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0.00 - 1.00 Credits
1 Credit Lecture-based course to support the Space Systems Engineering Laboratory. Course covers subsystems of spacecraft, experimental methods, data acquisition, and data reduction. The Experimental Space Systems Engineering Lab, AE 326, must be taken during the same semester as AE 325. Prerequisite: PS 250. Corequisite: EP 394.
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3.00 Credits
Laboratory (0,3) 1 Credit Laboratory for the fundamentals of spacecraft systems. A lab covering each of the major subsystems of spacecraft, which may include propulsion, attitude control, power, telemetry and command, communications, structures and vibrations, materials and mechanisms, thermal control, and mass properties. The Experimental Space Systems Engineering Lab, AE 326, must be taken during the same semester as AE 325. Prerequisite: PS 220. Corequisite: EP 394.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits Role of the engineer in project management with emphasis on systematic evaluation of the benefits and costs of projects involving engineering design and analysis. Proposal preparation and presentation, engineering contracts, negotiation techniques. Value engineering. Prerequisite: Junior class standing or consent of instructor.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits An advanced-level presentation of the theory and applications of incompressible aerodynamics. Kinematics and dynamics of fluid flow. Flow about a body. Shock tube flow. Thin airfoil and finite wing theory. Approximation techniques; numerical methods. Introduction to compressible flow. Prerequisites: AE 302, MA 441.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits Continuation of AE 304. Methods of computer-aided deflection and stress analysis of redundant lightweight structural systems by means of virtual work principles and their energy counterparts. Introduction to finite element theory. Buckling considerations. Applications include space structures and semimonocoque structures. Prerequisite: AE 304.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits A study of gas turbine and rocket engines. Topics include control volumes, conservation equations, combustion processes, efficiencies, fuel consumption, nozzle flow, diffusers, ideal and real ramjets, gas turbine engines, performance of rocket vehicles, and solid and liquid propellant rocket motors. Prerequisite: AE 302.
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1.50 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits Introduction to reinforced plastic composite structural materials and their use in modern aircraft. Discussion of basic material properties, testing proce- dures, design and analysis using classical lamination theory, and fabrication techniques, including some hands-on demonstrations. Prerequisites: ES 202, AE 316.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits This course consists of a series of advanced experiments using a wind tunnel. Topics include model design and construction, testing procedures, control surface testing, propeller testing, the use of wind tunnel data, scale effects, complete model testing, and an introduction to supersonic testing. Prerequisite: AE 314.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits Development of longitudinal, lateral, and directional stability and control equations. Control surface design. Control effectiveness and size requirements. Dynamic control theory. Handling characteristics and maneuvering stability of aircraft. Prerequisite: MA 345. Corequisite: AE 302.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits The course provides the student with an introduction to the basic principles of liquid and solid propulsion systems. Flight performance parameters are presented for single and multistage vehicles. The thermo-chemistry of the combustion process will also be discussed. Performance enhancements of nuclear rockets and electric propulsion will be covered. Prerequisites: AE 301 and ES 305.
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