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LINKS
PAGES : sites offering collections of
of all sorts of engineering links.
THE
EDINBURGH ENGINEERING VIRTUAL LIBRARY (EEVL)
is a gateway to Internet resources in Engineering.
The need for such gateway, the background to the EEVL Project, its development,
promotion, use, and future are discussed on the site.
THE
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY
a website for primary resources. (USA)
THE
WORLD WIDE WEB VIRTUAL ENGINEERING LIBRARY
A huge collection of all sorts of engineering links.
ENGINEERING JOURNALS
http://www.eevl.ac.uk/eese/
access to '100 engineering e-journals ' in the
U.K.
ENGINEERING TALK
http://www.engineeringtalk.com
Aimed at engineers, researchers and industries, this
journal may provide teachers of EFL for Engineering with valuable documents
and texts.
Similar e-magazines
http://www.electronicstalk.com/
http://www.laboratorytalk.com/
http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/
GLOBAL DESIGN NEWS
http://www.manufacturing.net/magazine/dn/
From this URL, you can acess 'Global Design News' a great
magazine (both online and on paper) full of (rather) simple articles presenting
the latest technologies.
The paper version of 'Global Design News' as well as
several other magazines ( Test and measurements, Control engineering,
EPN) is sent free to teachers in Europe. Subscribe at
http://www.cahnerseurope.com/
INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY
http://www.industrialtechnology.co.uk/index.htm
A Mechanical Engineering site with plenty of articles.
For instance, there are almost a dozen articles dealing with safety
( How safe is a CE marked machine; Preventing tempering with saftey equipment;
16 ways towards safe machinery; Common machinery safety mistakes; Risk:
spotting all of the hazrads; and others - Choose articles and then
Machine Building). One might divide one's class into teams and hand out
a text to each one. The students would study the text and to report
to the other teams (orally or in writing) and a synthesis could
be made at the end.
THE INTERNET SCIENCE JOURNAL
http://mindlink.bc.ca/Ed/O-Topics.htm
Although it is aimed at engineers, researchers and industries,
this journal may provide teachers of EFL for Engineering with valuable
documents and texts.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
http://www.memagazine.org/
( search page at http://www.memagazine.org/search/search.html
Just like the Engineering Talk and Internet Science
Journal (above) and Society for Manufacturing Engineers and Technology
Review ( below), this online magazine, alhough for specialists, is
very interesting.
SPACE NEWS
http://spacenews.com/
The world of space and satellite technology.
SPECTRUM
http://spectrum.ieee.org/
An on-line publication of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers.
It contains technically-oriented texts that you may find
useful.
TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
http://www.technologyreview.com
Something like the industrial / commercial branch of
M.I.T.. Very similar to other e-journals listed above. 
Philip BENZ
http://www.ardecol.ac-grenoble.fr/english/bts/index.htm
A site with pages for French BTS teachers. Among other
things, you will find
useful archives, inlcuding: "FBI missing computers",
an AP/Infobeat article ( 18 July 2001). - "Thin is in: IBM's new flat- panel
displays", an article from ZDNet (27 April, 2001).and many more
Philip has also written up a web activity (using a
template from Kiko - www.kiko.com) using an article from ZDNet
: Hackers storm White House web site".
http://www.kiko.com/WebTeach/reading-activity--hackers-storm-white-house
Well worth the visit.
Francis David
http://david.francis.free.fr/EnglishOnLineMenu.htm
Several exercises dealing wiht the vocabulary of computing ( hardware, mainly)
John T DOWNEY's HOMEPAGE
http//www.english4work.com
A Swedish colleague's homepage with technical links and
technical word lists (engineering, cars, etc...)
ESLLESSONS.COM
http://www.esllessons.com/default.htm
Among a few (original ) lesson plans, there is one about
'shapes' for teachning about shapes, lines et forms.
Intermediate level. Look for the 'Writing' link, though the exercises can
also be done orally.
HELSINSKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
http://www.hut.fi/~rvilmi/EST/
Ruth Vilmi's EST page. No need to describe it, everyone
knows about it.
ESKO JOHNSON's Homepage
http://beam.cop.fi/ejohnson/technet/
has links covering these domains: Mechanical and Automotive Engineering,
Robotics, Computers and Computing , Telecommunicatioins, Environment, Ecology
and Chemical Engineering , Audio and Video Technology and Fashion and
Clothing Technology.
Christian LASSURE's homepage
http://www.english-for-techies.net/
A French teacher's homepage, with several entries: a few grammar pages, translation
hints, short online dictionaries, etc. but mainly lists ( and translation) of
technical vocabulary (e.g. about production / assembly, maintenance or technical
documentation). Mr Lassure being one of the most eminent teachers of EST in
France, the quality of his site is guaranteed.
Robert LOMBARDI
http://www.kjist.ac.kr/~slic/est/
Lots of exercises ( reading, listening and English conversation
) for intermediate to advanced students and much more. It is not
a simple little homepage, but it is a writing lab per se.
The former URL (http://geguri.kjist.ac.kr/~est/index.html) is no longer
valid.
See my comments below in the
'Technical Wriiting Lab ' section
MIKE McGRATH 's home page on English for pilots/engineers
http://members.aol.com/lingfra/courses/auxiliar.htm
.and also http://www.flightspeak.co.uk
( a better URL, I think)
This contains some javascript for comprehension checks
and uses RealAudio to provide a listening version of the texts. Though
these exercises have been designed for teaching pilots, they can be used
by learners in other sectors (for instance, the passage about hydraulics).
Note: Mr Mc Grath would like anyone who decides
to use any of the code or exercise ideas to seek permission or at least
give an acknowlegement on their page.
TAXONOMY (Mike McGrath)
http://www.mpcmcgrath.flyer.co.uk/taxomnew.htm
A comprehensive list of language functions which cover
70 or 80% of the needs of English for engineering. An
appendix is in preparation which will give realistic samples for each item
and will include sound.
This page is most useful, it should
be on everyone's desk
You
are the Webmaster of an E.S.T. site? I'd be delighted to list
your homepage here.
Please
send me the URL.
TECHNICAL
WRITING LABS, ON LINE COURSES
THE ENGINEERING WRITING CENTER
http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/~writing/
This writing lab run by the University of
Toronto concerns undergraduate engineering students, many of whom are international
students or recent immigrants who are still learning English.
KWANGJU INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY (Robert LOMBARDI)
http://www.kjist.ac.kr/~slic/est/e_textbooks.html
2002 Update: The site has been updated with the
2002 edition of the EST etextbook and e-MIT e-textbook series.
both the Level 1 (lower intermediate - intermediate)
and Level 2 (intermediate and upper-intermediate) have been re-organized
and re-written. In addition Level 2 contains new material from MIT
University, and there are more details about grammatical structures.
All materials can be down loaded and printed out free
of charge, except that citations should be given to
relevant copyrights.
TEMASEK ENGINEERING SCHOOL
http://www-eng.tp.edu.sg/tcs/front.htm
A complete site regularly utilised by over 2000 students
with a a number of exercises helpful for your engineering students. There
are also lots of examples of work done by students. Updated once
a month. For an overview see the brief outline at the Lecturers page.
A very useful site for non-native speakers of
English
TECHNICAL WRITING
http://www.io.com/~hcexres/tcm1603/tcmmain.html
Very helpful for writing technical documents and reports.
"I have not found any site more complete for helping engineers with their
writing needs - progress reports, instructions, and so on.", says a colleague.
However, IMHO, this site concerns native speakers more than
NNS.
TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
http://www.deep.pair.com/
A free web site with texts to supplement a regular English
class (Intermediate) with materials related to Engineering. the materials
cover six areas (General Science, Computers, Production Information, Mechanical,
Electrical and Aerospace engineering). Each of these 6 modules takes students
between 5 and 10 hours to complete.
The site will be moved to a permanent sit (contact.
Kevin Ryan at ryan@kevinryan.com)
Really very useful!
On-line Journals
English for Specific Purposes World
http://esp-world.7p.com
A new on-line journal dedicated to ESP / EST - See
my page for information, details and call for papers
On-line papers and articles
The Benefits of ESP.(1992)
http://www.camlang.com/art001.htm
by Chris Wright
Developing an English for Specific Purposes Course Using
a Learner Centered Approach: A RussianExperience
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/Techniques/Sysoyev-ESP.html
by Pavel V. Sysoyev - Tambov State University,
in The Internet TESL Journal, March 2000
ESP - State of the Art
http://www.man.ac.uk/CELSE
by Richard West - University of Manchester
ESP: English for Specific Purposes. (1998)
http://stud3.tuwien.ac.at/~e9417359/projekte/alex/esp.htm
by Alexander Onysko - University of Vienna
ESP: What does it mean? Why is it different?
http://antpc1.ice.ous.ac.jp/
by Laurence Anthony - Okayama University of Science -
Okayama, Japan
What Are We Doing When We "Talk Science"?
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/
by Jack Kimball - Miyaraki Medical college, Kiyotake,
Miyazaki, Japan, in The Internet TESL Journal, August 1996
Introduction to EST, you can check out the online
e.textbook at:
http://www.kjist.ac.kr/~slic/est/
The former URL (http://geguri.kjist.ac.kr/~est/e_textbook-EST-STW-titlepage.htm)
is no longer valid
by Robert Lombardi - Kwangju Institute of Science and
Technology - Kwangju, Korea
International scientific English: Some thoughts on science,
language and ownership
http://www.tribunes.com/tribune/art97/wooda.htm
by Alistair Wood - Dept. of English Language and Applied
Linguistics, University of Brunei Darussalam
See
also the E.S.T. articles published in this
Website
BTS Informatique
http://www.ac-clermont.fr/pedago/langues/anglais/001a.html
For those of you teaching English in French 'BTS informatique'
classes.
CALCULATIONS for Maths
and Science
http://www.wolinskyweb.com/measure.htm
Probably too technical and scientific for most of us, but
some of you might find it useful.
The English for
Technology site from the 'CRDP de Rouen' at
http://www.ac-rouen.fr/crdp/region/angtech/
A great site for every teacher of EST.
The site is aimed at French BTS teachers, who will find
there lists of ressources, hints for organising students' placements in Britain,
information about BTS exams, exam papers, but also plenty of suggestions
for oral work and fast growing list of texts / documents / exercises.
Although the site is primarily concerned with French teachers
I am sure other instructors will find it worth a vist. However navigation is
in French as well as many other pages.
DICTIONARIES
http://www.harcourt.com/dictionary/
Academic Press Dictionary of Science and Technology :
the largest scientific dictionary ever compiled in the English
language to the Web. 130,000 terms defined in 130 fields of science.
http://www.freelang.com/freelang/dictionnaire/index.html
Lots of dictionaries, in particular : rotating machines,
machine tools and computing.
http://www.biblio.usherb.ca/internet/dictext.htm
Two excellent glossary and dictionary resources for
power plant engineers.
The Internet Language Dictionary at http://www.netlingo.com/inframes.cfm
Offered by NetLingo.com, this site is an online dictionary
containing thousands of popular Internet words and definitions that describe
the technology and community of the World Wide Web. This site is easily
navigable, and users can access definitions by clicking on the terms of
their choice. All Internet users, from the novice to the advanced, may
find this site worth exploring
ENGINEERING
JOKES
http://www.manufacturing.net/magazine/dn/webex/takeabreak.html#jokes
http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~hgk/jokes/engineering/
http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~hgk/jokes/engineering/mit_engineer%20
For April Fool's Day !
ENGINEERING
WITH LANGUAGE SERVER
http://www.bath.ac.uk/EwL/home.html
The aim of this server is to provide useful information
about the main engineering courses with a language component offered in
British Universities. It also describes other European educational systems.
Great EST
Site ( see below in the' More Links' section)
http://www.ac-rouen.fr/crdp/region/angtech/
(Avril 2002)
NEEDS ANALYSIS
http://www.edu.fi/julkaisut/index.html
"Language / Communication skills in industry and business"
is a survey made in Finland describing job activities
in which L2 is required. It analyses employees' needs ( from basic operators
up to engineers), their difficulties with foreign languages, and insists
on the skills that ought to be taught in priority. (Oral skills come first,
naturally!) The findings of the survey may concern every teacher of English
for Special Purposes in Europe ( and elsewhere.) 183 pages, pdf format.
SOCIETY OF
MANUFACTURING ENGINEERS
http://www.sme.org/
This site is not concerned at all with EFL but may interest
us as it gives some background information that may be useful for our classes,
such as special reports and proceedings on manufacturing curricula
at institutions around the world. (See the" Manufacturing Education and
Student Activities" Section)
SOCIETY FOR TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION
http://www.stc-va.org/
They have excellent info and links for English language
tech writers, and you can learn a lot from their extensive postings of
conference presentations.
MAILING
LISTS(English for Science and Technology)EST-L (English for Science and Technology)
listserv@asuvm.inre.asu.edu
The majority of the members of TESL-L are teachers in
institutions of higher learning, the discussion is most interesting as
/ even if it often deals with graduate teaching .
Subscribe by sending an email message with a blank subject
line to <LISTSERV@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU>
In the body of the message write: <SUB EST-L FIRSTNAME
LASTNAME>.
.
LISTE EAST (Enseignement de l'Anglais dans
les Sections
Technologiques)
A French newsletter which sends you a monthly selection
of commented URLs for English for Technology.
I find it most useful. You certainly ought to subscribe it's simply
great!
Subscribe by sending an email message with a blank subject
line to <listeduc@ac-rouen.fr> and write <subscribe liste-east>
in the body.
You can contact the list owner at <christine.reymond@ac-rouen.fr>
A
FEW FRENCH SITES
E-TEACH
http://www.eteach.50g.com/
A list for French EFL teachers. Colleagues from other
countries are welcome, but they should realise that a/ most of the discussion
is held in French b/ the List may sometimes discuss topics
which are specifically France-centered.
To subscribe go to the site's URL
VOLTERRE - FRANCE
http://www.wfi.fr/volterre/
In addition to school-related pages, the site also provides
general and tourism information about France and particularly
Paris.
LOCAL
SITESGIVERNET
http://www.giverny-art.com/index.htm
Another local site, very similar to the one above.
MORE
LINKS... I'd appreciate
comments and suggestions if f you have good links to online mags or other
kinds of documents, either for teacher prep or for student use.
Did you ever hear
about such useless inventions as portable pet toilet, an insomniac helmet, a
cheese filtered cigarette, a hijacker injector or many more?
Both lower and higher level students will enjoy discussing
these strange machines and inventions.
Go to www.totallyabsurd.com
then <Crazy Archive>
Complete report about
Sustainable Development http://www.renault.com/docs/groupe_gb/rapp_dev_durable_2001/devdurable_gb_entier.pdf
a superb document, with lots of charts, and result of research about fuel consumption,
car design, life cycle environmental management (LEM), an interesting diagram
of the recycling chain, a picture of the new hybrid Kangoo and its compenents,
and the detail of the code of ethics towards all Renault's partners. Discover
also Ublo (picture and text), a three-wheel concept vehicle mid-way between
a two-wheeler and a car. The vehicle can be equipped with a hybrid drive. There
is also a part about vehicule safety, and the future proactive employment policy.
See also the article in R&D magazine from October 2002 about sustainable development:
http://www.renault.com/module-retdmag/en/arti_en.cfm?artidx=1635
Inventor's workshop
Toolbox : description of simple basic elements
(wheel, axle, wedge, screw, pulley, lever, gear, crank, rod, etc.) with pictures
: excellent to introduce basic vocabulary http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/InventorsToolbox.html
Classroom activity : sketching gadget anatomy a lesson plan to make students
describe machines and gadgets, with a useful set of questions. http://www.mos.org/sln/Leonardo/SketchGadgetAnatomy.html
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