Translators' Resources -- Electronics

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Electronics

by Cathy Flick, Ph.D.

http://www.pcbuniverse.com/pcb-glossary.php
Printed Circuit Boards glossary. (English). Other good resources in that area also.

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
OpenCourseware: MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) course materials are available for free to anybody, "spanning MIT's entire curriculum": Architecture and Planning, Engineering, Health Sciences and Technology, Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Management, Science, etc. (English)

http://www.thinktink.com/index.htm
Many practical resources (including a glossary and tutorials, step-by- step instructions) for making printed circuit boards (PCBs).

http://www.magictubes.ru/text/lang/english.pdf
Downloadable Russian-English electronics glossary.

http://polska.ru/jezyk/dict2000.html
Svetlana Kyyashko found this downloadable electronics dictionary (2 MB): "Dictionary 2000 contains English, French, Polish, Russian, Latin, Swedish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian. " The page is in Russian.

http://domino.iec.ch/iev/iev.nsf/Welcome?OpenForm
Rowan Morrell highly recommends this IEC International Electrotechnical Vocabulary for any electronics-related job, which "has a wide range of electrical terms listed in English, French and German."

http://www.iserv.net/~alexx/glossary.htm
Leo Lauria points out this amazing list of links to technical glossaries.

http://www.interscience.wiley.com:83/eeee/
Michael Molin suggests the Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. You can search the names of articles for free.

http://www.conrad.de
Iain Mackenzie points out the German “Conrad catalog, which contains lots of useful information about electronic equipment.”