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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 [email protected].
- A Practical Approach to Flight Dynamics and Control of Aircraft, Missiles, and Hypersonic Vehicles
- A Practical Approach to Gas Turbine Engine Performance & Design using GasTurb14
- A Practical Introduction to Preliminary Design of Air Breathing Engines
- Additive Manufacturing: Structural and Material Optimization
- Advanced Flight Dynamics and Control of Aircraft, Missiles, and Hypersonic Vehicles
- Advanced Hydrogen Aerospace Technologies and Design
- Advanced Solid Rockets
- Advanced Spacecraft Control and Dynamics
- Aerodynamic Interactions in Multi-Propeller Aircraft Configurations – Online Short Course (Starts 7 October 2025)
7 October 2025 - 23 October 2025
This new essential course covers multi-propeller aircraft configurations for Advanced Air Mobility, on both a theoretical and a practical level.
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- Aerospace Survivability
- AI Design and Deployment Risks for Aerospace Applications
- AI for Aerospace Applications: Ethics, Policy, and Society
- AI for Air Traffic Safety Enhancement
- 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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- Aircraft Handling Qualities
- Aircraft Maintenance Management
- 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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- Aircraft Reliability & Reliability Centered Maintenance
- Application of Thermal Vacuum Testing
- Applications of Generative AI with Large Language Models in Aviation and Aerospace
- Applied Space Systems Engineering
- Atmospheric and Near-Earth Space Environment
- Atmospheric Flight Dynamics and Control
- Aviation Cybersecurity
- Business Development for Aerospace Professionals
- 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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- Complex Systems Competency
- Computational Aeroacoustics – Methods and Applications
- Computational Aeroelasticity
- Cryogenic Fluid Management for Storage & Transfer of Liquid Propellants in Space
- Design and Operation of Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels (COPV)
- Design Evolution of Aircraft Structures
- Design of Electrified Propulsion Aircraft
- Design of Experiments: Improved Experimental Methods in Aerospace Testing
- Design of Gas Turbine Engines: From Concept to Details – Online Short Course (Started 22 September 2025)
22 September 2025 - 12 November 2025
This student favorite online course covers the complete spectrum of the Gas Turbine Engine design process.
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- Design of Modern Aircraft Structures
- 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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- Designing Space Missions
- Digital Engineering Fundamentals
- Electric VTOL Aircraft Design: Theory and Practice
- Engineering and Operations for Planetary Field Geology
- 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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- Essential Model-Based Systems Engineering
- EVA 101: Life Support Systems
- eVTOL Infrastructure Considerations for Advanced Air Mobility
- Financial and Business Acumen for Navigating the Aerospace Industry
- 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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- Flight Vehicle Guidance Navigation and Control Systems (GNC): Analysis and Design
- Foundations of CFD with OpenFOAM® – Online Short Course (Starts 3 November 2025)
3 November 2025 - 6 November 2025
Learn OpenFOAM® CFD Fundamentals for Aerospace with a combination of lectures and associated hands-on lab exercises.
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- Foundations of Digital Engineering
- Foundations of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
- Fundamentals and Applications of Pressure Gain Combustion
- Fundamentals and Applications of Thermal Vacuum Testing
- Fundamentals of Aeroelasticity: From Basics to Application
- Fundamentals of Astrodynamics for Space Missile Defense – Online Short Course (Started 30 September 2025)
30 September 2025 - 23 October 2025
This course introduces the fundamental principles of classical astrodynamics and various astrodynamical application examples including ballistic missile trajectories, hypersonic entry guidance and space-based intercept missile guidance. It will further explore the technically challenging problem of developing a space-based missile defense system (e.g. the Golden Dome).
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- Fundamentals of Composite Structure Design
- Fundamentals of Data and Information Fusion for Aerospace Systems
- Fundamentals of High Speed Air-Breathing and Space Propulsion
- Fundamentals of Kalman Filtering – A Practical Approach
- Fundamentals of Python for Engineering Programming and Machine Learning (Starts 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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- Fundamentals of Space Domain Awareness: An Introduction to Safe Operations, Security, and Defense
- Fundamentals of Space Domain Awareness: An Introduction to Safe Operations, Security, and Defense – Online Short Course (5–6 November 2025)
5 November 2025 - 6 November 2025
This course covers the necessary capabilities for Space Domain Awareness (SDA) operations, challenges and problems, strategy and tactics, space object detection, tracking, characterization and identification, overall data and information flow and decision-making.
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- Fundamentals of Space Systems
- Fundamentals of Space Vehicle Guidance, Control, and Astrodynamics
- Fundamentals of Structural Dynamics
- Fundamentals of Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance
- Fundamentals of Thermal Vacuum Testing Science
- Guidance and Control of Hypersonic Vehicles
- Guidelines for the Development of Civil Aircraft & Systems
- Human Spaceflight Operations: Lessons Learned from 60 Years in Space
- Hybrid Rocket Propulsion
- Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics – Online Short Course (Started 16 September 2025)
16 September 2025 - 9 October 2025
This new essential course focuses on the Aerothermodynamic properties and challenges of Hypersonic flight.
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- Hypersonic Air-Breathing Propulsion
- Hypersonic Applications: Physical Models for Interdisciplinary Simulation
- Hypersonic Flight Vehicle Design and Performance Analysis
- Hypersonic Propulsion Concepts: Design, Control, Operation, and Testing
- Hypersonics: Test and Evaluation
- Integrated CubeSat Engineering
- Introduction to Propellant Gauging
- 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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- Launch Vehicle Coupled Loads Analysis: Theory and Approaches – Online Short Course (Starts 4 November 2025)
4 November 2025 - 6 November 2025
This course reviews the key basics of structural dynamics, then uses those fundamentals to create the building blocks of coupled loads analysis (CLA), finally using those building blocks in CLA. At the conclusion of the course, the student will have a foundation to understand and develop new CLA capabilities. In addition to classic CLA material, much of the course is spent on model development and reduction.
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- Liquid Atomization, Spray, and Fuel Injection in Aircraft Gas Turbine Engines
- Machine Learning for Aircraft Applications – Online Short Course (Started 8 September 2025)
8 September 2025 - 13 October 2025
This new essential course covers reduced-order model (ROM) techniques, focusing on aircraft performance and aerodynamic load analysis.
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- Making Decisions in Missile Defense
- Metal Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace Applications
- Missile Aerodynamics, Propulsion, and Guidance
- Missile Design and System Engineering
- Missile Guidance
- Missile Propulsion
- Mission-based Vehicle Design: Digital Mission Engineering for Advanced Air Mobility
- NPSS – A Practical Introduction
- OpenFOAM® CFD Aeroacoustics
- OpenFOAM® CFD Dynamic Mesh Modeling
- OpenFOAM® CFD External Aerodynamics
- Optimal Control Techniques for Unpiloted Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
- Practical Design Methods for Aircraft and Rotorcraft Flight Control for Conventional Civil/Military, UAV, and AAM Applications with Hands-on Training using CONDUIT®
- Principles of Success in Spaceflight from Andrew Chaikin
- Propeller Aerodynamics for Advanced Air Mobility: Fundamentals and Integration Effects
- Quantifying Uncertainties in Engineering Applications
- Radar Principles and Applications
- Rotorcraft and Propeller Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics: Numerical Approaches and Practical Applications
- Safety Management System (SMS) in Aviation
- Satellite and SmallSat Thermal Control Engineering
- Scramjet Propulsion: The Systems and Technologies to Enable Hypersonic Flight – Online Short Course (Starts 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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- Sensitivity Analysis, Uncertainty Propagation, and Validation for Computational Models
- Space Architecture: Designing a Lunar Habitation System
- Space Architecture: Designing a Mars Habitation System: Challenges and Consequences – Online Short Course (Starts 20 October 2025)
20 October 2025 - 5 November 2025
Instructed by unparalleled experts from the AIAA Space Architecture Technical Committee, this course explores the design, planning, and operational challenges of establishing human habitation on Mars.
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- Space Architecture: Designing an Orbital Habitation System: Challenges and Consequences
- Space Domain Awareness: A Comprehensive Guide to Safe Operations, Security, and Defense – Online Short Course (22–25 September 2025)
22 September 2025 - 25 September 2025
- Space Domain Cybersecurity – Online Short Course (6–9 October 2025)
6 October 2025 - 9 October 2025
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.
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- Space Mission Operations
- 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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- Spacecraft Avionics Systems Design and Applications
- Spacecraft Design, Development, and Operations – Online Short Course (Started 15 September 2025)
15 September 2025 - 22 October 2025
This comprehensive course focuses on the application of numerous engineering disciplines to the design and analysis of spacecraft.
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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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- Spaceflight Physiology
- Sustainable Aviation: Challenges, Design Implications, Recent Advancements, Noise, Emissions, Alternative Fuels, Electric Aircraft, and Emerging Technologies
- Systems Engineering and Artificial Intelligence for Aerospace Applications
- Systems Thinking for Modern Aerospace Complexity
- Taking the Next Steps in Your Aerospace Career
- Technical Writing Essentials for Engineers – Online Short Course (Starts 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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- 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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- 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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- The Digital Transformation of Test & Evaluation
- Trusted Artificial Intelligence
- Turbomachinery for Emerging Space Applications: Liquid Rocket Propulsion
- Turbulence Modeling for Aerodynamic Flows
- Understanding Aircraft Noise: From Fundamentals to Design Impacts and Simulations
- Understanding Space: An Introduction to Astronautics and Space Systems Engineering
- V/STOL Aircraft Design Considerations, Case Studies, and Lessons Learned (Online Short Course – Starts 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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- 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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- Vibration of Periodic Structures in Aerospace Engineering
- Vision-Based Control for Autonomous Vehicles
- 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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- Weaponeering – Conventional Weapon System Effectiveness
- Weapons Bay Cavity and Store Separation – Online Short Course (Starts 14 October 2025)
14 October 2025 - 23 October 2025
This new unique course is essential for anyone interested in understanding cavity flow and stores separating from weapon bays.
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- Wind Tunnel Testing for Aircraft Development