Courses

This course is a study of mechanical assembly processes applied in aerospace and related manufacturing industries. Topics include orbital tube welding (setup, programming, and tube preparation, drilling techniques, torquing techniques, fastener installation, related attachments, and safety.)

Air breathing propulsion; design and analysis of inlets, compressors, combustors, turbines and nozzles; application to aeronautical and ground transportation.

This course is designed to teach the principles and practice of aircraft propulsion. rockets. The aerospace propulsion course is focused on each type of propulsion system turbine engines, ramjets and scramjets.

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.

Introduces the student to the concept of Aerospace Quality Management Systems used in the American workplace. Topics include: history of quality management, principles of quality, tools used in quality systems, quality team building.

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.

Three-dimensional beam theory; applications of elasticity theory to beam extension and compression, bending, torsion and transverse shearing; combined loading; analysis of thin-walled structures; stress concentrations; analysis of stability of aerospace structures; elements of structural failure, buckling; structural design considerations.

Work and energy principles; analysis of indeterminate structures by classical virtual work and finite elements; introduction to elastic stability of columns; application of energy methods to determine stresses, strains and displacements in typical aerospace structures; design considerations in aerospace structures.

Overall structural integrity of complete aerospace systems; structures subjected to critical loads; design considerations in aerospace structures.