Electrical Engineering Blog

Electrical engineering started as a branch from the Physics science, in the MIT they started teaching electrical engineering in Physics College.

Nowadays, it is amazing how Electrical engineering evolved into a multi-discipline science itself.

The internet, as to many sciences, is a number one resource for electrical engineering.

Check out :

http://engineering.electrical-equipment.org/

They call it "Electrical engineering Blog".

It doesn't cover all electrical engineering, yet I can see it focuses primarily on power and energy plus electrical distribution.

Still, it is a useful resource for electrical engineers.

If you're an Engineer, and You're Crazy.....Read on!

I just adored the domain of this web site

http://www.crazyengineers.com/ 

Crazy Engineers is a common platform for all engineers (including those working in the IT sector), to meet and exchange ideas, chat, and be inspired by stories of other leading engineers around the globe.

I was so happy when I spotted an interview in the "Small Talk" corner with "Stephen Wolfram" (the inventor of Mathematica and the author of "a new kind of science"). i'm a big fan of the man!

I guess you find some useful ideas for you on this site I'm sure.

More About Instrumentation

OK, don't judge me :)

It seems that as an instrumentation engineer, I have a thing for automation and measurement web sites.

I ran into http://globalautomation.info/ through its creator's profile on facebook.
it seems that he's an  instrumentation engineer located in India. He calls himself simply "Instrumentation Engineer".

For beginners, you can enjoy the wealth of tutorials this website provides.
And there is a bunch of pdf's that are free to download in both the Downloads, and the Tutorials section.

It also has a corner for job openings in the instrumentation field, a ranking for the top instrumentation companies, a ticker for the industry's news, and a link to a blog managed by the site's creator.

I'd say it is a simple and useful site. I hope you'll like it.

Go To The Control and Automation World!

GoToControl.com is the English version of a similar Chinese website.

Specialized in the Instrumentation and process automation world.

Full of news and highlights.

It also contains a wealth of white papers, and what I personally think is important to instrumentation engineers, an "Applications" sections, where you can check out various solutions from the real world.

Automation, Instrumentation....anyone?

Let's face it; there is a lack of informative sites that talk about instrumentation.

As an instrumentation engineer, I used to spend a lot of time searching on the web for such web sites.
I was lucky to find some websites, or to explore websites referred by friends.
else, I shall have to go to instruments companies websites, where they try to lead you to use their products.

http://www.automation.com/ is one of these informative sites that I was lucky to find.

Actually, it's kind of a comprehensive instrumentation site.

They have everything from  a web store for instrumentation products.
an index of suppliers, and products where you can search both.
 Tons of articles, tutorials, and best of all "Instrumentation stories" where you can check solutions made in different places.

And above all, a "Resources" link.

I'd say it's a relatively rich resource.

Check it out and enjoy.

Book of the Day

I will try to stick to the subject of the post when I pick the book of the day.
This is a book that will teach you the basics of instrumentation, and will add more of course.

Enjoy it :


http://www.ziddu.com/download/8337201/rinciplesThirdEdition-Butterworth-Heinemann2001.pdf.html

 

All About Symbian.

I don't know about you people, but these days I'm into mobile computing, and big time!

Smart phones are being spread between people like fire in a hay barn!

http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/ is more like a news site for the Symbian operating system (A very famous operating system for mobile phones running on mobile devices from different manufacturers such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and others).

It also has links for developement websites, you can access them by clicking "Developer" link on the menubar.

It also contains useful forums with various subjects. A section for reviews, and other useful links.

You have to give it a visit :)

Book Of The Day:

I picked up this book, since our subject today is about Symbian.

It's called "Porting to Symbian" For those who would like to port their applications from other operating systems to Symbian.

you can download it from the following link (No viruses guaranteed):

   http://www.ziddu.com/download/8294581/0470744192.pdf.html

Learn PLC

well engineers will be mostly interested in this.

PLCs (or Programmable Logic Controllers) are widely used in factories, and the industrial sector.
These babies control the way the industrial process goes, they can open a valve when a button is pushed some where, they can start cooling when there is over heat, almost any thing if they were well programmed.

Even though there are more advanced versions of these PLC's such as PAC (Programmable Automation Controllers), PLC's are still somehow dominant in the industrial market.

PLCS.net  is a web site aiming to teach people even without proper background how PLC's work.

It also provides tutorials (with animation sometimes).

 

It is rather a good resource for starters anyway.

Check it out, hope it is of use to you :)

http://www.plcs.net/

Welcome to Tech Street

That's right, Tech Street not Wall street.

Before I say any thing about this site, I must tell you that it is not a free resource, it charges you for its information.

Tech street is a resource for Industry codes and standards, you can dig for standards issued by IEEE for example.

Mainly, people working in the industrial sector or researchers working on manufacturing a certain product, and need to produce it according to certain standards, will benefit from such a site.

It also contains tools to manage the information you might need for such purposes.

Start by downloading free previews, techstreet fact sheet, or any thing you might find free :)

http://www.techstreet.com/

Attention Electronics Engineers!

If you are and electronics engineer, or an electronics engineering student, then this site is a must for you!

TechOnLine is website made by a group of leading companies in the industry.
It contains a wealth of information regarding a wide range of subjects, and sectors of electronics engineering.
Some information presented in webcasts, white papers...etc.

I highly recommend it for anyone concerned in the electronics world :)

Sugar Engineering

is there such a thing?? a sugar engineer?

Well according to http://www.sugartech.co.za/index.php  there is!

this web site is dedicated to all engineers working in the sugar industry.

It contains a lot of links for industry resources too.

Check it out, you can subscribe and receive notifications for site updates.

Enjoy :)

Control Automation INSTRUMENTATION

Through my career as am instrument engineer, I was always looking for instrumentation knowledge bases on the web.

What makes instrumentation attractive is that it combines multiple technical fields, programming, telecom, sensors, electronics...etc.

One of the major sites was PAControl.com

It contains a lot of useful information and links along with tasty PDF's to download for free.

One thing I noticed was that the update for this site is not so frequent, yet it still contains a lot of useful information.

Get your hardware upgrade!

Well the name looks misleading.

http://www.hwupgrade.com/ is not a guide for you to upgrade your old PC, yet it is a unique site that brings you news of the computer industry world categorized by computer parts (including software).

Want to know what's the latest technology in the CPU's world, or the latest AMD (or any microprocessor manufacturer) company news.

A mix of both is found on this site, it's fun, with funny news sometimes. So check it out and Enjoy!

Book of the day:

Title: Top 100 simplified tips & tricks Excel 2007

Link:  http://www.ziddu.com/download/7583724/Office_2007-Top_100_Simplified_Tips_Tricks.pdf.html

Collect your Tech FAQ.

We all have a technical question from time to time.

Some of us is curious, what is a PCI??

or even what is a "DNA Computer"??

This is one of the sites that will answer such questions.

They have a section for tutorials collected from several other websites (which adds more references to your favourites folder).

check it out, click around :)

http://www.tech-faq.com/

Oh, and they do answer the question "What is a DNA computer", check it out here on this link:

http://www.tech-faq.com/dna-computer.shtml

A forum for you!

You know forums could sound boring sometimes!! But not Sonsivri!

You can visit it on http://www.sonsivri.com/

Whether you're interested in software (and that might include web development, web scripting, even readymade packages, engineering software, or any programming language), or hardware (PIC, microcontrollers, microprocessors, ARM, Intel, or even general electronics),

You can find tutorials, ebooks, links to wonderful resources, projects, even links to downloadable software and tools you'll love.

Joining is free, and fast, I highly recommend it!