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Valuable Internet resources for engineers.

Discover Engineering

http://www.discoverengineering.org/eweek/index.html

A brainchild of National Engineering Week, this creative, kid-focused site presents games, factoids, experiments and biographies of famous engineers and their inventions, among other features, with the goal of sparking interest in engineering.

Lighting Design Knowledge Base

http://www.schorsch.com/kbase/glossary/

Looking for solid definitions of transmissivity, luminous flux density or an absorption coefficient? Check out this on-line dictionary of lighting terms.

Energy A-Z

http://www.eia.doe.gov/fueloverview.html

Whether it's looking up U.S building energy use broken down by facility types, or the amount of money spent on district heating in different regions of the country, this site—administered by the U.S. Dept. of Energy—presents a plethora of statistics, charts, maps and tables.