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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- 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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- Test Foundations for Flight Test – Online Short Course (Starts 6 April 2026)
6 April 2026 - 29 April 2026
This course introduces the components involved with planning, executing, analyzing, and reporting on a flight test program.
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- Spacecraft Design, Development, and Operations – Online Short Course (Starts 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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- Fault Management and Autonomy for Space Systems – Online Short Course (Starts 7 April 2026)
7 April 2026 - 12 May 2026
In this new essential course, in partnership with Johns Hopkins University, students will learn to apply systems engineering expertise to architect and analyze fault management strategies to safeguard space missions.
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- Introduction to Satellite Communications – Online Short Course (Starts 8 April 2026)
8 April 2026 - 20 May 2026
This new essential course, in partnership with Johns Hopkins University, will cover the fundamentals of satellite communications, including basic link analysis, antennas, and real-world system examples in this very dynamic field!
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- Space Weather and Space Systems – Online Short Course (Starts 9 April 2026)
9 April 2026 - 14 May 2026
This new essential course, in partnership with Johns Hopkins University, explores the space environment in the context of its impact on space system operations.
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- Launch Vehicle Avionics Systems Design and Applications – Online Short Course (Starts 14 April 2026)
14 April 2026 - 30 April 2026
This new practical course offers a rare deep dive into launch vehicle avionics systems engineering and design.
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- The Anatomy of Autonomy: Technology, Integration & Applications Across Aviation & Space Domains
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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- Business Development for Aerospace Professionals – Online Short Course (Starts 21 April 2026)
21 April 2026 - 30 April 2026
This course is designed to teach smart technical and scientific aerospace professionals how to identify innovation opportunities that that match winning value propositions with customer needs.
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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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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.
- 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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Lisa Le, Education Specialist ([email protected] )