Engineering

This guide provides a listing of open textbooks organized by engineering discipline. To browse resources within a discipline, select the appropriate icon. Note that some specific disciplines have been grouped within a larger discipline (e.g., transportation engineering texts can be found in civil & environmental engineering).

The Open Textbook Network Library houses open textbooks that are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. Download, edit and distribute them at no cost.

This is a collection of electrical engineering textbooks that are free to download and use. You can order a printed copy for a fee.

The material on this website is arranged in books (see the tabs). Each book presents a set of open educational resources with Creative Commons licenses designed for a particular engineering course. The resources could include text, videos, interactive examples, or downloadable content such as code snippets.

The Journal of Open Engineering is a fee-free, open-access, peer-reviewed journal targeting all fields and applications of engineering.

This textbook is based on a different paradigm for organizing an engineering science core --- a systems, accounting and modeling approach --- that emphasizes the common, underlying concepts of engineering science. Although this approach is not new, as most graduate students have been struck by this idea sometime during their graduate education, its use as the organizing principle for an undergraduate curriculum is new. By focusing on the underlying concepts and stressing the similarities between subjects that are often perceived by students (and taught by faculty) as unconnected topics, this approach provides engineering students a foundational framework for recognizing and building connections as they travel through their education.

Simulation Modeling and Arena, by Dr. Manuel Rossetti, is an introductory textbook for a first course in discrete-event simulation modeling and analysis for upper-level undergraduate students as well as entering graduate students. The text is focused on engineering students (primarily industrial engineering); however, the text is also appropriate for advanced business majors, computer science majors, and other disciplines where simulation is practiced.