On this page you will find several openly licensed Engineering textbooks along with supplemental material, interactive simulations, and other resources.
Discipline-specific pages are not intended to be exhaustive, but to showcase content that may be of interest to faculty considering adopting open educational resources for use in their classes.
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Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering I, authored by Don Johnson, edited by Ross J. Reedstrom, CC BY 1.0. The course focuses on the creation, manipulation, transmission, and reception of information by electronic means. Elementary signal theory; time- and frequency-domain analysis; Sampling Theorem. Digital information theory; digital transmission of analog signals; error-correcting codes.
PhET Interactive Simulations (Demo of Faraday's law. Click in the box labeled "field lines" to display field lines.)
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MIT Open Courses in Engineering cover topics throughout MIT Engineering Departments: Aeronautics and Astronautics, Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Engineering Systems Division, Health Sciences and Technology, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear Science and Engineering. These courses include many types of course materials such as: video/audio lectures, lecture notes, assessments, online textbooks, interactive simulations. To re-use these materials, see the Creative Commons CC BY NC SA 4.0 license and Terms of Use.
Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE) programming includes one of Stanford’s most popular engineering sequences: the three-course Introduction to Computer Science taken by the majority of Stanford undergraduates, and seven more advanced courses in artificial intelligence and electrical engineering. Course materials include materials such as: lectures, syllabi, handouts, assignments, exams, software. To re-use these materials, see the CC BY 3.0 license.
