Library Guides: MET 332: Thermal Engineering A: Open Educational Resources

Open and Affordable Educational Resources

The term ‘open educational resource’ means a teaching, learning, or research resource that is offered freely to users in at least one form and that resides in the public domain or has been released under an open copyright license that allows for its free use, reuse, modification, and sharing with attribution.The term 'affordable educational resource' is defined as any required course material that students purchase for less than $50.This may include low-cost or no-cost options and library materials that do not have an open license.

Explore the resources below to find relevant and low-cost educational resources that can assist you throughout the course.

Thermodynamics: Course Introduction
Resource includes lecture outlines provided by MIT.
Engineering Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics lecture notes from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology New Delhi.
Unit Converter
A good resource to help you convert units for measurements such as length, area, temperature, etc.
NIST Chemistry WebBook
Created by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the NIST Chemistry WebBook provides access to data compiled and distributed by NIST under the Standard Reference Data Program.

Open Educational Resources for Engineers

The American Society for Engineering Education's (ASEE) Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) recently created a wonderful guide for Open Educational Resources (OER) for a wide variety of engineering disciplines. If you are looking for additional resources, free of cost and openly available, please review ASEE's ELD resource page at this link.