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JOB-A-RAMA

Debbie Mullins
mullins@tsgc.utexas.edu

voice: 512-471-7390
fax: 512-471-3585

3925 West Braker Lane, Suite 200
Austin, Texas 78759

toll-free switchboard:
1-800-248-8752

• ASEE Engineering
  http://www.asee.org/
• Breaking Through: the Creative Engineer
  http://www.eweek.org/site/nbm/index.html
• Discover Engineering
  http://www.discoverengineering.org/
• Engineer on a Disk
  http://claymore.engineer.gvsu.edu/eod/
• Engineers CAN Be Entertaining
  http://www.eweek.org/site/News/Features/entertan.shtml
• Famous Engineers
  http://www.uncw.edu/preeng/egn101/famous.html
• Famous Engineers
  http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Stu/hnaseer/interest.htm
• Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century
  http://www.Greatachievements.org/
• National Society of Professional Engineers
  http://www.nspe.org/index.html
• Sightseers Guide to Engineering
  http://www.engineeringsights.org/

• Aviation History Online Museum
  http://www.aviation-history.com/
• Centennial of Flight
  http://www.centennialofflight.gov/
• Dryden Flight Research Center History of Flight
  http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/History/History_Flight/histflt.html
• First Flight - History of Flight and Aerodynamics
  http://firstflight.open.ac.uk/
• Flight-History.com
  http://www.flight-history.com/
• Flights of Inspiration
  http://www.fi.edu/flights/
• History of Aviation and Modern Rocketry
  http://www.thespaceplace.com/history/rocket2.html
• Jay Miller Aviation History Collection
  http://www.cals.lib.ar.us/miller/
• Wright Brothers Exhibit, Henry Ford Museum
  http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/wright/
• Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company
  http://www.first-to-fly.com/

• Spacecraft Design Reference Library - University of Maryland
  http://spacecraft.ssl.umd.edu/design_lib/design_lib.html

• American Artifacts
  http://www.americanartifacts.com/smma/index.htm
• 19th Century Journals Online
  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/refsites/journals19cen.html
• 19th Century Scientific American Online
  http://www.history.rochester.edu/Scientific_American/index.html
• Making of America Collection
  http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/moa_browse.html

• Famous Inventions: A to Z
  http://inventors.about.com/library/bl/bl12.htm
• Famous Inventors: A to Z
  http://inventors.about.com/library/bl/bl1_1.htm?PM=ss14_inventors
• Invent Now - National Inventors Hall of Fame
  http://www.invent.org
• Inventors and Innovation - Encyclopedia Smithsonian
  http://www.si.edu/Encyclopedia_SI/Art_and_Design/default.htm
• Inventors Museum
  http://www.inventorsmuseum.com
• Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation
  http://invention.smithsonian.org/home/
• Time Magazine-100 Scientists and Thinkers of the 20th Century
  http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/index.html
• Twentieth Century Inventions
  http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa121599a.htm?PM=ss11_inventors

• Destination Space
  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/destinationspace/
• Lunar and Planetary Institute
  http://www.lpi.usra.edu/
• Messier's Catalog
  http://www.seds.org/messier/
• Satellite Sighting from Your Location
  http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/
• Sky Watch
  http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/sightings/
• Space.com
  http://www.space.com/
• Space Day
  http://www.spaceday.com/

• Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, California
  http://www.arc.nasa.gov/
• Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California
  http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/
• Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio
  http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/home/index.html
• Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland
  http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasedena, California
  http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/
• Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas
  http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/
• John F. Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida
  http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/home/index.html
• Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia
  http://www.larc.nasa.gov/
• Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama
  http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/home/index.html
• John C. Stennis Space Center, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi
  http://www.ssc.nasa.gov/

• National Science Foundation
  http://www.nsf.gov/
• Faculty Fellowship Program, NASA-wide
  http://www.asee.org/nffp/
• Graduate Student Researchers Program, NASA-wide
  http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/postsecondary/learning/Graduate_Student_Researchers_Program.html
• JSC Cooperative Education Program
  http://coop.jsc.nasa.gov/index.htm
• JSC Coops - Biographies by Major
  http://coop.jsc.nasa.gov/bio_major.html
• NASA Jobs
  http://nasajobs.nasa.gov/
• Undergraduate Student Research Program, NASA-wide
  http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/postsecondary/learning/Undergraduate_Student_Research_Program.html

• Beginners Guide to Aeronautics
  http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/index.html
• Build a 1903 Wright Flyer
  http://www.faa.gov/education_research/education/student_resources/kids_corner/ages_13/1903_flyer/
• Build a Balloon-Powered Nano-rover
  http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/muses1.htm
• Build a Popsicle Stick Truss Bridge
  http://www.eweek.org/site/DiscoverE/popsicle.shtml
• Fly to the Future Design Challenge
  http://spaceday-prod.donet.com/en/designchallenge/students/challenge1.php
• NASA Quest
  http://quest.nasa.gov/about/index.html
• Hearing the Light
  http://www.eweek.org/site/DiscoverE/activities/hearinglight.shtml
• Mousetrap Vehicle
  http://www.reachoutmichigan.org/funexperiments/quick/eweek/moustrap.html
• Peanut Butter and Jelly Microprocessor
  http://www.centexeweek.org/html/peanut_butter_and_jelly.html
• Soda Bottle Magnetometer [Gr 6-adult]
  http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/workbook/magnet.html
• Thomas Edison's Science Teaching Experiments
  http://www.charlesedisonfund.org/Experiments/experiments.html

• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  http://www.aiaa.org
• American Society for Engineering Education
  http://www.asee.org
• ASME International
  http://www.asme.org
• Association of Space Explorers
  http://www.space-explorers.org/
• British National Space Centre
  http://www.bnsc.gov.uk/
• Canadian Space Agency
  http://www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/default.asp
• European Space Agency
  http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/index.html
• U.S. National Space Foundation
  http://www.spacefoundation.org/
• Universities Space Research Association
  http://www.usra.edu/
• National Engineers Week Foundation
  http://www.eweek.org/Home.aspx

• Aerospace Activities and Lessons
  http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/aeroact.htm
• Aircraft Design Workshop
  http://connect.larc.nasa.gov/
• Basics of Space Flight
  http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/basics/
• Beginner's Guide to Aerodynamics
  http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/bga.html
• Beginner's Guides to Aeronautics
  http://www.lerc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/
• Cornell Theory Center - Math and ScienceGateway
  http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Edu/MathSciGateway/
• Cosmic and Heliospheric Learning Center
  http://helios.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• Human Anatomy Online
  http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html
• Imagine the Universe
  http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• Nine Planets - Tour of the Solar System
  http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
• Physics Demonstration Resources
  http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~phy-demo/resources/resources.html
• Plants Database
  http://plants.usda.gov/
• Skytopia - The World's Most UnansweredScience Project
  http://www.skytopia.com/project/science/science.html
• Space Science Education Resource Directory
  http://teachspacescience.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/ssrtop.plex
• Skateboard Science
  http://www.exploratorium.edu/skateboarding/
• Sunspots
  http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/segwayed/lessons/sunspots/
• Tell Me About . . . from the CanadaScience and Technology Museum
  http://www.science-tech.nmstc.ca/english/schoolzone/tellmeabout.cfm
• Using Research Tools to Design anAirplane
  http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/background/tools/
• Young Oxford Encyclopedia of Science
  http://www.oup.co.uk/oxed/children/yoes/sites/transport/
• Zona Land - Education in Physic andMath
  http://id.mind.net/~zona/

• Career Journal, Wall Street Journal
  http://www.careerjournal.com
• CNN Best Places to Live
  http://money.cnn.com/best/bplive/
• Graduate School
  http://www.cgsnet.org/ResourcesForStudents/
• JobWeb.com
  http://www.jobweb.com/
• National Associate of Colleges andEmployers
  http://www.naceweb.org/default.cfm
• Salary Survey
  http://ecac.engr.utexas.edu/students/salarySurveys.cfm

• Brain Drain
  http://web.mit.edu/invent/g-braindrain/game.html
• Jokes for Engineers
  http://www.engineeringedu.com/jokes.html
• Microgravity Man Comics
  http://microgravity.grc.nasa.gov/ug_man/ug1.html
• Physics Jokes and Cartoons
  http://www.physlink.com/Fun/Index.cfm
• S. Harris Cartoon Gallery
  http://www.sciencecartoonsplus.com/gallery.htm
• Science Cartoons
  http://www.firstscience.com/site/cartoons.asp
• Space Comics
  http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/ApoCom1.html
• Space Movies Cinema
  http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/movies.html
• Trivia Challenge
  http://web.mit.edu/invent/g-trivia.html
• Trivia: Women Engineers
  http://www.eweek.org/site/Just4Fun/mystere.shtml

• From Inspiration to Inventions
  http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/PAO/html/warp/inspinv.htm
• Science Fiction to Space Technology
  http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/SFTerms.html
• Mechanical Marvels of the 19th Century
  http://www.bigredhair.com/robots/index.html
• Science Fiction Technology Terms
  http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/SFTerms.html
• Star Trek Science
  http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/education/just_for_fun/startrek.html
• Warp Drive
  http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/PAO/warp.htm
• Why Files: Science Movies: AlwaysScience Fiction?
  http://whyfiles.org/147sci_in_film/index.html

• Sightseer's Guide to Engineering
  http://www.engineeringsights.org/
• Science and Technology Museums of the U.S.
  http://www.gomilpitas.com/homeschooling/articles/030299.htm
• American Airlines C. R. Smith Museum, Fort Worth
  http://www.crsmithmuseum.org
• Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
  http://fortworthmuseum.org
• George Observatory
  http://www.geocities.com/birdbarn2000/page11.html
• Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston
  http://www.hmns.mus.tx.us/
• McDonald Observatory, Davis Mountains, Texas
  http://www.as.utexas.edu/mcdonald/mcdonald.html
• Science Place, Dallas
  http://www.scienceplace.org
• Space Center Houston
  http://www.spacecenter.org
• Texas Museums
  http://www.io.com/~tam/museum.html
• Texas Roadside Icons
  http://members.aol.com/JTankard/roadside/home.html
• Texas State Railroad State Park
  http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/park/railroad/railroad.htm

• Commonly Used References to Topics in Science in Technology
  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/refsites/
• Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use
  http://vesuvius.jsc.nasa.gov/er/seh/menu.html
• Engineering Resources
  http://www.asee.org/neic/other/database.cfm
• Goddard Space Flight Center Library
  http://library.gsfc.nasa.gov/
• Invention and Design
  http://www.iath.virginia.edu/~meg3c/id/id_home.html
• Inventor's Handbook
  http://web.mit.edu/invent/h-main.html
• Library of Congress
  http://www.loc.gov/
• NEEDS Digital Engineering Library
  http://www.needs.org/needs/index.jhtml
• Patent Information
  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/engin/patent/uspat.html
• Tips on Writing Abstracts
  http://www-geology.ucdavis.edu/~gel190/advice.html
• U.S. Industry Standards
  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/engin/standards/usstds.html
• Useful Reference Sites
  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/refsites/alpha.html
• Web Based Reference Tools
  http://www.socialpsychology.org/tools.htm
• Writing Guidelines for Engineeringand Science Students
  http://filebox.vt.edu/eng/mech/writing/