LibGuides: Engineering Technologies: Mechanical Engineering Technology

Mechanical Engineering Technology and Design Engineering

Engineering and Technology in Your World: Start the course by considering how engineering and technology influence your daily life—not just high-tech devices but also ordinary machines, buildings, and infrastructure that most people take for granted. In this lecture series you will learn to notice and understand these overlooked marvels.

Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They Teach: Go behind the scenes to discover what really happened in more than 24 epic engineering failures. Civil engineer and award-winning educator Stephen Ressler reveals the story behind each disaster by not only demonstrating the scientific and engineering issues involved, but also by examining the individual personalities and sometimes dysfunctional organizations that led to catastrophe. (26 episodes)

Everyday Engineering: Look around you. Great masterpieces of engineering are everywhere. As soon as you get out of bed in the morning, you are putting centuries of scientific and mechanical ingenuity to use. So familiar are these structures, inventions, and services that they are all but invisible. Yet they are just as remarkable as great works such as the Parthenon, the Eiffel Tower, and the Panama Canal. (36 episodes)

Autodesk Software for Students
Autodesk provides free educational access to their products, including AutoCAD, for students. The verification process takes about 48 hours.
efunda - engineering Fundamentals
eFunda stands for engineering Fundamentals. Its mission is to create an online destination for the engineering community, where working professionals can quickly find concise and reliable information to meet the majority of their daily reference needs.
Science.gov
Science.gov provides access to millions
of authoritative scientific research results from U.S. federal agencies.
The Incredible Machine
The Incredible Machine is a puzzle game where the player has to assemble a Rube Goldberg-type contraption to solve a simple puzzle.
The game consists of a series of puzzles, each having a simple objective, such as "put the baseball into the basket" or "turn on the fan". To achieve this, the player is given a number of parts such as: balls, girders, rope, balloons, seesaws, cats or monkeys, and his job is to arrange and connect them on the playfield, so that, upon clicking the "start puzzle" button, the whole contraption activates and achieves the objective. (Accessed through The Internet Archive)

99% Invisible
On a weekly basis, creator Roman Mars (who, surprisingly, has no formal qualifications in architecture or design) discusses the things that surround us but often go unnoticed; recent episodes have focused on bunkers, pedestrian skyways, and Florence Nightingale’s pioneering methods of data visualization.
Engineering Matters
Engineering Matters is a podcast that covers a wide range of topics related to engineering, from infrastructure and innovation to sustainability and social impact. Each episode features interviews with engineers, researchers, policymakers, and entrepreneurs who share their insights, stories, and solutions. Some of the episodes that are relevant for environmental engineers include: How to Build a Climate-Resilient City, The Future of Waste, and Engineering the Energy Transition.
The Engines of Our Ingenuity
The Engines of Our Ingenuity tells how human creativity forms our culture, using radio and podcasts. Founded by John Lienhard, written and hosted by him and other contributors, and produced by Houston Public Media, it airs nationally on Public Radio.
Episodes are released daily and are just 3-4 minutes long.
Soft Skills Engineering
It takes more than great code to be a great engineer. Soft Skills Engineering is a weekly advice podcast for software developers about the non-technical stuff that goes into being a great software developer.
Unprofessional Learning
Interested in science, technology, machinery, engineering and the history behind everyday things? Want a fast and fun way to get your kids interested in STEM? Look no further! We break down a weekly engineering topic in a way that everyone can understand and enjoy.

AUGI (Autodesk User Group International)
Online user community for Autodesk product users.
Autodesk Software for Students
Autodesk provides free educational access to their products, including AutoCAD, for students. The verification process takes about 48 hours.
Cadalyst Magazine
Latest news and training links related to CAD.
CAD Tutor
CADTutor provides the best free tutorials and articles for AutoCAD, 3ds Max and associated applications along with a friendly community forum. If you need to learn AutoCAD, or you want to be more productive, you're in the right place.