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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Mechanics of Advanced Aerospace Structures. (3-0). Credit 3. Advanced analysis techniques for aerospace structures; material anisotropy, plasticity, fatigue and fracture; laminated materials; solution of plane elasticity, plate and multi-component structural configurations; buckling of beams and plates; application of finite element analysis. Prerequisite: AERO 306.
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Aerospace Structural Design. (3-0). Credit 3. Overall structural integrity of complete aerospace systems; structures subjected to critical loads; design considerations in aerospace structures. Prerequisite: AERO 306.
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3.00 Credits
Polymer Nanocomposites and their Applications. (3-0). Credit 3. Recent advances and methodologies in processing and characterization of nanostructured polymers and nanocomposites, as well as their commercial applications; investigate polymers filled with nanometer-size inclusions, including nanoparticles, nanotubes, nanofibers, and nanoclays; macroscale, microscale and nanoscale characterizations investigated in relation to properties of interest. Prerequisites: Senior classification or approval of the instructor; AERO 213.
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3.00 Credits
Aerospace Propulsion. (3-0). Credit 3. Air breathing propulsion; design and analysis of inlets, compressors, combustors, turbines and nozzles; application to aeronautical and ground transportation. Prerequisite: AERO 351.
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3.00 Credits
Chemical Rocket Propulsion. (3-0). Credit 3. Nozzles and heat transfer in rockets, liquid and solid propellant systems; combustion and combustion stability; flight performance including trajectories, multistaging and exchange rate curves; rocket testing. Prerequisite: AERO 351.
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3.00 Credits
Aeroelasticity. (3-0). Credit 3. Classical analysis of fundamental aeroelastic phenomena with application to aerospace vehicles; flutter, divergence, control effectiveness. Prerequisites: AERO 303, 306, 310.
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3.00 Credits
Dynamics of Aerospace Vehicles. (3-0). Credit 3. Aircraft static stability and control; longitudinal and lateral dynamic stability; general equations of motion; stability derivatives; response to control inputs. Prerequisites: AERO 301 and 310.
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Active Controls for Aerospace Vehicles. (3-0). Credit 3. Introduction to the Theory of Automatic Control specifically applied to aerospace vehicles; techniques for analysis and synthesis of linear control systems, stability criteria, systems response and performance criteria; design studies of active controls to improve aerospace vehicle performance. Prerequisite: AERO 421.
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Space Technology I. (3-0). Credit 3. Rocket fundamentals; trajectories including aerodynamics, gravity turn and trajectory optimization, orbital mechanics, orbit lifetimes, three-body problem, orbit perturbations. Prerequisite: AERO 421.
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3.00 Credits
Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics and Control. (3-0). Credit 3. Introduces students to fundamental concepts of satellite attitude dynamics and control; includes derivations of environmental disturbances due to gravity gradient, aerodynamic, and solar radiation pressure; includes treatments of attitude control subsystems, such as thrusters, reaction wheels, CMGs, and magnetic torquers, and their designs. Prerequisites: AERO 421, 423, or approval of instructor.
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