Private Short Courses
AIAA Training Links
For information, group discounts, and private course pricing, contact:
Lisa Le, Education Specialist (lisal@aiaa.org )
Bring Aerospace Short Courses to You!
You can realize substantial savings by bringing an AIAA short course directly to your organization. Our short courses are taught by worldwide experts in their field and available to be taught in-person at your workplace as well as virtually online. Private courses can also be customized in length and content to best meet your organizational training needs.
Our full list of courses is below (those with upcoming public offerings are noted). To discuss options and pricing, please email Jason Cole, AIAA Education Director at jasonc@aiaa.org.
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A Practical Approach to Flight Dynamics and Control of Aircraft, Missiles, and Hypersonic Vehicles
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A Practical Approach to Gas Turbine Engine Performance & Design using GasTurb14 – Online Short Course (Started April 16, 2024)
16 April - 6 June 2024
This new 32-hour course introduces GasTurb14 through software demonstration, complete engine model generations, simulations, and optional homework assignments.
Open for registration. Register Now
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A Practical Introduction to Preliminary Design of Air Breathing Engines
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Additive Manufacturing: Structural and Material Optimization
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Advanced Spacecraft Control and Dynamics
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Aeroelastic Wind Tunnel Testing and Aeroelasticity Considerations for Non-Aeroelastic Tests
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Aerospace Survivability
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AI for Air Traffic Safety Enhancement
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Aircraft and Rotorcraft System Identification Engineering Methods for Piloted and UAV Applications with Hands-on Training using CIFER®
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Aircraft Handling Qualities
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Aircraft Maintenance Management
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Aircraft Reliability & Reliability Centered Maintenance (Starts September 17, 2024)
17 September - 26 September 2024
Open for registration. Register Now
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Application of Thermal Vacuum Testing
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Applied Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) - Online Short Course (October 10-13, 2023)
10 October - 13 October 2023
This 4 day course provides a broad introduction to the what, why and how of the processes, practices, tools and techniques that comprise the emerging discipline of model-based systems engineering (MBSE).
Open for registration. Register Now
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Applied Space Systems Engineering – Online Short Course (June 10 - 13, 2024)
10 June - 13 June 2024
Applied Space Systems Engineering examines the practical application of space systems engineering processes throughout the mission lifecycle.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Atmospheric Flight Dynamics and Control
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Aviation Cybersecurity
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Business Development for Aerospace Professionals
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Complex Systems Competency
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Composite Structures: Process Analysis, Progressive Damage, Failure Analysis, and Advanced Software - Online Short Course (May 13-16, 2024)
13 May - 16 May 2024
This new, practical course taught by premier experts in Composite Aircraft Structures will cover advanced topics in composite analysis and use software from Digital Blue to demonstrate example frameworks.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Computational Aeroacoustics - Methods and Applications
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Computational Aeroelasticity
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Cryogenic Fluid Management for Storage & Transfer of Liquid Propellants in Space
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Decision Analysis
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Design and Operation of Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels (COPV)
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Design Evolution of Aircraft Structures
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Design of Electrified Propulsion Aircraft
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Design of Experiments: Improved Experimental Methods in Aerospace Testing – Online Short Course (Starts Jun 3, 2024)
3 June - 26 June 2024
This course details a formal approach to experiment design to ensure empirical model adequacy, quantify variability in predictions, and identify all possible independent variable interactions.
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Design of Gas Turbine Engines: From Concept to Details
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Design of Modern Aircraft Structures
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Design of Space Launch Vehicles
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Designing Space Missions
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Digital Engineering Fundamentals
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Electric VTOL Aircraft Design: Theory and Practice
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Electrochemical Energy Systems for Electrified Aircraft Propulsion: Batteries and Fuel Cell Systems
In this course, participants will learn about Electro-chemical Energy Systems (EES), with an emphasis on electrified aircraft propulsion and power applications.
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Emerging Principles in Fast Trajectory Optimization
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Essential Model-Based Systems Engineering - Online Short Course (April 29 - 30, 2024)
29 April - 30 April 2024
This course is for professionals preparing to undertake digital transformation in their organizations.
Open for registration. Register Now
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EVA 101: Life Support Systems – Online Short Course (Starts 9 Sept 2024)
9 September - 18 November 2024
EVA 101: Life Support Systems will familiarize the student with the essential features of life support systems required for various types of space missions and will cover the requirements and design considerations for life support systems in space.
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eVTOL Infrastructure Considerations for Advanced Air Mobility
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Financial and Business Acumen for Navigating the Aerospace Industry
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Flight Vehicle Guidance Navigation and Control Systems (GNC): Analysis and Design
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Foundations of Digital Engineering
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Foundations of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
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Fundamentals and Applications of Pressure Gain Combustion
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Fundamentals of Aeroelasticity: From Basics to Application
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Fundamentals of Classical Astrodynamics and Applications
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Fundamentals of Composite Structure Design
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Fundamentals of Data and Information Fusion for Aerospace Systems
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Fundamentals of High Speed Air-Breathing and Space Propulsion
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Fundamentals of Kalman Filtering - A Practical Approach
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Fundamentals of Space Domain Awareness – Online Short Course (Oct 1–2, 2024)
1 October - 2 October 2024
This is the ONLY course that provides complete coverage of Space Domain Awareness (SDA).
Open for registration. Register Now
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Fundamentals of Space Domain Awareness (European Offering) – Online Short Course (November 6–7, 2024)
6 November - 7 November 2024
This is the ONLY course that provides complete coverage of Space Domain Awareness (SDA).
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Fundamentals of Space Systems
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Fundamentals of Space Vehicle Guidance, Control, and Astrodynamics
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Fundamentals of Structural Dynamics
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Fundamentals of Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance
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Fundamentals of Thermal Vacuum Testing Science
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Guidance and Control of Hypersonic Vehicles – Online Short Course (Starts September 3, 2024)
3 September - 26 September 2024
This course presents a comprehensive overview of the recent, emerging technological advances in hypersonic flight vehicles, with an emphasis on solving a variety of guidance and control problems of hypersonic vehicles.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Guidelines for the Development of Civil Aircraft & Systems – Online Short Course (Starts June 18, 2024)
18 June - 27 June 2024
This course is designed to equip participants with the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary for the development of civil aircraft and systems based on ARP4754B and conducting the safety assessment process based on ARP4761A.
Open for registration. Register Now
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High Altitude Testing of Aircraft Engines
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Higher Fidelity Designs for the Aerospace Industry with Fluid-Thermal Structural Interaction (FTSI)
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Human Spaceflight Operations: Lessons Learned from 60 Years in Space – Online Short Course (Starts 7 May 2024)
7 May - 27 June 2024
This course aims to share the collective experience from over 60 years of human spaceflight operations. The experience and expertise of the many instructors is unmatched in this field.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Hybrid Rocket Propulsion
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Hypersonic Air-Breathing Propulsion
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Hypersonic Applications: Physical Models for Interdisciplinary Simulation
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Hypersonic Flight Vehicle Design and Performance Analysis
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Hypersonic Propulsion Concepts: Design, Control, Operation, and Testing – Online Short Course (Starts 22 Oct 2024)
22 October - 14 November 2024
This new 16-hour online course, instructed by experts from AIAA’s High Speed Air-Breathing Propulsion Technical Committee, will introduce participants to the most important fundamentals of the technical discipline.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Hypersonics: Test and Evaluation
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Integrated CubeSat Engineering
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Integrating Program Management, Systems Engineering, and Six Sigma
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Introduction to Propellant Gauging
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Introduction to Shock-Wave Boundary-Layer Interactions
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Launch Vehicle Coupled Loads Analysis: Theory and Approaches – Online Short Course (Starts 22 Oct 2024)
22 October - 7 November 2024
This course reviews the key basics of structural dynamics, then uses those fundamentals to create the building blocks of CLA, finally using those building blocks in CLA.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Liquid Atomization, Spray, and Fuel Injection in Aircraft Gas Turbine Engines
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Making Decisions in Missile Defense
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Metal Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace Applications
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Missile Aerodynamics, Propulsion, and Guidance
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Missile Design and System Engineering
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Missile Guidance
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Missile Propulsion
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Mission-based Vehicle Design: Digital Mission Engineering for Advanced Air Mobility
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Non-intrusive Laser-based Diagnostic Techniques for Hypersonic Flows
This course aims to provide background theory on several spectroscopy techniques, technology required to execute measurements, and examples how they have been implemented previously for large scale wind tunnel testing.
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NPSS - A Practical Introduction
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OpenFOAM® CFD Aeroacoustics
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OpenFOAM® CFD Dynamic Mesh Modeling
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OpenFOAM® CFD External Aerodynamics
This course introduces some advanced topics of the open source CFD toolbox, OpenFOAM. It concentrates on the topics important for external aerodynamics computations.
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OpenFOAM® CFD Foundations – Online Short Course (Starts April 23, 2024)
Learn OpenFOAM® CFD Fundamentals for Aerospace with a combination of lectures and associated hands-on lab exercises.
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Optimal Control Techniques for Unpiloted Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) - Online Guided Short Course (Started April 17, 2024)
17 April - 8 May 2024
This unique course covers the application of optimal control theory for UAVs.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Optimal Design in Multidisciplinary Systems
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Orbital Mechanics and Mission Simulation – Online Short Course (Starts 9 Sept 2024)
9 September - 16 October 2024
Orbital Mechanics and Mission Simulation will familiarize the student with the essential features of space flight dynamics for various types of space missions and will cover the requirements and design considerations for mission simulation systems.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Overview of Python for Engineering Programming
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Practical Design Methods for Aircraft and Rotorcraft Flight Control for Conventional Civil/Military, UAV, and AAM Applications with Hands-on Training using CONDUIT® – Online Short Course (Dec 9 – 12, 2024)
9 December - 12 December 2024
The course will be a combination of lectures, interspersed with associated hands-on lab exercises (aircraft and rotorcraft) to be completed by the students on their own computers using a 2-month trial of the CONDUIT® Pro version, provided with the course.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Principles of Success in Spaceflight from Andrew Chaikin
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Propeller Aerodynamics for Advanced Air Mobility: Fundamentals and Integration Effects
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Quantifying Uncertainties in Engineering Applications
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Radar Principles and Applications
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Robust Aeroservoelastic Stability Analysis
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Safety Management System (SMS) in Aviation – Online Short Course (Sept 10 – 13, 2024)
10 September - 13 September 2024
This course prepares students to develop and implement a Safety Management System (SMS) within an aviation context based on the ICAO Annex 19 Framework.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Satellite and SmallSat Thermal Control Engineering
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Sensitivity Analysis, Uncertainty Propagation, and Validation for Computational Models
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Space Architecture: Designing a Lunar Habitation System
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Space Architecture: Designing an Orbital Habitation System: Challenges and Consequences
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Space Domain Awareness – Online Short Course (September 9-12, 2024)
9 September - 12 September 2024
This is the ONLY course that provides complete coverage of Space Domain Awareness (SDA).
Open for registration. Register Now
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Space Domain Cybersecurity
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Space Mission Operations
This exciting, fast-paced 4-day course explores the challenge of designing and implementing space mission operations in a practical, cost-effective way in the real world.
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Space Standards and Architectures
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Spacecraft Avionics Systems Design and Applications – Online Short Course (Starts November 5, 2024)
5 November - 21 November 2024
This new practical course taught by a mission/system expert offers a rare deep dive into spacecraft avionics systems engineering and design.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Spacecraft Design, Development, and Operations - Online Short Course (Starts 14 Oct 2024)
14 October - 20 November 2024
This 36-hour comprehensive course focuses on the application of numerous engineering disciplines to the design and analysis of spacecraft. It is arguably THE most comprehensive short course on spacecraft design available.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Spacecraft Lithium-Ion Battery Power Systems – Online Short Course (Starts Sept 30, 2024)
30 September - 23 October 2024
New practical course covering the basic fundamental principles underlying the design and development of LIB-based EPS for various types of spacecraft mission applications.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Stability and Transition - Theory, Experiment, and Modeling
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Sustainable Aviation: Challenges, Design Implications, Recent Advancements, Noise, Emissions, Alternative Fuels, Electric Aircraft, and Emerging Technologies
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Systems Engineering Verification and Validation
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Systems Requirements Engineering
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Systems Thinking for Modern Aerospace Complexity
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Taking the Next Steps in Your Aerospace Career
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Technical Writing Essentials for Engineers – Online Short Course
This short course introduces students to essential technical writing skills for proposals, technical reports, and process or requirements documents.
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Test Foundations for Flight Test – Online Short Course (Starts May 6, 2024)
6 May - 10 June 2024
This course introduces the components involved with planning, executing, analyzing, and reporting on a flight test program.
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The Anatomy of Autonomy – Online Short Course (Starts June 3, 2024)
3 June - 19 June 2024
This course enables a fundamental understanding of autonomous capabilities, the foundations of their design, and their impact on current and future aviation and space systems.
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The Space Environment - Implications for Spacecraft Design
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Trusted Artificial Intelligence
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Turbomachinery for Emerging Space Applications: Liquid Rocket Propulsion
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Turbulence Modeling for Aerodynamic Flows
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UAV Aircraft Design by Dan Raymer
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Understanding Aircraft Noise: From Fundamentals to Design Impacts and Simulations
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Understanding Space: An Introduction to Astronautics and Space Systems Engineering
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Verification and Validation in Scientific Computing
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Vibration of Periodic Structures
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Vision-Based Control for Autonomous Vehicles
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Weaponeering - Conventional Weapon System Effectiveness
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Wind Tunnel Testing for Aircraft Development
This course is available on-demand.
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