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3.00 Credits
The fundamental concepts and approaches of aerospace engineering are highlighted through lectures on aeronautics, astronautics, and design. Active learning aerospace modules make use of information technology. Student teams are immersed in a hands-on, lighter-than-air (LTA) vehicle design project where they design, build, and fly radio-controlled LTA vehicles. The connections between theory and practice are realized in the design exercises. Required design reviews precede the LTA race competition. The performance, weight, and principle characteristics of the LTA vehicles are estimated and illustrated using physics, mathematics, and chemistry known to freshmen, the emphasis being on the application of this knowledge to aerospace engineering and design rather than on exposure to new science and mathematics. Includes exercises in written and oral communication and team building.
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Prereq: None
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5.00 Credits
001 and 16.002 require simultaneous registration. Presents fundamental principles and methods of aerospace engineering, as well as their interrelationship and applications, through lectures, recitations, design problems, and labs. Materials and structures, including statics, analysis of trusses, the analysis of statically determinate and indeterminate systems, and the stress-strain behavior of materials. Fluid mechanics, including conservation laws for fluid flows, the integral momentum theorem and applications, potential flow, vorticity and circulation, and the characterization of airfoil performance. Thermodynamics, including the thermodynamic state of a system, work, heat and various forms of energy, the first law of thermodynamics, heat engines, reversible and irreversible processes, entropy, and the second law of thermodynamics. Signals and systems, including linear and time invariant systems, convolution, and transform analysis.
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Prereq: Physics II (GIR); Coreq: 18.03 or 18.034; Chemistry (GIR)
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5.00 Credits
001 and 16.002 require simultaneous registration. Presents fundamental principles and methods of aerospace engineering, as well as their interrelationship and applications, through lectures, recitations, design problems, and labs. Materials and structures, including statics, analysis of trusses, the analysis of statically determinate and indeterminate systems, and the stress-strain behavior of materials. Fluid mechanics, including conservation laws for fluid flows, the integral momentum theorem and applications, potential flow, vorticity and circulation, and the characterization of airfoil performance. Thermodynamics, including the thermodynamic state of a system, work, heat and various forms of energy, the first law of thermodynamics, heat engines, reversible and irreversible processes, entropy, and the second law of thermodynamics. Signals and systems, including linear and time invariant systems, convolution, and transform analysis.
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Prereq: Physics II (GIR); Coreq: 18.03 or 18.034; Chemistry (GIR)
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5.00 Credits
003 and 16.004 require simultaneous registration. Presents fundamental principles and methods of aerospace engineering, as well as their interrelationship and applications, through lectures, recitations, design problems, and labs. Materials and structures, including analysis of beam bending, buckling and torsion, material and structural failure, including plasticity, fracture, fatigue, and their physical causes. Fluid mechanics, including thin airfoil theory, three-dimensional wing theory, lifting line theory, induced drag and optimal lift distributions, wing design, aircraft performance, compressible flows, shocks, supersonic airfoils, nozzles. Thermodynamics and propulsion, including applications of the integral momentum theorem to aerospace propulsion systems, ideal and non-ideal cycle analysis, energy exchange in compressors and turbines, and an introduction to heat transfer. Applications of signals and systems to aerospace, including modulation, filtering, sampling, and navigation systems.
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Prereq: 16.001, 16.002
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5.00 Credits
003 and 16.004 require simultaneous registration. Presents fundamental principles and methods of aerospace engineering, as well as their interrelationship and applications, through lectures, recitations, design problems, and labs. Materials and Structures, including analysis of beam bending, buckling and torsion, material and structural failure, including plasticity, fracture, fatigue, and their physical causes. Fluid Mechanics, including thin airfoil theory, three-dimensional wing theory, lifting line theory, induced drag and optimal lift distributions, wing design, aircraft performance, compressible flows, shocks, supersonic airfoils, nozzles. Thermodynamics and Propulsion, including applications of the integral momentum theorem to aerospace propulsion systems, ideal and non-ideal cycle analysis, energy exchange in compressors and turbines, and an introduction to heat transfer. Applications of Signals and Systems to aerospace, including modulation, filtering, sampling, and navigation systems.
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Prereq: 16.001, 16.002
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3.00 Credits
Student teams formulate and complete space/earth/ocean exploration-based design projects with weekly milestones. Introduces core engineering themes, principles, and modes of thinking. Specialized learning modules enable teams to focus on the knowledge required to complete their projects, such as machine elements, electronics, design process, visualization and communication. Includes exercises in written and oral communication and team building. Examples of projects include surveying a lake for millfoil, from a remote controlled aircraft, and then sending out robotic harvesters to clear the invasive growth; and exploration to search for the evidence of life on a moon of Jupiter, with scientists participating through teleoperation and supervisory control of robots. Enrollment limited; preference to freshmen.
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Prereq: Physics I (GIR), Calculus I (GIR)
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to design of feedback control systems. Properties and advantages of feedback systems. Time-domain and frequency-domain performance measures. Stability and degree of stability. Root locus method, Nyquist criterion, frequency-domain design, and state space methods. Application to a variety of aircraft and spacecraft systems.
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Prereq: 16.004
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3.00 Credits
Fundamentals of Newtonian mechanics. Kinematics, particle dynamics, motion relative to accelerated reference frames, work and energy, impulse and momentum, systems of particles and rigid body dynamics. Applications to aerospace engineering including introductory topics in orbital mechanics, flight dynamics, inertial navigation and attitude dynamics.
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Prereq: 16.004
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to statistics and probability with applications to aerospace engineering. Covers essential topics, such as sample space, discrete and continuous random variables, probability distributions, joint and conditional distributions, expectation, transformation of random variables, limit theorems, estimation theory, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, statistical tests, and regression.
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Prereq: Calculus II (GIR)
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3.00 Credits
Extends fluid mechanic concepts from Unified Engineering to aerodynamic performance of wings and bodies in sub/supersonic regimes. Addresses themes such as subsonic potential flows, including source/vortex panel methods; viscous flows, including laminar and turbulent boundary layers; aerodynamics of airfoils and wings, including thin airfoil theory, lifting line theory, and panel method/interacting boundary layer methods; and supersonic and hypersonic airfoil theory. Material may vary from year to year depending upon focus of design problem.
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Prereq: 16.004
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