Tech & Engineering in the News

Links

• Ask an Engineer engineering.mit.edu/ask

  Submit your questions to MIT engineers and browse other Q&As.

• American Society of Civil Engineers www.asce.org

  Find a troubling “report card for America’s infrastructure” and learn about the field of civil engineering.

• National Renewable Energy Laboratory www.nrel.gov

  Follow projects promoting the use of clean energy technologies.

• Transportation Technology R&D Center www.transportation.anl.gov

  Information about hybrid-electric vehicles, alternative fuels, and other transportation technologies

• National Academy of Engineering www.nae.edu

  News and programs from the NAE, an organization charged with promoting the technological welfare of the U.S.

• MIT OpenCourseWare ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

  Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from one of the world’s premier technology schools.

• Technology Review www.technologyreview.com

  Stay informed about emerging technologies and their commercial, social, and political impacts.

• Make Magazine makezine.com

  Peruse the projects of avid do-it-yourselfers and share your innovative ideas.

• Engineer Your Life www.engineeryourlife.org

  A guide to engineering careers for high school girls

• Building Big www.pbs.org/buildingbig

  Explore large structures—bridges, domes, skyscrapers, dams, and tunnels—and what it takes to build them.

• Design Squad www.pbskids.org/designsquad

  Watch, play, compete, create, and educate with resources from the Emmy Award-winning series for young engineers.

Books

• The Diamond Makers

  by Robert Hazen

• Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer—and the Century-long Search to Discover Its Secrets

  by Jo Marchant

• Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail

  by Mathys Levy and Mario Salvadori

• Made to Measure: New Materials for the 21st Century

  by Philip Ball

• The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don't Fall through the Floor

  by J. E. Gordon

• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More

  by Chris Anderson

• The Soul of a New Machine

  by Tracy Kidder

• Electronic Brains: Stories from the Dawn of the Computer Age

  by Mike Hally

• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

  by Dava Sobel

• The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret

  by Seth Shulman

• The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers

  by Tom Standage

• Tesla: Man Out of Time

  by Margaret Cheney

• The New Way Things Work

  by David Macaulay

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