Courses Category: Private Courses

Test Foundations for Flight Test

  • This course introduces the components involved with planning, executing, analyzing, and reporting on a flight test program. Concepts such as test planning, risk identification and management, test conduct, data analysis, and technical reporting are presented with real-world flight test examples.
  • All students will receive an AIAA Certificate of Completion at the end of the course.

Business Development for Aerospace Professionals – Online Short Course (Starts 6 Oct 2026)

  • From 6–15 October 2026 (2 Weeks, 6 Classes, 12 Hours)
  • Every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 12–2 p.m. Eastern Time (all sessions will be recorded and available for replay; course notes will be available for download)
  • Taught by a former Senior Vice President at Sierra Nevada Corporation Space Systems and Program Executive at Airbus US, with vast experience and expertise in the field, and author of Blind Spots: Why Product Development Projects Miss Their Targets. This is the ONLY course of its kind that teaches business development in the aerospace industry.
  • The course teaches essential concepts and actionable techniques, with emphasis on real-world applications that you can leverage immediately. Lessons learned are derived from patterns seen in aerospace and other high-tech industries.
  • For each key discipline, essential concepts and actionable techniques are discussed in detail. The focus is on real-world applications that you can leverage immediately and consistently. Lessons learned are derived from patterns seen in aerospace and other high-tech industries.
  • Part of a two-course series, this essential course on Business Development for Aerospace is designed for individuals trying to identify customer needs and the best sales opportunities.
  • Note: while both courses are recommended as a pair, you can register for the second course only (Project Execution for Aerospace Professionals) if your primary problems are with overruns or project execution.
  • All students will receive an AIAA Certificate of Completion at the end of the course

Wind Tunnel Testing for Aircraft Development

Image courtesy of Bombardier Aerospace

  • This course is a primer on wind tunnels and wind tunnel testing, primarily for aviation applications. The course considers these aspects from both the client side and the facility side, underpinned by a focus on cost and data quality. Numerous examples are provided.
  • All students will receive an AIAA Certificate of Completion at the end of the course.

Space Domain Awareness: A Comprehensive Guide to Safe Operations, Security, and Defense

Instructed by Dr. Wiley Larson, Mrs. Pam Magee, Dr. Jim Shell, Dr. Matt Hejduk, Julien Serie, Giorgos Mazarakis and Mahhad Nayyer

  • This is the ONLY course that provides complete coverage of Space Domain Awareness (SDA)—necessary capabilities for SDA operations, challenges and problems, strategy and tactics, space object detection, tracking, characterization and identification, overall data and information flow and decision-making.
  • All participants will receive an AIAA Certificate of Completion at the end of the course.

Electric VTOL Aircraft Design: Theory and Practice

  • In this joint course from AIAA and the Vertical Flight Society, the latest and greatest in eVTOL technology is presented.
  • All students will receive an AIAA Certificate of Completion at the end of the course

Guidance and Control of Hypersonic Vehicles

Image Courtesy of Northrop Grumman

Instructed by Bong Wie, Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University

  • 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.
  • It includes numerous illustrative GN&C design examples of various hypersonic vehicles, such as hypersonic aircraft/missiles, Mars hypersonic entry vehicles, hypersonic reentry vehicles, and hypersonic missile interceptors, to enhance the learning experience.
  • All students will receive a copy of MATLAB code employing the numerical predictor-corrector guidance algorithm as applied to various hypersonic entry guidance problems.
  • All students will receive an AIAA Certificate of Completion at the end of the course.

Design of Space Launch Vehicles

INSTRUCTED BY
Don Edberg, Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Cal Poly Pomona & Adjunct Lecturer, Astronautical Engineering, University of Southern California (USC), Former Boeing Technical Fellow

  • This comprehensive course applies numerous engineering disciplines to the design & analysis of launch vehicles, including many practical applications not found elsewhere.
  • Course includes over 1,800 slides providing theory along with many illustrative application examples of existing or heritage hardware, and solved practice exercises to enhance the learning experience.
  • Based on the second edition of the instructor’s 1,070-page AIAA textbook “Design of Rockets and Space Launch Vehicles” (2nd edition) (recommended text)
  • All students will receive an AIAA Certificate of Completion at the end of the course.

Applied Space Systems Engineering

Instructed by Teaching Science and Technology Inc. (TSTI)

  • Applied Space Systems Engineering examines the practical application of space systems engineering processes throughout the mission lifecycle.
  • All students will receive an AIAA Certificate of Completion at the end of the course

Space Mission Operations

Instructed by Teaching Science and Technology Inc. (TSTI)

  • Space Mission Operations is the ideal course for systems engineers, payload principle investigators, subsystem engineers or project managers who are responsible for the detailed design and operation of space systems.
  • All students will receive an AIAA Certificate of Completion at the end of the course