Engineer Q&A brings you some of our favorite sites, channels, and blogs for outstanding personal and professional growth. We hope you enjoy!

MIT OpenCourseWare

For those of you with a PASSION for learning, especially technical learning, MIT OpenCourseWare is where you want to go. Here you can watch university lectures FROM MIT FOR FREE on complex topics such as Cognitive Robotics, Nuclear Engineering, and Quantum Physics to name just a few. It’s difficult to explain WHAT A BIG DEAL this channel is… just check it out and see for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/user/MIT/featured

The Engineering Mindset

The Engineering Mindset is my personal FAVORITE YouTube channel for exploring technical engineering topics relating to HVAC, electrical, and energy engineering. If you want to know—as in actually understand—how chillers work, or what 3-phase electricity is, or how an air-conditioner works (like a really big one), then the Engineering Mindset is where you want to go. Paul Evans, the site’s founder, has outstanding easy-to-understand videos with great graphics which will walk you through these technical topics. I’ve used this site for years and am so appreciative of his work. Keep it up Paul!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk0fGHsCEzGig-rSzkfCjMw/featured

Energy Vanguard

The Energy Vanguard is an outstanding site for growing your technical expertise in the field of building science. I’ve been visiting the Energy Vanguard Blog for YEARS to increase my level of knowledge on HVAC design, psychrometric effects on real-world buildings, and ways to improve efficiency around the house. The blog articles are full of easy-to-digest science and have a healthy dose of humor as well. There are SO MANY articles in this blog which you can actually apply to your own home or apartment and see positive results. The author, Allison Bailes III, has a Ph.D. in Physics and a passion for teaching. I highly recommend checking out his blog if you’re interested in energy efficiency… lots of great tips!

https://www.energyvanguard.com/blog

Jake Voorhees

Jake Voorhees has built an online community and platform for helping engineers become part of “The 1% Engineer Society.” The aim is to provide career advice and tips to empower young engineers to rise to the top 1% of their respective fields. I really like what Jake is doing and I hope you’ll check out his channel for seeing a great positive role model on how to succeed in engineering.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6jLimb3eM2MVx1m4uTL8Hg/featured

EngineerGirl

“The EngineerGirl website is designed to bring national attention to the exciting opportunities that engineering represents for girls and women.” This site has all sorts of interesting stories of successful women in engineering, tips and advice from those in the field, and resources for exploring STEM. Even if you’re a guy, this is a GREAT site to learn about a career in the STEM field.

https://www.engineergirl.org/

Explorist

Explorist features playlists with motivational videos for engineers, advice for students, and focused videos on Civil Engineering related topics.

https://www.youtube.com/user/wemakewerule

Engineer4Free

Wow, if you are an engineering, physics, or mathematics student, or if you are just REALLY into engineering and want to “level up” your knowledge or want to truly understand engineering equations & concepts, this is a great channel to check out. Engineer4Free has hundreds of free tutorials /classes on topics covering Calculus, fluid Mechanics, Statics & Dynamics, Chemistry, Electrical circuits, Engineering Economics and more.

https://www.youtube.com/user/Engineer4Free/featured

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