Engineering
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Anyone have leads for a Mechanical Engineer Open Textbook?
Might be something useful in the INTECH library http://www.intechopen.com/subjects/mechanical-engineering/books/all/1/grid
I am trying to help our vocational technician training program find OER textbooks covering introductory AC and DC circuitry. Any suggestions where to look?
Here are links to materials currently in use at Oregon community colleges:
Basic Electronics 1: DC Circuit Analysis playlist (54 free online lectures) Author: Jim Pytel, NSF ATE CREATE and Columbia Gorge Community College
Electrically Controlled Systems playlist (50+ free online lectures) Author: Jim Pytel, NSF ATE CREATE and Columbia Gorge Community College
All About Circuits, Vol.1: Direct Current (DC). This work is shared under a Design Science License (more info on the license here: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html ).
Linn-Benton Community College in-house videos
There are a couple of DC and AC circuit books on this link: http://www.codlrc.org/OA/texts#titles
I haven’t heard anything about them, but just happened to come across them in a separate search, so I’m passing them on.
I’m looking for an introductory engineering book / resource that would cover:
What is engineering?
What do engineers do?
What are the different disciplines within engineering and what do they do?
The CK12 book may be a good starting point. http://www.ck12.org/book/Engineering%3A-An-Introduction-for-High-School/
Original source: CK12
Licensing: CC-BY-NC
While it is focused for a high school level and does not cover all of your topics, the open licensing allows you to revise and remix. It might be a great start for an intro course.
I have a professor who's interested in engineering OER texts, particularly drafting and engineering design. I'm not seeing much in those two areas. Is anyone aware of resources for these?
Engineering is a difficult area. I recently searched for OER for our entire engineering curriculum. I've attached my search spreadsheet for our Engineering Graphics course. There are four sheets/tabs in the Excel file attached. The library resources tab may have ebooks or articles for which your library has access.
(Rachel Dilley <racheldilley87@gmail.com >) The University of North Dakota has had a few faculty in Engineering creating OERs, but so far, it’s been 1 or 2 OERs each in Electrical, Mechanical, Petroleum, and Geological Engineering. We have a few faculty in Engineering who are really enthused about OERs, but we’re still a bit early in this – we’ve been doing OERs for less than 3 years.
Does anyone know of any OER specifically for engineering programs?
LIbreTexts and MERLOT both have engineering discipline groups:
https://eng.libretexts.org/
and
https://www.merlot.org/merlot/Engineering.htm
You will find a lot of OER engineering materials there,
Electrical Engineering Technology
I have an EET instructor seeking OER content on circuits (RC, DC), preferably video but text would also work, that truly registers at the community college level. The majority of what we’ve found speaks to the bachelor’s level and uses calculus, whereas the courses in question use algebra.
Have you checked out Jim Pytel's work at CGCC? http://openoregon.org/resources/?keyword=pytel
Material Science
I am working with a professor who is very interested in using an open textbook for her Introduction to Material Sciences class. I have combed through many OER and OA directories, repositories, and websites but have not found anything that fits her course needs. I am wondering if anyone is aware of any textbooks in development.
She is also looking for an introductory materials science textbook in Arabic.
We have a Material Sciences chapter in our OER by Discipline Directory.
This may be of useful. We have been harvesting University of Cambridge TLP content into our Engineering library for this purpose:
https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Materials_Science
These modules are supplemented by about 30-40 Materials Sci modules created as part of several Open Pedagogy projects facilitated by the LibreTexts at UC Davis. We have several faculty interested in this field in our fold. Let me know if you need any help in putting together a proper OER text. All LibreTexts content is remixible as OER should be.
Related to this, a colleague is asking for OERs in Introduction to Engineering, or Introduction to Engineering Technology. (We're a two-year school.) I remember looking a couple of years ago and not finding much.
We have bits and pieces spread over 16,719 pages of OER content on our Engineering library ( https://eng.libretexts.org )
that can be rapidly remixed into a general engineering text (using our Remixer) depending on the level of complexity you desire.
Also, while we haven't formally announced our new K12 library,
but we are hosting Ck-12's high school engineering text (https://k12.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Science_and_Technology/Engineering%3A_An_Introduction_for_High_School) as a basic presentation.