A free and open source textbook for a traditional, one-semester, engineering mechanics (statics) course.
Topics include forces and moments; equilibrium of particles, rigid bodies, and structures; centroids and moments of inertia. The text contains interactive diagrams illustrating important concepts. A pdf version is at https://engineeringstatics.org/pdf/statics.pdf

Engineering Statics is a free, open-source textbook appropriate for anyone who wishes to learn more about vectors, forces, moments, static equilibrium, and the properties of shapes. Specifically, it has been written to be the textbook for Engineering Mechanics: Statics, the first course in the Engineering Mechanics series offered in most university-level engineering programs.

This book’s content should prepare you for subsequent classes covering Engineering Mechanics: Dynamics and Mechanics of Materials. At its core, Engineering Statics provides the tools to solve static equilibrium problems for rigid bodies. The additional topics of resolving internal loads in rigid bodies and computing area moments of inertia are also included as stepping stones for later courses. We have endeavored to write in an approachable style and provide many questions, examples, and interactives for you to engage with and learn from.

Engineering systems design must have the flexibility to take advantage of new opportunities while avoiding disasters. This subject develops “real options” analysis to create design flexibility and measure its value so that it can be incorporated into system optimization. It builds on essential concepts of system models, decision analysis, and financial concepts. Emphasis is placed on calculating value of real options with special attention given to efficient analysis and practical applications. The material is organized and presented to deal with the contextual reality of technological systems, that substantially distinguishes the analysis of real options in engineering systems from that of financial options.
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This MIT OpenCourseWare site is based on the materials from Professor de Neufville’s ESD.71 Web site. Additional materials, updated as needed by Professor de Neufville, can be found there.

Lagrangian and Bond Graph Methods

Short Description:
This open education resource presents effective system modelling methods, including Lagrangian and bond graph, and the application of a relevant engineering software tool, 20-sim. The content is designed for engineering students and professionals in the field to support their understanding and application of these methods for modelling, simulation, and design of engineering systems. The text also includes videos showing selected worked-out examples.

Long Description:
This textbook emphasizes the fundamentals of modelling methods—including Lagrangian and bond graph—and introduces a software tool for modelling and simulation to support the design of common engineering systems. This approach minimizes the time-consuming effort of manipulating and extracting system equations and writing computer code for integrating and finding their solution. We believe that our approach helps both students and professionals currently working in the field to become more productive engineers. Videos of selected worked-out examples help the reader understand the topic and applications for real-world engineering systems. This book comprises of 11 chapters.

Word Count: 41611

ISBN: 978-1-990132-09-4

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Students follow the steps of the engineering design process (EDP) while learning about assistive devices and biomedical engineering. They first go through a design-build-test activity to learn the steps of the cyclical engineering design process. Then, during the three main activities (7 x 55 minutes each) student teams are given a fictional client statement and follow the EDP steps to design products an off-road wheelchair, a portable wheelchair ramp, and an automatic floor sweeper computer program. Students brainstorm ideas, identify suitable materials and demonstrate different methods of representing solutions to their design problems scale drawings or programming descriptions, and simple models or classroom prototypes.

This book is a compilation of open source resources to be used in an Engineering in Society course. Jennifer Kirkey started this work in the summer of 2018. She teaches physics and astronomy at Douglas College in New Westminster, British Columbia, and works closely with the engineering program there.

This unit covers the broad spectrum of topics that make-up our very amazing human body. Students are introduced to the space environment and learn the major differences between the environment on Earth and that of outer space. The engineering challenges that arise because of these discrepancies are also discussed. Then, students dive into the different components that make up the human body: muscles, bones and joints, the digestive and circulatory systems, the nervous and endocrine systems, the urinary system, the respiratory system, and finally the immune system. Students learn about the different types of muscles in the human body and the effects of microgravity on muscles. Also, they learn about the skeleton, the number of and types of bones in the body, and how outer space affects astronauts' bones. In the lessons on the digestive, circulatory, nervous and endocrine systems, students learn how these vital system work and the challenges faced by astronauts whose systems are impacted by spaceflight. And lastly, advances in engineering technology are discussed through the lessons on the urinary, respiratory and immune systems while students learn how these systems work with all the other body components to help keep the human body healthy.

This book was written to accompany the Tufts University introductory engineering course, "Engineering in the Kitchen". The book covers foundational topics in the course, including circuit analysis, Python programming, microcontroller I/O using MicroPython, and computer networking.

Engineering principles of nuclear reactors, emphasizing power reactors. Topics include power plant thermodynamics, reactor heat generation and removal (single-phase as well as two-phase coolant flow and heat transfer), structural mechanics, and engineering considerations in reactor design.

In this course, students explore the engineering design of nuclear power plants using the basic principles of reactor physics, thermodynamics, fluid flow and heat transfer. Topics include reactor designs, thermal analysis of nuclear fuel, reactor coolant flow and heat transfer, power conversion cycles, nuclear safety, and reactor dynamic behavior.

In the course “Enhancing collaboration in flood disaster risk management“ you will be provided with the practical tools and background knowledge to improve multi-stakeholder exchange, cooperation and collaboration in the specific area that you’re working in. This way, you can contribute to making flood disaster risk management more effective and create a meaningful impact on your environment.

This course is divided into a welcoming section and three content blocks with various chapters. In each of the content blocks, you will find educative material in video or text format, reflective questions to test your knowledge plus a PDF that summarizes the lessons learned for download. You can also download all of the course content as one PDF in eBook format.

We are looking forward to guide you through the course and provide you with the theoretical background, tools and knowledge that you need in order to involve stakeholders effectively and therefore improve the efficiency of flood disaster risk management in the environment you’re working in.

Ensembl offers integrated genome, variation, gene regulation and comparative genomics data on an open access web browser platform. This course includes an introduction to Ensembl, what kind of data Ensembl has, and how to browse and export the data.

By the end of the course you will be able to:
Navigate Ensembl using the web browser platform
Access main data types in Ensembl: genomes, genes, genetic variation, regulatory features and comparative genomics
Annotate your own variant data with the VEP
Mine Ensembl data using BioMart
Display your own data in Ensembl

This course focuses on genomes on the Ensembl website at www.ensembl.org. It provides a quick beginner's guide to the overall structure of the Ensembl genome browser.

By the end of the course you will be able to:
Explain what Ensembl is and where the data come from
Access and navigate the Ensembl homepage
Search the Ensembl browser with a gene, location (a region of a genome), or variant of interest
Explore a region on a genome, a gene and a transcript
Determine where to view gene trees, sequence variation, and regions involved in gene regulation in Ensembl
View a sequence for a gene, protein, or a genome of interest
Determine how genes are annotated
Assess the different ways the data are presented in Ensembl (including the gene, location, transcript and variation tabs)
Export Ensembl data quickly and easily with the browser and BioMart

Ensembl runs API workshops worldwide, and here we have made one available online. You will find a collection of video lectures from the 'Ensembl API workshop' that took place at EMBL-EBI 22nd-24th May 2013, using Ensembl version 71. The exercises associated with the workshop are included to carry out at your leisure.

By the end of the course you will be able to:
Describe how data are organised in the Ensembl database
Describe how Ensembl assigns objects and methods
Navigate the API Doxygen documentation
Write Perl scripts that query the Ensembl database for various different kinds of data

This quick tour provides a brief introduction to Ensembl Genomes, the non-chordate genome browser.

By the end of the course you will be able to:
Describe what Ensembl Genomes is and how it can help you to access and analyse genome-scale data
Recall where to find out more about the Ensembl Genomes resource

This course provides a very short introduction to the Ensembl website for browsing chordate genomes.

By the end of the course you will be able to:
Outline Ensembl and what you can do with the resource
Know where to find out more about Ensembl

The Ensembl REST API provides language-agnostic programmatic access to genomic data in the Ensembl database. This course uses Jupyter Notebooks hosted by Google Colab to walk you through the APIs and practise writing scripts to access these data. A video provides a brief overview of the REST API, endpoints and instructions on working with the Jupyter notebooks.

By the end of the course you will be able to:
Describe the data types accessible through the Ensembl REST API
Describe the methods in the Ensembl REST API
Navigate the Ensembl REST API documentation to find available methods
Write scripts to access data via the Ensembl REST API

“Ensinando Permacultura” é uma síntese da experiência de ensino do Núcleo de Estudos em Permacultura da UFSC (NEPerma/UFSC) que procura transmitir a “cultura de permanência” de forma plural, com embasamento científico, transpassando diversas temáticas para possibilitar uma melhor compreensão de como planejar espaços geográficos sustentáveis de forma sistêmica. Esta obra busca também ultrapassar os limites da academia, expandir e popularizar o ensino de Permacultura de acordo com os preceitos de seu idealizador, Bill Mollison. Os autores esperam, assim, contribuir para o conhecimento de uma forma de viver mais harmônica com o planeta.

Pharo is a clean, innovative, open-source, live-programming environment.

Enterprise Pharo is the third volume of a series of book covering Pharo and its community. Whereas the first volume Pharo by Example is intended for newcomers and the second volume Deep into Pharo covers deep topics of Pharo, this third volume covers libraries and frameworks for enterprises, and in particular those doing web development.

Are you an entrepreneur, or do you have a passion for building your own technology startup? This course will help and encourage you to start a successful technology-based venture.

If you always wanted to become an entrepreneur, or if you are simply interested in putting a new technology to innovative use, this course is for you.

This course helps you understand the process of entrepreneurship from a technology-oriented background.

The course is made up of modules that are presented by experts in the field of entrepreneurship and technology. Modules include:

Team Building
Opportunity Recognition
Financing
Customer Acquisition