Open Educational Resources (OER): Engineering

Open courseware & educational resources for instructors & students in engineering programs.
This website is a segment of a Department of Labor grant awarded to the Eastern Iowa Community Colleges (EICC) of Clinton, Muscatine, and Scott. Iowa’s need for skilled engineering technology technicians is the driving force behind this project. Demand for engineering technology graduates remains high. The government projects that by the year 2018, Iowa’s advanced manufacturing segment alone will experience a shortage of 6,672 skilled workers due to older worker retirement and increasing need for Iowa products. This project seeks to meet this demand and provide a unique approach to learning about engineering technology.

OpenCourseware has many classes available to download and adapt via Creative Commons Licensing. Many of the classes are complete with textbooks, syllabi, exam and quiz questions, and exercises, and some even include recorded lectures. To download all course materials, visit the "Download Course Materials" link in the left side navigation.

The Open Learning Initiative (OLI) is a grant-funded group at Carnegie Mellon University, offering innovative online courses to anyone who wants to learn or teach.

Free and open online library containing workforce related OER materials created by over 700 community colleges across the United States.

"Academic Journals currently publishes 111 open access journals covering art and humanities, engineering, medical science, social sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences and agricultural sciences."

One of the largest Open Access journal publishers. It is currently publishing more than 200 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines.

Virtual labs is an initiative from India's Ministry of Education that provides "remote access to simulation-based Labs in various disciplines of Science and Engineering."