NE 423: Naval Engineering Senior Design

The laws guiding OSHA's oversight of maritime workers' conditions.

Compliance documentation from the Coast Guard to ensure marine safety in commercial vessels.

Useful information and reference material for mariners, including Technical Notes, Plan Review Guidelines, and Tonnage Guides.

The United Nations department responsible for "the safety and security of shipping and the prevention of marine and atmospheric pollution by ships."

The IMO's collected information on SOLAS, including the text currently in effect: "The SOLAS Convention in its successive forms is generally regarded as the most important of all international treaties concerning the safety of merchant ships."

ABS Rules & Guides cover building, classing, and construction of marine vessels.

"IACS produces a range of documentation to help promote consistency throughout the member societies." The Green and Blue Books present IACS Resolutions and Recommendations currently in force.

The IMO's collected information on the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, "the main international convention covering prevention of pollution of the marine environment by ships from operational or accidental causes."

The IMO's collected information on the International Code for Ships Operating in Polar Waters, which "covers the full range of design, construction, equipment, operational, training, search and rescue and environmental protection matters relevant to ships operating in the inhospitable waters surrounding the two poles."

The EPA works with the IMO on issues of ship emission standards and the Polar Code in alignment with MARPOL (International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships).

Science.gov is a gateway to over 50 million pages of authoritative selected science information provided by U.S. government agencies, including research and development results.

The National Technical Reports Library from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) brings together a large collection of historical and current government technical reports.

The National Transportation Library's database contains over the records of published transportation research from the agencies of the US Department of Transportation including technical reports, books, conference proceedings and journal articles.

All US marine accident reports from the NTSB as of 1996.

The Defense Technical Information Center's Technical Report collection includes all unclassified, unlimited government-sponsored technical report citations since 1974. Some reports are available full-text online. The scope of DTIC collection includes areas normally associated with Department of Defense research; however, since DoD interests are widespread, the collection also contains information relating to hard sciences such as biological and medical sciences; environmental pollution and control; and the behavioral and social sciences.

The National Service Center for Environmental Publications is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's simple search engine for their publications. Search, view, and print from a collection of thousands of technical and public information documents.