Courses & Workshops
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Stay at the top of your game with AIAA’s continuing education offerings. You will leave with invaluable improvements and solutions that you can put to immediate use.
AIAA Courses are carefully selected for their technical relevance and expert instructors. Courses feature lectures and demonstrations with ample opportunity to ask questions and interact.
Students receive a set of course notes and course completion certificates; students may also claim CEUs/PDHs for all AIAA courses.
All of our Online Courses can be found in the Online Learning Catalog- Design of Space Launch Vehicles – Online Short Course (Starts 9 February 2026)
9 February 2026 - 13 March 2026
This comprehensive course applies numerous engineering disciplines to the design & analysis of launch vehicles, including many practical applications not found elsewhere. Includes an eBook copy of the second edition of the instructor’s 1,070-page AIAA textbook “Design of Rockets and Space Launch Vehicles” for all registrants.
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- Verification & Validation for High Temperature Material Modeling & Applications – Online Short Course (Starts 17 Feb 2026)
17 February 2026 - 12 March 2026
This new unique course taught by leading experts from AIAA’s Thermophysics Technical Committee covers the behavior and test methods for high temperature materials, which are critical for hypersonic vehicle design.
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- Aircraft Performance for Advanced Air Mobility: A Path to Certification – Online Short Course (Starts 24 February 2026)
24 February 2026 - 2 April 2026
This new, singularly unique course offers an in-depth exploration of aircraft performance and certification requirements with a focus on Advanced Air Mobility platforms.
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- Spacecraft Lithium-Ion Battery Power Systems – Online Short Course (Starts 2 March 2026)
2 March 2026 - 1 April 2026
This comprehensive and unique course covers the basic fundamental principles underlying the design, test, and deployment of LIB-based EPS for various types of spacecraft mission applications.
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- Vortex Flow Aerodynamics – Online Short Course (Starts 3 March 2026)
3 March 2026 - 26 March 2026
This new unique course focuses on the aerodynamic properties of vortex flows.
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- Engineering Design Optimization: Theory and Practice – Online Short Course (Starts 9 March 2026)
9 March 2026 - 8 April 2026
This new essential course taught by experts from the AIAA Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) Technical Committee introduces optimization, particularly for engineering applications.
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- Understanding Space: An Introduction to Astronautics and Space Systems Engineering – Online Short Course (17–19 March 2026)
17 March 2026 - 19 March 2026
Understanding Space is the ideal course for technical or non-technical professionals new to the space industry or who need a refresher on the fundamentals.
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- Technical Writing Essentials for Engineers – Online Short Course (Starts 23 March 2026)
23 March 2026 - 1 April 2026
This short course introduces students to essential technical writing skills for proposals, technical reports, and process or requirements documents.
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- Systems Engineering and Responsible Artificial Intelligence for Aerospace Applications – Online Short Course (Starts 24 March 2026)
24 March 2026 - 16 April 2026
Advance your expertise with this essential course, focusing on responsibly building systems with Artificial Intelligence and using AI to enhance the systems engineering and deployment processes, all the while understanding and managing risks.
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- Space Mission Operations – Online Short Course (30 March–2 April 2026)
30 March 2026 - 2 April 2026
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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Organized by AIAA Technical Committees and experts in their fields in conjunction with AIAA forums, workshops focus on problems and challenges in a specific discipline area or in a general area related to aerospace. Participants get hands-on experience and can share best practices and lessons learned with each other.
- AIAA Propulsion Aerodynamics Workshop (PAW)
11 January 2026 - 11 January 2026
Hyatt Regency Orlando, 2026 SCITECH. The 7th AIAA Propulsion Aerodynamics Workshop (PAW7) test case is a commercial-style inlet with a rotating fan and ingested ground vortex.
- AIAA Drag Prediction and Aeroelastic Prediction Workshop
6 June 2026 - 7 June 2026
San Diego, CA. 2026 AVIATION Forum. To assess the state-of-the-art computational methods as practical aerodynamic tools for aircraft force and moment prediction of industry relevant geometries.
- 3rd AIAA Workshop on Multifidelity Methods for Design and Uncertainty Quantification
7 June 2026 - 7 June 2026
San Diego, CA. 2026 AVIATION Forum. Multifidelity modeling encompasses a broad range of methods that use approximate models together with high-fidelity models to accelerate a computational task that requires repeated model evaluations.
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