useful links ...
Professional Organizations
- SME - Society of Manufacturing Engineers
- ASME - American Society of Mechanical
Engineers International
- IDSA - The Industrial Design Society of
America
- Design Management Institute -
Pushing and educating design interests towards excellence since 1975.
- NAFE - National Association of Female
Executives (an excellent resource for women in business).
- PATCA - The Professional and Technical
Consultantants Association
- Webgrrls - An international
networking organization for Girls on the Web. Check out the
Seattle Chapter.
Engineering Information Links
- PLASTICS -
Everything you wanted to know about plastics. Includes a very complete listing
of websites.
- MATLIB - Incredible FREE online
materials library. Looks like they've got just about everything.
- US Patent and Trademark Office -
Search for Patents online!
- IBM Patent Server -
Better than the US Patent & Trademark site, includes images!
- McMaster-Carr - the famous
McMaster-Carr Hardware Catalog online!
- Grainger's - Grainger's Hardware and
Scientific Instruments Catalog Online!
- Thomas Register Online - Every
designer needs access to the Thomas Register, so here it is.
- 1994
Engineering Salary Trends according to the Journal of Metals.
Dissatisfied? Try the Job Bank.
- Finishing.com - Homepage of the
finishing industry. Great libraries and research materials on finishes of all
kinds, from metalized plastics to plating to powder coating.
- Metal-Finishing.com - Another
great site chock full of information on finishing!
CAD and Technology Links
- SolidWorks - $3995 CAD
software that is giving AutoCAD and ProEngineer a lot of grief. Hey, I bought
it! Know why? Because it's the most powerful and accessible production CAD
software on the face of the earth, bar none! Get a copy now, and become a more
productive design engineer.
- Rhino 3D - Rhino 3D is a robust 3D
surfacing and solid modeling package ("that is going to be really big when it
is released", and guess what - It is!!). Download a FREE evaluation of this
quality software, now! It works with all mainstream CAD, animation, and
rendering packages (via IGES). It has many advanced features you won't find on
any other CAD package. Watch out Alias/Wavefront - here's something for
everyone else!
- IronCAD - Visionary Design's hot new
3D Hybrid ACIS/Parasolids modeler. Designed for Win/98, NT/2000, there is a
lot of secret, untapped, power underneath the hood of this application.
- AutoCAD - Autodesk's Homepage
The Internet's Premire Search
Engines
Other Internet Search Engines
- The Search Wizard - the
Yahoo/Compuserve engine
- Yahoo - direct to the grandaddy!
- Excite - a very cool engine and
website
- Webcrawler - Crawling the Web
looking for you
- DejaNews (Great Usenet Article
Search Engine)
- 411 - The Internet White Pages.
- HotBot - Yet another great search
engine
- Ahoy! - Find anyone's
homepage using this University of Washington search engine.
- MetaCrawler - Here's another good
search engine (Thanks for the tip, Joan Jaeger!)
Parcel Shipping Companies
- FedEx - Wondering where that Federal
Express package is that you just sent?
- UPS - Wondering where that United Parcel
package is?
The News!
News via Real Audio
- ABC RadioNet - ABC News,
BusinessWeek, MoneyTalk, Sports, and Weather all in audio format!
- Audio NPR - NPR
daily radio newscasts on demand!
General News
Online Magazines
- Mungo Park - Online adventure
magazine - Follow along on a real live underwater shark adventure with
Jean-Michel Cousteau, complete with undersea video chat.
- Slate - excellent online magazine,
similar to The New Yorker
Financial Information
- Bank of America - Online
banking!
- Wells Fargo - Online banking (now
interstate banking too!)
- E-trade - Online discount stock
purchase and account management
- Charles Schwab - Online discount
broker
- Intuit - Online banking, stock
reports, financial palnning. Great site.
- QFN - Quicken Financial Network, a
great place to get the latest info on Mutual Funds.
- StockMaster - online stock
quotes.
- Big Charts - 22,700 current,
up-to-the-minute stock, mutual fund, and index charts.
Business Information
MIT Enterprise Forum -
Promotes the formation and growth of innovative and technologically-oriented
companies
Audio/Video/Multimedia Resources
Online Audio
- RealAudio - They've got FREE
software to let you listen to the "radio" (live programming) over the
Internet!
- AudioNetDotCom - LIVE radio
and ON-DEMAND audio broadcasts! Note: requires
RealAudio client software.
- Timecast - by RealAudio!
- Audio NPR - NPR
daily radio newscasts on demand!
- ABC RadioNet - ABC News,
BusinessWeek, MoneyTalk, Sports, and Weather all in audio format!
Online Video and CAM shots
Online Video, Audio, and Whiteboard Conferencing
- Download the InternetPhone (free)-
Online telephone, you must have a soundcard and microphone, and the
InternetPhone must be loaded to call me via the Internet.
- WebPhone - Point to point (email
address to email address) online phone using the Internet. The $49.95
solution.
- CU-SeeMe - Live, online video
conferencing software from Cornell University.
- Enhanced CU-SeeMe - Commercial
version of the above. FREE 30 day trial!
- VDO Phone - Video conferencing software
Web Research Items of Interest:
- The Win95 Page! - A great link to
FTP programs, Telnet routines, Web browsers, and so on, that work with Win95.
- Animated GIF files -
www.bellsnwhistles.com - The only 4 Star rated animated GIF file site on
the Web!
-
Netscape's Gold Rush Tool Chest - Lots of great backgrounds, GIF's,
bullets, & bars.
- Index of Perl/HTML
archives - The mother index of all perl archives.
-
How to do forms - Very clear and consistent.
- Learn to
Write CGI- Forms - Step by step - Ugly, but great detail.
- Earl Hood's (OAC) Home
Page - Gobs of perl, html, development tools.
- UF/NA Perl Archive
- Forms in Perl -
The best forms resource I've seen yet.
- The Perl
Programming Language
contact: Michelle
Pillers, P.E. (mpillers@edeinc.com)
and find out how EDE
can help bring your ideas to life!
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