Aerospace Engineering

Undergraduate Course Descriptions

(required courses)

AE Courses are sequentially being added to the curriculum. Some courses will not be offered every semester. To see the sequence of course additions and the schedule for course offerings, please go to Aerospace Engineering Course Development and Frequency.

1. A E 339 Aerodynamics I

   Fluid properties, conservation equations, incompressible 2-dimensional flow; Bernoulli?s equation; similarity parameters; subsonic aerodynamics: lift and drag, analysis and design of airfoils. Prerequisite: ME 237 Corequisites: CE 301 and ME 328

2. A E 439 Aerodynamics II

   Principles of compressible flow, momentum and energy conservation; thermal properties of fluids; supersonic flow and shock waves; basics of supersonic aerodynamics. Prerequisite: AE 339

3. A E 362 Orbital Mechanics & Space Environment

   Dynamics of exoatmospheric flight of orbiting and non-orbiting bodies; orbit design and orbital maneuvers; space environment, including solar, magnetic, atmospheric and planetary phenomena. Prerequisite: ME 237

4. A E 363 Aerospace Structures

   Advanced concepts of stress and strain, introduction to the analysis of aero structures, complex bending and torsion, thin walled sections and shells, computational techniques. Prerequisite: CE 301

5. A E 364 Flight Dynamics & Controls

   Fundamentals of airplane flight dynamics, static trim, and stability; spacecraft and missile six degree of freedom dynamics; attitude control of spacecraft. Prerequisite: ME 237

6. A E 424 Aerospace Systems Engineering

   Basic principles of top down systems engineering and current practice; preliminary and detailed design of aircraft and space vehicles, including requirements, subsystem interaction and integration, tradeoffs, constraints and non-technical aspects.

7. A E 419 Propulsion

   Propulsion systems, thermodynamic cycles, combustion, specific impulse; principles of gas turbine, jets engine, and rocket propulsion systems. Prerequisite: AE 439

8. A E 447 Aerospace Laboratory

   Use of subsonic wind tunnels and other flow facilities to study basic flow phenomena and methods of fluid measurement and visualization.

9. A E 428 Aerospace Design Project Laboratory

   Students address a design problem in which innovation and attention to detail are emphasized. Solution of the problem entails applications of aerospace sciences and systems engineering. Prerequisites: AE 339, ME 341, AE 424