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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- Spacecraft Design, Development, and Operations – Online Short Course (Started 6 April 2026)
6 April 2026 - 13 May 2026
This comprehensive course focuses on the application of numerous engineering disciplines to the design and analysis of spacecraft.
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- The Anatomy of Autonomy: Technology, Integration & Applications Across Aviation & Space Domains (Starts 21 April 2026)
21 April 2026 - 14 May 2026
The Anatomy of Autonomy short course is structured to enable 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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- Cislunar Exploration: Challenges and Opportunities – Online Short Course (Starts 27 April 2026)
27 April 2026 - 11 May 2026
We are going back to the Moon… learn about the meaning of this endeavor for spacefaring countries, and how sustained presence on another celestial body is more than just a technical challenge.
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- Flight Test Techniques for UAS – Online Short Course (Starts 4 May 2026)
4 May 2026 - 1 June 2026
This unique course on Flight Testing specific to UAS provides participants with overview, objectives, theory, techniques, software, and analysis methods for development, qualification, and acceptance tests of UAS.
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- Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics (2-Day In-Person Course)
6 June 2026 - 7 June 2026
2-Day in-person Course, Saturday/Sunday 6–7 June 2026 held in conjunction with the AIAA AVIATION Forum 2026 in San Diego, California. This essential course focuses on the Aerothermodynamic properties and challenges of Hypersonic flight.
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- Propeller Aerodynamics for Advanced Air Mobility: Fundamentals and Integration Effects (2-Day In-Person Course)
6 June 2026 - 7 June 2026
2-Day in-person Course, Saturday/Sunday 6–7 June 2026 held in conjunction with the AIAA AVIATION Forum 2026 in San Diego, California. This course covers the aerodynamics of propellers and rotors for aircraft applications, from fundamentals to complex propeller-airframe integration challenges.
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- Computational Aeroelasticity (1-Day In-Person Course)
7 June 2026 - 7 June 2026
1-Day in-person Course, Sunday 7 June 2026 held in conjunction with the AIAA AVIATION Forum 2026 in San Diego, California. This course covers concepts and terminology associated with aeroelasticity, including structural dynamics, unsteady aerodynamics, aeroservoelasticity, and recent developments such as computational reduced-order models.
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- Design of Electrified Propulsion Aircraft (2-Day In-Person Course)
8 June 2026 - 9 June 2026
2-Day in-person Course, Monday/Tuesday 8–9 June 2026 held in conjunction with the AIAA AVIATION Forum 2026 in San Diego, California. Updated for 2026 with the latest developments in electrified propulsion.
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- Guidance and Control of Next-Gen Missiles and Hypersonic Vehicles – Online Short Course (Starts 8 September 2026)
8 September 2026 - 1 October 2026
This course provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in next-generation missiles and hypersonic vehicles, with a focus on the guidance and control challenges of these advanced flight vehicles.
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- Turbomachinery for Emerging Space Applications: Liquid Rocket Propulsion – Online Short Course (Starts 14 September 2026)
14 September 2026 - 21 October 2026
This 24-hour course will cover an introduction to the interdisciplinary design of turbomachinery components within their corresponding systems in the context of liquid rocket engines.
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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 Drag Prediction and Aeroelastic Prediction Workshop
6 June 2026 - 7 June 2026
2-Day in-person Workshop, Saturday/Sunday 6-7 June 2026 held in conjunction with the AIAA AVIATION Forum 2026 in San Diego, California. 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
1-Day in-person Workshop, Sunday June 7, 2026 held in conjunction with the AIAA AVIATION Forum 2026 in San Diego, California. 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.
- 3rd AIAA Ice Prediction Workshop (Online, 21–24 September 2026)
21 September 2026 - 24 September 2026
This workshop will assess the current capabilities of 3D computational icing simulation tools and comparison of ice shape results.
- AIAA Weapons Bay Store Separation Workshop
3 June 2028 - 4 June 2028
2-Day in-person Workshop, Saturday/Sunday 3-4 June 2028 held in conjunction with the AIAA AVIATION Forum 2028 in San Diego, California. This workshop will address the challenges associated with CFD-based prediction of the aerodynamic and aeroacoustic phenomena affecting store separation from internal weapons bays.
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