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Aerospace engineering

The Aerospace Engineering program of study emphasizes aerodynamics, structures, propulsion, and flight mechanics with instructional material leading to a year-long capstone design experience in the senior year. Faculty work in areas such as aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, structural mechanics, material science, dynamics and control, multidisciplinary design optimization, and energy systems.

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  • ProQuest Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Collection

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    ProQuest Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Collection

    Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Collection indexes citations, abstracts, and full text of journal articles, books, conference papers, technical reports, and patents on all aspects of aeronautics, technology, computing, meteorology, and telecommunications. Full text journal articles and books provided as HTML and PDF. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources. 1962-present.  

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  • AIAA Aerospace Research Central

        American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
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    AIAA Aerospace Research Central

    Includes full text of AIAA journal articles and technical papers from 1963 - present as PDFs, as well as full text of the publications of the American Rocket Society and the Institute of the Aerospace Sciences, 1930 - 1962. Citations (not full text) of AIAA standards are also available. See the AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Refsheet or detailed instructions on finding AIAA documents.  

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  • Engineering Village

        Engineering Village
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    Engineering Village

    Engineering Village is the search interface to three engineering databases: Compendex, Inspec, and NTIS. Compendex indexes citations and abstracts from over 5,000 engineering journals, conference papers, books, patents, dissertations, and technical reports. Inspec indexes citations and abstracts from journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and dissertations in engineering and physical sciences. NTIS indexes citations and abstracts of National Technical Information Service reports and audiovisual materials from sources such as NASA and the departments of Energy and Defense. 1884-present.  

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  • IEEE Xplore Digital Library

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    IEEE Xplore Digital Library

    IEEE Xplore is a digital library providing full text access to the world’s highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, electronics, and related disciplines. IEEE Xplore contains full text documents from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines, letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) publications. Full text content is provided as PDFs. 1893-present, full text from 1988-present.

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Guides for finding engineering related information

Some engineering material can be difficult to locate. These reference sheets give general information about the resource as well as instructions on how to retrieve the material from the VT library collection.

  • AIAARefsheet - AIAA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - technical papers
  • ASMERefsheet - ASME: American Society of Mechanical Engineers - technical papers
  • ASTMRefsheet- ASTM: American Society for Testing and Materials - standards and technical papers
  • EPARefsheet - EPA: Environmental Protection Agency - reports
  • NASARefsheet - NACA/NASA - technical reports
  • SAERefsheet - SAE: Society of Automotive Engineers - technical papers and standards
  • Engineering standards - standards from many engineering organizations
  • MSDS - Material Safety Data Sheets