Our Story
Engineering Statics: Open and Interactive is the vision of a handful of instructors who wanted to create a free and open Statics textbook filled with interactive diagrams to encourage visualization and engineering intuition.
After multiple years of building interactives on GeoGebra, Daniel (Dr. Dan) Baker launched this book project in late 2018 with some funding from the Colorado Department of Higher Education and Colorado State University. The author team then grew to a team of engineering faculty from large public universities, small private colleges, and community colleges across the United States to write the text and create the interactive elements. Multiple chapters were adapted with permission from Jacob Moore’s Mechanics Map - Open Textbook Project. William Haynes then worked to publish the book using PreTeXt. The book was released to the public in Fall 2020. The book continues to evolve thanks to the contributions, suggestions, and corrections made by users of the text, both professors and students. If you want to get involved, see Contact Us below.
