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3.00 Credits
Introduction to astronautics, the solar system, and the two-body problem. Orbit shaping and orbit transfers. Patched conic approximations for interplanetary transfers. Introduction to the three-body problem and relative motion. Rigid spacecraft equation of motion. Active and passive attitude stabilization techniques for spacecraft. Prerequisite: C or better in each of the following: MAE 2323, MAE 2360, and MAE 3360.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to aircraft performance and the assessment of aircraft stability and control characteristics. Performance topics covered include cruise, climbing, gliding and turn flights, range and endurance. Stability and controlled topics covered include longitudinal, lateral and directional stability and control. Prerequisite: MAE 3303
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3.00 Credits
Basic concepts and definitions, properties of pure substance, work and heat, first law of thermodynamics, second law of thermodynamics, entropy, and introduction to conductive, convective, and radiative transfer. Prerequisite: C or better in each of the following: MATH 2425 (or HONR-SC 2425) and PHYS 1444.
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3.00 Credits
Basic concepts and definitions, properties of pure substance, work and heat, first law of thermodynamics, second law of thermodynamics, entropy, thermodynamics of gases, vapors, and liquids in various nonflow and flow processes, and irreversibility and availability. Prerequisite: C or better in each of the following: MAE 1312, MATH 2425 (or HONR-SC 2425), and PHYS 1444.
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3.00 Credits
Availability, power, refrigeration and heat pump cycles (both gas and vapor), property relations and equations of state, ideal gas mixtures, mixtures of gases and vapors, psychrometrics, adiabatic flame temperature, thermochemical equilibrium, and compressible flow. Emphasis is on applying these topics to thermal systems design. Prerequisite: MAE 2314 (or concurrent enrollment), C or better in each of the following: CHEM 1465, and MAE 3310.
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3.00 Credits
Topics cover the fundamental laws of heat and mass transfer, including steady and unsteady conduction, forced and free convection, and radiation as well as heat transfer in phase change. Applications of heat transfer to thermal systems design are included. Prerequisite: MAE 2314, C or better in MAE 3310.
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3.00 Credits
Overview of aircraft basic structural elements and materials; introduction to elasticity; equations of equilibrium; constitutive equations of isotropic solids; bending and torsion analysis of thin-walled beams; flexure shear of thin-walled beams with stringer reinforcement; introduction to fatigue and fracture analysis; failure criteria; energy method to find strain energy release rate; elastic column buckling. Prerequisite: C or better in MAE 2312.
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3.00 Credits
Harmonic and periodic motion including both damped and undamped free and forced vibration. Single-and multi-degree-of-freedom discrete systems. Vibration of continuous systems. Introduction of finite element method for structural dynamics. Prerequisite: C or better in each of the following: MAE 2312, MAE 2323, MAE 3360, and MATH 3330.
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3.00 Credits
The motion and interaction of linkage and mechanisms. Fundamental concepts of kinematics and dynamics applied to the determination of degree of freedom mechanisms and forces acting on joints of mechanisms. Specific mechanisms and applications such as multi-body mechanisms, linkage synthesis, cam design, and balancing. Prerequisite: C or better in MAE 2323.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to modeling and prediction of behavior of engineering systems. Analytic and numerical simulation, state-space differential equations, and Laplace transform methods. Effects of physical characteristics of system elements on system design and dynamic performance. Prerequisite: MAE 3314 (or concurrent enrollment), C or better in each of the following: EE 2320 (or concurrent enrollment), and MATH 3330.
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