"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it." - Max Frisch

"Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world." - Jimmy Carter

"The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. " - Dennis Gabor

"There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians."  - Georges Pompidou

"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand."  - Unknown

• BBC NEWS - Technology
• Collaborative Technologies -- project at Kent State U. involves evaluating the use of collaboration technologies to enhance the teaching and learning environment, between and among faculty and their students and students and their fellow students.
• CNN - Technology
• Dictionary of Metal Terminology -- Metals Aerospace International.
• Document Center  -- comprehensive collection of industry and government standards from around the world.
• EDUCAUSE -- is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology. Membership is open to institutions of higher education, corporations serving the higher education information technology market, and other related associations and organizations.
  • Kent State University at EDUCAUSE
• Engineering -- the Internet Guide to Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing.
• Infomine -- Scholarly Internet Resource Collections with searchable database in Engineering at U. of California riverside.
• Internet Guide to Engineering
• Engineering E-Library -- The Swedish Universities of Technology Libraries.
• Java Applets for Engineering Education at Virginia Tech.
• Java Programming for Engineers at Georgia Tech.
• MatWeb  -- Contains property data on over 20,000 materials including metals, plastics, ceramics and composites.
• Merlot Engineering  -- free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students in higher education.
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
• National Science Foundation  -- Engineering at NSF
• National Science & Technology Week
• NIST - National Institute of Standards & Technology -- Virtual Library.
• NSSN -- product of the American National Standards Organization (ANSI) which  provides a comprehensive data network covering national, foreign, regional and international standards and regulatory documents.
• Online Materials Information Resource
• Perception Laboratory's Face Transformer, U. of St. Andrews
• Techstreet  -- contains half million industry standards, technical books, training products and other technical documentation.
• WSSN  --  information on international, regional and national standardization and related activities and services.

   

Civil Engineering & Technology

• American Society of Civil Engineers --  association for civil engineers with 124,000 members in 142 countries.
• Civil Engineering Research Foundation (CERF) -- established by ASCE to provide leadership, direction, and an organizational structure to foster research for the civil engineering profession at large.
• Civil Engineering Virtual Library -- a comprehensive list of WWW servers containing information about civil engineering, including FTP archive, universities, organizations, government agencies, and commercial sites from around the world. 
• Civil & Structural Engineering ResourceWeb -- links to professional institutions, abstracts search, technical publications/journals, software, general resources by subject, products and equipment and research organizations & universities.
• Construction Innovation Forum (CIF) -- an international non-profit organization formed in 1987 to recognize innovations in the construction industry that improve the quality, efficiency and cost effectiveness of construction. Each year the CIF honors innovators with the Nova Award.
• iCivilEngineer.com -- web sites with information about civil engineering and technology
• Engineering Software Center -- specializes in listing software in the civil engineering field, both commercial and freeware/shareware.
• GuideMe.com's Civil Engineering Resources on the Internet -- numerous links to topics in various fields of civil engineering.
• Institute of Civil Engineers -- includes lists of conferences, careers advice for students, ICE and Thomas Telford publications, information on professional development, online civil engineering discussion forum. Useful reference source for all aspects of civil engineering

Mechanical Engineering & Technology

• Mechanical Engineering Calculators
• Mechanical Engineering -- Online Magazine.
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers, The
• Institute of Mechanical Engineers -- UK

Electrical Engineering & Technology

• Analyze That -- A site where Electrical Engineering, Technology and High school students can analyze electronic circuits and math problems online. Result in detailed step-by-step format on how results were obtained in 1 second.
• Circuits Archive
• WWW virtual library for Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Java Applets

• Animated Circuit Simulator -- Java Applet
• Color Coded Resistance Calculator  -- Calculates the values of Carbon-film resistances using the color-coded bands. This applet is for use with 4-band, resistances with  5% and 10% tolerances.
• Fourier series
• N-channel MOSFET output characteristics-- Calculates and plots the output characteristics of an n-channel (enhancement-mode) MOSFET. User can change the drain / source voltages.
• Signals and Systems Demos at John Hopkins U. --  JAVA applets for viewing basic signal processing concepts such as convolution and frequency response
• Superposition of sources in a linear circuit
• Response of a parallel RLC circuit

Industrial Engineering & Technology

• Gilbreth Network  -- Information about the lives and work of engineers and efficiency experts Frank and Lillian Gilbreth.
• School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue
• Project Management: Doing It Better  -- Article on some basic principles.

Professional Organizations

• American Society for Quality -- A society of individual and organizational members dedicated to the ongoing, development, advancement, and promotion of quality concepts, principles, and techniques.
• Institute of Industrial Engineers -- Promotional and service organization for Industrial Engineers world wide.
• American Society for Production and Inventory Control -- A non-profit educational society for resource management, offering related educational programs.
• Machine Tools Technologies Association (MTTA) -- Representing the UK machine tool and manufacturing technology sector. News, membership and outreach services, and contact information.

Computer Engineering & Technology

• Computer Engineering is the analysis and design of computer systems includes the study of basic electronics, digital circuits, computer hardware, algorithms and data structures, programming languages, operating systems, and visualization and robotics.
• Computer Science is a discipline which concentrates on the study of basic principles and tools used by computer software professionals including: algorithms and data structures, programming languages, numerical and symbolic computation, operating systems, software methodology and tools, database and information retrieval, and artificial intelligence.
• MGNet -- Information related to multigrid, multilevel, multiscale, aggregation, defect correction, and domain decomposition methods.

Centers & Institutes

• Applied Scientific Research -- ASR provides advanced computational and algorithmic support to the high performance computing needs of government and industrial clients. The core technology of ASR is a grid-free, massively parallel CFD tool, originally developed at M.I.T.
• Education Center on Computational Science and Engineering -- Center at San Diego State University. Includes projects, faculty, staff and students involved, training offered and presentations.
• Engineering Research Center -- Center at Mississippi State University. Includes description of research program and graduate courses.
• Kent State University Computer Technology Portal -- resources for faculty and students.
• Laboratory of Computational Engineering -- Lab at Helsinki University of Technology. Includes contact information, research project presentations, list of publications and teaching activities.
• NACSE - Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering --  coalition of Pacific Northwest institutions whose goal is to exploit WWW technology so it's easier for scientists and engineers to learn about and use high performance computing resources.

Robotics

• Australia's Telerobot on the Web -- Play with a real live robot. Use your browser to build bridges, towers, or whatever takes your fancy. 360 degree lab camera also available. Operates 24 hours a day.
• Autonomous Robots Competitions in the World 
• CARMEN - Carnegie Mellon Robot Navigation Toolkit -- free download
• MIT Robotics FAQ -- An alternative FAQ, developed at MIT. [FTP repository of documents]
• Resource Kit: A Robot laboratory for Teaching Artificial Intelligence 
• RobotBooks.com -- Reviews of robotics books; robot kits, movies, magazines, and toys.
• Robotics FAQ at Carnegie Mellon -- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) list for the internet robotics newsgroups comp.robotics.misc and comp.robotics.research. This list provides a resource of answers to commonly (and some uncommonly) asked questions regarding robotic systems, organizations, periodicals, and pointers to numerous other resources on the net.
• RobotsLife.com --  dedicated to robots. News, interviews, research projects, events, and a directory of best robotics sites.
• Swarm-bots project --  new approaches to the design and implementation of self-organizing and self-assembling artifacts.
• Tech Museum of Innovation Robotics -- history and workings of robotics from the Tech Museum of Innovation.
• Westerdale Autonomous Robot Project --  vision guided robot adaptive algorithm based upon standard components. With an onboard neural network and a wireless network, virtual maps are created of the learned environment.

Clubs, Institutes & Organizations

• Beach Bot --  high school robotics team that is sponsored by NASA/JPL, Raytheon and J&F Machine. We are entering the 2001 FIRST robotics competition.
• DPRG - Dallas Personal Robotics Group -- is one the nation's oldest special interest groups dedicated to the development and use of personal robotics and has been around since 1984.
• Eurobot - European World Contest for autonomous Robots --  technical, scientific and entertaining competition for autonomous robots, organized in France. It is intended for students from engineering schools, universities or private scientific clubs. An annual event.
• International Federation of Robotics --  news, information and events relating to robotics, including a robotics events calendar, detailing international events relating to robotics, such as conventions.
• Micro club -- Robotics club at Mahanakorn University of technology Thailand.
• RoboCup -- is an attempt to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem where wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined.
• Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon

Technology Transfer

• Oxford Science Park  -- provides information about over 40 science and technology based companies in Oxford city.
• PREST: Policy Research in Engineering, Science and Technology -- provides impartial and authoritative analysis and information to decision makers concerned with the economic, political and social implications of science and technology.

Journals

• ACM 
• Artificial Intelligence
• American Society of Civil Engineers (Journals) | Guidelines to publishing
  • Civil Engineering Magazine
  • Journal of Architectural Engineering
• American Scientist  -- Illustrated bi-monthly magazine about science and technology. Each issue provides feature articles written by prominent scientists and engineers, reviewing important work in fields that range from molecular biology to computer engineering.
• CEP Magazine.org  -- published by American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
• Computer-Aided Design
• Computational Geometry
• Discrete & Computational Geometry
• Engineering--(Springer)
• ET the Technology Interface -- the Electronic Journal for Engineering Technology
• IEEE
  • IEEE information for authors -- on style requirements, with examples.
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems
  • IEEE Internet Computing
• JOLT: Harvard Journal of Law and Technology -- provides an insight into the legal implications of emerging technologies. It contains articles on varied topics, including biotechnology, computers, international technology transfer, intellectual property, medical technologies, and telecommunications.
• Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) --  a refereed journal, covering all areas of Artificial Intelligence, which is distributed free of charge over the Internet.

Associations Centers and Societies

• ACM - Association for Computing Machinery
• AEE - The Association of Energy Engineers
• AIS - Association for Information Systems
• American Association for Artificial Intelligence
• American Association for the Advancement of Science
• American Concrete Institute
• American Nuclear Society
• American Petroleum Institute
• American Society for Engineering Education
• American Society of Civil Engineers
• American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers
• Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
• AURIL: Association for University Research and Industry Links -- support all UK universities in the development of mutually beneficial partnerships with industry and others sectors in the fields of research, technology transfer, consultancy and related activities to enhance wealth creation and quality of life.
• Computing Research Association
• Electronic Industries Alliance
• European Computer Manufacturers Association
• IEEE Computer Society
• IEEE - The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
• INFORMS - Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
• Institute of Industrial Engineers
• Institution of Electrical Engineers  -- United Kingdom
• Materials Research Society
• Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
• MIT Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development
• National Fire Protection Association
• National Society of Black Engineers
• National Society of Professional Engineers
• SIAM - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• SPIE - International Society for Optical Engineering
• Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc.
• Society of Automotive Engineers
• Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers
• Society of Petroleum Engineers
• SWE - Society of Women Engineers
• Structural Engineers Association-International

Patents

• European Patent Office
• German Patent and Trademark Office
• Japanese Patent Office
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

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