Aeronautics and Astronautics
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- Course prerequisite chain
- Immediate prerequisite(s) (or concurrent registration allowed if listed in the same semester)
- Concurrent registration required
- Postrequisite course sequence
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Intro-1 (2-4)
Intro to Engineering Calculus-1 (4-5)
Calculus I Chemistry (4)
Chemistry Communication-1 (3-4)
Written Communication |
Intro-2 (2-4)
Intro to Engineering II Calculus-2 (4-5)
Calculus II Physics (4)
Physics ENGR/Selective (3-4)
Engineering Selective Communication-2 (3-4)
Oral Communication |
AAE 20000 (0)
Ugrad Sophomore Seminar Credit Hours: 0.00. The courses are intended to provide a forum for guest speakers, organizational and informational meetings with undergraduates, and to provide a venue for discussion of professional development. AAE 20300 (3)
Aeromechanics I Credit Hours: 3.00. Fundamental concepts and principles of bodies in motion, with applications to aeronautical and astronautical problems. Subjects covered include rectilinear motion, curvilinear motion, rotation, and plane motion. The static equilibrium and quasistatic equilibrium situations are treated as a part of motion in which the acceleration is zero. Problems involving impact, separation, work, and energy are considered. MA 26100 (4)
Multivariate Calculus Credit Hours: 4.00. Planes, lines, and curves in three dimensions. Differential calculus of several variables; multiple integrals. Introduction to vector calculus. Not open to students with credit in MA 27100. MA 26500 (3)
Linear Algebra Credit Hours: 3.00. Introduction to linear algebra. Systems of linear equations, matrix algebra, vector spaces, determinants, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, diagonalization of matrices, applications. Not open to students with credit in MA 26200, 27200, 35000 or 35100. GE (3)
General Education |
AAE 20400 (3)
Aeromechanics II Credit Hours: 3.00. Loads on aircraft. Strain, stress, and equations of equilibrium. Description of aircraft structures and materials. Torsion of shafts. Fuselage and wing structures. Symmetrical bending and stiffness analysis of solid and stringer-panel box beams. Structural failures. AAE 20401 (1)
Aeromechanics II Lab Credit Hours: 1.00. Introduction to strain gauges, dial gauges, and photoelasticity. Tensile test. Torsion of solid and hollow propeller shafts. Stress concentration around skin cut-outs. Bending of symmetrical box wing beams. Combined axial and flexural test of aircraft stringers. Buckling of slender stringers. AAE 25100 (3)
Intro Aerospace Design Credit Hours: 3.00. The role of design in aerospace engineering. Introduction to aerodynamics, performance, propulsion, structures, stability and control, and weights. Layout and general arrangement of aerospace vehicles. Design concept generation and selection. Computational methods for design. Trade studies and graphical optimization. Conceptual design exercise involving aircraft, spacecraft, or both. Technical presentations and communication for aerospace engineering. MFET 16300 (2)
Graphical Communication and Spatial Analysis Credit Hours: 2.00. An introductory course in computer graphics applications for mechanical- and aeronautical-related professions. Experiences focus on visualization, sketching, graphic standards, and problem-solving strategies for engineering design. The course will emphasize the proper use of parametric solid modeling for design intent. MA 26600 (3)
Ordinary Differ Equatn Credit Hours: 3.00. First order equations, second and n'th order linear equations, series solutions, solution by Laplace transform, systems of linear equations. It is preferable but not required to take MA 26500 either first or concurrently. Not open to students with credit in MA 26200, 27200, 36000, 36100, or 36600. ME 20000 (3)
Thermodynamics I Credit Hours: 3.00. First and second laws of thermodynamics, entropy, reversible and irreversible processes, properties of pure substances. Application to engineering problems. PHYS 24100 (3)
Electricity Optics Credit Hours: 3.00. Electrostatics, current electricity, electromagnetism, magnetic properties of matter. Electromagnetic waves, geometrical and physical optics. |
AAE 30000 (0)
Ugrad Junior Seminar Credit Hours: 0.00. The courses are intended to provide a forum for guest speakers, organizational and informational meetings with undergraduates, and to provide a venue for discussion of professional development. AAE 30100 (3)
Sig Anly For Aero Engr Credit Hours: 3.00. Signal processing and spectral analysis for aerospace engineering. Fourier and fast Fourier transforms. Vibration analysis; estimation of natural frequencies, wing vibrations. Introduction to linear circuits, operational amplifiers and filtering. Noise suppression. AAE 33300 (3)
Fluid Mechanics Credit Hours: 3.00. Kinematics of fluids and conservation equations for mass, momentum, and energy. Viscous and inviscid incompressible flow. Lift and drag in subsonic flow. Introduction to compressibility and boundary layers. Potential flow. AAE 33301 (1)
Fluid Mechanics Lab Credit Hours: 1.00. A laboratory course designed to illustrate various aerodynamic phenomena. Experiments in incompressible viscous flow; flow measurement and visualization; laminar and turbulent boundary layers; wakes. AAE 35200 (3)
Structural Analysis I Credit Hours: 3.00. Properties of wing and fuselage sections. Beam-column moments. Torsion of thin-walled and skin-stringer multiple-cell sections. Nonsymmetrical bending of skin-stringer wing sections. Flexural shear in open and closed thin-walled and skin-stringer sections. Loads and stresses in the rib system. Cutouts and shear lag. Modified beam theory for wing and fuselage design. Deflection by energy method. Introduction to composite structures. MA 30300 (3)
Diff Equa Inc Systems Credit Hours: 3.00. This is a methods course for juniors in any branch of engineering and science, designed to follow MA 26200 or MA 26600. Materials to be covered are: linear systems of ordinary differential equations, nonlinear systems, Fourier series, separation of variables for partial differential equations, and Sturm-Liouville theory. GE (3)
General Education GE (3)
General Education |
AAE 33400 (3)
Aerodynamics Credit Hours: 3.00. Incompressible airfoil and lifting line theory. Steady and unsteady, one-dimensional, linear and nonlinear flows. Normal shock waves. Steady, supersonic, two-dimensional linear and nonlinear flows. Oblique shock waves. Perturbation theory for wings and bodies. Design applications. AAE 33401 (1)
Aerodynamics Lab Credit Hours: 1.00. A laboratory course designed to illustrate various aerodynamic phenomena. Airfoil pressure distribution. Finite wing lift, drag, and moment. Supersonic flow around bodies. Shock waves. AAE 34000 (3)
Dynamics & Vibrations Credit Hours: 3.00. Kinematics and kinetics of particles and rigid bodies. Topics include a particle in orbit, systems of particles, vibrations, Euler's equations of motion, Eulerian angles, and aerospace vehicle dynamics. AAE 36400 (3)
Control System Anly Credit Hours: 3.00. Modeling and analysis of dynamical systems with aerospace applications. Laplace transforms, transfer functions, block diagrams. Transient and steady-state response of dynamical systems. Root Locus, Bode, Nyquist methods for control systems analysis. Introduction to controller design. AAE 33800 (3)
Thermal Sciences Credit Hours: 3.00. A fundamental course covering a range of topics selected from the disciplines of engineering thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer and combustion, with an emphasis on their application to propulsion. This is an entry level course to prepare students for advanced analysis of propulsion and energy systems. Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to apply fundamental principles to perform thermodynamic analysis for thermophysical problems involving fluid flow, heat transfer and combustion. GE (3)
General Education |
AAE 36401 (1)
Control Systems Lab Credit Hours: 1.00. Enhance student awareness of control systems by providing hands-on experience using dynamic systems representative of air and space vehicles. Design of a control system from start to finish by mapping requirements into control solutions through the process of modeling, identification, and controller design (PID and Lead-Lag). AAE 40000 (0)
Ugrad Senior Seminar Credit Hours: 1.00. A lecture-demonstration series emphasizing evaluation of career options, identification and development of professional skills. Example of career-related topics include choosing a job, and post graduate education in engineering or other disciplines. Examples of professional skills topics covered include interviewing, writing, and ethics. Assessment of student achievement of AAE program learning outcomes. Elective/Engr-1 (3)
AAE ENGR Specialization Elective/AAE (3)
AAE Selective SE (3)
Statistic Selective TE (3)
Technical Elective BUS (3)
AAE Business Rule |
AAE 42100 (3)
Flight Dynam & Control Credit Hours: 3.00. Flight vehicle rigid-body equations of motion; linearization via small perturbation techniques. Trim analysis, static and dynamic stability, aerodynamic stability derivatives and control effectiveness. Vehicle transfer functions, stability augmentation, aircraft handling qualities. Introduction to flexible vehicle effects. AAE 45000 (3)
Spacecraft Design Credit Hours: 3.00. Senior students perform a team-based spacecraft design, requiring application of the education and skills developed in the aerospace curriculum. Components include analysis methods for preliminary design, development of an initial vehicle concept, and development of a complete numerical model of the mission, culminating in oral and written reports by the teams. Elective/Engr-2 (6)
AAE ENGR Specialization Elective/AAE (3)
AAE Selective GE/COMM (3)
AAE Communications Rule |
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