This is probably one of the best engineering forums out there, covering every engineering topic imaginable. A highly technical forum geared toward engineering professionals and students. The greatest value of this forum is probably the professionals who actively discuss on this forum as well as support and answer questions. Many of the particular discussions might be too specific to matter for any specific company’s bottom line (EPS) and thus doesn’t matter much for the stock price. However, scanning the discussion headlines might prove useful to professional managers focused on small cap stocks with emerging technologies or managers with a lot of engineering and construction exposure, helping managers get ahead of the trend both for potential winners as well as possible problems for certain industries. Individual investors might find the Trends and Strategies topics more useful. Either it’s one of the greatest resources you’ve ever come across or you’ll have no idea what’s going on.

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Eng-Tips Forums, designed for engineers in every discipline, present forums within each discipline, as well as forums on codes and standards, engineering computer programs, and by industry (energy, concrete, commercial products, etc.) Engineers can customize their “Threadminder” to include an opening page that presents only those forums in which they are interested. Like Tek-Tips, Eng-Tips presents on the home page a list of the Top 10 forums, ranked for activity.

Professional portals gives users access to engineering resources on the web, are using Eng-Tips Forums to build expertise within their discussion groups.