The world of engineering in academia and industry is an ever changing landscape -- however much like with physics and mathematics, there are still some core topics that stand the test of time. While unable to provide as detailed and thorough of a treatment as do universities at this time, we aim to provide a fair treatment of what all is out there -- and perhaps do some "semantic" and "genealogical" linking later so that students will not have to be pigeonholed into thinking that one topic belongs to a particular major or another. Some topics will be unique -- such as aerodynamics, being something that only aerospace/aeronautical engineering majors may learn -- but aerodynamics is a subset of fluid dynamics (studied by a wide variety of majors such as chemical and mechanical engineering students), which itself is a form of continuum mechanics, part of classical mechanical physics. One advantage of having a network or "branch of life" of topics and f
This will be a modest exercise and project in crafting, compiling and linking to some of the best and juiciest open-access (i.e. free) STEM (Science - Technology - Engineering - Mathematics) content there is on the Internet. One particular goal is to craft a reliable and robust set of lessons and topics that accurately reflects some of the core subjects that end up getting covered in universities and colleges of the sciences, engineering, and maths. This is so that anyone can feel free to learn undergraduate (and maybe also graduate?) level engineering, science and maths material for the modest cost of having access to a computer and an internet connection. A particular emphasis will be on the engineering subjects as this subject matter in particular is shrouded in a lot of mystery due to its history and tradition with industry (which isn't known to be particularly forthcoming and share-happy). But knowledge is valuable and the more people have access to it and are able to lear