Preface to this Guide
Content and Material
Contained in this guide is a multitude of links that a typical aerospace engineering student would find useful in their student career. The links are usually to government or official websites that offer advice or knowledge about aerospace engineering. Specifically, much of this guide is aimed for Penn State Students, with specific sites that will enable them to excel in their studies. These sites include journals, indexes, and numerous sites about aerospace engineering in general.
Audience
This guide is mainly intended for people who are currently or will be studying aerospace engineering. In specific, this guide is most useful for people that are juniors or seniors in college looking for items
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Wolfram Alpha is basically a site that acts as a giant, super calculator. The website can do nearly anything in terms as math that you can possibly ask of it. The most important thing is that the website isn’t a solutions website or anything like that- it won’t help you more than a regular calculator could (usually).
The website is a private site and makes the majority of it’s money from pro accounts that give access to more in-depth info about the problems it solves. The site is used by a variety of people of different professions- I’ve been advised to use this resource by professors.
Tips
The pro-version is very valuable in the fact it gives a breakdown of the processes the calculator uses- it shows the actual individual steps and how to solve the problem in the future.
This tool won’t really be able to solve the problem for you, it can only solve the math equations you give it. Using it for things beyond basic math is not a good use for the website, it’s better used to solve either incredibly hard, unsolvable problems or basic problems that would be relatively time consuming not particularly
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ProQuest
Index
Website Link
Search Page: https://search-proquest-com.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/aerospace/
Description
Proquest is an index, provided through the Penn State Library, that is all about articles and other publications about aerospace engineering. A basic search returns thousands of results- some journals, some articles, some conference information, and all of it very relevant.
This kind of site is used to find very relevant material very quickly. This type of resource can be very useful in finding papers for any type of paper you may be writing.
Tips
The website offers many tools to personalize your search, such as:
Source
Peer-Reviewed (If it was or wasn’t)
Year
Language These requirements are very useful, and can help you narrow your search to a near exact version of what you want.
The database is very deep, and has documents to the early 1900’s. Considering the topic of flight in the terms of pure design has really only thoroughly been studied since early 1900’s