About

About EngineeringCandy

An interactive engineering playground. Every topic is a live sandbox: the governing equation, the method that solves it, and controls you can push until the physics pushes back.

The idea

Textbooks tell you the answer. This site lets you find it, and lets you get it wrong. A temperature field relaxes in front of you, an oscillator rings down, an iteration converges or flies off the chart. Reading a rule and watching it play out are different experiences, and the second builds intuition much faster.

It's for anyone curious about how engineering phenomena actually behave, whether you know the equations cold or have never seen one.

How the site fits together

There's no required order. Everything links to everything nearby, and the bottom of every lab suggests where to go next. If you'd like a map:

▶ LabsThe interactive playgrounds, grouped into Heat Transfer, Math Methods, Vibrations and Numerical Methods. 📖 Learn pagesA textbook-style companion for almost every lab: the derivation, the method, and a printable concept sheet. 🍭 Learning pathsOrdered routes through the labs with try-it, notice-it and break-it prompts at every step. ◈ CapstonesDesign briefs with no method given: meet a spec, then beat it, using everything the labs taught. 🎲 GamesQuick, replayable ways to build pattern recognition: match a wave, classify a fixed point, rescue a diverging solver. 🍬 CollectCandy Cards and printable formula sheets, a different candy theme for every topic.

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How it's built

Each lab is a single self-contained web page. Every solver runs live in your browser: no install, no account, no ads. Learning-path progress is saved only in your own browser.

Several labs and worked examples are rebuilt from the author's own engineering and numerical-methods teaching notes. Each one says so on the page, along with where its problem comes from.

Dedication

EngineeringCandy is dedicated to the author's doctoral advisor, Dr. Edward Lumsdaine, whose joy in teaching and gift for sparking creativity in his students is the spirit this site hopes to carry forward.

Questions, ideas, or a topic you wish existed?

Suggestions for new labs are always welcome.

contact@engineeringcandy.com

EngineeringCandy · an interactive engineering playground · a sibling of QuantCandy