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Web Sites: Civil Engineering
Starting Places
Professional Societies and Organizations
- American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
ASEE's homepage contains general information, press releases, ASCE conferences, membership, publications, projects, fellowships, and awards, etc.
http://www.asee.org/
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Founded in 1852, ASCE represents more than 120,000 civil engineers worldwide, and is America's oldest engineering society.
http://www.asce.org/
- American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC)
AISC is a non-profit association representing and serving the fabricated structural steel industry in the U.S. Its purpose is to expand the use of fabricated structural steel through research and development, education, technical assistance, standardization, and quality control.
http://www.aisc.org/
- Civil Engineering Research Foundation (CERF)
CERF is an independent non-profit research organization established by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 1989 to provide societal leadership, direction, and an organizational structure to foster research for the civil engineering profession at large.
http://www.cerf.org/
- International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE)
IABSE is a non-profit scientific society established in 1929 to promote the international exchange of knowledge in the field of structural engineering.
http://www.iabse.ethz.ch/default.html
- National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE)
NISEE project was established in 1971 at the University of California at Berkeley to provide access to educational, technical, and current research information in earthquake engineering and related fields of structural dynamics, geotechnical engineering, engineering seismology, and earthquake hazard mitigation. NISEE is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the University of California at Berkeley.
http://nisee.ce.berkeley.edu/
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
NSF is an independent U.S. government agency responsible for promoting science and engineering programs.
http://www.nsf.gov/
- National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)
NSPE is an engineering society that represents licensed professional engineers across all disciplines.
http://www.nspe.org/
- Resources of Scholarly Societies--University of Waterloo
Has links to webpages & gophers maintained by or for scholarly societies around the world.
http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/society/
civileng_soc.html
Jobs and Employment
Electronic Publications
- ASCE Publications
This site provides the latest information on new publications and civil engineering job opportunities. It's a searchable publications catalog, and the Civil Engineering Database (CEDB), a bibliographic, abstracted database on everything ASCE has published since 1975.
http://www.pubs.asce.org/
- Civil Engineering Journals on Internet--Lund University, Sweden
Contains a list of present subscriptions of electronic journals at the Lund University and links to publishers' catalogs.
http://www.ldc.lu.se/lthvbibl/tidskr-www.htm
- Document Center
The Center specializes in paper copy delivery of specifications and standards.
http://www.document-center.com/
- Electronic Journal Access
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries maintains this list of electronic journals.
http://horus.coalliance.org/ejournal/
- IBM Patent Server
Provides access to over 26 years of U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) patent descriptions (front page information and full text of the patent claims), as well as the last ten years of images. The first entries date back to January 5, 1971.
http://www.patents.ibm.com/
Other Resources
- Civil Engineering Virtual Library (Georgia Institute of Technology)
This site provides a comprehensive list of web services containing information about civil engineering, including gopher servers, and FTP archives. The list includes universities, organizations, government agencies, and commercial sites from around the world.
http://www.ce.gatech.edu/WWW-CE/home.html
- CivilNet
This network includes a jobfinder, software library, bookstores, career center, industry news, and many other matters related to civil engineering.
http://www.civilnet.com/
- EINet Galaxy -- Civil & Construction Engineering
This server has a wealth of information about related servers and information concerning the architectural, civil, nuclear, petroleum engineering and environmental engineering.
http://galaxy.einet.net/ galaxy/ Engineering-and-Technology/ Civil-and-Construction-Engineering.html
- How to Find Out in Civil Engineering (Heriot-Watt University)
This guide is aimed primarily at students of Heriot-Watt University; however, it may also be of use to anyone looking for printed or electronic information on civil engineering.
http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/howto/civil.html
- Patent and Trademark Office
This site provides an interface to search a database of U.S. Patent bibliographic data from 1976 to current month.
http://www.uspto.gov/
- Thomas Register
This site provides "instant" sourcing information on nearly 52,000 industrial products and services, along with comprehensive specifications and availability information from thousands of manufacturers.
http://www.thomasregister.com/
- Transportation Engineering Laboratory of AUTh (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
The Laboratory of the AUTh is a multidisciplinary research group with primary orientation the study of transportation related problems.
http://hermes.civil.auth.gr/
- Transportation Research Board
http://www.nas.edu/trb/
- Yahoo Civil Engineering Resources
This site provides links to web sites of professional and research civil or structural engineering institutions. Information on technical and journal publications are also available here.
http://www.yahoo.com/ Science/ Engineering/ Civil_Engineering/
- Yahoo Index of Civil Engineering firms
Contains a comprehensive list of civil engineering firms offering planning, design, construction, land surveying, and transportation services.
http://www.yahoo.com/ Business_and_Economy/ Companies/ Engineering/ Civil_Engineering/
This page maintained by Barbara Howser
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