Awesome Mechanical Engineering Resources
So many free resources are available for computer science students and I am jealous. Therefore, I started making this list for mechanical engineering students. This section contains some overview resources, rules and regulations, and advice.
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UNC.edu
MITPress
ISBN: 9780262526548
youtube
Cornell.edu
MIT.edu
youtube
Cornell.edu
DTU.dk
UPenn.edu
UWaterloo.ca
MIT.edu
youtube
MIT.edu
UMN.edu
Harvard.edu
UMD.edu
github
goalkicker
stackoverflow
github
github
mamba install -y
defaults to ~= conda install -c conda-forge -y
github
goalkicker
github
BCcampus.ca
MathWorks.com
github
edX Microsoft
github
wikibooks
goalkicker
sharelatex
github
Archive.org
Tamu.edu
Archive.org
ISBN: 978-0070647794
Archive.org
IPFW.edu
Amazon
ISBN: 978-1111577735
Amazon
ISBN: 978-0131395060
Amazon
ISBN: 978-0070725423
edX Dartmouth
edX MIT
MTU.edu
MIT.edu
Archive.org
Amazon
ISBN: 978-0470694527
Amazon
ISBN: 978-0073398204
CMU.edu
Archive.org
Amazon
ISBN: 978-0130408723
Amazon
ISBN: 978-0130408723
Amazon
ISBN: 978-0071236713
Amazon
ISBN: 978-0070113565
Amazon
ISBN: 978-0136156734
Amazon
ISBN: 978-1259643835
Amazon
ISBN: 978-1118170519
Amazon
ISBN: 978-0131022782
Amazon
ISBN: 978-0135258330
Amazon
ISBN: 978-0486469331
CalTech.edu
youtube
wikibooks
MIT.edu
github
Caltech.edu
NASA
MIT.edu
Wikibooks
Amazon
ISBN: 978-0471274711
Amazon
ISBN: 978-0073398174
MIT.edu
MIT.edu
Wikibooks
Amazon
ISBN: 978-0471386506
NASA
MIT.edu
Wikibooks
Amazon
ISBN: 978-0471442509
NASA
Amazon
ISBN: 978-0072424430
edX MIT
slideshare
youtube
MIT.edu
(Amazon) ISBN: 978-3540424543
Purdue.edu
BYU.edu
UPenn.edu
ISBN: 978-1558605992
USC.edu
ULiege.be
youtube
Siemens
youtube
patent
dezignstuff.com
3dcadworld.com
Amazon
ISBN: 978-0750653008
youtube
UMich.edu
MIT.edu
MIT.edu
ISBN: 978-0979004957
Colorado.edu
stackexchange
Berkeley.edu
simscale
pointwise
wikipedia
github
Student/Free version: Available for anyone with limited capability and usage for learning purpose. This is a video explaining how to download and install ANSYS Student Release 17.2 from Ansys How To official channel
Student/Free version: Available, 1000 nodes limit.
Student/Free version: Not available but a student license can be obtained for less than $150 AFAIK.
Comsol was known as FEMLAB before and is a academic spin-off from Stanford University. Comsol integrated multiphysics simulation capability for the first time in a commercial package and is pretty popular in many unconventional industry.
Student/Free version: Not available.
Hyperworks is a complete commercial suite of Preprocessing, Solving, and Postprocessing tools for FEA by Altair Engineering. The flagship product is Hypermesh - a meshing software widely popular in CAE industry only challenged by ANSA, a new entrant from Beta CAE Systems. Hyperworks includes many software for different purposes though the mostly used ones are Optistruct and Radioss solvers besides Hypermesh.
Student/Free version: Available only for students with limited capability.
Website: https://www.simscale.com/
Cloud based FEA/CFD
Website: https://www.3ds.com/products-services/catia/
Student Edition until Nov. 26th. Promo code:
CATIA4FREE17
Formely known as Unigraphics.
Website: https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/en/products/nx/
Student Edition: N/A
Siemens
Formerly known as Pro/ENGINEER.
Website: https://www.ptc.com/
Student Edition: https://www.ptc.com/en/academic-program/products/free-software
Website: https://www.solidworks.com/
Student Edition: request (60 Days)
Solidworks
Website: https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/it/products/solid-edge/
Student Edition: request (45 Days)
Siemens
Website: https://www.onshape.com/
Cloud Based CAD
Website: https://www.freecadweb.org/
Geometric Kernel OpenCASCADE
GitBook
Website: http://www.openscad.org/
Script based modeller
Geometric Kernel OpenCSG + CGAL
Website: http://brlcad.org/
Misc
Autodesk Community Philippines
Youtube
SOLIDWORKS World
/r/CAD
Github
Qualifying examinations are a kind of certification to engineers - PE in USA, GATE in India
Note: If you're from another country than USA or India, feel free to add a section relavant to your country's professional certification or equivalent examination. If you're not sure how to do that in Github, send me an email
A PE license is probably the most useful certification that a mechanical engineer can obtain. A PE license is only actually a requirement if you want to provide services directly to the public, but it is still a good thing to have regardless. It is a sign to employers and clients that you are a competent engineer, and the act of studying for the exam will sharpen your skills. This examination is organized by NCEES - National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying.
Official Practice of Engineering(PE) License Examination Website
Amazon
ISBN: 978-1591264149
Amazon
ISBN: 978-1591264170
Amazon
ISBN: 978-1591264156
Amazon
GATE or Graduate Aptitute Test in Engineering is a qualifying examination conducted by a consortium of Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. Even though the official reason to conduct GATE is for post-graduate admissions only, PSUs and Govt. research entities often recruit students on the basis of GATE score.
These companies recruit engineering and management trainees using GATE score as qualifier. They are ordered alphabeticallly. Not all of them recruit every year which is indicated by Y/N
An exhaustive list is available here - List of 40+ PSUs Recruitment Through GATE 2017