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Courses and Schedule

Course offerings in the Engineering Distance Education Program vary from semester to semester.

To find out what courses will be offered for your semester of interest, please use the Course Offerings Web Page. Choose the semester you are interested in (i.e., Spring 2004) and then your program of interest (i.e., Aerospace Engineering). Remember that all distance education course codes end in the number "6" (i.e., AERO-7206).

Courses Available through the Masters of Aerospace Engineering Distance Education Program.
Course Code \ Title Hrs. Description
AERO 6336 APPLIED ORBITAL MECHANICS 3 LEC. 3. Pr., AERO 3310. Special perturbation techniques: N-body perturbations; general and
restricted three-body problems; preliminary orbit determination; C-W equations, targeting and rendezvous; constellation design; mission planning.
AERO 6526 ROCKET PROPULSION 3 LEC. 3. Pr., AERO 4510. Analysis of the thermodynamics, gas dynamics and design of liquid and solid propellant rocket engines.
AERO 6536 SPACE PROPULSION 3 LEC. 3. Pr., AERO 4510. Analysis
of space propulsion systems. Dynamics of electromagnetic systems, ion
engines, photon drives, laser propulsion.
AERO 6626 DYNAMIC SIMULATION 3 LEC. 3. Pr., ENGR 2350.Computer techniques applied to the analysis of aerospace engineering problems using the digital problem-oriented language, Advanced Continuous Simulation Language (ACSL).
AERO 6636 AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS
 4 LEC. 3, LAB. 3. Pr., AERO 3610. Basic material and manufacturing information for laminated composite structures. Computational structural analysis of typical aerospace composite structures coupled with experimental verification of the structural response.
AERO 6756 LEGAL ASPECTS OF ENGINEERING PRACTICE 3 LEC. 3. Pr., PHIL 1020. The role of the law in the manufacture of a product. Ethical issues that may confront designers and engineers.
AERO 7106 ADVANCED SUPERSONIC AERODYNAMICS 3 LEC. 3. Pr., AERO 4140. A rigorous development of linearized and nonlinear fluid flow theories and application. Lifting surfaces, lifting bodies, duct flow, boundary layer effects, shock and expansion waves and method of characteristics.
AERO 7126 DYNAMICS OF VISCOUS FLUIDS I 3 LEC. 3. Pr., AERO 7100. Exact solutions to the Navier Stokes equations. Exact and
approximate solutions of the laminar boundary layer equations. Incompressible and compressible boundary layers in theory and experiment.
AERO 7136 DYNAMICS OF VISCOUS FLUIDS II 3 LEC. 3. Pr., AERO 7120. Turbulent flows, the Reynolds stresses and turbulence modeling. Computation of incompressible and compressible turbulent boundary layers. Stability theory and transition.
AERO 7206 DYNAMICS OF FLIGHT 3 LEC. 3. Pr., AERO 3230 or departmental approval. Development of specialized concepts and methods in dynamics applicable to the modeling of flight vehicle motion. Stability concepts and analysis of the stability of flight vehicle motions. Effects of variable mass and flexibility.
AERO 7216 FLIGHT DYNAMICS OF HYPERVELOCITY VEHICLES 3 LEC. 3. Pr., AERO 7200 or departmental approval. Development of specialized concepts and methods in dynamics applicable to the modeling of hypersonic flight vehicle motion. Stability concepts and analysis of the stability of steadystate motions of very high speed flight vehicles.
AERO 7226 SPACECRAFT ATTITUDE DYNAMICS AND CONTROL 3 LEC. 3. Pr., AERO 7200 or department approval. Development of specialized
concepts and methods in dynamics applicable to the modeling of spacecraft
rotational motion. Methods for controlling spacecraft attitude. Analysis of the attitude stability and controllability of spacecraft attitude motion.
AERO 7336 ORBIT DETERMINATION 3 LEC. 3. Pr., AERO 6330. Elements of orbit determination; least squares, minimum norm, minimum variance solutions; batch, sequential and extended sequential filters.
AERO 7376 FUNDAMENTALS OF THE GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM 3 LEC. 3. Pr., AERO 7330 or departmental approval. Principles of the Global Positioning System: GPS overview and historical development; modeling of pseudo-range and carrier phase measurements; positioning solution strategies using kinematic, dynamic, and reduced dynamic techniques.
AERO 7516 THRUST GENERATION 3 LEC. 3. Pr., AERO 4510. Aerothermodynamics of propulsion. Selected topics in gas dynamics, thermodynamics, and heat transfer as applied to airbreathing and space propulsion.
AERO 7526 ADVANCED AIRBREATHING PROPULSION 3 LEC. 3. Pr., AERO 4510. Topics emphasizing interaction between external aerodynamics and performance of airbreathing jet engines. Performance optimization of ramjet, turbojet, and turbofan engines. Component matching.
AERO 7536 AEROTHERMOCHEMISTRY OF PROPULSION 3 LEC. 3. Pr., AERO 4510. Aerothermodynamics of compressible flow, chemical propellant characteristics, heat transfer in fluid flow, statistical gas dynamics, kinetic theory of gases.
AERO 7626 AEROSPACE COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS:
STATIC STRUCTURES		 3 LEC. 3. Pr., AERO 4620 or departmental approval. Advanced techniques for the numerical solution of static elastic and plastic problems, including two and three dimensional solutions.
AERO 7636 AEROSPACE COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS: STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS 3 LEC. 3. Pr., AERO 4630 or departmental approval. Advanced techniques for the numerical solution to problems in structural dynamics, including steady state and transient response of two-and three- dimensional structures.
AERO 7666 AEROLASTICITY 3 LEC. 3. Pr., AERO 4630. Introduction to the field of aeroelasticity and the interaction therein of structural mechanics and fluid mechanics with dynamics as the “interface adhesive” between them. Flutter, divergence, aileron reversal and related phenomena.
AERO 7676 INTRODUCTION TO LARGE SPACE STRUCTURES 3 LEC. 3. Pr., AERO 4630. Large space structures and their unique concepts,
novel on-earth testing requirements, variety of damping schemes and analysis techniques. Concepts and analysis related to shape control, active and passive damping, and structural dynamics/controls interaction.