Courses Category: Aeronautics

AI for Air Traffic Safety Enhancement

  • Instructed by world-wide leaders for AI applications in Air Traffic Management and Control
  • All students will receive an AIAA Certificate of Completion at the end of the course

Flight Vehicle Guidance Navigation and Control Systems (GNC): Analysis and Design

  • This course focuses on the principles of GN&C (Guidance, Navigation and Control) systems analysis and design for aerospace flight vehicles
  • It will also include illustrative GN&C design examples of various flight vehicles, such as conventional missiles, launch vehicles, Mars EDL (Entry, Descent & Landing) vehicles, and hypersonic missiles/vehicles, to enhance the learning experience
  • All students will receive an AIAA Certificate of Completion at the end of the course

eVTOL Infrastructure Considerations for Advanced Air Mobility

  • Providing the latest information and data for vertiport & heliport design considerations
  • Differentiating aviation reality from marketing hype and animated fiction
  • All students will receive an AIAA Certificate of Completion at the end of the course

OpenFOAM® CFD External Aerodynamics

Instructed by Mr. Matej Forman, OpenFOAM training team leader, ESI Group

 

Highlights:

  • Bootcamp-style live online course over 2 days
  • Learn OpenFOAM CFD Advanced techniques for Aerospace with a combination of lectures and associated hands-on lab exercises
  • All course notes and exercises will be available for download. No sessions will be recorded.
  • All students will receive an AIAA Certificate of Completion at the end of the course

Computational Aeroelasticity (1-Day In-Person Course)

Instructed by Dr. Walt Silva, Emeritus Langley Associate, Aeroelasticity Branch at NASA Langley Research Center, former NASA Structures Lead for the Low Boom Flight Demonstrator (LBFD) X-59, AIAA Fellow.

  • 1-Day Course, held in conjunction with the AIAA AVIATION Forum 2026 in San Diego, California
  • Sunday 7 June 2026
  • Covers concepts and terminology associated with aeroelasticity, including structural dynamics, unsteady aerodynamics, aeroservoelasticity, and recent developments such as computational reduced-order models.
  • All students will receive an AIAA Certificate of Completion at the end of the course

Design of Modern Aircraft Structures

Instructed by Dr. Michael Mohaghegh, Boeing Technical Fellow: Advanced Structures and Materials

  • This applied introductory course covers the most important fundamental and practical concepts of modern aircraft structures.
  • Course will also include illustrative application examples, practice exercise problems, and supplemental material to enhance the learning experience
  • At the conclusion of the course, students may choose to complete an optional design project to test what they’ve learned.
  • All students will receive an AIAA Certificate of Completion at the end of the course

Fundamentals of Kalman Filtering – A Practical Approach

Synopsis:

In this intensive short course a pragmatic and non intimidating approach is taken in showing participants how to build both linear and extended Kalman filters by using numerous simplified but non trivial examples. Sometimes mistakes are intentionally introduced in some filter designs in order to show what happens when a Kalman filter is not working properly. Design examples are approached in several different ways in order to show that filtering solutions are not unique and also to illustrate various design tradeoffs. The course is constructed so that participants with varied learning styles will find the courses practical approach to filter design to be both useful and refreshing.

Key Topics:

  • Learn how to build both linear and extended Kalman filters
  • How process noise can save many filter designs from failing
  • Why some choices of filter states are better than others
  • Advantages and disadvantages of filtering in different coordinate systems
  • Why linear filters are sometimes better than extended filters for some nonlinear problems
  • Use MATLAB source code to explore issues beyond the scope of the course
  • Click below for full outline

Who Should Attend:

Managers, scientists, mathematicians, engineers and programmers at all levels who work with or need to learn about Kalman filtering. No background in Kalman filtering is assumed. Engineers and programmers will find the detailed course material and many MATLAB source code listings invaluable for both learning and reference.

OpenFOAM® CFD Aeroacoustics

This course covers Theoretical and Applied concepts in Computational Aeroacoustics (CAA) using OpenFOAM, touching on progressive Multiphysics design challenges, e.g. Aero-Vibro-acoustics (AVA). In the practical part of the course, we will see how to use acoustic analogy, how to prepare and set up the case to resolve the air-born sound. Post-processing leading to noise characteristics is explained and tested.

An experienced trainer from OpenCFD – the company delivering official distribution of OpenFOAM every 6 months – will be presenting practical training based on the latest release. Training is based on mixture of lectures and hands-on exploring simple applications run on a cloud computer.  More information can be found at https://openfoam.com/training/aerospace.php

OpenFOAM® CFD Dynamic Mesh Modeling

Instructed by Mr. Matej Forman, OpenFOAM training team leader, ESI Group

Highlights:

  • Learn OpenFOAM CFD Advanced techniques for Aerospace with a combination of lectures and associated hands-on lab exercises
  • All students will receive an AIAA Certificate of Completion at the end of the course