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3.00 Credits
Flight Test Engineering. (2-3). Credit 3. Application of performance and stability and control theory to flight test measurements; standard atmosphere and airspeed equations for pilot-static system calibrations; flight test methods for evaluating performance, stability and control, and stall-spin characteristics; laboratory practice in planning and conducting small flight test project. Prerequisite: AERO 421.
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3.00 Credits
Space System Design. (3-0). Credit 3. Introduces prevailing practices and processes used in modern space system design; applies knowledge in component engineering disciplines to a design challenge of interest to NASA or DoD; utilizes instruction in systematic methods of design and on dynamics of teamwork; when possible concludes with detailed design using an engineering design facility. Prerequisites: AERO 306, 351, 421.
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3.00 Credits
Electromagnetic Sensing for Space-Borne Imaging. (3-0). Credit 3. Study IR and Visible range imaging systems to obtain high resolution imaging of objects from space; this area has numerous applications and areas of advanced development; following instruction in needed background on optics, telescopes, and interferometry, perform preliminary design of imaging system with a different imaging design offered each year. Prerequisites: AERO 306, 351, 421.
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3.00 Credits
Numerical Simulation. (3-0). Credit 3. Numerical and analytical simulation of physical problems in sciences and engineering using applied methods; developing and using numerical techniques for physical problems described by nonlinear algebraic equations, ordinary and partial differential equations. Prerequisite: AERO 320 or MATH 417.
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3.00 Credits
Aerothermochemistry. (3-0). Credit 3. Composition of chemically reacting gases (air and propellant); thermodynamic functions based on classical and quantum mechanical theories; calculation of gas temperatures; equilibrium, frozen and non-equilibrium flows through nozzles and shock waves. Prerequisite: AERO 303.
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3.00 Credits
Cockpit Systems and Displays. (3-0). Credit 3. Design, development, and implementation of cockpit systems and multi-function displays; cockpit system requirements and specifications; human-machine interfaces, Flight Management Systems, navigation and guidance systems; 3-D real-time displays of weather, traffic, and terrain; characteristics and missions of air vehicles; project design and cost analysis. Prerequisite: AERO 421 or junior or senior classification in computer science.
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3.00 Credits
Vehicle Management Systems. (3-0). Credit 3. Introduction to vehicle management systems for manned and unmanned air and space vehicles; system centric concepts, requirements definition, specifications, and architectures; reliability analysis, health monitoring, and mission management; SISO digital design of integrated flight control, propulsion control and structural control; introduction to vehicle autonomy; design and analysis methods, industrial examples. Prerequisite: AERO 422.
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3.00 Credits
Heat Transfer and Viscous Flows. (3-0). Credit 3. Navier-Stokes and boundary layer equations; exact and approximate solutions; laminar boundary layers; origin of turbulence; transition; turbulent boundary layers; viscous airfoil design; one and two dimensional heat transfer; methods for steady and transient heat conduction; thermal boundary layers; convection; and radiation. Prerequisites: AERO 351; MATH 308.
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3.00 Credits
Airfoil and Wing Design. (3-0). Credit 3. Subsonic airfoil design and analysis, subsonic wing design and analysis, swept and delta wings, vortex lift, transonic flow methods, viscous transonic phenomena, transonic airfoil and wing design, supersonic panel methods, supersonic wing design, optimization. Prerequisite: AERO 303.
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1.00 Credits
Seminar. (1-0). Credit 1. Readings, reports, conferences and discussion. Prerequisite: Senior classification in aerospace engineering. To be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.
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