AAE 190 Introduction to Aerospace Engineering, Fall 2001
First Handout (a .pdf document)
Material Useful for Many Courses
Seating Chart (.pdf)
What is a slug? Hint: I don't mean the live creature.
Is there gravity in space?
In which direction does the weight vector point? Why is th answer to this question like an onion?
Why does a weathercock point into the wind?
Aerospace Organizations and Publications
About the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Required reading (copies will be provided in class)
Flight Research: Problems Encountered and What They Should Teach Us, by Milton Thompson with J. D. Hunley, NASA SP-2000-4522, Monographs in Aerospace History Number 22, 2000. A copy of his will be handed out in class.
Orders of Magnitude: A History of theNACA and NASA from 1915 to 1990, by Roger Launius, and Steve Garber, NASA History Series, NASA SP-4406, updated by John Henry on November 10, 1999. You can get yourself an electronic copy of this document in pdf format (3.9MB in size) by clicking here.
Backpack VTOL (an article from AviationNow) (.pdf)
Aaliyah's Plane Overloaded, an article by Ruters
Cessna 402b (the aircraft that Aaliyah dies in)
Visit from Purdue graduate (B.S.,1985) Nick Ferraiolo of the Boeing Company and his talk on the Boeing Sonic Cruiser (9/11/01)
Homework 2: Stall speed determination for a light twin-engine general aviation aircraft (.pdf) FIRST MATLAB ASSIGNMENT
Homework 3: Aviation Week Research and Written Report (.pdf) (due 10/2/01)
Distinguished Visitors: John Hayhurst, Senior Vice President, The Boeing Company and Dave Swain, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Technology, The Boeing Company (10/2/01)
Homework 4: Reduction in air density compared to reduction in gravitational acceleration as a function of altitude (.pdf): SECOND MATLAB ASSIGNMENT (due 10/16/01, extended deadline)
Libration Points and the MAP and Genesis Spacecraft
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Exoskeletons for Human Performance Augmentation Program
Visit by Professor Marc Williams (wiliams@ecn.purdue.edu): 10/18/01
Visit by Professor Jim Garrison (jgarriso@ecn.purdue.edu): 10/18/01
Purdue Alumni Make Impact with Odyssey Spacecraft (Associated press story, 10/19/01 ).pdf))
Aviation Week Articles About Careers 2001 from www.aviationnow.com (.pdf). These articles mention Purdue student Jaret Matthews and Purdue alum Dave Swain (who talked in class on 10/2/01)
Homework 5(.pdf): Due 11/1/01, Read NASA Monograph entitled Flight Research: Problems Encountered and What They Should Teach Us and prepare an Electronic Glossary of Technical Terms.
Homework 6 (.pdf) Due 11/8/01: Jeopardy! Game Clues for categories called "Powers of Ten" and "Physical Units"
Talk by Professor Kathleen Howell about her research and teaching (howell@ecn.purdue.edu), November 1, 2001
Talk by student Jaret Matthews about his experiences with the Haughton Mars Project at the Mars Arctic Research Station (matthejb@expert.cc.purdue.edu), November 1, 2001
Three interesting speakers this week
1.Professor Pizza
Dr. Paul Bevilaqua
Chief Scientist: Lockheed Martin Skunk Works
Wednesday, November 7, 12:30 Grissom 370
Free Pizza and soft drinks
2. Professor Pizza
Professor John David Anderson
author of "Fundamentals of Aerodynamics"
and curator of aerodyamics for the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum
Friday, November 9, at 12:30 PM in Grissom 160
Free Pizza and soft drinks
3. Astronaut Lauren Shriver
8:00 PM, Friday, November 9, in Stewart 218.
Student Created Glossary of Terms (.pdf) used in Flight Research: Problems Encountered and What They Should Teach Us, NASA SP-2000-4522
Photographs of the Vertical Tail on Flight 587(.pdf)
Distinguished Guest: Purdue Alum Mike Kennedy, Boeing, November 15, 2001
Distinguished Guest: Purdue Alum Randy Secor, Northrup-Gumman, November 15, 2001
Trip to USAF Museum, Sunday, December 2, 2001 (.pdf)
Talk by Purdue Professor Hyonny Kim, December 4, 2001
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