Department of Aerospace Engineering

Core Areas

Aerospace Engineering Core Areas

Aerodynamics

  • AerE 541 - Incompressible Flow Aerodynamics
  • AerE 532 - Compressible Fluid Flow
  • AerE 543 - Viscous Flow Aerodynamics
  • EM 571X - Advanced Fluid Mechanics

Orbital Mechanics/Flight Mechanics

  • AerE 551 - Orbital Mechanics
  • AerE 555X - Advanced Flight Mechanics
  • EM 548 - Advanced Engineering Dynamics

Structures/Structural Dynamics/Materials

  • AerE 521 - Airframe Analysis
  • EM 525 - Finite Element Analysis
  • AerE 569 - Mechanics of Composite and Combined Materials
  • EM 514 - Advanced Mechanics of Materials

Guidance and Control

  • AerE 556 - Guidance and Navigation of Aerospace Vehicles
  • AerE 531 - Automatic Control of Flight Vehicles
  • AerE 577 - Linear Systems
  • AerE 574 - Optimal Control

Engineering Mechanics Core Areas

Solid Mechanics/Mechanics of Materials

  • EM 514 – Advanced Mechanics of Materials
  • EM 510 – Continuum Mechanics
  • EM 516 – Mechanics of Deformable Solids
  • EM 564 – Fracture and Fatigue

Fluid Mechanics/Aerodynamics

  • EM 571x – Advanced Fluid Mechanics
  • AerE 541 – Incompressible Flow Aerodynamics
  • AerE 532 – Compressible Fluid Flow

Dynamics/Vibrations/ Wave Mechanics

  • EM 548 – Advanced Engineering Dynamics
  • EM 518 – Waves in Elastic Solids with Applications to NDE
  • EM 543 – Introduction to Random Vibrations and Nonlinear Dynamics

Computational Mechanics

  • EM 525 – Finite Elements Analysis
  • Math 507 – Numerical Solution of Differential Equations
  • AerE 546 – Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Math 502 and Math 503 – Numerical Analysis I and II