Research Guides: Open Educational Resources (OER): Engineering

Courses

MIT Open Courseware: Introduction to MATLAB
This is an accelerated introduction to MATLAB® and its popular toolboxes.
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Lectures are interactive, with students conducting sample MATLAB problems in real time. The course includes problem-based MATLAB assignments. Students must provide their own laptop and software. This is great preparation for classes that use MATLAB.
MIT Open Courseware: Introduction to Modeling and Simulation
This subject provides an introduction to modeling and simulation, covering continuum methods, atomistic and molecular simulation, and quantum mechanics.
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Hands-on training is provided in the fundamentals and applications of these methods to key engineering problems. The lectures provide exposure to areas of application based on the scientific exploitation of the power of computation. We use web based applets for simulations, thus extensive programming skills are not required.
MIT Open Course Ware: Introduction to Design Computing
This course will introduce students to architectural design and computation through the use of computer modeling, rendering and digital fabrication.
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The course focuses on teaching architectural design with CAD drawing, 3-D modeling, rendering and rapid prototyping. Students will be required to build computer models that will lead to a full package of architectural explorations with computers. Each semester we will explore the design process of a particular building type and building material.

The course also investigates a few design processes of selected architects. The course is critical of design principles and building production methods. Student assignments are graded based on the quality of design, representation and constructability. Great design input is always encouraged.
Computer-Aided Design (CAD) (saylor.org)
CAD, or computer-aided design, is a powerful modeling tool that technical professionals use.
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With CAD, architects can draw up building plans and engineers can develop component and system designs. Some CAD programs even allow users to perform stress analysis, demonstrating how well a proposed structure will fare when put to use. This course will introduce you to the process of modeling 2- and 3-D objects with computer-aided design.
MIT Opencourseware: Digital Design Fabrication
This course will guide graduate students through the process of using rapid prototyping and CAD/CAM devices in a studio environment.
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The class has a theoretical focus on machine use within the process of design. Each student is expected to have completed one graduate level of design computing with a full understanding of solid modeling in CAD. Students are also expected to have completed at least one graduate design studio.
MIT Open Course Ware: Computer Graphics
This course provides introduction to computer graphics algorithms, software and hardware.
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Topics include: ray tracing, the graphics pipeline, transformations, texture mapping, shadows, sampling, global illumination, splines, animation and color. This course offers 6 Engineering Design Points in MIT's EECS program.
A First Course in Electrical and Computer Engineering
This book was written for an experimental freshman course at the University of Colorado. The course is now an elective that the majority of our electrical and computer engineering students take in the second semester of their freshman year, just before their first circuits course.
U-Mich Introduction to Engineering: Design in the Real World
This survey course provides a general introduction to the engineering design process – spanning core topics from problem definition through prototyping and testing, as well as other important considerations such as sustainability, failure analysis, and engineering economics.
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In some semesters, select lectures have been delivered via screencast prior to class, with corresponding lecture times then involving a complementary or a reinforcing activity. This particular Section of Engineering 100 emphasizes multidisciplinary design, entrepreneurship, and benefitting people's quality of life.

Video

U-Mich - Introduction to Engineering: Design in the Real World - lectures
From Fall 2014 semester.

Engineering

LibreText - Chemical Engineering
LibreText - Materials Science
A Brief Introduction to Engineering Computation with MATLAB
A Brief Introduction to Engineering Computation with MATLAB is specifically designed for students with no programming experience.
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However, students are expected to be proficient in First Year Mathematics and Sciences and access to good reference books are highly recommended. Students are assumed to have a working knowledge of the Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows operating systems. The strategic goal of the course and book is to provide learners with an appreciation for the role computation plays in solving engineering problems. MATLAB specific skills that students are expected to be proficient at are: write scripts to solve engineering problems including interpolation, numerical integration and regression analysis, plot graphs to visualize, analyze and present numerical data, and publish reports.
Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering 1
The course focuses on the creation, manipulation, transmission, and reception of information by electronic means.
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Elementary signal theory; time- and frequency-domain analysis; Sampling Theorem. Digital information theory; digital transmission of analog signals; error-correcting codes.
Introduction to Linear, Time-Invariant, Dynamic Systems for Students of Engineering
This on-line textbook is a challenging combination of system dynamics and responses, mechanical vibrations, mechanical and electrical systems, rigid body dynamics, and feedback control.
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Covered are free and forced, undamped and damped responses, in both the frequency and time domain. The textbook focuses on linear time-invariant (LTI) systems, with time- and Laplace-solutions of the governing ordinary differential equations (ODEs). First-, second-, and fourth-order systems are included and considered. The time constant is presented for first-order LTI systems, and natural frequency, damping ratio, and resonance are presented for second-order LTI systems. Translational and rotational systems mechanical systems are included, with inertial, spring, and damping elements. Electrical circuit LTI systems with resistors, capacitors, inductors, and operational amplifiers are also presented. MATLAB software is applied as a tool and for examples throughout the book. Some examples and applications specific to Aerospace Engineering are presented throughout. System identification from experimental data and homework problems with real and simulated data are featured
Hydraulics and Electrical Control of Hydraulic Systems
Book Description: Covers hydraulics math, Pascal's Law, hydraulic schematics, fluid properties, series and parallel hydraulic circuits, regenerative extension, accumulators, flow control valves and flow control methods, pressure control valves, pumps, and electrically controlled hydraulic systems.

Additional materials

Designing Effective Graphics Using MATLAB
PowerPoint Presentation on theme: "Designing Effective Graphics Using MATLAB The Cain Project in Engineering and Professional Communication ENGINEERING SERIES."
Written Communication for Engineers
This course packet seeks to develop the upper level engineering student’s sense of audience and purpose in a research-based context with workplace constraints. It requires the student to choose a technical topic of interest and research it to solve for a specific problem or to meet a typical industry need by way of several assignments: Unsolicited Research Proposal, Progress Report, Visual Aids, and Oral Presentation, all of which lead to the Formal Report.
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This approach readies students to write informatively and persuasively in the engineering workplace,