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3.00 Credits
Statistically based experimental design inclusive of forming hypotheses, planning and conducting experiments, analyzing data, and interpreting and communicating results. Topics include descriptive statistics, statistical inference, hypothesis testing, parametric and nonparametric statistical analyses, factorial ANOVA, randomized block designs, MANOVA, linear regression, repeated measures models, and application of statistical software packages. Alternate years.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 6.041, 16.09, or permission of instructor
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2.00 Credits
Provides guidance on design and evaluation of human-computer interfaces for students with active research projects. Roundtable discussion on developing user requirements, human-centered design principles, and testing and evaluating methodologies. Students present their work and evaluate each other's projects. Readings complement specific focus areas. Team participation encouraged. Open to advanced undergraduates.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Presents aerospace propulsive devices as systems, with functional requirements and engineering and environmental limitations. Requirements and limitations that constrain design choices. Both air-breathing and rocket engines covered, at a level which enables rational integration of the propulsive system into an overall vehicle design. Mission analysis, fundamental performance relations, and exemplary design solutions presented.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 16.004 or 2.005
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3.00 Credits
Covers fundamentals of jet propulsion with a focus on understanding and mitigating environmental impacts. Examines performance and characteristics of aircraft engines as determined by thermodynamic and fluid mechanic behavior of components: inlets, compressors, combustors, turbines, and nozzles. Discusses various engine types and suitability for different missions. Significant attention to environmental issues in engine design, including combustion, emissions, air quality, climate change, and noise. Also covers environmental trade spaces in engine design.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 16.50 or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Chemical rocket propulsion systems for launch, orbital, and interplanetary flight. Modeling of solid, liquid-bipropellant, and hybrid rocket engines. Thermochemistry, prediction of specific impulse. Nozzle flows including real gas and kinetic effects. Structural constraints. Propellant feed systems, turbopumps. Combustion processes in solid, liquid, and hybrid rockets. Cooling; heat sink, ablative, and regenerative.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 16.50 or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Reviews rocket propulsion fundamentals. Discusses advanced concepts in rocket propulsion ranging from chemical engines to electrical engines. Topics include advanced mission analysis, physics and engineering of microthrusters, solid propellant rockets, electrothermal, electrostatic, and electromagnetic schemes for accelerating propellant. Some coverage is given of satellite power systems and their relation to propulsion systems. Laboratory work emphasizes design and characterization of electric propulsion engines.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 8.03, 16.50; or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Internal fluid motions in turbomachines, propulsion systems, ducts and channels, and other fluid machinery. Useful basic ideas, fundamentals of rotational flows, loss sources and loss accounting in fluid devices, unsteady internal flow and flow instability, flow in rotating passages, swirling flow, generation of streamwise vorticity and three-dimensional flow, non-uniform flow in fluid components. Alternate years.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 2.25 or permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Properties and behavior of low-temperature plasmas for energy conversion, plasma propulsion, and gas lasers. Equilibrium of ionized gases: energy states, statistical mechanics, and relationship to thermodynamics. Kinetic theory: motion of charged particles, distribution function, collisions, characteristic lengths and times, cross sections, and transport properties. Gas surface interactions: thermionic emission, sheaths, and probe theory. Radiation in plasmas and diagnostics.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 8.03
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2.00 Credits
First part of a two-term sequence addresses the conception and design of a student-selected experimental project carried out by a team. Principles of project hypothesis formulation and assessment, experimental measurements and error analysis, and effective report writing and oral presentation, with instruction both in-class and on an individual team basis. Selection and detailed planning of a research project, including in-depth design of components and equipment. Preparation of a detailed proposal for the selected project, which is then carried through to completion in 16.622.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: None. Coreq: 16.06 or 16.07
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1.00 Credits
Execution of project experiments based on the designs developed in 16.621. Students construct their defined experiment, carry out experimental measurements of the relevant phenomena, analyze the data, and then apply the results to assess the hypothesis they developed previously. Written final report on the entire project and formal oral presentation. Includes instructions on effective report writing and oral presentation.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 16.621
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