Department of Civil Engineering

AutoCAD 2D eBook

The AutoCAD 2D eBook was written as a tool to guide and teach you to master AutoCAD. No two students learn at the same pace, therefore the eBook was written with competency-based modules. The competency-based modules are bite-size pieces that allow you to work at your own pace. They can be used to learn by distance education, correspondence, online, instructor-led classes, or by individuals teaching themselves to use AutoCAD in their own home or office. This eBook was designed to be used on AutoCAD software that was designed for the Windows operating system.

Includes: Competency labs, templates, and AutoCAD files for exercises

Licence: CC BY 4.0

AutoCAD 3D eBook

The AutoCAD 3D eBook was written as a tool to guide and teach you to master AutoCAD. No two students learn at the same pace, therefore the eBooks were written with competency-based modules. The competency-based modules are bite-size pieces that allows you to work at your own pace. They can be used to learn by distance education, correspondence, online, instructor-led classes, or by individuals teaching themselves to use AutoCAD in their own home or office. This eBook was designed to be used on AutoCAD software that was designed for the Windows operating system

Includes: Competency labs, templates, and AutoCAD files for exercises

Licence: CC BY 4.0

Basic Engineering Data Collection and Analysis

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In Basic Engineering Data Collection and Analysis, Stephen B. Vardeman and J. Marcus Jobe stress the use of statistical concepts and methods in engineering practice. Step by step, students get real engineering data, examples, and case studies that illustrate the use and importance of the book’s statistical methods in realistic, thoroughly detailed situations. Many of the text’s exercises are derived from self-directed engineering student group projects. These features encourage students to work through the text material by carrying out their own data collection and analysis projects, from problem formulation through preparation of professional technical reports—just as if they were on the job. Additional materials (beyond the text itself) are available in the “Chapters” dropdown menu below, including: individual book chapters, chapter formula sheets, book datasets in digital form, a complete solutions manual for book exercises, a PDF supplement providing R language code and output for book examples, and files holding the R language code illustrated in the document [Description from resource].

Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Published: 2023

Host: Iowa State University Digital Press

Basics of Fluid Mechanics

The textbook describes the fundamentals of fluid mechanics phenomena for engineers and others.

Includes: Examples and questions

Licence: Free Documentation License (GNU) and CC BY 3.0

Reviews: Available through the Open Textbook Library

Coastal Dynamics

This textbook on Coastal Dynamics focuses on the interrelation between physical wave, flow and sediment transport phenomena and the resulting morphodynamics of a wide variety of coastal systems. The textbook is unique in that it explicitly connects the dynamics of open coasts and tidal basins; not only is the interaction between open coasts and tidal basins of basic importance for the evolution of most coastal systems, but describing the similarities between their physical processes is highly instructive as well. This textbook emphasizes these similarities to the benefit of understanding shared processes such as nonlinearities in flow and sediment transport. Some prior knowledge with respect to the dynamics of flow, waves and sediment transport is recommended.

Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Engineering Computations

Contributor: Lorena A. Barba

This resources consists of 5 modules which develop students’ skills with Python in Jupyter: Get Data Off the Ground, Take Off with Stats, Tour the Dynamics of Change and Motion, Land on Vector Spaces, and Transform All the Waves.

Licence: CC BY (content), BSD-3 clause (code)

Published: 2020

Host: Independently through GitHub

Introduction to Biosystems Engineering

Introduction to Biosystems Engineering can be used as a customizable text for university-level introductory courses in Biosystems Engineering. Written by an international team of authors, the book is divided into six sections aligned with technical communities within Biosystems Engineering: Energy Systems; Information Technology, Sensors, and Control Systems; Machinery Systems; Natural Resources and Environmental Systems; Plant, Animal, and Facility Systems; and Processing Systems. Within the sections, individual chapters focus on discrete topics that can be covered in one week of class. Each chapter contains the expected learning outcomes, key concepts, applications of the concepts, and worked examples.

Includes: Key terms, outcomes, and examples

Licence: CC BY 4.0

Methods and Techniques in Urban Engineering

Contributors: Armando Carlos De Pina Filho, Aloisio Carlos De Pina

The objective of this book is to present works related to urban automation, geographic information systems (GIS), analysis, monitoring and management of urban noise, floods and transports, information technology applied to the cities, tools for urban simulation, social monitoring and control of urban policies, sustainability, etc., demonstrating methods and techniques applied in Urban Engineering [Description from resource].

License: CC BY (For book chapters)

Published: 2010

Host: IntechOpen

Open Textbooks for Engineering: Civil Engineering

A curated list of Civil Engineering textbooks assembled by the Engineering Library Division of the American Society for Engineering Education. Recommended for additional OER title suggestions.

The Primacy of the Public: Ethical Design for Technology Professionals

Contributor: Marcus Schultz-Bergin

The Primacy of the Public presents a framework for engineering and technology ethics focused around three core ethical principles: the principle of welfare, the autonomy principle, and the fairness principle. To support this framework, the book begins with an examination of multiple perspectives we may take on engineering and technology, all of which support the centrality of ethical analysis and evaluation. These include the nature of engineering as a profession, the social context of engineering and technology, and the view that many technologies constitute social experiments [Description from resource].

Licence: CC BY-NC

Published: 2021

Host: MSL Academic Endeavors

Reviews: Available through Open Textbook Library

Structural Analysis (LibreTexts)

This open access text is intended to teach students the methods and techniques for the analysis of structures. This textbook is composed of three parts. The first part consists of an overview of structural analysis and introduces several structural loadings that may be considered during the analysis and subsequent design of structures. The second part covers classic methods of the analysis of determinate structures. The final section discusses classic methods for the analysis of indeterminate structures as well as methods for the analysis and construction of influence lines for indeterminate structures.

Includes: Examples, practice problems, images.

Licence: CC BY-NC-ND (Note: This is an open access text which restricts remixing and adapting).

Traffic Flow Theory: An Introduction with Exercises

Traffic processes cause several problems in the world. Traffic delay, pollution are some of it. They can be solved with the right road design or traffic management (control) measure. Before implementing these designs of measures, though, their effect could be tested. To this end, knowledge of traffic flow theory is needed.

Includes: Test questions

Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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