Aerospace Engineering

Starting your research

Starting your Research

Encyclopedias, handbooks and subject specific dictionaries will help provide useful background information, as well as terms to use when searching the databases. For example:

Bhatia A.S. (Ed.). (2008). Modern dictionary of aeronautical engineering. New Delhi: Deep & Deep Pub.	Crane, D. (2008). Test guide: Airframe 09. Newcastle, Wash.: Aviation Supplies & Academics.
Milde, M. (2008). International air law and ICAO. Utrecht: Eleven International Publishing.	El-Sayed, A.F. (2008). Aircraft propulsion and gas turbine engines. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press.

A GOOGLE search can also help find background information and suggestions for more keywords.

Keywords & OPAC

Keywords & OPAC

Use OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) to find books, journal titles and audio-visual materials in the Library. When searching for information, you need to use keywords. See below for some suggestions.

Aeronautics	Aeronautics - Maintenance and repair	Aeronautics — Safety measures
Aircraft systems	Airframes — Maintenance and repair	Airplanes - Airworthiness
Airplanes - Fuel systems	Automatic control	Avionics
Bipolar transistors	Engineering Design	Fluid dynamics
Thermodynamics	Tolerance (Engineering)	Wind tunnels

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Finding Articles Online

Finding Articles Online

The articles inside magazines, journals & periodicals are very useful sources of information. Articles are different from books because:

• they are much more up-to-date
• they are shorter (less to read!)
• they concentrate on topics or specific aspects of topics
• there are many articles being published all the time so you have more choice.

The library catalogue, OPAC, does NOT tell you what articles the Library has, only which journals or periodicals, so the easiest way to find articles is to use the online databases.

• Air Transport Intelligence

• Academic Search Premier

• Computer Source

• MAS Ultra: School Edition

• International Civil Organisation Data 1 (ICAO Data) or International Civil Organisation Data 2 (ICAO Data)

• ProQuest Science Journals

Newspaper Articles

Newspaper articles are also very useful sources of information, and can be found in the LexisNexis Academic and the Factiva databases.

• Factiva (Dow Jones)

• LexisNexis Academic

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Click here for a list of all the databases subscribed to by TP Library.

Recommended Websites

Recommended Websites

Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore - the Civil Aviation Authority webpage is the first step to understanding Aviation in Singapore.

Intute: science, engineering, technology - a free online service providing access to web resources for education and research. All material is evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists to create the Intute database. These subject specialists are based in seven universities who work with a host of partners to evaluate web resources and provide a structured approach to help people find and used them.

Landings.com - provides up-to-date information on news within the Aviation industry. Beyond this, it also has an interactive forum in which users can discuss various topics.

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