Courses
Aero 401 - Aerospace Vehicle Design I
Aerodynamic design, specification, arrangement, performance analysis, weight and balance, stability. Prerequisites: AERO 303, 306, 351, 421.
Aero 402 - Aerospace Vehicle Design II
Continuation of AERO 401. System optimization by examination and analysis of necessary trade-offs. Prerequisite: AERO 401.
Aero 421 - Dynamics of Aerospace Vehicles
Aircraft static stability and control; longitudinal and lateral dynamic stability; general equations of motion; stability derivatives; response to control inputs. Prerequisite: AERO 310.
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Aero 422 - Active Control of Aerospace Vehicles
Introduction to the Theory of Automatic Control specifically applied to aerospace vehicles; techniques for analysis and synthesis of linear control systems, stability criteria, systems response and performance criteria; design studies of active controls to improve aerospace vehicle performance. Prerequisite: AERO 421.
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Aero 440 - Cockpit Displays and Systems
Design, development, and implementation of cockpit systems and multi-function displays; cockpit system requirements and specifications; human-machine interfaces, Flight Management Systems, navigation and guidance systems; 3-D real-time displays of weather, traffic, and terrain; characteristics and missions of air vehicles; project design and cost analysis. Prerequisite: AERO 421 or junior or senior classification in computer science.
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Aero 445 - Vehicle Management Systems
Introduction to vehicle management systems for manned and unmanned air and space vehicles; system centric concepts, requirements definition, specifications, and architectures; reliability analysis, health monitoring, and mission management; SISO digital design of integrated flight control, propulsion control and structural control; introduction to vehicle autonomy; design and analysis methods, industrial examples. Prerequisites: AERO 422; junior or senior classification.
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Aero 489 - Design of Intelligent UAV's
Aero 625 - Digital Control of Aerospace Systems
Analysis and design of discrete and sampled-data controllers unique to aircraft and spacecraft; modeling of aircraft and spacecraft, sources of uncertainties; requirements and specifications; direct digital design using SISO and MIMO optimal techniques; Z plane and w' plane analysis and design; sample rate selection, multi-rate controllers; robustness. Prerequisite: AERO 422 or equivalent.
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Aero 660 - Nonlinear Flight Mechanics
Nonlinear equations of motion for coupled aircraft motions; coupled aerodynamic phenomena; application of the direct method of Lyapunov to nonlinear aircraft motions; elastic airplane equations of motion. Prerequisite: AERO 421 or approval of instructor.
