Courses

Airbreathing engines course. Apply fluids, thermodynamics, and heat transfer to analysis of air breathing engines. Topics to include: ideal cycle analysis, component performance, non-ideal cycle analysis, and blade aerodynamics.

LAB. 3. Pr. AERO 3120. Fundamental analysis of airbreathing jet propulsion. Introduction to chemical rocket propulsion.

An introduction to solid mechanics concepts with aerospace engineering applications. The course develops equations of motions from conservation laws and introduces constitutive equations from linearized continuum mechanics perspective for aerospace related applications. Topics include elastostatic solutions, elastodynamic solutions and plasticity.

LAB. 3. Pr. AERO 4620 and MATH 2650. C or better in MATH 2650. Free, forced and damped vibration of single and multiple degree-of-freedom systems. The laboratory will utilize state-of-the-art software for the analysis of the vibration and dynamic response of structural systems.

Methods of analyzing stressed skin structures of the types that are typically found in aircraft, missiles and space vehicles. Unsymmetrical bending and bending and twisting of multiple cell structures are also covered.

Stress and deflection analysis and design of lightweight aerospace structures, including solid and thin-walled beams with open and closed sections, under axial, bending, and torsional loads.

LAB. 3. Pr. ENGR 2070 or ENGR 2077. C or better in ENGR 2070. Fundamental concepts employed in the mechanical testing of engineering materials and structures. Load, stress, and strain measurement techniques are utilized to determine material properties and structural response.

LAB. 3. Pr. AERO 3610 and (MATH 2660 or MATH 2667). C or better in MATH 2660. Aircraft and space vehicle structures. An introduction to the finite element method and its application to structural analysis. The laboratory will utilize state-of-the-art software numerical solution of aerospace structural systems. 1924 Aerospace Engineering - AERO

Strain gage mounting and bridge circuits analysis; strain measurement in axial, bending, and torsional members resembling aerospace structures using axial and rosette strain gages; stress measurements in wing structural subcomponents (skin, stiffener, spar, rib, stringer) under bending loads using strain data; design, fabrication, and testing of a stiffened panel.

Modeling of system elements, classical feedback control techniques used in the analysis of linear systems, analysis of systems undergoing various motions connected with flight. 626 Department of Aerospace Engineering