NIMITZ LIBRARY RESEARCH GUIDES:

• Aerospace Engineering and Astronautics
• Electrical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Ocean Engineering & Naval Architecture
• Systems Engineering
• Weapons and Systems Engineering

• Access Science (Encyclopedia of Science & Technology)
• IEEE Xplore (IEEE journals)

NIMITZ LIBRARY QUICK TIPS (PDF):

• Quick Tips: DoD Research and Engineering Portal - includes CSA Community of Scholars (COS), Knovel and other resources.
• Quick Tips: Knovel in Navy Knowledge Online (NKO) - use this tip sheet to reach Knovel in Navy Knowledge Online - Knovel contains more than 800 engineering handbooks.
• Quick Tips: Microsoft Office 2007 Resources - in Navy Knowledge Online

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
• American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
• American Society of Naval Engineers
• American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM)
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• IEEE
• Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST)
• Royal Institute of Naval Architects (RINA)
• Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
• Society of Women Engineers (SWE)

GENERAL SITES:

• Ceramics WebBook (NIST)
• Compressible Aerodynamics Calculator
• Electrical Engineering Circuits Archive
• Engineering Ethics Cases - Includes cases covering public safety and other ethical issues facing engineers today.
• Invention Dimension - Highlights a different American inventor each week.
• Museum of Science and Industry
• MatWeb: The Online Materials Information Resource - An index to information about specific materials. Provides detailed information on the properties of more than 2,000 engineered materials.)
• National Inventors Hall of Fame - Provides portraits and biographies of famous inventors.
• NIST Physical Reference Data
• NIST WebBook
• Thomas Register of American Manufacturers - Provides information about specific products commercially available. Requires users to "register" before they can search the file.
• Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics