. There are, nevertheless, links to information about NIMA products that are available to the public as well as links to other internet resources.

National Telecommunications and Information Administration
   URL: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/
   The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is the Executive Branch's principal voice on domestic and international telecommunications and information technology issues. NTIA works to spur innovation, encourage competition, help create jobs and provide consumers with more choices and better quality telecommunications products and services at lower prices.

National Transportation Safety Board
   URL: http://www.ntsb.gov/Pages/default.aspx
   The National Transportation Safety Board is an independent Federal agency that investigates every civil aviation accident in the United States and significant accidents in the other modes of transportation, conducts special investigations and safety studies, and issues safety recommendations to prevent future accidents.

US Department of Energy
   URL; http://www.energy.gov/
   Department of Energy homepage. Its A-Z Index provides links to hundreds of web sites pertaining to energy in the United States.

US Department of Energy: SciTech Connect
   URL; http://www.osti.gov/scitech/
   Unifying the Department of Energy's researches in engineering, science, and technology, SciTech Connect replaces the old DOE Bridge.

U.S. Geological Survey
   URL: http://www.usgs.gov
   Created by an act of Congress in 1879, the USGS has evolved over the years, matching its talent and knowledge to the progress of science and technology. Today, the USGS stands as the sole science agency for the Department of the Interior. It is known for its natural science expertise and its vast earth and biological data holdings, as well as for accessing the information concerning natural resources across the Nation and around the world. The Index of USGS Web Sites has many links to sites in the following areas: biological resources, earthquake information, environmental information, EROS Data Center (EDC), geologic information, hazards information, laboratories/facilities, mapping information, marine geology, USGS publications, USGS customer service and product information, USGS regional offices and field centers, volcano information, water resources information.

USGS Water Resources Data of USA
   URL: http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis
   Announced this week by the US Geological Survey (USGS), this site provides access to water-resources data collected at approximately 1.5 million sites in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The data is accessed via several categories, including real-time, surface water, ground water, and water quality. Within each section, users have multiple options to narrow their searches. Descriptive information on each site in the USGS database is also available.

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
   URL: http://www.nrc.gov
   The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, formerly the Atomic Energy Commission is responsible for regulating various commercial, industrial, academic, and medical uses of nuclear energy.

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
   URL: http://www.uspto.gov
   For over 200 years, the basic role of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has remained the same: to promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries. Patent full-text and full-page image databases are accessible through this web site. Patent grants are full-text since 1976, with full-page images since 1790. Patent applications are available for those published since March 15, 2001.

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SPECIALIZED NON-GOVERNMENT SITES

Alex's Electronic Resource Library
   URL: http://www.amasci.com/elehob/alexxtu.html
   Includes a glossary of electrical terminology and a resource library with hyperlinks to a number of web sites.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers: Engineering Resources
   URL: https://www.asme.org/topics/careereducation
   ASME offers resources and explanations on engineering for prospective students.

Applied Mechanics Reviews
   URL: http://appliedmechanicsreviews.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/journal.aspx
   AMR is an international review journal covering mechanics topics across the engineering sciences spectrum, such as fluid and solid mechanics, heat transfer, dynamics and vibration. Each bi-monthly issue offers Review Articles, which reflect upon active areas of research, including theoretical, computational, and experimental aspects, as well as theoretical modeling, methods of analysis and instrumentation. Review Articles organize, summarize, and clarify knowledge as it currently exists in the technical literature.

Dodge Data and Analytics
   URL: http://construction.com
   Data to help professional engineers to build their market positions.

E Funda: The Ultimate Online Reference for Engineers
   URL: http://www.efunda.com/home.cfm

Earthquake Engineering Online Archive NISEE e-Library
   URL: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/elibrary/
   The Earthquake Engineering Online Archive is a database of significant, publicly-funded research and development literature, photographs, data, and software in earthquake, structural, and geotechnical engineering.

Educating Engineers
   URL: http://educatingengineers.com/career-specialties
   Written information on the available engineering careers.

The Engineer
   URL: http://www.theengineer.co.uk/
   The Engineer is an UK site that updates readers and analyzes impacts of the new technologies across the world.

Elsevier: Engineering Village
   URL: https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/engineering-village
   This is a subscription-based service, not a free one. It may be available at a library near year. Available on-site at the Library of Congress.

Electrical Engineering Resource Guide
   URL: http://library.columbia.edu/subject-guides/engineering/electrical.html
   Site from the Columbia University Library that offers a guide for electrical researchers with e-journals, databases, featured content, books, and more.

Engineering News-Record
   URL: http://enr.construction.com/Default.asp
   See especially:
   Resources
   URL: http://enr.construction.com/resources/Default.asp

GeoEngineering Watch
   URL: http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/
   Geoengineering is the deliberate and large-scale intervention in the earth’s climatic system with the aim of limiting adverse climate change. Climate engineering is an umbrella term for two types of measures: carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation management. Carbon dioxide removal addresses the cause of climate change by removing one of the greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide) from the atmosphere. Solar radiation management attempts to offset effects of greenhouse gases by causing the Earth to absorb less solar radiation.

Green Building Materials
   URL: http://sweets.construction.com/
   Sponsored by sweets construction, gives information on construction materials.

IEEE Conferences Search
   URL: http://www.ieee.org/conferencesearch/

QUAKELINE Database
   URL: http://mceer.buffalo.edu/utilities/quakeline.asp
   The database covers information for much of earthquakes and other natural disasters.

RP Photonics Encyclopedia
   URL: https://www.rp-photonics.com/encyclopedia.html
   This encyclopedia explains basic terms and principles of laser physics and technology. It also has a lot of content from other topics such as general optics and optoelectronics, nonlinear optics, quantum optics, fiber optics, and optical communications.

SciCentral Gateway
   URL: http://www.scicentral.com/E-02engi.html
   Gateway to new sources in engineering.

SubsTech (Substance & Technologies)
   URL: http://www.substech.com/
   SubsTech (Substances & Technologies) is a free and open knowledge source in Materials Engineering. The site contains a wide range of illustrated articles on Metals, Ceramics, Polymers, Composites and Fluids including fundamentals of Materials Engineering, materials properties, applications and manufacturing technologies.

Thomasnet
   URL: http://www.thomasnet.com/
   Find suppliers and source products. This platform is designed for sourcing components, equipment, MRO products, raw materials and custom manufacturing services. Find over 610,000 qualified manufacturers, distributors, MRO providers and custom manufacturers. Source over 100 million products with new parametric search technology powered by an engineer-built classification system.
   See especially: Product Search http://productsourcing.thomasnet.com/

University of Buffalo guides to the collection of books and reports
   URL: http://library.buffalo.edu/libraries/asl/guides/
   See especially:
   Engineering - Chemical & Biological
   Engineering - Civil
   Engineering - Electrical
   Engineering - Environmental
   Engineering - Industrial & Systems
   Engineering - Mechanical & Aerospace

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NATIONAL LABORATORIES

Ames Laboratory
   URL: https://www.ameslab.gov/
   Operated by the employees and contractors of the US Department of Energy, the laboratory focuses mainly on the topics of materials design; synthesis, and processing; analytical instrumentation design and development; materials organization, and more.

Argonne National Laboratory
   URL: http://www.anl.gov
   Argonne National Laboratory is one of the U.S. Department of Energy's largest research centers. It is also the nation's first national laboratory, chartered in 1946. Argonne research falls into four broad categories: basic science, scientific facilities, energy resources, and environmental management. Argonne is operated by the University of Chicago for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Brookhaven National Laboratory
   URL: http://www.bnl.gov/world/
   Located in Long Island, New York, Brookhaven National Laboratory is a multipurpose lab that serves to building alternative sustainable energy for tomorrow. Since 1947, this laboratory operates with 3000 scientists.

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
   URL: http://www.fnal.gov
   Having existed since 1967, Fermilab works as the United States' premier physics laboratory. It is America's particle physics and accelerator lab.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
   URL: http://www.lbl.gov
   Ernest Orlando Lawrence founded this Lab, the oldest of the national laboratories, in 1931. Lawrence invented the cyclotron, which led to a Golden Age of particle physics and revolutionary discoveries about the nature of the universe. Known as a mecca of particle physics, Berkeley Lab long ago broadened its focus. Today it is a multiprogram lab where research in advanced materials, life sciences, energy efficiency, detectors and accelerators serves America's needs in technology and the environment.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
   URL: http://www.llnl.gov
   Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory operated by the University of California. Lawrence Livermore's mission is to apply science and technology in the national interest, with a focus on global security, global ecology, and bioscience.

Los Alamos National Laboratory
   URL: http://www.lanl.gov/index.php
   The central mission of the Los Alamos National Laboratory is to reduce the danger of nuclear weapons and nuclear materials worldwide. Their statutory responsibility is the stewardship and management of the nuclear stockpile.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory
   URL: http://www.nrel.gov/
   National Renewable Energy Laboratory is located in Colorado. It develops clean energy and energy efficiency technologies and practices.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory
   URL: https://www.ornl.gov/
   ORNL is recognized as the largest US Department of Energy science and energy laboratory. Its missions consist of scientific discovery, clean energy, and security.

FOREIGN/INTERNATIONAL

National Research Council Canada
   URL: http://nsl-bsn.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/home/
   CISTI, the Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, is one of the world's major sources for information in all areas of science, technology, engineering and medicine. CISTI began over 75 years ago as the library of the National Research Council of Canada, the leading agency forR&D in Canada, and became the National Science Library in 1957. The change to CISTI came in 1974 to reflect the wide scope of services provided and the increasing role in the development of electronic information products and services for the sci/tech community. Through this site a library catalog may be searched and document delivery is available.

The British Library
   URL: http://blpc.bl.uk
   Having two locations at Boston Spa and St.Pancras, the British Library collects extensively publications in the UK and Ireland.

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