Library Guides: Electrical Engineering: Organizations and Web Sources

Why use Web Resources?

Websites provide up-to-the minute news and information about current events, trends, and controversial topics. They may also contain government publications such as reports, statistics, legislation and service information; interviews, newspaper articles; research reports; conference/workshop/symposium papers; maps and other types of resources.

Calculations, Formulas and Statistics

BOWest Pty Ltd Electrical & Project Engineering
Electrical Theorems, Formulas and Applications
Energy Information Administration Electricity Information
Statistical data includes power generation capacities, pricing, full text of many reports
WolframAlpha
Wolfram|Alpha is a free online computational knowledge engine that generates answers to questions in real time by doing computations on its own vast internal knowledge base. Our long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. This can be valuable to educators in many ways.

Components and Databooks

Adafruit: Learn
Lots of information on choosing components, plus lots of small project ideas.
Datasheet Archive
Free access to 100 million datasheets from 7,500 manufacturers
Digi-Key
Includes lots of tutorials and the Reference Design Library search engine as well as a huge catalog of parts with spec sheets.
EEM.com
Search for electronics components across manufacturers.
GlobalSpec
Suppliers, Products and Services website: includes provides information in a variety of subject areas including news, alerts, and events.
NTE Electronics
Electrical Component Supplier Catalog
Octopart
Searches across many distributors to find electronic components. You can search by specification as well.
Octopart: Prototyping Library
A library of common prototyping parts, with many links to projects and more information.

Professional Organizations

There are many professional organizations ready to offer training, networking opportunities and other specialized resources that can help you stay current in your field and manage your career. Check out these electrical engineering organizations, listed alphabetically: