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Welcome to WikiProject Engineering
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WikiProject Engineering
ShortcutWP:ENGR, WP:ENGN, WP:ENGIN
WP:ENGINE, WP:ENGINEERING
CategoryEngineering
Portalicon Engineering
Wikimedia CommonsCommons:Category:Engineering Engineering
Parent
project(s)
Technology
Project banner template{{Engineering}}
Has goals?Yes

Welcome to WikiProject Engineering, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Engineering. For more information on WikiProjects in general, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects.

Please nominate or vote for May's selected article and/or image on our portal. Thank you!

Interested users are encouraged to add their name below and help improve this project.


WikiProject Engineering
General information
Main project page (WP:ENGINEERING)  talk
Engineering Portal talk
Project navigation bar talk
Project templates talk
Project participants
Project banner (doc) {{WikiProject Engineering}} talk
Project category talk
Invitation message talk
Welcome message talk
Project maintenance
Assessments talk
To do list talk
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Goals

  1. To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Engineering by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
  2. To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles within the scope of Engineering.
  3. To serve as a point of discussion for issues related to Engineering in general in Wikipedia.
  4. To help coordinate the work of related WikiProjects.

News

  • September 9, 2007: Temporary page for WikiProject Engineering created.
  • September 11, 2007: Moved to official Wikipedia space.
  • November 10, 2007: Main project page expansion begins.

Scope

The project generally considers any article related to Engineering to be within its scope.

See the following to find articles within our scope:

WikiProject tagged articles can be found in Category:WikiProject Engineering articles.

See this page for recent changes related to pages withinin this project's scope.

Open tasks and guidelines

Please nominate or vote for next month's selected article and/or image. Thank you!

Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. Members should also feel free to add {{User WP Engineering}} to their user pages to identify themselves as members of this project. The appearance of the userbox is shown to the right. Placing the above userbox on your user page will automatically add you to Category:WikiProject Engineering participants.

User Areas of interest Comments
Luke Mechanical/Aeronautical Engineer
JadeFox Electrical Engineer Computers, Control Systems, Power System, and Robotics
Tbo 157talk
Hydrogen Iodide (HI!) Civil engineer
Rai-me
abrahamrenns-
Athol Mullen
John Volc Naval Architect Involved in ice breakers, ferries, warships, etc.
Huang7776
Dr.K.
H Padleckas chemical engineer
Pedram.salehpoor
John of Paris
Stardust8212 Aerospace engineering
Sadi Carnot I think the hottest new degree, in the near future, will be neurosurgical engineering, a symbiosis of chemical-electronics and the brain.
Mogtheforgetfulcat
JA.Davidson Electrical Engineering
Jameson L. Tai Mechanical Engineering Robotics, Machinery Design & Mechatronics, Three-Dimensional Modeling. (WP:ROBO, WP:UNI)
CheMechanical chemical engineer
& mechanical engineer
siafu Aerospace engineering
Explodicle mechanical engineer Mechanical Engineering, Computer Software, Robotics
Buaidh electric power engineering energy technology, electric power, renewable energy, climate change, utility regulation
Tkn20 structural engineering
Goatchurch Computer-aided manufacture Major contributor to the NC Graphics machining kernel
toastydeath CNC, Machining Machinist apprentice and mechanical engineering student.
Niaz Computer Engineering and Wireless Communication Computer Engineer and research student at Distributed Systems Group, Trinity College Dublin.
User:Dank55 See User:Dank55 for list of pages I patrol.
ExplorerCY Aerospace Engineering just a student
Marylee23 mechanical engineer Mechanical Engineering, Ultrasonic welding
Juthani1 (talk) 04:52, 7 March 2008 (UTC)[reply] Mechanical, Biomedical Student
MonicaMaio Electrical Engineer Electrical Engineering, Semiconductor Device Fabrication, Microelectronics, Materials Science
Judith Soto (talk) Industrial engineer
Tanvir che (talk) Chemical engineering
Brad Halls (talk) Software engineering Software Engineering, CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM, Computer Graphics, Visualization, VR, Digital mockup
Jiuguang Wang (talk) Electrical Engineering Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Control theory
Katanada (talk) Aerospace engineering
Mdd (talk) Systems Engineering Systems science, Systems theory, Systems engineering
Mechatronik Mechanical Engineering Systems Engineering Student, Robotics
Firebladed (talk) Control Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics
Deekayfry (talk) Ceramic Engineering, Material Engineering, Mining Engineer For each discipline, manage, process improvement, capitalization, geology proof of ore reserves, plant design and construction. Ceramic, Rubber, Sand


Departments

Assessment

Assessment log - Worklist

The WikiProject Engineering assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Engineering articles.

Assessments are performed via parameters in the {{Engineering}} project banner which is posted to an article's talk page.

An assessment parameter (FA, GA, B, Start, or Stub) causes the article to be rated and grouped into categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

Collaboration

The Engineering Collaboration of the week seeks to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. Every week, a single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it, potentially to featured article standards.

Any articles dealing with some aspect of Engineering (except for current featured articles and featured article candidates) are eligible, and everyone is invited to nominate articles.

The current Engineering Collaboration of the Week is: Engineering

Peer review

The peer review department of WikiProject Engineering conducts peer review of articles on request. The primary objective is to encourage better articles by having contributors who may not have worked on articles to examine them and provide ideas for further improvement.

The peer review process is highly flexible and can deal with articles of any quality; however, requesting reviews on very short articles may not be productive, as there is little for readers to comment on.

All reviews are conducted by fellow editors—usually members of WikiProject Engineering. While there is a general intent to expand this process to allow for review by subject experts, the preparations for this are not yet complete.

Requested images

The Requested images department aims to provide a collection of high-quality photographs, maps and images for use in Engineering articles. The department gathers existing public domain and free-license maps as well as creating new ones from other materials where no suitable maps can be found. All project members are welcome to request additional maps that may be needed for particular articles from the department.

Wikimedia Commons has images of the engineering field. Many of these photos would make useful additions to many of our articles here which may be lacking adequate illustrations. Please see the Commons categories at right, or try searching on Commons since many images available there are not properly categorized yet.

Outreach

The Outreach department acts as the project's central point of coordination for recruiting new members and maintaining the interest of current participants.

Templates and project size

WikiProject Engineering Navigation
Main page | Discussions | Project templates | Assessment | Portal |


The following templates are used in WikiProject Engineering.

Template Result
{{WikiProject Engineering}}

Use this template to show an article, image, category, or template is part of this WikiProject. This should be placed at the top of talk pages, not articles.

WikiProject iconEngineering Unassessed
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Engineering, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of engineering on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.
???This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
{{Engineering-stub}}

Use this to identify an Engineering-related article as a stub.

{{User WP Engineering}}

Use this on your user page to identify yourself as a member of this WikiProject.

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Engineering


{{User Engineer}}

Use this on your user page to show that you work in the engineering field.

This user is an engineer.
{{User is PE}}

Use this on your user page to identify yourself as a licensed Professional Engineer.

This user is a licensed Professional Engineer

{{User:Jagra/Userboxes/User Professional Engineer}}

Use this on your user page to show that you are a professional engineer.

Clicking on the logo connects to Portal:Engineering.

This user is a
Professional Engineer.

Main articles

Engineering

List of basic engineering topics

Aerospace | Agricultural | Architectural | Biomedical | Chemical | Civil | Computer | Computer-aided engineering | Electrical | Electronic | Environmental | Industrial & Manufacturing | Mechanical | Petroleum | Software | Systems | More

New articles

Cognate linkages - Kinematics
Please feel free to list your new Engineering-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please).

Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

If you would like to request the creation of a particular article, please post in the requests section.

Categorization

The root category for this WikiProject is Category:Engineering. Both the root categorty and its associated subcategories should be tagged with {{Engineering category}}.

Please note that the major category, Category:Engineering, should be reserved for articles about disciplines of engineering, respectively, while specific individual engineering companies, engineers, concepts, etc. should be listed in the appropriate subcategories.

Next, please ensure that it has the correct engineering type categories (one or more, in some cases). Here are some major categories for engineering:

The main engineering categories

We also have a category for the project itself, Category:WikiProject Engineering.

Issues of ongoing concern

Please report vandalism, copyright violations, addition of unsourced material and edit-warring to engineering articles here:

(One remark)

  • The article Direct metal deposition has been AfD nominated as is non sourced.(but here is a source I have just found on a PDF [1] ) This is a registered trade mark, so really ought, I think, be redirected to Selective laser sintering. The technique it depends on however is call Direct laser powder deposition and I don't seem to be able to find that. So maybe that needs a mention. I am out of date on this technology. In my day, we had to make do with spaying metal or carbides through a plasma arc.--Aspro (talk) 17:24, 18 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]


Please consider adding these articles to your watchlist, to help in reverting the ongoing vandalism which is certain to resume once semi-protection expires. Even during the period of semi-protection, some articles continue to be vandalized by recently registered accounts. Consider reporting users who chronically vandalize articles to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism.

If you find any other articles within the scope of this project which are being heavily vandalized (as a rough standard, over 10 vandals per day, or continual vandalism for several days such that the last 50+ edits are all vandalism and reverts, or 10+ vandalism / revert edits in 30 minutes), please report them at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection and add them to the list above.

More articles or pages in need of attention could be found here at Category:Unreferenced Engineering articles and Category:Engineering articles needing attention.

Requests

Please direct assessment requests to Wikipedia:WikiProject Engineering/Assessment#Requesting an assessment.

Please add any other requests related to the project and material within its scope below:

Resources

Parent projects

Descendant projects