Cool Engineering Sites

A Sightseer’s Guide to Engineering for Students

Spotlights how engineers improve our lives.
www.engineeringsights.org

Discover Engineering

Tells all about engineers and the cool stuff they build.
www.discoverengineering.org

Engineer Girl

All about engineering from a girl’s perspective.
www.engineergirl.org

Green Building Pages

This site provides links and resources to associations and other groups who promote "Green" engineering.
www.greenbuildingpages.com

Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century

Learn about many of the greatest engineering accomplishments of the 20th Century.
www.greatachievements.org

Guide Me NACME

Student website with activities and information about engineering. Provided by the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME)
www.nacmebacksme.org

How Stuff Works

Provides articles, information and games that promote engineering and invention.
express.howstuffworks.com

“School to Careers” Iowa Public Television

Find information on varied professionals and what they do in their jobs here. For example, “Meet a Civil Engineer.”
www.careers.iptv.org

FIRST Robotics Competition

This is an exciting, multinational competition that teams professionals with students to solve engineering problems in an intense and competitive way. Check out the competition videos in the “What we do” section.
www.usfirst.org

How Everyday Things Are Made

Find out how things are made from Double Bubble Bubble Gum to airplanes. See videos and get links to manufacturers’ websites.
http://manufacturing.stanford.edu

JETS

The Junior Engineering Technical Society provides real-world insight and challenges for high school students.
www.jets.org

Extreme Engineering

Interactive tours of extreme engineering projects.
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/engineering

TryScience

TryScience.org is your gateway to experience the excitement of contemporary science and technology through on and offline interactivity with over 400 science and technology centers worldwide.
www.tryscience.org

What’s That Stuff?

Ever wondered about what’s really in hair coloring, Silly Putty, Cheese Wiz, artificial snow, or self-tanners? Here’s a collection of articles that gives you a look at the chemistry behind a wide variety of products.
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff.html

The IEEE Virtual Museum

Imagine life without telephones, TVs, computers, X-rays, lasers and the Internet. These technologies all have one thing in common – they all use electricity and magnetism. See videos and walk through virtual exhibits.
www.ieee-virtual-museum.org

Exploratorium

This museum of science, art and human perception is located in San Francisco. Visit its online counterpart here with over 15,000 web pages.
www.exploratorium.edu

Engineering Net

A collection of links and valuable engineering career information.
www.engineeringnet.com

Leonardo da Vinci

His life and machines from the National Museum of Science and Technology in Italy.
www.museoscienza.org/english/leonardo

Building Big

Explore large structures and what it takes to build them. Read interviews with real engineers. This website and accompanying five-part television PBS series is a production of WGBH Boston.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig

Engineering K12 Center

Explore engineering fields, learn how to get and pay for an engineering education, and have fun with interactive engineering games and resources.
www.engineeringk12.org/students

Engineering Pathway

This is the engineering education wing of the National Science Digital Library. Check out Community Resources for Engineering Students for great information and links to find out more about engineering schools.
www.engineeringpathway.com

Engineering Summer Camps

Engineering summer camp programs for pre-college students.
www.asme.org/Communities/Students/K12

Sloan Career Cornerstone Center

If you are beginning to consider career paths, this site can help you explore the fields of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and computing.
www.careercornerstone.org/forstudents.htm

Envirolink

This non-profit organization offers a vast clearing house of online resources and links that include many engineering areas of interest.
www.envirolink.org

Engineering Search Engines:

www.athenus.com
www.google.com/Top/Science/Technology
http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/search?physci

HireLabs The Assessment Company

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Industrial Systems Engineering Principles in Health Care

Each step toward medical progress creates demands for information management, decision making and quality management. Recent changes in financing health services have created enormous incentives to improve the productivity of the health system while maintaining or improving quality. Industrial and systems engineers possess tools to analyze these demands and create systems to help solve these problems. Some significant health care issues addressed by UW-Madison health systems engineers include:

What is Industrial Engineering?

Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of complex processes or systems. It is concerned with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, materials, analysis and synthesis, as well as the mathematical, physical and social sciences together with the principles and methods of engineering design to specify, predict, and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems or processes. Its underlying concepts overlap considerably with certain business-oriented disciplines such as Operations Management, but the engineering side tends to emphasize extensive mathematical proficiency and usage of quantitative methods.

MyCoolJob: Industrial Engineer

MSFORGINGS INTRODUCTION 2 LARGEST FORGING HOUSE IN PAKISTAN

In 1974, MS started out as a small forging shop which at the time produced 250 tons of forgings for railway and gas companies. Little did we know that this small shop would one day be the largest forging house in Pakistan.
The 1970's saw a marked growth in the industrial development locally which in turn decreased the domestic reliance on the foreign imported goods. It was not late before the company realized the immense potential awaiting us in the then emerging automotive sector. With astute understanding and visionary perception, the company was able to mould the unfolding events in our own favor, and laid down the foundations of the future’s most promising company in 1984.
MS pioneered the production of automotive forgings in Pakistan.

Descon Engineering Film - 30 years

Descon Engineering is a multi-dimensional engineering, construction and manufacturing company operating in Pakistan and the Middle East. With over 450 million man-hours of construction work executed in industrial and infrastructure projects, Descon employs over 34000 professionals and other personnel.
Services: EPC, Project Management, Engineering, Construction, Maintenance and Manufacturing
Locations: Pakistan, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait

Descon Engineering Hamriya Free Zone Sharja U.A.E(Profile)