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- Scramjet Propulsion: The Systems and Technologies to Enable Hypersonic Flight – Online Short Course (Started 21 October 2025)
21 October 2025 - 18 November 2025
This course provides a lucid and wide-ranging introduction to the interdisciplinary field of high-speed air-breathing propulsion, focusing on scramjet engines.
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- Fundamentals of Python for Engineering Programming and Machine Learning (Started 21 October 2025)
21 October 2025 - 2 December 2025
The essential overview of Python for engineering programming, now expanded to include Machine Learning.
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- V/STOL Aircraft Design Considerations, Case Studies, and Lessons Learned (Online Short Course – Started 28 October 2025)
28 October 2025 - 20 November 2025
A comprehensive overview of V/STOL and its unique engineering challenges, taught by unparalleled experts in the field.
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- Technical Writing Essentials for Engineers – Online Short Course (Started 10 November 2025)
10 November 2025 - 19 November 2025
This short course introduces students to essential technical writing skills for proposals, technical reports, and process or requirements documents.
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- Applied Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) – Online Short Course (17–20 November 2025)
17 November 2025 - 20 November 2025
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).
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- Space Systems Verification and Validation – Online Short Course (2–5 December 2025)
2 December 2025 - 5 December 2025
This essential course provides participants with the processes, industry standards, information, and tools necessary to implement or evaluate a credible verification and validation program.
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- Aircraft and Rotorcraft System Identification Engineering Methods for Manned and UAV Applications with Hands-on Training using CIFER® – Online Short Course (8–11 December 2025)
8 December 2025 - 11 December 2025
This comprehensive course will review the fundamental methods of Manned and UAV aircraft and rotorcraft system identification for determining flight dynamics and control models from test data with Hands-on Training using CIFER®.
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- 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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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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