Any free engineering journal?

reunion

Does anyone know any good free engineering journal i can read?

I would like to improve my report writing and it couldn't hurt to read up on the latest from the engineering world...

anyone have any suggestions?

Anton.Mamyko

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spideog7

IMHO you'd be better off staying away from engineering journals if you're refering to research papers and the like anyway. My experience of them (which is more than I care for at the minute) is that they are for a large part very poorly written, grammatically incorrect and poorly proof read. As a direct result of this the authors try to use flowery language that has no place in the report, just put in there to cover up the flaws with their basic English skills. You find the same phrases over and over again (not unlike sports commentaries) and all they are is big words that make no more sense than simple English.

I'm not sure what area you should look to for well written reports but if you have anyway a good grasp of the English language I'd advise you to avoid picking up the bad habits in a lot of these journals.

If you choose to ignore my advice (and I'm sure there are some well written papers out there too) then IEEE is a good source, if you're in a University they should have a subscription to it and you'll probably be able to access it from their network.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/

pprendeville

try the National Instruments website. Good info on everything electrical. I recently subscribed to their mag and got one in the post. Think its sent out quarterly (free) with a monthly online sub.

Loads of web subscriptions also that have loads white papers. SolidWorks, Autodesk, Design World, Engineering Exchange. The list is endless.

lumpwood

Alot of Journals give free sample issues for download, especially newly established ones..two in my area (medical devics) would be JMBBM (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jmbbm) and JMM (http://www.worldscinet.com/jmm/mkt/sampleiss.shtml) you just need to poke around on their respective websites a bit to find them.

Turbulent Bill

reunion wrote: »

Does anyone know any good free engineering journal i can read?

I would like to improve my report writing and it couldn't hurt to read up on the latest from the engineering world...

anyone have any suggestions?

What kind of reports do you write? I'd echo spideog7's concerns, lots of journal papers are poorly written, with poor English and/or structure which obscures the author's points.

Assuming your English is up to scratch, I'd look at technical report writing books which should help your structuring. Once you have this in place, the content will make much more sense to the reader.

eoghan.geraghty

spideog7 wrote: »

If you choose to ignore my advice (and I'm sure there are some well written papers out there too) then IEEE is a good source, if you're in a University they should have a subscription to it and you'll probably be able to access it from their network.

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/

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