Preliminary design of traditional, urban air mobility, unmanned rotorcraft vehicles.

Advanced design applications of space systems. Students apply mission and spacecraft design principles.

Conceptual design and synthesis of fixed wing aircraft.

Discretization of PDEs, stability and accuracy considerations, iterative and time/space marching schemes, aerospace applications.

Experimental laboratory in solid and fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, propulsion. Emphasis on measurement techniques, analysis and interpretation of data, comparison to analytical predictions, and reporting.

Orbital mechanics, orbit determination, and spacecraft maneuvers. Basics of airplane flight including climb, cruise, takeoff, and landing. Actuator disk theory and elements of rotorcraft performance.

Application to structural analysis. Basic equations of elasticity. Bending, shearing and torsion of thin walled structures. Energy methods for structural analysis and application to finite element theory for trusses and beam structures. Students cannot receive credit for both AE 3140 and AE 3125.

Independent research conducted under the guidance of a faculty member.