Private Short Courses
AIAA Training Links
For information, group discounts, and private course pricing, contact:
Lisa Le, Education Specialist (lisal@aiaa.org )
Bring Aerospace Short Courses to You!
You can realize substantial savings by bringing an AIAA short course directly to your organization. Our short courses are taught by worldwide experts in their field and available to be taught in-person at your workplace as well as virtually online. Private courses can also be customized in length and content to best meet your organizational training needs.
Our full list of courses is below (those with upcoming public offerings are noted). To discuss options and pricing, please email Jason Cole, AIAA Education Director at jasonc@aiaa.org.
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A Practical Approach to Flight Dynamics and Control of Aircraft, Missiles, and Hypersonic Vehicles
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A Practical Approach to Gas Turbine Engine Performance & Design using GasTurb14
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A Practical Introduction to Preliminary Design of Air Breathing Engines
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Additive Manufacturing: Structural and Material Optimization
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Advanced Flight Dynamics and Control of Aircraft, Missiles, and Hypersonic Vehicles – Online Short Course (Starts 6 May 2025)
6 May - 29 May 2025
This course will briefly review the fundamentals of flight dynamic modeling and control and will present a variety of flight control design examples to enhance the learning experience.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Advanced Hydrogen Aerospace Technologies and Design
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Advanced Solid Rockets
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Advanced Spacecraft Control and Dynamics
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Aeroelastic Wind Tunnel Testing and Aeroelasticity Considerations for Non-Aeroelastic Tests
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Aerospace Survivability
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AI Design and Deployment Risks for Aerospace Applications – Online Short Course (Starts 29 April 2025)
29 April - 8 May 2025
Deepen your understanding of aerospace autonomy and AI risk management with this third AIAA course in the Responsible AI series.
Open for registration. Register Now
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AI for Aerospace Applications: Ethics, Policy, and Society – Online Short Course (Starts 15 April 2025)
15 April - 24 April 2025
Navigate the intersection of AI, ethics, policy, and societal impact with this course tailored to the unique challenges of AI and aerospace applications.
Open for registration. Register Now
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AI for Air Traffic Safety Enhancement
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Aircraft and Rotorcraft System Identification Engineering Methods for Piloted and UAV Applications with Hands-on Training using CIFER®
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Aircraft Handling Qualities – Online Short Course (Starts 7 April 2025)
7 April - 30 April 2025
This new online course provides a comprehensive overview of the design, analysis and test processes surrounding Aircraft Handling Qualities.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Aircraft Maintenance Management
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Aircraft Reliability & Reliability Centered Maintenance
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Application of Thermal Vacuum Testing
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Applications of Generative AI with Large Language Models in Aviation and Aerospace – Online Short Course (Starts 13 May 2025)
13 May - 22 May 2025
Explore AI's frontiers in aviation and aerospace! Join our new course on Large Language Model (LLM) Application Development, focused on AI applicability in the aviation and aerospace industries.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Applied Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) – Online Short Course (18–21 Nov 2024)
18 November - 21 November 2024
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).
Open for registration. Register Now
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Applied Space Systems Engineering – Online Short Course (12–15 May 2025)
12 May - 15 May 2025
This course examines the practical application of space systems engineering processes throughout the mission lifecycle.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Atmospheric and Near-Earth Space Environment – Online Short Course (Starts 6 February 2025)
6 February - 10 April 2025
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the atmospheric and space environment experienced by suborbital and orbital spacecraft.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Atmospheric Flight Dynamics and Control
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Aviation Cybersecurity
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Business Development for Aerospace Professionals – Online Short Course (Starts 11 February 2025)
11 February - 20 February 2025
This course is ideal for aerospace technical and scientific people transitioning to new business roles with responsibility for generating and growing sales.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Cislunar Exploration: Challenges and Opportunities – Online Short Course (Starts 3 Mar 2025)
3 March - 17 March 2025
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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Complex Systems Competency
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Composite Structures: Process Analysis, Progressive Damage, Failure Analysis, and Advanced Software
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Computational Aeroacoustics - Methods and Applications
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Computational Aeroelasticity
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Cryogenic Fluid Management for Storage & Transfer of Liquid Propellants in Space
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Decision Analysis
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Design and Operation of Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels (COPV)
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Design Evolution of Aircraft Structures
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Design of Electrified Propulsion Aircraft
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Design of Experiments: Improved Experimental Methods in Aerospace Testing
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Design of Gas Turbine Engines: From Concept to Details
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Design of Modern Aircraft Structures
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Design of Space Launch Vehicles – Online Short Course (Starts 10 Mar 2025)
10 March - 16 April 2025
This comprehensive course applies numerous engineering disciplines to the design & analysis of launch vehicles, including many practical applications not found elsewhere.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Designing Space Missions
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Digital Engineering Fundamentals – Online Short Course (Starts 24 March 2025)
24 March - 2 April 2025
This one-of-a-kind 8-hour course is at the leading edge of the rapidly emerging field of digital engineering.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Electric VTOL Aircraft Design: Theory and Practice – Online Short Course (Starts 25 Feb 2025)
25 February - 27 March 2025
In this joint course from AIAA and the Vertical Flight Society, the latest and greatest in eVTOL technology is presented.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Electrochemical Energy Systems for Electrified Aircraft Propulsion: Batteries and Fuel Cell Systems
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Emerging Principles in Fast Trajectory Optimization
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Engineering and Operations for Planetary Field Geology – Online Short Course (Starts 12 Feb 2025)
12 February - 16 April 2025
This course will provide a foundational understanding of the science motivations for and the requirements, methods, and limitations of conducting field science operations during EVAs on planetary surfaces such as the Moon and Mars.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Essential Model-Based Systems Engineering – Online Short Course (29–30 Apr 2025)
29 April - 30 April 2025
This course is ideal for technical or non-technical professionals preparing to undertake digital transformation in their organizations.
Open for registration. Register Now
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EVA 101: Life Support Systems
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eVTOL Infrastructure Considerations for Advanced Air Mobility
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Financial and Business Acumen for Navigating the Aerospace Industry
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Flight Test Techniques for UAS – Online Short Course (Starts 28 April 2025)
28 April - 21 May 2025
This new 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.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Flight Vehicle Guidance Navigation and Control Systems (GNC): Analysis and Design
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Foundations of Digital Engineering
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Foundations of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
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Fundamentals and Applications of Pressure Gain Combustion
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Fundamentals and Applications of Thermal Vacuum Testing – Online Short Course (Starts 28 Oct 2024)
28 October - 20 November 2024
This is the definitive course on Vacuum Testing from AIAA, reviewing the physics and fundamentals of thermo-vacuum testing, satellite test requirements and the physics behind vacuum bake-out, cycling, and balance testing.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Fundamentals of Aeroelasticity: From Basics to Application
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Fundamentals of Classical Astrodynamics and Applications
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Fundamentals of Composite Structure Design
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Fundamentals of Data and Information Fusion for Aerospace Systems
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Fundamentals of High Speed Air-Breathing and Space Propulsion – Online Short Course (Starts 22 April 2025)
22 April - 15 May 2025
This new online course provides an overview of a range of propulsion technologies.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Fundamentals of Kalman Filtering - A Practical Approach
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Fundamentals of Python for Engineering Programming and Machine Learning (Starts 4 Feb 2025)
4 February - 25 February 2025
This course introduces the Python programming language and its rich ecosystem focusing on engineering applications along with machine learning concepts, capabilities, and limitations applied to engineering-type problems.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Fundamentals of Space Domain Awareness
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Fundamentals of Space Systems
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Fundamentals of Space Vehicle Guidance, Control, and Astrodynamics
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Fundamentals of Structural Dynamics – Online Short Course (Starts 31 Mar 2025)
31 March - 23 April 2025
Taught for the very first time online, this comprehensive overview of the discipline of Structural Dynamics will cover the dynamic characteristics of structures and the prediction of response of structures to dynamic environments.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Fundamentals of Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance
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Fundamentals of Thermal Vacuum Testing Science
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Guidance and Control of Hypersonic Vehicles
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Guidelines for the Development of Civil Aircraft & Systems
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High Altitude Testing of Aircraft Engines
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Higher Fidelity Designs for the Aerospace Industry with Fluid-Thermal Structural Interaction (FTSI)
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Human Spaceflight Operations: Lessons Learned from 60 Years in Space
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Hybrid Rocket Propulsion
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Hypersonic Air-Breathing Propulsion
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Hypersonic Applications: Physical Models for Interdisciplinary Simulation
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Hypersonic Flight Vehicle Design and Performance Analysis
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Hypersonic Propulsion Concepts: Design, Control, Operation, and Testing
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Hypersonics: Test and Evaluation
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Integrated CubeSat Engineering
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Integrating Program Management, Systems Engineering, and Six Sigma
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Introduction to Propellant Gauging
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Introduction to Shock-Wave Boundary-Layer Interactions
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Launch Vehicle Coupled Loads Analysis: Theory and Approaches
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Liquid Atomization, Spray, and Fuel Injection in Aircraft Gas Turbine Engines
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Making Decisions in Missile Defense
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Metal Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace Applications
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Missile Aerodynamics, Propulsion, and Guidance
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Missile Design and System Engineering
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Missile Guidance
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Missile Propulsion
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Mission-based Vehicle Design: Digital Mission Engineering for Advanced Air Mobility
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Non-intrusive Laser-based Diagnostic Techniques for Hypersonic Flows
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NPSS - A Practical Introduction
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OpenFOAM® CFD Aeroacoustics
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OpenFOAM® CFD Dynamic Mesh Modeling
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OpenFOAM® CFD External Aerodynamics
This course introduces some advanced topics of the open source CFD toolbox, OpenFOAM. It concentrates on the topics important for external aerodynamics computations.
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OpenFOAM® CFD Foundations
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Optimal Control Techniques for Unpiloted Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
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Optimal Design in Multidisciplinary Systems
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Orbital Mechanics and Mission Simulation
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Practical Design Methods for Aircraft and Rotorcraft Flight Control for Conventional Civil/Military, UAV, and AAM Applications with Hands-on Training using CONDUIT® – Online Short Course (Dec 9 – 12, 2024)
9 December - 12 December 2024
The course will be a combination of lectures, interspersed with associated hands-on lab exercises (aircraft and rotorcraft) to be completed by the students on their own computers using a 2-month trial of the CONDUIT® Pro version, provided with the course.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Principles of Success in Spaceflight from Andrew Chaikin
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Propeller Aerodynamics for Advanced Air Mobility: Fundamentals and Integration Effects
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Quantifying Uncertainties in Engineering Applications
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Radar Principles and Applications
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Robust Aeroservoelastic Stability Analysis
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Safety Management System (SMS) in Aviation
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Satellite and SmallSat Thermal Control Engineering
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Sensitivity Analysis, Uncertainty Propagation, and Validation for Computational Models
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Space Architecture: Designing a Lunar Habitation System
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Space Architecture: Designing an Orbital Habitation System: Challenges and Consequences
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Space Domain Awareness – Online Short Course (September 9-12, 2024)
This is the ONLY course that provides complete coverage of Space Domain Awareness (SDA).
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Space Domain Cybersecurity – Online Short Course (28–31 Oct 2024)
28 October - 31 October 2024
This exciting, fast-paced 4-day course examines the practical issues of developing and sustaining a secure cyber environment through all phases of the space mission lifecycle.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Space Mission Operations – Online Short Course (17–20 Mar 2025)
17 March - 20 March 2025
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.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Space Standards and Architectures
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Spacecraft Avionics Systems Design and Applications
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Spacecraft Design, Development, and Operations - Online Short Course (Started 16 Oct 2024)
16 October - 25 November 2024
This 36-hour comprehensive course focuses on the application of numerous engineering disciplines to the design and analysis of spacecraft. It is arguably THE most comprehensive short course on spacecraft design available.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Spacecraft Lithium-Ion Battery Power Systems
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Spaceflight Physiology – Online Short Course (Starts 3 February 2025)
3 February - 21 April 2025
This course provides students with the basis of knowledge and complement of skills necessary for awareness and application of human spaceflight physiology to the exploration of space.
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Stability and Transition - Theory, Experiment, and Modeling
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Sustainable Aviation: Challenges, Design Implications, Recent Advancements, Noise, Emissions, Alternative Fuels, Electric Aircraft, and Emerging Technologies
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Systems Engineering and Artificial Intelligence for Aerospace Applications – Online Short Course (Starts 1 Apr 2025)
1 April - 10 April 2025
Advance your expertise in AI for aerospace with this first course in the AIAA series, focusing on building systems with Artificial Intelligence and using AI to enhance the systems engineering process.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Systems Engineering Verification and Validation
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Systems Requirements Engineering
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Systems Thinking for Modern Aerospace Complexity
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Taking the Next Steps in Your Aerospace Career
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Technical Writing Essentials for Engineers – Online Short Course (Starts 24 Feb 2025)
24 February - 5 March 2025
This short course introduces students to essential technical writing skills for proposals, technical reports, and process or requirements documents.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Test Foundations for Flight Test – Online Short Course (Starts 18 Feb 2025)
18 February - 13 March 2025
This course introduces the components involved with planning, executing, analyzing, and reporting on a flight test program.
Open for registration. Register Now
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The Anatomy of Autonomy
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The Digital Transformation of Test & Evaluation – Online Short Course (Starts 5 May 2025)
5 May - 14 May 2025
This is the only short course available that directly connects the Digital Engineering revolution with the aerospace Test & Evaluation processes.
Open for registration. Register Now
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The Space Environment - Implications for Spacecraft Design
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Trusted Artificial Intelligence
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Turbomachinery for Emerging Space Applications: Liquid Rocket Propulsion
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Turbulence Modeling for Aerodynamic Flows
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UAV Aircraft Design by Dan Raymer
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Understanding Aircraft Noise: From Fundamentals to Design Impacts and Simulations
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Understanding Space: An Introduction to Astronautics and Space Systems Engineering – Online Short Course (11–13 Feb 2025)
11 February - 13 February 2025
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.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Verification and Validation in Scientific Computing
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Vibration of Periodic Structures
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Vision-Based Control for Autonomous Vehicles
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Weaponeering - Conventional Weapon System Effectiveness
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Wind Tunnel Testing for Aircraft Development – Online Short Course (Starts 4 March 2025)
4 March - 20 March 2025
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.
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