Engineering

Engineering - Free and Open Source Educational Software

Engineering software includes analysis and design tools, such as finite element methods and graphical display of results. More useful tools for engineering are available on the OSWKIDS CD mathematics, graphics, astronomy, geology, chemistry and physics.

SciPy - Scientific tools for Python - open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering (platform independent) http://www.scipy.org/ (CeCILL Free License)
Engineers Australia - http://www.engineersaustralia.org.au
Wikipedia - Engineering - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigineering
The Intute Engineering Gateway - http://www.intute.ac.uk/sciences/engineering/
The WWW Virtual Library Engineering - http://vlib.org/Engineering
Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century - http://www.greatachievements.org/

Electrical Engineering

KiCad - Schematic editor, PCB editor and component viewer (Windows, Linux) http://iut-tice.ujf-grenoble.fr/kicad (GPL)
Qucs - Quite Universal Circuit Simulator (Cygwin, MacOSX, Linux) http://qucs.sourceforge.net/ (Free)
Toped - IC layout editor based on openGL and wxWidgets (Windows, Linux) http://www.toped.org.uk/
FEMM - Finite Element Method Magnetics - Windows finite element solver for 2D and axisymmetric magnetic and electrostatic problems (Windows) http://femm.foster-miller.net/wiki/ (Aladdin Free Public License)

Gattrib - gEDA attribute editor (Linux)

http://www.geda.seul.org/ (GPL)

Gschem - Schematic for circuits GPL Electronic Design Automation (Linux)

http://www.geda.seul.org/ (GPL)

gResistor - Gnome resistor colour code calculator (Linux)

http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php/gResistor (GPL)

KTechlab - IDE for microcontrollers and electronics (Linux)

http://ktechlab.org(Free)

PCB - Interactive printed circuit board editor (Linux)

http://pcb.sf.net (GPL)

TkGate - Digital Circuit Editor and Simulator using tcl/tk (Linux, MacOSX)

http://www.tkgate.org/ (GPL)

Xcircuit - Circuit drawing application with schematic capture (Linux)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcircuit (GPL)

gEDA - GPL'd suite of Electronic Design Automation tools includes documentation and examples (Linux)

http://www.geda.seul.org/ (GPL)

Mechanical Engineering

Calculix - Three-Dimensional Structural Finite Element Program (Windows, Linux) http://www.calculix.de/ (GPL)
ELMER - Open Source Finite Element Software for Multiphysical Problems (Windows, MacOSX, Linux) http://www.csc.fi/elmer/ (GPL)
FeatFlow - Numerical solution of incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (Windows, Linux) http://www.featflow.de/ (Open Source License)
Tahoe - Research oriented platform for development of numerical methods and material models (platform independent) http://tahoe.ca.sandia.gov/ (Open Software License)

FEniCS - Collection of projects for finite elements such as code generation interface, finite element solver and run-time visualization (Linux)

http://www.fenics.org/wiki/FEniCS_Project (Free)

OOFEM - Object oriented finite element code for solving mechanical, transport and fluid mechanics problems (Linux)

http://www.oofem.org/ (GPL)

OpenFEM - Open Source Finite Element Toolbox for matlab and scilab (Linux)

http://www-rocq.inria.fr/OpenFEM/ GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL)

SALOME - Open Source Integration Platform for Numerical Simulation (Linux)

http://www.salome-platform.org/ (GPL)

CAELinux - Live DVD for finite element simulation using SALOME, Code-Aster, OpenFOAM, Gerris, Openflower, Paraview, GMSH, BRL-CAD, gCad3D, Blender, GraphiteOne, QCad, ELMER, Calculix, Tochnog, Impact, MBDyn, Octave, Scilab, Maxima and SciPy (Linux)

http://www.caelinux.com/CMS/ (GPL)

Structural Engineering Software Database (comprehensive list of commercial and free software) http://www.bridgeart.net/software_database/programs/
Finite Element Analysis Software http://www.freebyte.com/cad/fea.htm#fea
MIT OpenCourseWare Mechanical Engineering http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mechanical-Engineering/index.htm

Civil Engineering

Ferma - Free educational CAD software for truss units analysis (platform independent) http://sourceforge.net/projects/ferma/ (GPL)
FElt - Easy-to-use, interactive, finite element analysis program (Windows, Linux) http://felt.sourceforge.net/ (GPL)
FEAPpv - A Finite Element Analysis Program personal version (Windows, Linux) http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~rlt/feappv/ (Free)
The Internet for Civil Engineers http://www.icivilengineer.com/Open_Source/
The Online Library of Civil & Environmental Engineering - Software http://www.olcivil.com/Programs/numerics-fe.php
MIT OpenCourseWare - Civil and Environmental Engineering http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm#CivilandEnvironmentalEngineering

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