Compiled  by Lori Calcaterra and Chet Bunnell
Maintained by John Montre, Aerospace Engineering & Technology Liaison Librarian
Last updated: December 3, 2007

The Saint Louis University Libraries Catalog is available on computers throughout the library, or with unrestricted access via the Internet. Access the catalog through the SLU Libraries home page. Searching can be expanded to include the MOBIUS holdings, the consortium which includes the Washington University Libraries and most of the other academic libraries in Missouri.

Books, periodicals and other materials in Pius XII Memorial Library are arranged by Library of Congress classification (call) numbers.  The broad classification for Aerospace Engineering and Aerospace Technology is:

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Mark Wade's Encyclopedia Astronautica
     http://www.astronautix.com/
A potpourri of information about spacecraft, rockets, astronauts, etc.

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Aerofiles
Lists 11,000 types of U.S. aircraft with abbreviated specifications. (Note: Jane's All the World's Aircraft and other print directories provide more information)

Aeroworldnet
Links to current sources of information on aerospace jobs, events, and the homepages of aerospace companies. Provides some information on aircraft. (Note: Jane's All the World's Aircraft and other print directories provide more information)

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Access to the following resources is available to anyone in Pius Library. "In-library access" means that access is available in the Reference Department.  Those resources identified as being available via "remote access" are on the Web.  Note:  Remote access is restricted to current SLU students, faculty, and staff.

Aerospace & High Technology Database.  1986- .   In-library and remote access.  Updated four times per year.  Provides worldwide bibliographic coverage of published and unpublished scientific and technical literature in aeronautics and astronautics.  Articles from more than 1,600 periodicals from world wide sources are scanned in addition to conferences, books, published and unpublished report literature, theses, and patents.  Approximately 60,000 new records are added each year.  The database is the electronic equivalent of two print publications: International Aerospace Abstracts (IAA) and NASA's Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR).  IAA (1961- ) is available in Pius Library at TL 500 .I57 (most recent five years Ref.).  STAR (1963-1995) is available in Pius Library at TL 500 .S35; later editions are only online (http://www.sti.nasa.gov/).
     A search aid for the Aerospace & High Technology Database or its print equivalents is the NASA Thesaurus (2 vols., shelved with IAA at Ref. Z 695.1 .A25 1994).  Information about the thesaurus is also available online at http://www.sti.nasa.gov/thesfrm1.htm.

Applied Science and Technology Index/Abstracts Full Text.  October 1983-  . WilsonWeb.  In-library and remote access.  Also available in paper format.
     Updated monthly.  Includes full text of every article from almost 100 publications back to 1997 in addition to abstracts for articles back to March 1993 and indexing for approximately 480 publications back to October 1983.  Subject coverage includes engineering, mathematics, physics, and computer technology.  Includes articles, interviews, meetings, conferences, exhibitions, and new product reviews/announcements.

ArticleFirst.  1990- .   FirstSearch.  In-library and remote access.  
     Updated daily. Indexes articles from approximately 12,500 journals and magazines covering the subjects of science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture.  Most articles are available by mail or fax for a fee using a credit card; however, Pius Library may own the journal or you may request the article through Interlibrary Loan.

Aviation Week Newsletters.   In-library and remote access.  
     Updated daily.  Includes the electronic editions of several McGraw-Hill aviation newsletters.  There is a searchable archive covering two years.

Dissertation Abstracts.  1861- .  Ovid.  In-library and remote access.  
     Updated monthly.  Indexes dissertations and masters theses produced in accredited North American colleges and universities from 1861 forward and from international universities since 1988.  Abstracts are present for some dissertations beginning in 1973 and masters theses from 1988.

Compendex. 1980- .  Engineering Village.  In-library and remote access.
     Updated monthly.  The premier interdisciplinary engineering database in the world, providing abstracts and full bibliographic citations from worldwide engineering and technical literature that encompasses all engineering disciplines, as well as related fields in science, and management.  The entries are drawn from more than 2,600 published journals, conference proceedings and individual conference papers, technical reports, monographs, and other materials.  Be sure to check out the online thesaurus. The print counterpart is Engingeering Index.

PapersFirst.  1993- .  FirstSearch.  In-library and remote access.  
     Updated 24 times per year.  Indexes papers from every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, or meeting received at the British Library.

ProceedingsFirst.  1993- .   FirstSearch.  In-library and remote access.  
     Updated 24 times per year.  Includes references to every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium, or meeting volume received at the British Library.

SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Publications & Standards Database.  In-library access.
     Provides comprehensive coverage of all of the SAE's technical publications, including standards, specifications, articles, books, and all technical papers since 1906.

Web of Science^®.  1995-  .  ISI.  In-library and remote access.  
     Updated weekly.  Includes thousands of research journals from hundreds of disciplines.  Do a Cited Reference search by Cited Author, Cited Journal Title, or Cited Year or do a General Search by Author, Journal Title, or Address such as institution name, city, country, or even zip code.  The Web of Science consists of Science Citation Index Expanded®, Social Sciences Citation Index®, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index®.

WorldCat.  FirstSearch.  In-library and remote access.  
     Updated daily.  This database includes all types of library materials cataloged by libraries that contribute their records to OCLC, the U.S. national database.  Use to search for books, recordings, etc.  This index will not locate journal articles.

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See General Engineering Guide.

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Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage
This site attempts to list the airfoil(s) used in the wing design of a particular aircraft.

U.I.U.C. (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Airfoil Data Site
Includes the Airfoil Coordinates Database, which describes more than 1,000 airfoils.  The site also links to several other airfoil sites.

Wing Analysis Program
A graphical program written in Java which computes the lift and C₁ distribution over a wing with sweep and twist.

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NACA was established by an act of Congress, approved March 3, 1915.  The Committee was abolished by an act approved July 29, 1958; its functions were transferred to the newly established National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Pius Library has paper copies of NACA reports from the following series in the general collection:

The following paper sources in the Pius Reference section are useful in locating NACA citations:

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
The Web site provides access to bibliographic citations to all NACA reports from 1921 to 1958, plus full text access to most of the NACA reports.

See Airfoil Section for NACA airfoil information.

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NASA was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958; it is the successor to NACA.

Most of the NASA documents series at Pius Library are shelved in Government Documents (Lower Level for paper or Serials for microfiche) by SUDOC (Superintendent of Documents) numbers.  Three series are cataloged and shelved on Level 5:

NASA documents are also indexed in the Aerospace & High Technology Database.  They have also been indexed in Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports, which was published in paper format until 1996; it now available online.  For very early NASA documents, see the Index of NASA Publications covering 1957-60 (Ref. Z 5063 .U6342).

SEARCHABLE ONLINE DATABASES FOR NASA REPORTS

NASA Center for Aerospace Information Technical Reports Server
The NASA Scientific and Technical Information Server/ NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI) database contains bibliographic citations and abstracts for publicly available documents, journal articles, and conference proceedings in the broad areas of aerospace, aeronautics, and related fields.  Citations are retrieved from the NASA RECONplus database.  Coverage of NASA-produced technical reports is from 1915; open literature coverage is from 1970.

NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server
Provides access to NASA generated and sponsored scientific and technical literature from the first reports of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1917 to present as well as reports and articles from non-NASA aerospace sources including the Physics eprint server (arXiv), BioMed Central, the Energy Citation Database (from the U.S. Department of Energy), and Aeronautical Research Committee reports from the MAGiC project. There are currently over 540,000 records and many full-text reports covering all aspects of aerospace-related research.
 

NOTABLE NASA WEB SITES

NASA Historical Archive
Excellent NASA site providing valuable information on the history of space missions. Includes a chronology of aerospace events.

NASA Human Spaceflight
This site offers space news, real-time data, space station and space shuttle information, and space images.

NASA Tech Briefs
Accessible from this site are both domestic and international "tech briefs" which describe innovations developed by NASA and its industry partners.  The associated "technical support packages" explain the technology in greater detail.  Included is a simple search capability.

Selected Current Aerospace Notices (SCAN)
SCAN is an electronic current awareness journal published twice monthly by NASA Entries are arranged by 191 topic areas.

NASA CENTERS

See "More Internet Resources" section below for NASA wind tunnels information.

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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (A.I.A.A.)
The Web site provides information on membership, meetings, publications, organizational structure, and career services for A.I.A.A. members and others; it also includes a searchable database of A.I.A.A. meetings papers (1992- )

A.I.A.A. Meetings Papers Searchable Citation Database 1992 to Present
Updated quarterly, the database contains author, title, paper number, conference date and location information for papers presented at A.I.A.A. meetings from 1992 forward. Note:  The papers are also indexed in the Aerospace & High Technology Database and International Aerospace Abstracts (IAA).  Pius Library had a subscription to AIAA meetings papers on microfiche from 1992-97.  They are filed in numerical order in a cabinet in the Serials Dept. on the second floor of the library.  Any papers not already owned can be ordered for SLU faculty, staff and students.  See your liaison librarian.

American Helicopter Society International
The AHS is the prime professional association for those interested in vertical flight

American Society for Engineering Education
Multidisciplinary society committed to advancing excellence in all aspects of engineering and engineering technical education.

Professional Aviation Maintenance Association (P.A.M.A.)
Association of aviation maintenance professionals, together with other individuals, educational institutions and businesses involved in aviation maintenance.

SAE International
The Society of Automotive Engineers homepage provides information about the publications, meetings, and other activities of a major association involved in all forms of self-propelled vehicles, on land or in the air.  Note:  Pius Library has the SAE Publications and Standards Database available for searching and the printed SAE Transactions (TL 1 .S6), as well as other SAE publications.

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Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc.
Represents U.S. manufacturers of commercial, military and business aircraft, helicopters, aircraft engines, missiles, and spacecraft.  The Web site provides links to 56 member companies as of March, 2000, as well as links to government agencies and organizations in the aerospace industry.

Air Transport Association
Links to the full-text of the Airline Handbook, giving a brief history of aviation, de-regulation, structure of the industry, airline economics, safety, airports, and air traffic control.  The site also provides limited statistics on air travel.

General Aviation Manufacturers Association
Represents general aviation manufacturers before federal and state government agencies; promotes the air transportation environment.

National Space Society
Promotes change in social, technical, economic, and political conditions to advance the day when people will live and work in space.

Space Frontier Foundation
The Foundation is an organization of people dedicated to opening the space frontier to human settlement as soon as possible.

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Basics of Space Flight Learner's Workbook
One in a series of training modules for personnel at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages NASA projects that probe the deep space environment of our solar system.  You can downlhttp://www.academicinfo.net/engringae.htmload the complete module in PDF format in one large file or ten smaller ones.

Academic Info: Aeronautical Engineering resources
An online tutorial designed to teach aerospace engineering students the principles of Integrated Product Development (IPD).  Developed at California Polytechnic University with funding from NASA, Boeing, and McDonnell Douglas.

Tutorial in Basic Aeronautics
A basic introduction to aerodynamics written by Jim McCabe, under the sponsorship of the Numerical Aerospace Simulation (NAS) Facility at NASA Ames Research Center

Tutorial Page of Aerospace Structures (TuPas)
Developed by Dr. Masoud Rais-Rohani and Kristin Young of the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi State University for a course on structural analysis.

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AE-AT WEB SITES

Aerodynamics for Students
Sponsored by the University of Sydney, this site contains a mixture of information, data tables, computer programs, and topics relevant to the study of Aeronautical Engineering.

Air University Research Database
The database contains information on all research being conducted at Air University and provides access to completed research products.

Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC)
AEDC is the most advanced and largest complex of flight simulation test facilities in the world; it serves the Department of Defense, NASA, commercial and international customers. Learn about its aerodynamics, aeropropulsion, rocket testing and space technology facilities at its Web site.

AvScholars Network
This site compiles information on careers and scholarships for those interested in aviation and aerospace career paths.

Careers in Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering
Sponsored by the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at Purdue University.  Provides an excellent overview of aerospace engineering as a career.  Includes interviews with recent Purdue graduates.  In addition to career information, the site provides information on aircraft and spacecraft.

Compressible Aerodynamics Calculator
This calculator, written in Javascript by William Davenport at the Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Department, Virginia Tech, computes the standard relations for compressible flow of a perfect gas.

The CPIA Propulsion Database
The database covers 25 years of propulsion technology research; more than 16,000 citations are included.  It is maintained by the Chemical Propulsion Information Agency.

Fluid & Solid Mechanics Related Web Pages
The emphasis of the links on this Web site is in the area of computational fluid dynamics.

Global Positioning System Overview
The author of this detailed GPS introduction is Peter H. Dana, a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin.  In addition to an overview of GPS, he provides links to numerous other sites.

GPS Primer
A good, short introduction to the Global Positioning System, sponsored by The Aerospace Corporation.

Industry Servers
Provides links to Web sites for companies in the aerospace industry.

MatWeb; The Online Materials Information Resource
Can be used to identify engineering materials based on property requirements.  A supplement to resources available in Pius Library.

Museum of Flight
View images of the Museum's aircraft collection.  Some data on each aircraft is also given.

National Space Science Data Center's General Public Page
Found here are high-quality images of planets, the sun, and other astronomical objects, chronologies of space exploration, fact sheets, satellite trajectories, and much more.

News/Newsgroups
A listing of some of the Usenet newsgroups of interest to aerospace learners.  The list is maintained by Phillippe Adam of California Institute of Technology.

Orbit-on-Web
"An Interactive Spacecraft Orbit Utilities Page" for those interested in orbital mechanics.

Saint Louis University Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering

Saint Louis University Department of Aerospace Technology

The Satellite Site
Sponsored by Lockheed Martin, this site provides a good introduction to the types of satellites, their orbits, and their construction.

Sat Passes
By choosing a satellite name, time zone, and date, the site provides information about satellite passes over North American cities.

Scientific and Technical Information Network
Sponsored by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), STINET provides access to citatons unlimited, unclassified research reports in aerospace and defense covering more than thirteen years of defense-related research; for some reports, the text is available online.

Space Calendar
Presents a history of space exploration in a chronological format.

Standard Atmospheric Computations
Provides a convenient calculator in either English or metric units to calculate twelve standard atmospheric variables (up to 230k feet) given altitude, speed and reference length.

SEDS (Students for the Exploration and Development of Space)

Universiteit Utrecht-Dept. of Computer Science-Aircraft Images Archive
This site has a limited number of military aircraft images.

Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics

Yahoo! Aeronautics and Aerospace

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META-SITES

Aerospace Resources on the Internet

Aeroworldnet

Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL)

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WIND TUNNEL SITES

Arnold Engineering Development Center

Glenn L. Martin Wind Tunnel-U. of Maryland

NASA Ames Research Center: Wind Tunnel Operations Division

NASA Glenn Research Center (formerly Lewis Research Center)

NASA Langley Research Center

Wind Tunnel Enterprise

University of Washington Aeronautical Laboratory

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