ENGINEERING

www.engineeringsights.org
Set up by the National Society of Professional Engineers and National Engineers Week, this site calls itself “the sightseer’s guide to engineering.” It provides information on tourist attractions in the United States that showcase several types of engineering. Users can search by state, keyword, engineering discipline or type of attraction. For example, one result of searching Michigan is the Henry Ford Museum; a result of searching chemical engineering is the Crayola factory in Easton, PA.

www.eweek.org
Complete information on the annual National Engineers Week is found on this site. Resources include an online newsletter, engineering salary survey and information about the National Society of Professional Engineers’ ongoing efforts to introduce young females to engineering.

www.globalspec.com
GlobalSpec provides engineers with nearly 600,000 electrical, mechanical and optical components. Visitors can search user-friendly categories such as sensors, transducers and detectors, or labware, test and measurement equipment to find comprehensive lists of available parts.

www.ieee.org
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers’ (IEEE) goal is to help advance global prosperity by promoting the engineering process of creating, developing, integrating, sharing and applying knowledge about electrical and information technologies. Today’s Engineer is the IEEE’s online newsletter, which provides feature articles, columns and engineering related links.

www.nae.edu
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is the portal for all engineering activities at the National Academies, which, along with the NAE, include the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council.

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