Engineering: Online Resources
Careers in Engineering
The Occupational Outlook Handbook from the U.S. Department of Labor provides information on job outlook, median salary and education requirements.
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Scientists offer personal accounts of the challenges, struggles, successes, U-turns, and satisfactions encountered in their careers in industry, academia, and government.This insightful book offers essential life and career lessons for newly minted STEM graduates and those seeking a career change. Thirty-six leading scientists and engineers (including two Nobel Prize winners) describe the challenges, struggles, successes, satisfactions, and U-turns encountered as they established their careers. Readers learn that there are professional possibilities beyond academia, as contributors describe the paths that took them into private industry and government as well as to college and university campuses. They discuss their varying preferences for solitary research or collaborative teamwork; their attempts to achieve work-life balance; and unplanned changes in direction that resulted in a more satisfying career. Women describe confronting overt sexism and institutional gender bias; scientists of color describe the experience of being outsiders in their field. One scientist moves from startup to startup, enjoying a career of serial challenges; another spends decades at one university; another has worked in academia, industry, and government. Some followed in the footsteps of parents; others were the first in their family to go to college. Many have changed fields, switched subjects, or left established organizations for something new. Taken together, these essays make it clear that there is not one path to a profession in science, but many. Contributors Stephon Alexander, Norman Augustine, Wanda Austin, Kimberly Budil, Wendy Cieslak, Jay Davis, Tamara Doering, Stephen D. Fantone, Kathleen Fisher, David Galas, Kathy Gisser, Sandra Glucksmann, Daniel Goodman, Renee Horton, Richard Lethin, Christopher Loose, John Mather, Richard Miles, Paul Nielsen, Michael O'Hanlon, Deirdre Olynick, Jennifer Park, Ellen Pawlikowski, Ethan Perlstein, Richard Post, William Press, Beth Reid, Jennifer Roberts, Jessica Seeliger, David Spergel, Ellen Stofan, Daniel Theobald, Shirley Tilghman, Jami Valentine, Z. Jane Wang, Rainer Weiss
Call Number: Q147 .R63 2019 (ML)ISBN: 9780262537544Publication Date: 2019-12-03
Internet Resources
- Engineering Commons This link opens in a new window
A free international collection of research on engineering Covers all aspects of engineering. Includes peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
- Science.gov This link opens in a new window
Science.gov is a gateway to authoritative selected science information provided by 10 U.S. Government agencies, including research and development results.
- National Academies Press (NAP)The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes the reports of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and medicine, providing authoritative, independently-researched information on important matters in science and health policy.
- MatWeb Material Property DataMatWeb's searchable database of material properties includes data sheets of thermoplastic and thermoset polymers such as ABS, nylon, polycarbonate, polyester, polyethylene and polypropylene; metals such as aluminum, cobalt, copper, lead, magnesium, nickel, steel, superalloys, titanium and zinc alloys; ceramics; plus semiconductors, fibers, and other engineering materials.
- Engineering ArchiveengrXiv (Engineering Archive) is dedicated to the dissemination of engineering knowledge quickly and efficiently. engrXiv was launched in beta in July 2016 under the direction of Devin R. Berg, associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. The server is operated by Open Engineering Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit, which provides financial support for server operations.
Professional Organizations
Find Technical Reports
- ANSI Z39.18 Scientific and Technical Reports – Preparation, Presentation, and PreservationThis standard outlines the elements, organization and design of scientific and technical reports
- ANSI Z39.23 Standard Technical Report Number Format And CreationThe STRN defines a unique numbering system that improves access to the wealth of scientific and technical reports issued by the government and private organizations.
- Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)Reports created and published by organizations funded by the Department of Defense to perform research in a variety of industries and disciplines.
- Environmental Protection AgencyThe EPA National Library Catalog consists of several related databases. Use the catalog to locate books, reports, and journals on a variety of topics.
- NASA Technical Reports (NTRS)The NASA STI Repository (also known as the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS)) provides access to NASA metadata records, full-text online documents, images, and videos. The types of information included are conference papers, journal articles, meeting papers, patents, research reports, images, movies, and technical videos
- National Advisory Committee for AeronauticsAerospace research reports before the creation of NASA.
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was a U.S. federal agency founded on March 3, 1915. On October 1, 1958 the agency was dissolved, and its assets and personnel were transferred to NASA
Hosted at the University of North Texas Digital Library - National Technical Reports Library (NTRL)From the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) of the U.S. Department of Commerce
- Office of Scientific and Technical InformationOSTI.GOV is the primary search tool for DOE science, technology, and engineering research and development results and the organizational hub for information about the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI).
- ROSA-PRepository and Open Science Access Portal from the U.S. Department of Transportation, Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Contains open access to the technical publications from the Department of Transportation and its' agencies
- Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL)The Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) identifies, acquires, catalogs, digitizes and provides unrestricted access to U.S. government agency technical reports. TRAIL currently consists of over four dozen member institutions whose annual membership fees and volunteered staff time further the efforts of the project.