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Electricity 101: The Top Online Resources

Developing the technology to harness electricity and use it to power machines has been one of humanity’s greatest achievements, and as our dependence on it has increased, the importance of efficiently generating, storing, and distributing power has grown. Understanding the basics of how electricity behaves is crucial for electrical engineers who are working on modern technologies such as smart grid systems and new energy storage techniques. People other than electrical engineers need to have a good level of “electricity literacy” as well, and it can be difficult to find easily understood information on the more complex issues surrounding electricity and energy. The list below is a compilation of some of the best websites and online resources for learning about electricity, from the history of electrical technology to the modern industry of power generation, storage, and distribution. The sites aren’t listed in ranking order, as many of them cater to different audiences and offer different levels of information about the fascinating and increasingly important topic of electricity.

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99 Superb Sites on Mechatronics & Robotics Engineering

Mechatronics is an exciting, interdisciplinary field that combines electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, materials, robotics, and control systems. This is a great field for technically minded engineers who enjoy working on software, hardware, and everything in between.

Mechatronics has applications in manufacturing, aeronautics, and any other industry that relies on automation. It is not only intellectually stimulating, but offers a wide array of job opportunities in academic and industrial settings. Anyone with an engineering mindset and a broad set of interests could find endless rewarding challenges in the field of mechatronics, and as robotics continue to gain popularity in manufacturing, military, and even home-use applications, there will be no shortage of jobs in the industry. There are sites here that cater to advanced mechatronics students and professionals, as well as those just starting out. This is not a ranking list, since the info presented covers such diverse territory across the disciplines of mechatronics, robotics, haptics, and electrical engineering overall.

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100 Top Resources for Electrical Engineers

Electrical engineering is a highly technical pursuit that sits at the nexus of software and hardware development. Electrical engineers can design components and electronic systems for industrial machinery and consumer gadgets, and will often work in collaboration with manufacturers and designers to bring new electronic devices to market. There is also a huge hobbyist community of amateurs and professionals who advocate do-it-yourself electronics projects as a great way to learn about the inner workings of many of the household machines that people use every day. Electrical engineering can be quite technically challenging and requires a great deal of mathematics and physics knowledge, but the financial and personal rewards for succeeding in this field are great.

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COMSOL Conference 2013 User Presentations

The COMSOL Conference is the premier event for multiphysics simulation. Held annually, multiphysics enthusiasts exchange their ideas through the contributed papers, presentations, and posters available in this online collection. Search or browse this site containing over 700 author-contributed works in a wide range of research, engineering, and industry multiphysics applications presented at conferences held in Boston, Bangalore, and Rotterdam in the fall of 2013.

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Cheat Sheets and Quick Reference Guides

Almost every file extension in the world: File extension quick look-up reference

ASCII symbols: How to type special ASCII symbols

CAT5 and other cabling categories: ANSI/EIA standards for categories of twisted pair cabling systems

Chat Abbreviations: Text message shortcuts and abbreviations

Color codes: 216-color browser-safe palette table

Digital signal (DS) multiples: Standard digital transmission rates

Emoticons: Character symbols for expressing emotion in text messages

Error messages for Windows 2000: Quick look-up for Microsoft Windows 2000 error messages

Error messages for Windows XP Pro: Quick look-up for Microsoft Windows XP Pro error messages

How many bytes for...: Tables and other information about how much computer storage is required for a specific purpose

International System of Units: Chart listing values in International System of Units (SI) and the meter-kilogram-second (MKS) system

Kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi, pebi, and all that: Binary prefix multipliers used to clarify the differnce between decimal (power-of-10) and binary (power-of-2) numeration terms Mathematical Symbols. This table contains mathematical symbols and links to definitions of what they represent.

OSI Reference Model Illustrated: Standard reference model for communication between two end users in a network

Our Favorite Cheat Sheets: Cheat sheet charts for programming and end-user applications like Word and Excel

RAID reference chart: Printable PDF chart documenting different levels of RAID

The speed of...: Data rates for end-user and backbone transmission technologies

Fast Guides

Fast guide to 802.11: IEEE 802 reference chart subdivided into 22 parts that cover the physical and data-link aspects of wireless networking

Fast Guide to Acronyms used in manufacturing: Acronyms are used in internal communications within a manufacturing environment.

Fast Guide to CD/DVD: Data transfer rates, rotation speeds and capabilities

Fast Guide to F# Programming: F# is a functional programming language that runs on Microsoft's Common Language Runtime and the .NET Framework.

Fast guide to iSeries SQL: Novice iSeries SQL tips and expert advice.

Fast Guide to IT Humor: Resource for trainers, teachers and presenters

Fast Guide to PL/SQL: PL/SQL is the procedural language extension to the structured query language (SQL).

Fast Guide to RAM: Types of Random Access Memory with explanations of how and where they're used

Fast Guide to Advanced SAN Management: Troubleshooting performance issues, strategies and management tasks.

Fast Guide to Storage Technologies: Evaluation chart for determining what kind of storage technology you need

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Gartner Report: 2012 Magic Quadrant for BI Platforms

Thinking about BI? Don’t make a move without Gartner’s authoritative Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms report. You’ll find out why and how business users are increasingly driving BI decisions. As Gartner explains: “Data discovery alternatives to enterprise BI platforms offer highly interactive and graphical user interfaces built on in-memory architectures to address business users' unmet ease-of-use and rapid deployment needs. What began as a market buying trend in 2010 has only continued to expand.”

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Access to Books from the publisher Knovel

Knovel, a leading publisher of text, reference books & conf. proceeding in engineering, technology and advanced science areas, offers registered users free access to the following 10 premier handbooks and databases.

-- Essential Practices for Managing Chemical Reactivity Hazards
-- Engineering Problem Solving - A Classical Perspective
-- Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs, and Mathematical Tables
-- International Critical Tables of Numerical Data, Physics, Chemistry and Technology
-- Knovel Critical Tables
-- Metallic Materials Properties Development and Standardization (MMPDS)
-- Smithsonian Physical Tables (9th Revised Edition)
-- Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
-- Large-Scale Adsorption and Chromatography, Volumes 1 -2
-- Teaching Engineering

Users also get exclusive access to new and popular handbooks via the "Titles of the Week" program. Every week, Knovel chooses two popular titles from the collection of nearly 2000 leading handbooks, databases, and conference proceedings and make them available for 12 days.

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Table of Contents (TOCs) from scholarly journals

JournalTOCs is for anyone who's looking for the latest or most current papers published in the scholarly literature with international coverage. Academics, librarians, students, researchers, and anyone else should find it useful. JournalTOCs is the biggest searchable collection of scholarly journal Tables of Contents (TOCs). It contains articles' metadata of TOCs for over 17,828 journals directly collected from over 1017 publishers. JournalTOCs pulls together a database of Table of Contents (TOCs) from scholarly journals and provides a convenient single "one stop shop" interface to these TOCs.

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The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies

This is a collection of bibliographies of scientific literature in computer science from various sources, covering most aspects of computer science. The bibliographies are updated weekly from their original locations such that you'll always find the most recent versions here. The collection currently (as on Apr 2011) contains more than 6 millions of references (mostly to journal articles, conference papers and technical reports), clustered in about 1500 bibliographies. More than 600 000 references contain cross references to citing or cited publications. More than 3 million of references contain URLs to an online version of the paper. Abstracts are available for more than 1.7 million entries. There are more than 2000 links to other sites carrying bibliographic information. Access it