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A

Alloy

• Effects of alloying

Alternative Technology

• The Centre for Alternative Technology

Alternative Energy

• Solar

Animation

• Looking glass company website

Appropriate technology.

• Wiki dedicated to Appropriate technology.
• Appropriate technology from Journey to Forever.
• examples of Apt Tech.
• The Farm
• Appropriate Technology Sourcebook
• Pump Aid

Architecture

• The American Institute of Architects

Artificial Intelligence

• A.L.I.C.E.

B

BBC

• Action network for the Internet and Computers
• BBC learning Website if you cant view videos try the technology page
• BBC International Technology Page
• BBC ClickOnline

Biomes

• Biomes links and resources, eg temperate forests.

Books

• Design, Technology and the Development Process in the Built Environment By Tony Collier
• Theory of Mechanisms and Machines By C.S. Sharma, Kamlesh Purohit

Bonding

• Chemical Bonding
• Metallic bonding
• Network covalent structure
• BBC website.

Business/management

• quick MBA, marketing, product life cycle, etc

C

CAD/CAM/CNC

• CNC Information has some good videos and information.

Ceramics

• Wikipedia reference for glass
• Glass online portal. History, composition and glass in different languages.
• Glass Recycling
• properties, manufacturing, composition, etc of glass

Chemistry

• Chemistry site with stuff on materials.

Citations

• Citation generator from Doodle

Consumer associations

• Choice magazine online.
• Consumer report magazine
• Association for Consumer Research (ACR)

Cotton

• The Cotton Story

Costs

• thetimes100.co.uk on Fixed, Variable costs and break even

D

Design for ...

• Assembly
• Assembly pdf
• Environment
• Environment
• Environment
• Manufacture
• Manufacture

Design Process

• Blueprint courseware

Designers

• Andre Alessi

Design Websites/Exhibitions/Blogs

• Design Museum
• The Technology Student
• Design Decisions Wiki from Carnegie Mellon University
• N.S.W. Education Board syllabus
• George Watsen College has a bunch of pdf's
• design and sustainability blog
• Core77 design magazine and resource

Design Technology

• N.S.W. Education Board syllabus

Dimensions

• Dimensions on just about everything.

Drawing

• Article on drawing International Journal of Technology and Design Education
• Freehand tutorial
• sketch-a-day site with sketches of products
• Orthographic drawings explained
• Another Orthographic drawings explained

E

Energy resources

• Energy facts and activities also related to the environment.
• Energy for a sustainable future. Includes renewable and non-renewable energy resources.
• Australian solar schools educational website.
• renewable energy resources from scienceonline.co.uk.
• Pembina institute on renewable resources, sustainability, climate change, etc
• Energy Canada has some great classroom resources.
• Energy Case Studies
• History of power/energy from the Franklin institute.
• BioFuels ... From Alternative Energy News on biofuels.
• Biofuels web site

Environmental Issues

• Department of Environment and Water
• Greentv.com vidcast on environmental issues.

Environment ... data legislation

• EPA US environmental protection agency.
• EU summary of legislation.
• Hong Kong and legislation.
• UNEP the UN agency

Ergonomics

• News from ergoweb.
• website with links and some interesting stuff

Ethics

• Dr. Edward F. Gehringer’s site on “Ethics in Computing”
• ‘Computer Ethics’ Wikipedia reference
• Computer Ethics from Stanford University

F

Factor of Safety

• An Article on FoS from bookrags.com
• Factor of safety
• Factor of safety from Uni West Aust. Includes a table of FoS's

Food

• Typical foods from A-Z countries.
• European Food Information Council.
• Food Insight
• Asian Food information Centre
• Nutrient content of some some foods from Health Canada
• Additives from understandingfoodadditives.org
• Additives from foodadditivesworld.com
• foodproductiondaily.com has lots of articles realted to food science packaging etc
• Mayo clinic
• Hygiene
• Food Prep Areas & food handling (Hygiene)
• Food spoilage
• Food spoilage
• Food preservation from NCHFP
• Food preservation from HowStuffWorks
• Food irradiation
• Science of cooking
• Food Shelf-life
• Water Activity
• History of fishing rod materials.

G

Generating Ideas

• Mycoted, Creativity, innovation, science and technology.
• Steps in Creating Creative Minds
• Brainstorming
• Mindtools
• Creative thinking
• Creative thinking
• morphological synthesis
• Glass

Green Consumer

• The Green Consumer

Green Design

• Treehugger
• Greentv.com vidcast on environmental issues.
• e2-Design from PBS, includes podcasts
• Carnegie Mellon home of green design

H

I

Images/Graphics

• Royalty free images from Corbis
• Fake or real quiz.
• DKimages

Internet

• Historical Timeline of the Internet
• Hobbes’ Internet Timeline, developed from a variety sources. Excellent!

Invention

• Famous inventions
• Times 2006 best inventions
• Women Inventors
• Inventive Genius

Innovation

• Innovation Network
• Innovation creators website
• InnovationZen blog
• Innovative design for education

J

• JIT from Inventory Solutions

K

Knowledge Economy

• (PDF) A Primer about the
• Enterweb.org links for Knowledge Economy

L

Life Cycle

• Life Cycle.
• Life Cycle of refrigerators.
• Life Cycle of cars.
• Institute for Life-cycle Environmental Assessment.
• A map for understanding the environmental impacts of producing goods from Carnegie Mellon
• Blog on honda LCA
• LCA Henkel Products
• LCA Honda World explains theirs.

M

Manufacturing

• CoolStuffBeingMade.com has all sorts videos on manufacturing of materials and products.
• CMTI from Purdue Uni.
• Toyota

Manufacturing Techniques

• Welding
• Moulding
• Moulding and forming.
• How products are made.

Maps

• Environmental Maps

Mass Customization

• http://www.mass-customization.de/ Mass Customisation website

Materials

• Community college materials website
• Material selection charts.
• Material properties and Young's Modulus.
• British Glass web site full of useful information.
• A to Z of materials
• more materials
• Chemistry site with stuff on materials and other cool stuff.
• Smart Materials

Matter

• Strange Matter zooms in on everyday materials/products.
• chem4kids.com on matter
• Matter quiz.
• Equilibrium of a particle in depth.

Metals

• Grains and solidification.
• Stainless Steel
• Metals

Mycoprotein

• Mycoprotein
• Quorn food products and everything you need to know. USA site is better.

N

Nanotechnology

• Nokia Morph

Netiquette

• The Core Rules of Netiquette
• Netiquette Rules for Email, chat, etc

News Articles

• Design
  • Dexigner news portal
  • Sci-Tech Today
  • Car design news
• IT
  • BBC’s Email service, where you sign up for Tech or any other news
  • Clickonline BBC’s TV IT show’s website
  • Computer world News articles, case studies from a management point of view.
  • IDC– full of commentaries from analysts about he global IT marketplace
  • Wired News
  • zdnet
  • Technology research magazine.

Nylon

• Nylon

O

Organisations

• SRI International is an independent, non-profit research institute
• This Website has a good story on how planned obsolescence and how it affects us.

P

Paper

• Paper Manufacture

Products

• How Products Are Made
• CoolStuffBeingMade.com has all sorts videos on manufacturing of materials and products.
• Product development/engineering.
• How it's made from Discovery Science

Properties

• Mechanical properties
• Timber/wood

R

Recycle, Reuse, Recondition and Repair

• UK specific data on waste.
• Plastic recycling.
• 'waste into Gold' news article.
• Virtual Recycling educational initiative of the Manitoba Product Stewardship Corporation.
• Ragbag company that makes fashionable bags from old plastic.
• GreenGoods portal.
• This website has a good video of recycling, enjoy :) http://www.recyclebank.com/what_we_recycle.cfm
• Recycling-Guide.org.uk
• Recycling thermoplastics
• wasteonline.org.uk very nice website.
• Idea Finder good general site about where 'ideas' came from.

Reference

• International Journal of Technology and Design Education
• How Stuff works
• Wikipedia
• http://www.webopedia.com
• JargonBuster Computer Jargon Dictionary from BBC
• Computer Jargon Dictionary from About.com
• Tech Faq
• Sciencenet
• The Internet Encyclopaedia of Science
• Technology at GCSE.
• openlearn.open.ac.uk on technology etc.

Reforestation

• Deforestation

S

Science

• www.physorg.com

Simulation

• Education Simulation Web site
• K-12 examples
• Simulation; The Engine behind the virtual world
• NASA Sim Labs
• IBM Research Weather Modelling Group
• Social Simulations and policy making.
• Simulation Industry Association of Australia
• Military Simulations in the British Army

Smart Materials

• Lord Corp products using smart materials.
• Mide Corp products using smart materials.
• Piezoelectric materials
• Piezoelectric materials #2
• Electro-rheostatic (ER) and magneto-rheostatic (MR) materials
• Shape memory alloys (SMA's) from the University of Alberta
• Materials for design from Cornell Uni

Sustainability

• STEP great for schools
• BASF and its sustainability actions.
• Pembina institute on renewable resources, sustainability, climate change, etc
• Renewable resources
• UK government policies.
• UN policies.
• The Center for Sustainability has a good US focus.

Sustainable Building

• AED, living building etc
• Passive Solar design.
• Active Solar design.
• Green Building Materials web site from the California State Gov.
• The thoreau Centre for sustainability in buildings
• Building envelop design.
• The American Institute of Architects

Superconductors

• superconductors.org

T

Timber

• Various Biomes resources and links.
• Conifers
• Missouri Botanical Garden website
• Properties of timber from timber.org.au

Triple Bottom Line Sustainability

• McDonlads food chain stance

V

Video

• Design Education youtube group

Virtual Reality

• From the Thinkquest library

W

Design Websites/Exhibitions/Blogs

• Design Museum
• The Technology Student
• Design Decisions Wiki from Carnegie Mellon University
• N.S.W. Education Board syllabus
• George Watsen College has a bunch of pdf's
• design and sustainability blog
• Core77 design magazine and resource

Weightless economy

• UNESCO explains.

Y

Young's Modulus

• Material properties and Young's Modulus.

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Resources Under review

• Not sure where this fits making the modern world