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The ASEE Engineering K-12 Center seeks to identify and gather the most effective engineering education resources available to the K-12 community. From comprehensive data on outreach programs to profiles of “cool” engineers to hundreds of links and readings related to engineering education, the ASEE Engineering K-12 Center offers immediately useful, easily accessible materials specifically tailored to students’ and educators’ interests.In an effort to serve as a resource hub for stakeholders in engineering education.

Web Site: American Society of Engineering Education Disciplines Page

Progressive Engineer is an online magazine and information source covering all disciplines of engineering in the continental U.S. The magazine features profiles of engineers and companies and stories on projects that detail the accomplishments of engineers from a human perspective in an easy-to-read style while fostering sustainability in engineering. It also has a job board and directories of engineering firms, sustainability-related firms, engineering organizations, engineering schools , and professional engineer licensing boards.

Web Site: Progressive Engineer Magazine

The Sloan Career Cornerstone Center offers vast resources on several degree fields.  Within each area you'll find a profile of the field, and links to video or print profiles of professionals working in each area.  There are downloadable lists of employers and degree granting universities, salary data, and links to professional associations.

Web Site: The Sloan Career Cornerstone Site

TryEngineering.org is a resource for students (ages 8-18), their parents, their teachers, and their school counselors. This is a portal about engineering and engineering careers, and we hope it will help young people understand better what engineering means and how an engineering career can be made part of their future.

Web Site: Try Engineering

Wikipedia is a Web-based, free-content encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers and sponsored by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. It has editions in roughly 200 different languages (about 100 of which are active) and contains entries both on traditional encyclopedic topics and on almanac, gazetteer, and current events topics. Its purpose is to create and distribute a free international encyclopedia in as many languages as possible.

Web Site: Wikipedia: engineering disciplines

Current starting salaries, for engineers and others, can be found here.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/04/pf/college/grads_salaries/index.htm
http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/08/pf/college/lucrative_degrees_winter07/index.htm