Cal Poly Aero Course/Department Webpages

• AERO 215- Introduction to Aerospace Design

• AERO 306- Aerodynamic & Flight Performance

• AERO 405- Supersonic & Hypersonic Aerodynamics

• AERO 407- Reentry Aerodynamics

• AERO 447, 448, 449- Spacecraft Design

• AERO 461, 462- Senior Project (downloads Senior Project Instruction Booklet in pdf format)

• AERO 520- Theoretical Aerodynamics

• AERO 521- Missile and Launch Vehicle Aerodynamics

• AERO 525- Computational Fluid Dynamics

• MATH 501/502- Methods of Applied Mathematics

• Aero Dept. Academic Advising- Advising Information from Dept. Advisor Dr. Russ Cummings

Aerospace/Aviation Sites of Interest

• Aero Gopher
• Aeronautica 3D - aircraft 3D models and an Aviation & Aerospace Forum.
• Aeronautics Education - explains the very basics of how planes fly, plus great NASA K-12 aeronautics education links.
• Aeronautics Learning Laboratory for Science, Technology, and Research - NASA-sponsored site offering a complete textbook on aeronautics at various reading levels, from middle school through college.
• Aeronet - Aeronet is the Aviation Industry`s Webserver, providing information to the commercial aviation industry.
• Aerospace Images
• Aerotech News and Review - focuses on the aerospace and defense industries.
• Air Letter On-line - Daily newsletter covering the international aerospace, aviation, and air defense industries.
• Hangar, The - presents the latest in technology and classic moments in aviation history.
• Aeroservice Publications Pty Ltd - publishes operations manuals for the aviation industry, conducts dangerous goods training by correspondence and produces dangerous goods manuals.
• Aerospace Corporate Research Inc. - market newsletter specializing in the aerospace industry.
• Aviation Week Group - McGraw-Hill's Aviation Week Group is the world's most authoritative source of aviation/aerospace information.
• Composites - technical guide on use of composite materials in aerospace, automotive and industrial applications.
• Jane's Electronic Information System
• Landings - Landings' directory will connect you to virtually every lift-generating web site on the net, from airports to flying clubs, organizations and publications to aviation events, home-building to airlines and many more.
• Leading Edge - web magazine covering the leading edge of aviation, space and defense technology news. RealAudio and video available.
• New Space Network
• Rocket Scientist Private E-Mail Reserve - Directory of Aerospace workers' personal e-mail addresses allows you to find and communicate with colleagues.
• Yahoo Aerospace News

Companies

• Aerojet
• AIS Advanced InfoData Systems - supplies digital elevation models for avionics systems.
• Barrios Technology - provides engineering and technical services for space development and operations.
• Boeing
• CACI-ASG - divisions focusing on missile and sensor systems, missile design, software development and optical sensors.
• Conceptual Research Corporation - Conceptual design of new/modified aircraft, RDS design program, consulting, design short courses.
• Draper Laboratory - JSC - measurement, analysis, simulation, and control of complex dynamic systems.
• Eg3 Communcations - Internet shareware to capture, organize, and link all important electronic design web sites
• Etruria Technology - capabilities in aerospace engineering, EMRC NISA/DISPLAY software, light aircraft design and certification, and aircraft with three lifting surfaces.
• Kennon Aircraft Covers- manufacturer of quality aircraft covers for general, business, and military aircraft.
• Lockheed Martin
• MAEAAS, Inc. - provides engineering, drafting, technical publications and data management services.
• Modelwerks, Inc. - prototyping and wind tunnel model development and production.
• NASA Dryden
• Naval Center for Space Technology
• Network Analysis Inc. - Home of Sinda/G, a powerful thermal analysis code developed originally for the aerospace industry.
• Physical Sciences Inc. - develops and commercializes advanced technologies for the aerospace, energy, environmental, manufacturing and medical markets.
• Rockwell
• Shot Inc. - research and development firm specializing in the design and fabrication of biological space flight equipment.
• Silicon Graphics - Scalable, deployable supercomputing and 3-D visualization
• Silver Engineering Inc. - A high-technology firm engaged in the electrical, mechanical, and software systems engineering for space systems and ground support equipment.
• Skywatch - Custom aerospace and aircraft design.
• SpaceJobs - WWW employment resource which is tailored specifically for the aerospace industry
• 3-D Systems - Introduced the Actua 2100 concept modeler which allows design engineers to print solid 3-D models of their concepts as easily as they can print or plot a drawing
• TiNi Alloy Company - R&D house specializing in shape memory alloy applications, including a number of innovative actuators and valves for aerospace applications.
• ViGYAN, Inc. - R&D, including wind tunnel testing, data acquisition, and CFD.

Innovative Research Areas

• Development of a Taxi Assistance and Guidance System - support the pilot on the ground by weather independent navigation, datalink communication, and several assistance and warning functions.
• Instrumenting a Research Aircraft - how to instrument your own research airplane so that you can go out and perform a complete flight test program
• Perceived Human Factors Problems of Flightdeck Automation - describes a study to identify possible human factors (ergonomics) problems with commercial aircraft automation.
• RADSIM - Simulation of avionics radar displays including synthetic aperture radar (SAR), real beam ground mapping, and doppler beam sharpening (dbs) systems.
• Smart Damage Sensing in A/C Structures - smart damage sensing in CFRP composite structures.

Organizations

• American Helicopter Society
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - Indepth site dedicated to AIAA
• Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
• Aerospace Industries Association of Canada
• Consortium of Lancashire Aerospace (CLA) - represents the interests of over 130 aerospace and high technology engineering companies based in the North West of England.
• International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
• Sigma Gamma Tau - This web site is the home page for Sigma Gamma Tau. It is currently being developed and in the future will contain information on National, Regional and Student Chapter activities.

Universitites

• Ryerson Polytechnic University
• Arizona State University
• Auburn University - Department of Aerospace Engineering
• Aviation & Electronic Schools of America
• Broward County Community College - Aviation Institute
• California Polytechnic University-SLO
• Caltech Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories
• Carleton Aerospace Society/CASI Carleton
• Carleton University - Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Case Western Reserve University - Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Cranfield University - College of Aeronautics
• Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) - Department of Aerospace Engineering
• Department of Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Florida Institute of Technology - School of Aeronautics
• Florida Institute of Technology School of Aeronautics
• Georgia Tech School of Aerospace Engineering@
• Imperial College, London - Aeronautics
• Experimental Aerodynamics at Georgia Tech
• Iowa State University
• Jacksonville University
• London Guildhall University
• Mississippi State University - AIAA
• Mississippi State University - Department of Aerospace Engineering
• Moscow State Technical Univesity of Civil Aviation
• Naval Postgraduate School - Aviation Safety
• Northeast Louisiana University
• Northern Lights College - Aviation Department
• Penn State, Aerospace Engineering
• Princeton University - Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Purdue University - Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
• Queen's University Belfast - Aeronautical Engineering
• RMIT - Department of Aerospace Engineering
• Rutgers University - Center for Cumputational Modeling of Aircraft Structures (CMAS)
• RWTH Aachen Shock Wave Laboratory
• San Diego State University
• Spartan School of Aeronautics
• Stanford University
• Syracuse University
• UND Aerospace - University of North Dakota
• University of Alabama in Huntsville
• University of Arizona - Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
• University of California at Irvine
• University of Cincinnati
• University of Colorado - Center for Aerospace Structures
• University of Colorado - Gravitational Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
• University of Dayton
• University of Florida
• University of Glasgow - Department of Aerospace Engineering
• University of Illinois - Institute of Aviation
• University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign - Dept. of Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering
• University of Illionis - Hybrid Rocket Project
• University of Maryland - Rotorcraft Center
• University of Maryland Glenn Martin Wind Tunnel
• University of Michigan
• University of Missouri-Rolla
• University of Nebraska at Omaha Aviation Institute
• University of Newcastle
• University of Sydney - Department of Aeronautical Engineering
• University of Toronto - Institute for Aerospace Studies
• University of Washington
• USC - Aerospace Engineering

Research Centers and Institutes

• AOARD - Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development - Air Force office of scientific research for information on Asian S&T developments.
• Arnold Engineering Development Center - Aerospace test facility with wind tunnels, CFD, vertical rocket engine test stands, and high energy test facilities. Located on Arnold Air Force Station near Tullahoma, Tennessee.
• Aviation Safety Group - Undertakes research in mainly human factors in aviation, from maintenance over ATC to the flight deck
• Center for Advanced Aviation System Development (CAASD) - a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)-sponsored Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) operated by The MITRE Corporation
• FAA Center for Aviation Systems Reliability at Iowa State University
• Institute for Aerospace Research (National Research Council Canada)
• International Loran Association
• Jet Propulsion
• Joint University Program in Air Transportation Research
• KAIST Aeroacoustics Laboratory
• NASA
• Ohio Aerospace Institute - devoted to collaborative research, graduate and continuing education, industrial assistance, and technology adaption.
• ONERA-French Aerospace Research Center - Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales.
• Smithsonian Institution - National Air & Space Museum
• Space Remote Sensing Center - The Institute for Technology Development/Space Remote Sensing Center (ITD/SRSC) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the development and commercialization of remote sensing and Geographic Information System technologies into the private and public sectors.
• National Institute for Aviation Research - A major source of research, development, and testing in both aviation and non-aviation related fields.

Web Search Engines

• Alta Vista
• Apollo
• Excite Netsearc
• EiNet/Galaxy
• Infoseek
• Inktomi
• Link Star (PowerLink)
• Lycos
• Open Text
• Starting Point
• Spark Search Service
• Tribal Voice
• Web Crawler
• Whats New Too
• Yahoo

Additional websites to add?  Contact aero@polymail.calpoly.edu.

Last updated 25 January 2001