Courses - Summer 2025
ENAE202
Computing Fundamentals for Engineers
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Corequisite: MATH141.
Credit only granted for: ENAE202 or ENME202.
Introduction to computer programming for the solution of engineering problems. Python & MATLAB languages including flow control, functions, file handling, arrays, and data structures. Students will be introduced to computing fundamentals, principles of software engineering, object-oriented programming, and algorithms.
ENAE283
Introduction to Aerospace Systems
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg
Prerequisite: PHYS161, MATH141, and ENES102.
Corequisite: PHYS261 and PHYS260.
Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Aerospace program.
Credit only granted for: (ENAE281 and ENAE282) or ENAE283.
Formerly: ENAE281 and ENAE282.
Introduction to airplanes and space vehicles as aerospace systems. Fundamentals that describe these systems. Elements of aerodynamics, airfoils and wings. Airplane performance, stability and control. Aircraft and rocket propulsion. Fundamentals of orbital motion. Aspects of vehicle conceptual design.
ENAE311
Compressible Aerodynamics
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Prerequisite: PHYS271, (MATH240 or MATH461), PHYS270, MATH246, ENAE283, ENES220, ENAE202, MATH241, and ENES232.
Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Aerospace program; or permission of ENGR-Aerospace Engineering department; and junior standing or higher.
Fundamentals of aerodynamics. Elements of compressible flow. Normal and oblique shock waves. Flows through nozzles, diffusers and wind tunnels. Elements of the method of characteristics and finite difference solutions for compressible flows. Aspects of hypersonic flow.
ENAE324
Aerospace Structures
Credits:
4
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENES220.
Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Aerospace program.
Credit only granted for: ENAE324 or ENAE325.
Analysis of torsion, beam bending, plate bending, buckling and their application to aerospace.
ENAE398H
Honors Research Project
Credits:
1 - 3
Grad Meth:
Reg
ENAE414
Incompressible Aerodynamics
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: PHYS271, (MATH240 or MATH461), PHYS270, MATH246, ENAE283, ENES220, ENAE202, MATH241, and ENES232.
Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Aerospace program; or permission of ENGR-Aerospace Engineering department; and junior standing or higher.
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.
ENAE423
Vibration and Aeroelasticity
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENAE324.
Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Aerospace program; or permission of ENGR-Aerospace Engineering department.
Dynamic response of single and multiple degrees of freedom systems, finite element modeling, wing divergence, aileron reversal, wing and panel flutter.
ENAE432
Control of Aerospace Systems
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of C- in ENAE301 and ENAE283.
Restriction: Junior standing or higher; and must be in Engineering: Aerospace program.
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.
ENAE441
Space Navigation and Guidance
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F, Aud
Prerequisite: ENAE404 and ENAE432.
Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Aerospace program; or permission of ENGR-Aerospace Engineering department.
Principles of navigation. Celestial, radio, and inertial navigation schemes. Navigational and guidance requirements for orbital, planetary, and atmospheric entry missions. Fundamentals of communications and information theory. Link budgets, antennas and telemetry systems.
ENAE457
Space Propulsion and Power
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, P-F
Prerequisite: PHYS271, ENES232, PHYS270, and ENAE311.
Restriction: Must be in Engineering: Aerospace program; or permission of ENGR-Aerospace Engineering department. And senior standing.
Thermodynamic cycle analysis, aerothermochemistry of fuels and propellants, operating principles of rocket, ion, and other exoatmospheric power units.
ENAE499
Elective Research; Individual Instruction
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg
ENAE788E
Selected Topics in Aerospace Engineering; Electromechanical System Modeling
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
Analysis techniques for simulating resonances and impedances in systems that couple physical interactions through electrical, acoustic, mechanical, magnetic and piezoelectric domains. Analysis applied to modeling the electromagneto-mechano-acoustic domain interactions in traditional loud speaker designs, and can be extended to design of active structures, mufflers, instruments, sensors, energy harvesters and actuators.
ENAE423 or ENME361 or equivalent dynamic systems analysis. Credit only granted for ENAE488E or ENAE788E.
ENAE423 or ENME361 or equivalent dynamic systems analysis. Credit only granted for ENAE488E or ENAE788E.
ENAE799
Master's Thesis Research
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
S-F
ENAE899
Doctoral Dissertation Research
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
S-F
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