Here’s a short list of Open Educational Resources (OER) in engineering. OER books are freely available.
- Aerodynamics and Aircraft Performance, by James F. Marchman III, Virginia Tech
- Applied Mechanics Dynamics, by George Housner and Donald Hudson, California Institute of Technology
- Basic Engineering Science — A Systems, Accounting, and Modeling Approach by Donald E. Richards, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
- Engineering Statistics: Open and Interactive, by Daniel Baker, Rose-Hulman
- Foundations of Mechanics by Ralph Abraham and Jerrold E. Marsden, Addison-Wesley (Caltech authors)
- Lectures on Mechanics by Jerrold Marsden. London Mathematical Society lecture note series. Vol.174. Cambridge University Press (Caltech author)
- Library guides on open access resources in engineering from various universities
- MIT Open Courseware
- OpenStax
- OER Commons
- Cornell’s eCommons – ecommons.cornell.edu
- Simulation Modeling and Arena by Manuel Rossetti, University of Arkansas
- Stanford Engineering Everywhere
- University of Alberta textbooks on statics, numerical analysis, engineering economics, Python, machine learning, and more.
- Wikibooks – engineering
Send questions to Jill Powell, jhp1@cornell.edu
