Classes in ENAE
| ENAE200 | Aerospace Engineering Profession II (1 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisite: permission of department. Recommended: ENAE100. For ENAE majors only. Overview of the engineering profession as it pertains to the role of the engineer in society, professional practice and ethical standards, career development, opportunities and need for lifelong learning, importance of safety and standards, effective written, visual, and oral communications, and the impact of the engineering profession on global issues. | ||||||
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| ENAE202 | Aerospace Computing (3 credits) | |||||
| Also offered as ENCE202. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENAE202 or ENCE202. Introduction to computational tools for the solution of engineering problems. C++ & MATLAB programming including branching and loops, functions, file handling, arrays, and data structures. Students will be introduced to object-oriented programming, basic computing, algorithms, and principles of software engineering. | ||||||
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| ENAE324 | Aerospace Structures (4 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisite: ENES220. For ENAE majors only. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENAE322 or ENAE324. Formerly ENAE 322. Analysis of torsion, beam bending, plate bending, buckling and their application to aerospace. | ||||||
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| ENAE404 | Space Flight Dynamics (3 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisite: ENAE301. ENAE majors only or permission of department. Three-dimensional motion under central fields. Solutions to orbital motion, orbital elements, time elements. Kepler's laws. Orbital maneuvering, rendezvous and station-keeping. Rigid-body attitude dynamics, spacecraft attitude dynamics. | ||||||
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| ENAE414 | Aerodynamics II (3 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisite: ENAE311. ENAE majors only or permission of department. Junior standing. Formerly ENAE 371. Aerodynamics of inviscid incompressible flows. Aerodynamic forces and moments. Fluid statics/buoyancy force. Vorticity, circulation, the stream function and the velocity potential. Bernoulli's and Laplace's equations. Flows in low speed wind tunnels and airspeed measurement. Potential flows involving sources and sinks, doublets, and vortices. Development of the theory of airfoils and wings. | ||||||
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| ENAE420 | Computational Structural Mechanics (3 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisite: ENES220, MATH241, Linear Algebra. For ENAE majors only or with permission of department. Introductory of finite element methods for aerospace engineering modeling and analysis; equips students with ability to understand manuals of commercial finite element analysis software. | ||||||
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| ENAE425 | Mechanics of Composite Structures (3 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisite: MATH246. Corequisite: ENAE324. Introduction to structures composed of composite materials and their applications in aerospace. In particular, filamentary composite materials are studied. Material types and fabrication techniques, material properties, micromechanics, anisotropic elasticity, introduction to failure concepts. | ||||||
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| ENAE432 | Control of Aerospace Systems (3 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisite: grade of C or better in ENAE283 and ENAE301. Junior standing. Formerly ENAE 332. An introduction to the feedback control of dynamic systems. Laplace transforms and transfer function techniques; frequency response and Bode diagrams. Stability analysis via root locus and Nyquist techniques. Performance specifications in time and frequency domains, and design of compensation strategies to meet performance goals. | ||||||
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| ENAE464 | Aerospace Engineering Laboratory (3 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisites: ENAE311; ENAE324; ENAE432; and ENAE362. ENAE majors only or permission of department. Application of fundamental measuring techniques to measurements in aerospace engineering. Includes experiments in aerodynamics, structures, propulsion, flight dynamics and astrodynamics. Correlation of theory with experimental results. | ||||||
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| ENAE471 | Aircraft Flight Testing (3 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisite: ENAE414;. Corequisite: ENAE403. For ENAE majors only. Provides basic instruction to aircraft flight testing and demonstrates need for systematic, well-proven technique to allow for accurate airplane performance. Concepts of aerodynamics, airplane performance, and stability and control. Emphasis on single-engine general aviation type aircraft. | ||||||
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| ENAE482 | Aeronautical Systems Design (3 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisites: ENAE403; ENAE423; ENAE455; and ENAE481. Senior standing. For ENAE majors only. Senior capstone design course in the aeronautics track. Introduction of computerized methods for sizing and performance analysis. More comprehensive methods to predict weight, aerodynamics and propulsion system characteristics. Consideration in design disciplines such as vulnerability, maintainability, produceability, etc. Groups of students will complete, brief and report on a major design study to specific requirements. | ||||||
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| ENAE484 | Space Systems Design (3 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisites: ENAE423; ENAE441; ENAE457; and ENAE483. For ENAE majors only. Senior capstone design course in the space track. Group preliminary design of a space system, including system and subsystem design, configuration control, costing, risk analysis, and programmatic development. Course also emphasizes written and oral engineering communications. | ||||||
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| ENAE633 | Helicopter Dynamics (3 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisite: ENAE 631 or permission of both department and instructor. Flap dynamics. Mathematical methods to solve rotor dynamics problems. Flap-lag-torsion dynamics and identify structural and inertial coupling terms. Overview on rotary wing unsteady aerodynamics. Basic theory of blade aeroelastic stability and ground and air resonance stability, vibration analyses and suppression. | ||||||
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| ENAE634 | Helicopter Design (3 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisite: ENAE 631 or permission of both department and instructor. Principles and practice of the preliminary design of helicopters and similar rotary wing aircrafts. Design trend studies, configuration selection and sizing methods, performance and handling qualities analyses, structural concepts, vibration reduction and noise. Required independent design project conforming to a standard helicopter request for proposal (RFP). | ||||||
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| ENAE635 | Helicopter Stability and Control (3 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisite: {ENAE 631 and ENAE 642,} or permission of department. Advanced dynamics as required to model rotorcraft for flight dynamic studies. Development of helicopter simulation models and specifications of handling qualities. Methods for calculation of trim, poles, frequency response, and free flight response to pilot inputs. | ||||||
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| ENAE652 | (PermReq)Computational Structural Mechanics (3 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisite: permission of both department and instructor. Fundamentals of structural mechanics and computational modeling. Finite element modeling of two- and three-dimensional solids, plates and shells. Geometrically nonlinear behavior. Structural stability such as buckling and postbuckling. Also offered as ENAE488C. | ||||||
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| ENAE654 | Mechanics of Composite Structures (3 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisite: ENAE 452 or permission of both department and instructor.. Corequisite: ENAE 423 or equivalent. An introduction to structures composed of composite materials and their applications in aerospace. In particular, filamentary composite materials are studied. Material types and fabrication techniques, material properties, micromechanics, anisotropic elasticity, introduction to failure concepts. | ||||||
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| ENAE674 | Aerodynamics of Compressible Fluids (3 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisite: ENAE 471 or permission of department. One-dimensional flow of a perfect compressible fluid. Shock waves. Two-dimensional linearized theory of compressible flow. Two-dimensional transonic and hypersonic flows. Exact solutions of two-dimensional isotropic flow. Linearized theory of three-dimensional potential flow. Exact solution of axially symmetrical potential flow. One-dimensional flow with friction and heat addition. | ||||||
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| ENAE676 | (PermReq)Aerodynamics of Viscous Fluids (3 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisite: ENAE416 or permission of department. Derivation of navier stokes equations, some exact solutions: boundary layer equations. Laminar flow-similar solutions, compressibility, transformations, analytic approximations, numerical methods, stability and transition to turbulent flow. Turbulent flow-istropic turbulence, boundary layer flows, free mixing flows. | ||||||
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| ENAE685 | Computational Fluid Dynamics II (3 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisite: ENAE 684 or permission of department. Continuation of ENAE 684. Basic algorithms for the numerical solution of two and three dimensional inviscid and viscous flows. Applications to internal and external flow problems. | ||||||
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| ENAE741 | Interplanetary Navigation and Guidance (3 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisites: ENAE 432 and ENAE 601. Interplanetary trajectory construction; patched and multiconic techniques. Methods of orbit and attitude determination; applied Kalman filtering. Guidance algorithms and B-plane targeting. Interplanetary navigation utilizing in situ and radio techniques. | ||||||
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| ENAE742 | Robust Multivariable Control (3 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisites: ENAE 432 or equivalent, plus graduate-level exposure to linear systems and linear algebra. Limitations on achievable performance in multivariable feedback systems due to uncertainty. Singular values, matrix norms, multivariable Nyquist stability theory, uncertainty modeling in aerospace systems. Loop-shaping, generalization of Bode design principles. Characterizing the uncertainty, robustness and performance analysis, and synthesis, primarily in the frequency domain. Current research directions. Aerospace examples are used to complement the theory. | ||||||
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| ENAE743 | Applied Nonlinear Control of Aerospace Vehicles (3 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisite: ENAE 641. Modern methods of analysis and synthesis of multivariable nonlinear control techniques for aircraft, spacecraft, and space manipulator systems. Topics include passivity and Lyapunov theory, feedback linearization, nonlinear observers, Hamiltonian methods, robust controller design, and an introduction to adaptive nonlinear control methods. | ||||||
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| ENAE788L | (PermReq)Selected Topics in Aerospace Engineering:Introduction to Plasmas for Space Propulsion (3 credits) | |||||
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| ENAE788W | (PermReq)Selected Topics in Aerospace Engineering:Anthropomorphic Robotics (3 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisite: Biomechanics/kinematics, basic knowledge of physics. Exploration of biomechanical analogs of robot design in applications such as humanoid robots, exoskeletons, and prosthetics. Topics covered include artificial muscles as prime movers, realization of complex joints, articulation of limbs, inverse dynamics, and whole body humanoid control. Principles will be demonstrated through both case studies and laboratory sessions. | ||||||
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| ENAE791 | Launch and Entry Vehicle Design (3 credits) | |||||
| Prerequisite: ENAE 601. Design of aerospace vehicles for atmospheric transit to and from space. Generic formulation of atmospheric flight dynamics. Ballistic and lifting entry trajectories. Estimation of vehicle aerodynamic properties and aerothermodynamic heating. Entry thermal protection design. Trajectory analysis of sounding rockets and orbital launch vehicles. Serial, parallel, and hybrid multistaging schemes, optimal multistaging. Constrained trajectory optimization. Launch vehicle economic and reliability analysis, flight termination systems, sensors and actuators. | ||||||
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