Aerospace and Aeronautical Engineering Courses
Courses
Aerospace Materials Lab: This course will focus on the implementation of different manufacturing methods in the design process for aerospace structures. The students will be introduce1to the fundamentals of the machining trade and different types of manufacturing, such as Additive, Subtractive methods 1 and composite manufacturing (Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Molding and hand lay-up).
Department: Aerospace Engineering
1 Credit Hour
1 Total Contact Hour
1 Lab Hour
0 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours
Prerequisite(s): (MECH 1305 w/C or better)
Aerospace Materials: This course is designed to introduce the students to basic materials science with an emphasis on properties and how they are influenced by thermal and mechanical treatments. The students will be able to relate the microstructure of a material to its properties, and understand the effects of the environment on materials and the possible failure modes of structures. The students will be provided with demonstrations of various processes in the laboratory.
Aerodynamics 1: This course builds on the student’s background in Fluid Mechanics to deal primarily with flows (low-speed and highspeed) relevant to aerospace applications, with particular emphasis on components related to an airplane. Both inviscid and viscous flows will be considered in the analysis of airfoils, wings, nozzles, and diffusers.
Department: Aerospace Engineering
3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours
Prerequisite(s): (MECH 2311 w/C or better)
Aerospace Structures I: This course is designed to introduce the students to the analysis and the design of aerospace structures. Review concepts of stress, strain, and equations of elasticity. Plane stress and plane strain. Applications to aerospace structural elements including thin-walled beams with open and closed section, unsymmetrical bending of wing sections, torsion of skin-stringer and multi-cell sections, flexural shear in open and closed sections, Shear Center and failure criteria.
Systems Modelling and Control: The course will provide the basis for system modelling in time and frequency domain with an emphasis in aerospace applications. The course will deliver concepts and the best practices for design and implementation of model-based feedback control of SISO systems. The course will include laboratories and project experiences for real-time implementation.
The course will deliver fundamentals on design, implementations and testing of communications systems in Aerospace applications. The course will provide the participants with fundamentals on digital and analog signal processing, signal loses and attenuation; and will prepare students to design flight communication systems and ground stations using a variety of instruments.
The design of aircraft follows a distinct process but one that varies widely with vehicle application and requirements This course introduces the broad aircraft design process including sub-system interactions, then leads students through specific design tasks. These tasks include sizing of strictures and control surfaces, wing loading and structural supports, aircraft configuration, weight distribution, and human considerations.
This course is designed to introduce students to the analysis and the design of aerospace structures. Bending of plates and shells. Buckling analysis. Energy principles and minimum potential energy. Introduction to the finite element method. Airworthiness and airframe loads. Strength and damage characteristics of ductile, brittle and composite materials. Elements of fracture mechanics and fatigue.
Department: Aerospace Engineering
3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours
Prerequisite(s): (AERO 3323)
Selected topics of current interest in the field of aeronautical engineering.
Department: Aerospace Engineering
3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours
Operation and design principles of a wide variety of aerospace propulsion systems, including propellers, turbine engines, chemical rockets, electric thrusters, nuclear rockets, and propellant-less and other advanced propulsion concepts. How stored energy is converted to vehicle momentum through gas dynamics processes. Introduction to propulsion system integration and testing, and aerospace mission propulsion system selection.
Analysis and design of aero-structural components are covered. It may include computational analysis methods.
Department: Aerospace Engineering
3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours
Prerequisite(s): (AERO 3323 w/D or better)
The behavior of fluids at high speeds varies significantly from low speed flows. This course will introduce the supersonic and hypersonic environment, inviscid hypersonic flows, hypersonic laminar boundary layers, hypersonic thermo-chemical concepts, and the aero-mechanics of re-entry trajectories for spacecraft and missiles.
Department: Aerospace Engineering
3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours
Prerequisite(s): (AERO 3312 w/C or better)
supersonic and hypersonic vehicles range from missiles, to space launch vehicles, and high altitude high speed aircraft. this course introduces the design requirements and principles for common hypersonic vehicle applications. The operating environment, operational loads, and subsystem requirements are applied to the design process.
Department: Aerospace Engineering
3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours
Prerequisite(s): (MECH 3352 w/D or better)
This course is designed to introduce the students to aerospace dynamics. Many aerospace structures are subjected to time-varying loadings, including impact and cyclic excitations. Dynamic response to these loadings can have a character very different from static response. This dynamic behavior must be anticipated in the design of the structure if its performance is to be satisfactory.
Selected topics of current interest in the field of hypersonics.
Department: Aerospace Engineering
3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours
This course provides an overview of orbital mechanics (astrodynamics) and attitude dynamics. Two body Keplerian problems, three dimensional orbits, orbital maneuvers, restricted three body problems, spacecraft reference frames, attitude stabilization, pointing laws, disturbance torques, and spin stabilization are studied. Active spacecraft attitude control hardware is analyzed for performance and implementation. Interplanetary orbits, orbital perturbations, and formation flying are also introduced at a fundamental level.
The environment that a spacecraft must operate in is very different from the environment on the surface of the Earth. The spacecraft environment begins during construction and testing, and carries through into launch, operation in space, and end of life. This course gives an overview of all facets of the space environment including thermal, plasma, radiation, vacuum, solar, and particulates, and introduces you to environmental considerations affecting spacecraft design and operation.
Processes involved in space-bound missions, from mission conception through to launch, operations, and end-of -life. Mission concept development and utility, space law and planetary protection, cost estimation, scheduling, operations, and end-of-life disposal requirements. How mission constraints affect spacecraft design requirements. Payload development and integration, thermal protection systems.
Department: Aerospace Engineering
3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours
Selected topics of current interest in the field of aeronautical engineering.
Department: Aerospace Engineering
3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours
The course will deliver fundamentals on design, implementations, and testing of communications systems in Aerospace applications. The course will provide the participants with fundamentals on digital and analog signal processing, signal loses and attenuation, and will prepare to design flight communication systems and ground stations using a variety of instruments.
Department: Aerospace Engineering
3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours
Prerequisite(s): (MECH 2342 w/C or better)
A holistic view of aerospace systems covering systems engineering; design drivers, trade studies, and design decisions; cost and weight estimation, vehicle performance; safety and reliability; lifecycle topics; vehicle attributes and subsystems; risk analysis; project management; and system realization.
Department: Aerospace Engineering
3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours
Prerequisite(s): (CE 2326 w/C or better)
Students work on a design project specified by the instructor. They are expected to demonstrate knowledge of the engineering design process and apply the knowledge to the project.
Selected topics/projects are the focus of this course. The course is designed to have a few students working on designated topics in Aerospace Engineering.
Department: Aerospace Engineering
3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
0 Lecture Hours
3 Other Hours
Major Restrictions:
Restricted to majors of AERO
Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of SR