INFORUM 2006 - 12. Annual Conference On Professional Information Resources

Using ESDU in Engineering Education - Solving Faculty Time and Resource Dillema

Author: John Hammar,  Information Handling Services - IHS Inc., United Kingdom

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Abstract

ESDU International provides subscription-based validated and authoritative engineering design data, methods and software for the engineer. These are presented in over 1300 design guides with supporting software (including source code) and are the result of more than 60 years experience of providing engineers with information, data and techniques for fundamental design and analysis. ESDU provides design data and methods for aerospace, mechanical, chemical, civil, structural engineering plus environmental and material science. Formerly the technical department of the British Royal Aeronautical Society, ESDU is the only collection of validated data of its kind in existence.

In this presentation we will show how the depth and breadth of ESDU data, can be easily and readily adapted for educational uses to solve the faculty member's time and resource dilemma.

About the author

Dr. John N. Hammar is the University/Industrial Liaison between ESDU International plc (an Information Handling Services company) and its clients throughout the world. He was an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Faculty of the University of Maryland between 1984 and 1989 and was awarded the Outstanding Teaching Award for the College of Engineering in 1989.