AERE461: Class schedule
Fall Semester 2016
| Week | Lectures | Labs |
| 1 | Overview of the design class
The design process (Ch. 1 in A) | SolidWorks training |
| 2 | The design project & team selections
Teams, teamwork, and planning | SolidWorks training |
| 3 | Sizing (Ch. 5, 6, 25 in A)
Quality function deployment (Ch. 1 in B) | Star-CCM training |
| 4 | Aerodynamics (Ch. 2, 9, 13 in A)
Stability and control (Ch.11,21,22,23 in A) | 1st design review |
| 5 | Constraint analysis (Ch. 3 in B)
Performance (Ch. 3 in A) | Cluster operations and Java |
| 6 | Performance (cont’d)
Optimal trajectories (Ch. 4 in A) | No lab |
| 7 | Weights (Ch. 20 in A)
Introduction to trade studies (Ch. 3 in B) | 2nd design review |
| 8 | No lectures | Wind tunnel introduction |
| 9 | No lectures | No lab |
| 10 | No lectures | 3rd design review |
| 11 | No lectures | Wind tunnel testing |
| 12 | No lectures | No lab |
| 13 | No lectures | 4th design review |
| 14 | Thanksgiving break | |
| 15 | No lectures | No lab |
| 16 | Design reports due Tuesday (Dec. 13) | Final design reviews on Thursday (Dec. 15) |
| 17 | Final exams week |
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A - L. M. Nicolai and G. E. Carichner, Fundamentals of Aircraft and Airship Design, Volume I – Aircraft Design, AIAA Education Series, J. A. Schetz Editor-In-Chief, 2010. Available at Knovel.
B - S. Gudmundsson, General Aviation Aircraft Design - Applied Methods and Procedures, 1st ed., Butterworth-Heinemann, Waltman, MA, USA, 2014. Available at Knovel.
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