Facts and Data for Engineering Programs

Handbooks 

Knovel 
Ebook platform containing technical reference resources. Provides material and chemical property data as well as interactive content such as equations, graphs and tables.

AccessEngineering 
McGraw-Hill's engineering reference and teaching platform. Includes a wide variety of handbooks.  

Statistical sources

Statista
A simple to use statistics portal that integrates statistics from thousands of sources, on topics related to business, media, public policy, health and others. Statistics can be exported in PPT, XLS, PDF, and PNG formats.

Statistical resources: Data & statistics information (SFU Library)
Guide that defines and links to official sources of statistics (eg national agencies, intergovernmental organizations). Includes local, national, and international sources.  

Data sources

Data-Planet statistical datasets
A repository of public, private and commercial sources of standardized and structured statistical data. Includes Statistics Canada sources. 

Engineering Climate Datasets (Statistics Canada). 
Intensity-Duration-Frequency files; Canadian Weather Energy and Engineering Datasets; Canadian Weather Year for Energy Calculation (CWEC)

The Canadian Disaster Database.
Detailed disaster information on more than 1,000 natural, technological and conflict events (excluding war) that have happened since 1900 at home or abroad and that have directly affected Canadians.

FRDR (Federated Research Data Depository)
Canadian research data repository. Includes datasets from municipal, provincial, federal sources, as well and research data from Canadian universities. 

SAGE Research Methods. Datasets 
Collection of teaching datasets and instructional guides covering a range of research methods. Includes datasets for simple and multiple regression analysis, heteroscedasticity, MANOVA, ANOVA, two-way scatter plots, & means t-test. 

Chemical Properties

Reaxys
Provides access to chemical reactions and physical, chemical and bioactivity data.