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Courses - Spring 2026
ENTE
Engineering Test and Evaluation
Open Seats as of
12/21/2025 at 10:30 PM
ENTE601
(Perm Req)
Autonomy and AI Fundamentals for the Development, Test & Evaluation, Verification & Validation (DTEVV) Workforce
Credits: 3
Grad Meth: Reg
Restriction: Permission from ENTE Graduate Director.
Additional information: Students must have prior coursework similar to the content offered in undergraduate courses MATH 243 and ENAE202. Exceptions may be made on a case-by-case basis by the ENTE Graduate Director.
The future of transportation is uncrewed and ultimately autonomous. Before these systems can be fielded, they will need to go through a risk mitigation and acceptance process that is managed by professionals in and out of the government. This course is designed to give the students the skills required to evaluate autonomous aviation systems during this Development, Test & Evaluation, Verification and Validation (DTEVV) process. The course will cover the basic concepts and challenges faced by the DTEVV community when evaluating systems that contain Autonomous/AI functionality. It will examine control methods that are used by the DTEVV community. The course will provide practical experience in evaluating these systems through formal methods analysis, reinforcement learning, and programming to perform perception tasks required within the DTEVV community. This course will give the student a solid understanding and the skills needed to perform DTEVV on autonomous/AI systems in aviation.