Discipline specific OER for academics

Engineering

This page is designed to support academics with teaching by providing a wealth of OER specifically for Engineering.

Explore our curated collection of OER on the following topics:

• Engineering Design
• Foundations of Engineering
• Industrial Engineering

NOTE: While there is currently limited Australian-specific OER on these subjects, we encourage you to explore international OER and consider adapting these materials to better suit local contexts and curriculum needs.

Engineering Design

• Decolonizing the Engineering Curriculum by Pamela Wolf, Alex Gonzalez, Curtis Rattray, Debalina Saha, James Shaw, Nika Martinussen and Ben Harris (2022), University of British Columbia, is licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0
• Introduction to Engineering Design by Frances Davis, Wally Baumback, Hasso Plattner, Thomas Both and Nadia Roumani, Brightpoint Community College, is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
• New Approaches to Engineering Design Thinking Mindset: Idea Generation by Shelir Ebrahimi, Kristina Stepanic, Armaghan Taghvaei and Reza Yazdanpanah (n.d.), eCampusOntario, is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
• Building with Nature & Beyond: Principles for designing nature based engineering solutions by Jill H. Slinger (2021), Delft University of Technology, TU Delft Open, is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Foundations of Engineering

• Introduction to Engineering by Samuel Bechara, PhD (n.d.), is licensed under CC-BY-NC 4.0 
• Engineering and Information: Research Skills for Engineers by Katie Harding, Alanna Carter, Shelir Ebrahimi and Eva Mueller (n.d.), eCampusOntario, is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Industrial Engineering

• Introduction to Industrial Engineering by Bonnie Boardman (2020), Mavs Open Press, is licensed under CC BY 4.0

Where to find more OER?

There are many platforms available that contain OER, the platforms listed below are a good starting place to find resources on Engineering.

• AMSER: Applied Math and Science Education Repository
  Educational resources and services funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as part of the National Science Digital Library.
• Engineering - InTechOpen
  Open access books in various subfields of Engineering. As these books are intended for scholars, some volumes may be more appropriate for graduate courses.
• Engineering Computations with Python
  Created in Jupyter Notebooks, these modules' target audience is first-year engineering students, but the course would be equally useful to students in any science or technology field.
• Lumen Learning
  Provides textbooks for Algebra, Calculus, and Statistics.
• The National Academies Press (NAP)
  Great resource that provides textbooks on math and statistics.
• NSDL: National Science Digital Library
  Repository gathers all possible online open resources from various providers in all STEM disciplines. Resources are browsable by education level, resource type, and subject. Even though most resources are free on this site, there are also some that have some cost associated with them.
• IntechOpen - Open Access Book
  World’s largest Science, Technology & Medicine Open Access book publisher. The website contains more than 3,000 open access books distributed under CC BY 3.0 license in various subjects.