Industrial Engineering
General Industrial Engineering Sites  

• Advanced Manufacturing: Tomorrow's Ideas at Work Today -- an online technical magazine that covers new technology and developments in manufacturing.  Provides the full-text of its articles.
• American Productivity and Quality Center--services for members include the International Benchmarking Clearinghouse.
• American Society for Engineering Education
• American Society for Quality--info about standards, training, a glossary of terms, searchable database of publications, and links to related sites.
• Athenus -- Engineering and Science Database, "indexes hundreds of thousands of subject-specific web sites, publications, news and other resources, providing users with the most current, most focused collection of topic-specific material on the Internet."
• Best Manufacturing Practices Center of Excellence
• Constants and Equations Pages--a project to list and link as many scientific constants and equations as can be found on the net.
• Continuing Professional Education for Engineering
• Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library -- has engineering-specific search engines and links to information on specific engineering fields
• Ethics Center for Engineering and Science--contains codes of ethics for some 20 societies, and examples of cases in which those ethical principles are tested.
• Graduate Students and Post-doctorates in Science and Engineering--NSF
• Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century -- from the National Academy of Engineering
• Greener Buildings -- environmentally responsible building development
• Index of Technical Societies-- and also a guide to technical books, magazines and trade publications, web sites, and info from the Science and Engineering Data Center.
• International Council on Systems Engineering
• Manufacturif the Society of Manufacturing Engineers.  Topics include robotics, computer-aided design, turbomachining processes, ergonomics, etc.
• Manufacng Engineering -- full-text articles from the monthly publication oturing Engineering Laboratory -- a division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.  This site includes research project information, photo galleries, and a link to an Engineering Metrology Toolbox.
• Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory--of the NIST.
• MatWeb--info on over 2000 engineering materials.
• Meta-Efficient -- "For a product or technique to be considered meta-efficient it must be: Energy & Resource Efficient, Affordable, Reliable, Non-polluting, and if possible, Portable."
• MfgNet-- the manufacturer's internet newsletter, claims to be "your complete online resource for achieving manufacturing excellence."
• NASA Tech Briefs: Engineering Solutions for Design and Manufacturing -- updated monthly, this site summarizes technologies developed through NASA research and their commercial applications.
• National Standards System Network--provided by the American National Standards Institute.
• On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering
• Public Sector Continuous Improvement Site--articles, case studies, reports, statistics, on improvements in management and technology. Also see its related files on quality improvement.
• Robot Information Central--sites for both the robotics engineer and for the hobbyist --newsgroups, indexes, competitions, etc.
• Robotics Institute -- includes full-text of technical reports
• SciCentral's Gateway to Engineering--an outstanding resource, with "gateways" to sub-disciplines, conferences, journals, news, employment opportunities, funding, etc.
• Smithsonian Physical Tables -- many downloadable tables, in .pdf format. Excellent.
• Statistical Reports on US Science and Engineering, from NSF
• Sustainable Materials -- from "zero-waste" factories to recycling and more. Full-text papers.
• TechXtra -- "a free service which can help you find articles, books, the best websites, the latest industry news, job announcements, technical reports, technical data, full text eprints, the latest research, thesis & dissertations, teaching and learning resources and more, in engineering, mathematics and computing."
• US Patent and Trademark Office--offers a searchable full text database of patents since 1976.
• Zero Waste America--a site devoted to reducing waste from the entire product life cycle, from manufacturing through consumer use. Files on laws and regulation, as well as proposed model legislation, consumer and health information, and more.