LibGuides: Mechatronics Engineering Resources: Open Educational Resources

Abraham Karem

Abraham Karem (Jun. 27 1937 - ). Israeli aeronautical engineer and aircraft designer. He is considered the founding father of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology.

General Atomics MQ-1 Predator UAV

Abraham Karem is best known for the Amber UAV, which evolved into the General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone. The Predator has seen considerable service for the US Air Force and the Central Intelligence Agency (Image sources: army.mil and af.mil).

OER: Mechanical Engineering Resources & Collections

ASEE Open Textbooks for Engineering
The American Society for Engineering Education's listing of open textbooks, organized by engineering discipline.
Engineering Computations - Using Python
A repository of learning modules in computations for undergraduate engineering students. This collection could also be useful to practitioners in other scientific fields.
Engineering Statics
Free course from Carnegie Mellon University.
The LaTeX Project
Create articles, documents, dissertations, and textbooks with this free software! LaTeX (pronounced LAH-tek or LAY-tech) is an open source typesetting program with full support for mathematical and scientific publications, including complex equations!
MIT Open Learning Library
MIT OpenCourseWare is a repository of materials from over 2,500 MIT courses.
National Academies Press
The National Academies Press lists more than 8,500 titles. Almost all of these can be downloaded--as PDFs--for free by the chapter or the entire book.
OER Commons - Engineering
OERTX - Engineering
Open texts available via OERTX (https://oertx.highered.texas.gov).
Open Textbook Library - Engineering
Browse the whole engineering collection, or select the Browse Subjects link, to look for books on Civil, Electrical, or Mechanical Engineering.

Remotely Operated Undewater Vehicles (ROVs)

Deep Discoverer ROV

Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicles (ROVs) are free-swimming craft designed to perform underwater tasks. They are used in scientific research, exploration, search and recovery, salvage, and in the gas and oil industry. They are also used by military forces throughout the world.

ROV Argo explores the wreck of the German battleship Bismarck, at over 15,000 feet below the surface.

ROVs save lives by removing human operators from dangerous situations. (Source for images: wikipedia.org).