Links to Interesting Websites
Chapter 1: The World of Modern
Engineering
The Engineering Process
o What Is Engineering- (http://www.jhu.edu/.virtlab/)
These engineering projects are classics (towers, bridges). However,
this virtual course has many direct connections to math topics
(matrices and vectors) and how to implement the process.
Engineering as a career
This is a site for online degrees. It will also
define some of the engineering fields. The link wouldn't make
so copy it and paste it in. http://www.onlineengineeringdegree.org
o National Society of Black Engineers (http://www.nsbe.org/)
The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) with more than
10,000 members is the largest student-managed organization in
the country.
o Society of Women Engineers (http://www.societyofwomenengineers.org/).
The society of women engineers homepage. One of the objectives
of this society is to stimulate women to achieve full potential
in careers as engineers and leaders.
o Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (http://www.shpe.org/)
The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) was founded
in Los Angeles, California, in 1974 by a group of engineers
employed by the city of Los Angeles. Their objective was to
form a national organization of professional engineers to serve
as role models in the Hispanic community.
o The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (http://www.asme.org/)
Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers,
today ASME International is a nonprofit educational and technical
organization serving a worldwide membership of 125,000.
o The American Society for Engineering Education (http://wwiv.asee.org/)
The American Society for Engineering Education is a nonprofit
member association, founded in 1893, dedicated to promoting
and improving engineering and technology education.
o Association for Computing Machinery (http://www.acm.org/).
The first society in computing! Founded in 1947, ACM is a major
force in advancing the skills of information technology professionals
and students worldwide.
o Engineering Your Future - Precollege Site (http://www.asee.org/precollege/)
The American Society for Engineering Education lays out how
students can get on track for engineering at college.
o Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (http://www.ieee.org/portal/index.jsp)
The largest professional organization in the world. A meeting
point for electrical engineers from all branches of the field.
o The Scholastic Assessment Test (http://www.ets.org/spstud.html)
A great opportunity for building a base for a great career in
engineering or pother fields. Contact your teacher and school
academic counselor for details on this examination. A college
education is as essential as a good primary education for an
engineer.
o The College Board (http://www.collegeboard.com/)
A list of colleges offering undergraduate programs in engineering
and technology.
o ABET Home (http://www.abet.org/)
The Accreditation Board for Engineering & Technology is
the gatekeeper for the accreditation of some 2400 universities
in the US.
Teaching Engineering
o Microsoft Classroom Teacher Network - Tech
Tips (http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=mctn)
For those of us taking the Technological Plunge this year.
o Genesis Mission - Design Process for Science Classrooms
(http://www.genesismission.org/educate/kitchenlfoodthought/survival.html)This
NASA site shows how to implement a Product Design Team approach
in the classroom.
o Engineering process -Eng week (http://www.eweek.org/)
The National Engineers week website has lots of support for
teachers interested in engineering.
o Engineering male and female contributions in the engineering
process (http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2001/papers/1026.pdf)
An interesting technical paper presented at the Frontiers in
Education Conference in 2001. It discusses the authors' views
of various aspects in which males and females contribute to
the engineering process, and this can be extended to gender
independent variabilities in personal style and cognitive style.
Also, the paper contains a list of useful references on the
topic.
Engineering Resources
o Greatest Engineering~ Achievements of the
Twentieth Century
(http://www.greatachievements.org/)
An in-depth look at how engineering and technology shaped the
last century.
o The National Academies (http://www.nas.edu/)
The advisors to the nation on science, engineering, and medicine
are great places to start research papers.
Chapter 2: Creating Digital
Music
o Creating Music by sketching on pad:
(http
://www.creatingmusic.com/mmm/mmm.html)
Here one can 'draw' at the level of finger painting and get
musical feedback. The participant can choose instrumental color
and edit as a composer might, by changing pitches, making things
go forward or backward, or inverting and duplicating.
o How Acoustic Guitar works and the tone of two
different frequencies :
(http://www.creatinging
music.com/mmm/mmm.html) The particular shape and material
of the sound board, along with the shape of the body and the
fact that a guitar uses strings, give a guitar its distinctive
"sound." There are a number of different ways to modify
sounds to get the particular voice of the instrument.
o The virtual gramophone:
(http://www2.nlc.bnc.ca.lplsqhl.gramophone/browse.audiomain?lang=e)
Listen to the kind of music that was in the past, played on
gramophone and you can see how technology has changed.
o Alexander Graham Bell. Ph.D.: "On the production
and Reproduction of Sound by light"
(http://histv2.free.fr/bell/bell2.htm)
An overview of the optical encoding of sound in October 1880
as written by the great inventor himself. We had to wait till
1929 to finally hear movies however.
o Midi songs: (http://mididb.com/)
You can download Midi songs from this site.
o Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics:
(http ://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/)
The Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music
and Acoustics is a multi-disciplinary facility where composers
and researchers work together using computer-based technology
both as an artistic medium and as a research tool.
Chapter 4: Math You Can See
• The Blue Screen Page (http://www.seanet.com/Users/bradford/bluscrn.html)
The complete guide for Blue-screen (chromakey) processing.
• Morphing Page (http://www.cs.utah.edu/~dejohnso/morph.html)
An example of digital morphing. Check out the neat movies that
show a gradual and smooth morph from one face to another!
• Morphing Demo
(http://mywebpage.netscape.com/_ht_a/manuevarghese/graphics/morph/morph.html)A
must see! This page lets you play around with the number of
intermediate steps during the morph. Changing the way an image
is segmented determines how smooth the change from one image
to the other is.
• JPL Machine Vision Group (http://robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/groups/mvts/)
The Jet Propulsion laboratory was the chief designer for the
robot vision system that went along with the Mars pathfinder.
Some techniques described in this page are just refinements
of what you have learned in Chapter 4.
• Hubble : The Pictures
(http://hubblesite.org/sci.d.tech/behind_the_pictures/index.shtml)
Learn how the Hubble telescope’s imaging system captures
and reconstructs images of far off stellar objects. Notice how
similar the techniques are from the masking and adding operations
you have learned here!
• Image Smoothing (http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/HIPR2/csmooth.htm)
A technique for impulse noise removal. Shows a sequence of noisy
images as they are cleaned up.
