AERE461: Syllabus

Fall Semester 2016

Course description

This course offers senior-level undergraduate students the opportunity to participate in a design experience focusing upon an aircraft system. Students will work in teams to learn and apply modern engineering design methodology and computational constrained optimal design approach including selection of objective function, characterization of constraint system, materials and strength considerations, and sensitivity analyses.

Prerequisites

AerE 311, 321, 351, 355, 361

Course text:

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.

Reference texts:

Daniel P. Raymer, Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach, 4th Ed., AIAA, Reston, 2006 www.aircraftdesign.com
Jan Roskam, Airplane Design I-VII, published by DARcorporation
William H. Mason’s Info for Aircraft Design: The aircraft design class at Virginia Tech
S. Gudmundsson, General Aviation Aircraft Design - Applied Methods and Procedures, 1st ed., Butterworth-Heinemann, Waltman, MA, USA, 2014. Available at Knovel.

Course grading

Design reviews 5*10%
Final report 40% (evaluated on overall quality and individual contribution)
Peer review 10%