Free Live Civil Engineering Webcasts

The CE News offers Webcasts series on various topics affecting the business of civil engineering. Webcasts series are free of cost. You may be interested to attend live webcast to learn new technology, keep yourself up to date or earn continuing education credit. Click the link below for schedule and registration:

http://www.cenews.com/webcasts

Good luck.

IIT & IISc Video Lecture Series

Thousands of video lectures on science and engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) are available online through Youtube for free. These video lectures are created under the NPTEL program to enhance the quality of engineering education in India by developing curriculum based video and web courses. Everyone can watch and enhance their knowledge in engineering and science.

NPTEL has its own YouTube channel that provides technical lectures from all seven Indian Institutes of Technology and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

The Video Courses are organised as PLAYLISTS under the following Categories:

1. Core Sciences
2. Civil Engineering
3. Computer Science and Engineering
4. Electrical Engineering
5. Electronics and Communication Engineering
   
6. Mechanical Engineering

PLAYLISTS to all Video Courses

Civil Engineering Courses:

• Civil - Introduction to Transportation Engineering
• Civil - Transportation Engineering II
• Civil - Engineering Geology
• Civil - Fluid Mechanics
• Civil - Building Materials and Construction
• Civil - Environmental Air Pollution
• Civil - Water & Wastewater Engineering
• Civil - Foundation Engineering
• Civil - Soil Mechanics
• Civil - Prestressed Concrete Structures
• Civil - Strength of Materials
• Civil - Water Resources Engineering
• Civil - Hydraulics
• Civil - Structural Analysis II
• Civil - Design of Steel Structures
• Civil - Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures
• Civil - Modern Surveying Techniques
• Civil - Surveying
• Civil - Modern Construction Materials
• Civil - Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
• Civil - Geotechnical Measurement and Explorations
• Civil - Finite Element Analysis
• Civil - Geosynthetics and Reinforced Soil Structures

I have provided links to some civil engineering courses. You can visit NPTEL's YouTube channel and search for video related to your field of interest.

Note: Check this link to see all "Courses by Discipline"

Open Course Ware (OCW)

According to OpenCourseWare (OCW) Consortium, “An OCW is a free and open digital publication of high quality university‐level educational materials. These materials are organized as courses, and often include course planning materials and evaluation tools as well as thematic content. OpenCourseWare are free and openly licensed, accessible to anyone, anytime via the internet.”

Here is a list of universities and institutions that provides OpenCourseWare:

Berkeley Course Webcasts
Coursera - Free online course with statement of completion certificate

Lecturefox: free university lectures – computer science, mathematics, physics

MIT OpenCourseWare Videos
National Highway Institute - Training

Notre Dame OpenCourseWare

Open educational resources

Open Yale Courses

Open Michigan

Tufts OpenCourseWare

VideoLectures – exchange ideas & share knowledge

Open Leaning Initiative

University of Southern Queensland

The Open University

OpenCulture 

Also check Wikipedia for further reading and update.

Outstanding Books In Geotechnical Engineering

A short list of outstanding books in geotechnical engineering (listed in alphabetical order) :

An Introduction to Geotechnical Engineering
by Robert D. Holtz, William D. Kovacs ISBN: 0134843940

Design of Small Dams
Water Resources Technical Publication Series S/N 024-003-00164-3

Elastic Solutions for Soil and Rock Mechanics
Author: Harry G. Poulos ISBN: 0471695653 Hardcover: 424 pages Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc

Foundation Analysis and Design
Author: Joseph E. Bowles ISBN: 0079122477 Hardcover: 1024 pages Publisher: McGraw-Hill 5 edition

Foundation Design: Principles and Practices
by Donald P. Coduto ISBN: 0133353818

Foundation Engineering
by Ralph Brazelton Peck, Thomas H. Thornburn , Walter E.Hanson ISBN: 0471675857

Fundamentals of Soil Behavior
3nd Edition" by James K. Mitchell ISBN: 0471463027

Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
by Steven L. Kramer ISBN: 0133749436

Geotechnical Engineering: Principles and Practices
by Donald P. Coduto ISBN: 9780135897065

Geology for Engineers and Environmental Scientists
by Alan E. Kehew ISBN: 0133035387

Introduction to Rock Mechanics
by Richard E. Goodman ISBN: 0471812005

Pile Foundations in Engineering Practice
by Shamsher Prakash and Hari Sharma ISBN: 0471616532

Piling Engineering
2nd Edition by W.G.K Fleming, A.J. Weltman, M.E. Randolph, M. F. Randolph, W. K. Elson ISBN: 0470218258

Soil Mechanics
by T. William Lambe, Robert V. Whitman ISBN: 0471511927

Soil Mechanics in Engineering Practice
by Karl Terzaghi, Ralph B. Peck , Gholamreza Mesri ISBN: 0471086584

The Engineering of Foundations
Resources associated with "The Engineering of Foundations" by Rodrigo Salgado

Tunnel Engineering Handbook
by John O. Bickel, Thomas R. Kuesel, Elwyn H. King ISBN: 0412992914

Useful Links

Academic and Research Institutes:

• Kyushu University
• New Mexico State University
• NDT Resource Center
• Nepal Study Center
• Tribhuvan University

Environment/Climate Change:
Most of the sites listed in this section have different opinion than the main stream scientists.
I think it will be interesting and worth to read untold scientific facts and findings.

• CO2 Science
• Global Climate Change Facts
• Global Warming Facts
• Global Warming Issues
• Lubos Motl: The Reference Frame
• Real Climate
• Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI)

Free Online Resources:

Civil and Geological Engineering

• Geotechnical Directory
  
• GeoEngineering Library
• GeotechLinks (free internet link directory for geotechnical engineers and researchers)
• Hoek's Croner
• iCivilEngineer
  
• Iran Geotechnique
• Japanese Infrastructure Newsletter
  
• Mohr's circles - stress analysis
• Online GeoEngineering Library
• Virtual Team on Road Tunnels (USDOT, Federal Highway Administration)
  

Others

• ASCE Library (Not Free)
• Books and Guidelines by Nepal Earthquakes Society
• CiNii (Database Service: Highly recommended for Engineers and Scientists) *****
  
• Country Studies (online books published by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress)
• EBSCOhost(Search Engine)
• Free Technical E-Book
• EBOOKEE
  
• ebook3000.com
• library.nu (User account with gmail is necessary; no need to worry about spam)
• ICIMOD Books Online
  
• Open J-Gate (Free Database Service) ***

Everything about Nepal:

• Links to Global Nepal
• Nepal Home Page Arts, Culture and Society Directory

Arts/Culture/Society

• Kirat Yakthung Chumlung
• The Kirats

Goverment/NGO/INGO

• National Planning Commission (NPC)

Literature and Language

• Limbu Library
• Nepali Language Blogs
• WebLali Blogs Directory

Politics

• Communist Party of Nepal (UML)
• Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
• Nepal National Development Party
• Nepali Congress Party
• Nepali Public Relations Committee, America

Research/Professional Organizations

• American Society of Nepalese Engineers (ASNEngr)
• Nepal Research
• Nepal Development Research Institute
• Nepal Engineering Council
• Nepal Geological Society
• National Society for Earthquake Nepal

Professional Organizations:

• American Society of Civil Engineers
• American Society of Nepalese Engineers
• Geoengineer
• Geo-Institute
• The Civil Engineer

Science News:

• CNN Tech
• Google Science/Technology
• World Science

Sports:

• Judo Info
• JuiJutsu 101
• Kudo Federation Daidojuku
• Martial Arts TV
• UFC
• USWC Taekwondo Association
  
• United States Taekwondo Association

Miscellaneous:

• Loan That Change Lives