AERE362: Class schedule

Spring Semester 2018
Date Topic
1/8 Vectors (guest lecturer)
1/10 Matrices (guest lecturer)
1/12 Course Overview
1/15 MLK Day
1/17 Introduction to Design Process
1/19 Introduction to Aircraft Design
1/22 Teamwork and Planning + Design Project Kick-off
1/24 Why Airplanes Look Like They Do?
1/26 Initial Sizing
1/29 Quality Function Deployment
1/31 Aerodynamics + Stability and Control
2/2 Design Review 1 - Market Demand, Existing Products, Regulations, and Requirement Analysis
2/5 Constraint Analysis
2/7 Energy Maneuverability
2/9 Energy Maneuverability Case Study
2/12 Optimal Trajectories
2/14 Weights + Test 1
2/16 Introduction to Trade Studies
2/19 Optimization
2/21 Optimization
2/23 Optimization
2/26 Optimization
2/28 Optimization
3/2 eVTOL Flight Mission Energy Demand (guest lecturer)
3/5 Optimization
3/7 Optimization
3/9 Design Review 2 - Battery Tehcnology, Electrical Propulsion, and eVTOL
3/12 Spring Break
3/14 Spring Break
3/16 Spring Break
3/19 Test 2
3/21 Optimization
3/23 Optimization
3/26 Optimization
3/28 Probability Theory
3/30 Probability Theory
4/2 Design Review 3 - Sizing, Propulsion Selection and Thrust Analysis, and Interior Layout
4/4 Probability Theory
4/6 Probability Theory
4/9 Probability Theory
4/11 Probability Theory
4/13 Test 3
4/16 Project Work Day
4/18 Project Work Day
4/20 Project Work Day
4/23 Final Project Presentation + 3D Printing Demo
4/25 Final Project Presentation + 3D Printing Demo
4/27 Final Project Presentation + 3D Printing Demo