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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 – Online Short Course (Starts 6 May 2025)
6 May 2025 - 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.
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- 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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- Aeroelastic Wind Tunnel Testing and Aeroelasticity Considerations for Non-Aeroelastic Tests
- Aerospace Survivability
- AI Design and Deployment Risks for Aerospace Applications – Online Short Course (Starts 29 April 2025)
29 April 2025 - 8 May 2025
Deepen your understanding of aerospace autonomy and AI risk management with this third AIAA course in the Responsible AI series.
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- AI for Aerospace Applications: Ethics, Policy, and Society – Online Short Course (Starts 15 April 2025)
15 April 2025 - 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.
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- 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 – Online Short Course (Starts 7 April 2025)
7 April 2025 - 30 April 2025
This new online course provides a comprehensive overview of the design, analysis and test processes surrounding Aircraft Handling Qualities.
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- Aircraft Maintenance Management
- Aircraft Reliability & Reliability Centered Maintenance – Online Short Course (Starts 20 May 2025)
20 May 2024 - 29 May 2025
This course is designed to equip participants to model, predict, and statistically evaluate the reliability of aircraft and aircraft items, as well as develop, implement, and manage an aircraft Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) program.
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- Application of Thermal Vacuum Testing
- Applications of Generative AI with Large Language Models in Aviation and Aerospace – Online Short Course (Starts 13 May 2025)
13 May 2025 - 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.
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- Applied Space Systems Engineering – Online Short Course (12–15 May 2025)
12 May 2025 - 15 May 2025
This course examines the practical application of space systems engineering processes throughout the mission lifecycle.
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- Atmospheric and Near-Earth Space Environment – Online Short Course (Starts 6 February 2025)
6 February 2025 - 10 April 2025
This course provides a comprehensive overview of the atmospheric and space environment experienced by suborbital and orbital spacecraft.
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- Atmospheric Flight Dynamics and Control
- Aviation Cybersecurity
- Business Development for Aerospace Professionals
- Cislunar Exploration: Challenges and Opportunities
- Complex Systems Competency
- Composite Structures: Process Analysis, Progressive Damage, Failure Analysis, and Advanced Software
- Computational Aeroacoustics – Methods and Applications
- Computational Aeroelasticity
- Cryogenic Fluid Management for Storage & Transfer of Liquid Propellants in Space
- Decision Analysis
- 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
- Design of Modern Aircraft Structures
- Design of Space Launch Vehicles – Online Short Course (Started 10 Mar 2025)
10 March 2025 - 16 April 2025
This comprehensive course applies numerous engineering disciplines to the design & analysis of launch vehicles, including many practical applications not found elsewhere.
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- Designing Space Missions
- Digital Engineering Fundamentals
- Electric VTOL Aircraft Design: Theory and Practice
- Electrochemical Energy Systems for Electrified Aircraft Propulsion: Batteries and Fuel Cell Systems
- Emerging Principles in Fast Trajectory Optimization
- Engineering and Operations for Planetary Field Geology – Online Short Course (Starts 12 Feb 2025)
12 February 2025 - 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.
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- Essential Model-Based Systems Engineering – Online Short Course (29–30 Apr 2025)
29 April 2025 - 30 April 2025
This course is ideal for technical or non-technical professionals preparing to undertake digital transformation in their organizations.
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- 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 28 April 2025)
28 April 2025 - 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.
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- Flight Vehicle Guidance Navigation and Control Systems (GNC): Analysis and Design
- 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 Classical Astrodynamics and Applications – Online Short Course (Starts 30 September 2025)
30 September 2025 - 23 October 2025
This course introduces the fundamental principles of classical astrodynamics, and it also includes various practical application examples.
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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 – Online Short Course (Starts 22 April 2025)
22 April 2025 - 15 May 2025
This new online course provides an overview of a range of propulsion technologies.
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- Fundamentals of Kalman Filtering – A Practical Approach
- Fundamentals of Python for Engineering Programming and Machine Learning
- Fundamentals of Space Domain Awareness: An Introduction to Safe Operations, Security and Defense – Online Short Course (3–4 September 2025)
3 September 2025 - 4 September 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 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 – Online Short Course (Started 31 Mar 2025)
31 March 2025 - 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.
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- 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 – Online Short Course (Starts 10 June 2025)
10 June 2025 - 19 June 2025
This interactive instructor-led professional development course is designed to equip participants with the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary for the development of civil aircraft and systems based on ARP4754B.
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- High Altitude Testing of Aircraft Engines
- Higher Fidelity Designs for the Aerospace Industry with Fluid-Thermal Structural Interaction (FTSI)
- Human Spaceflight Operations: Lessons Learned from 60 Years in Space
- Hybrid Rocket Propulsion
- Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics – Aeronautics (Starts 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
- Integrating Program Management, Systems Engineering, and Six Sigma
- Introduction to Propellant Gauging
- Introduction to Shock-Wave Boundary-Layer Interactions
- 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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- LEARNING TRACK: Responsible AI in Aerospace (Started 1 Apr 2025)
1 April 2025 - 22 May 2025
During Spring 2025, AIAA will offer an online series of Artificial Intelligence short courses focusing on Responsible AI.
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- Liquid Atomization, Spray, and Fuel Injection in Aircraft Gas Turbine Engines
- Machine Learning for Aircraft Applications – Online Short Course (Starts 8 September 2025)
9 September 2025
- 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
- Non-intrusive Laser-based Diagnostic Techniques for Hypersonic Flows
- NPSS – A Practical Introduction
- OpenFOAM® CFD Aeroacoustics
- OpenFOAM® CFD Dynamic Mesh Modeling
- OpenFOAM® CFD External Aerodynamics
- OpenFOAM® CFD Foundations
- Optimal Control Techniques for Unpiloted Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
28 May 2025 - 18 June 2025
This unique guided online course covers the application of optimal control theory for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
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- Optimal Design in Multidisciplinary Systems
- Orbital Mechanics and Mission Simulation
- 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
- Robust Aeroservoelastic Stability Analysis
- Rotorcraft and Propeller Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics: Numerical Approaches and Practical Applications – Online Short Course (Starts 2 Sept 2025)
2 September 2025 - 2 October 2025
This new unique course focuses on aerodynamics and aeroacoustics for Advanced Air Mobility.
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- 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 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
This is the ONLY course that provides complete coverage of Space Domain Awareness (SDA)—necessary capabilities for 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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- Space Domain Cybersecurity
- Space Mission Operations
- Space Standards and Architectures
- Spacecraft Avionics Systems Design and Applications
- Spacecraft Design, Development, and Operations – Online Short Course (Starts 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
- Spaceflight Physiology
- Stability and Transition – Theory, Experiment, and Modeling
- Sustainable Aviation: Challenges, Design Implications, Recent Advancements, Noise, Emissions, Alternative Fuels, Electric Aircraft, and Emerging Technologies
- Systems Engineering and Artificial Intelligence for Aerospace Applications – Online Short Course (Started 1 Apr 2025)
1 April 2025 - 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.
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- Systems Engineering Verification and Validation
- Systems Requirements Engineering
- Systems Thinking for Modern Aerospace Complexity
- Taking the Next Steps in Your Aerospace Career
- Technical Writing Essentials for Engineers
- Test Foundations for Flight Test
- The Anatomy of Autonomy
- The Digital Transformation of Test & Evaluation – Online Short Course (Starts 5 May 2025)
5 May 2025 - 14 May 2025
This is the only short course available that directly connects the Digital Engineering revolution with the aerospace Test & Evaluation processes.
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- The Space Environment – Implications for Spacecraft Design
- Trusted Artificial Intelligence
- Turbomachinery for Emerging Space Applications: Liquid Rocket Propulsion
- Turbulence Modeling for Aerodynamic Flows
- UAV Aircraft Design by Dan Raymer
- Understanding Aircraft Noise: From Fundamentals to Design Impacts and Simulations
- Understanding Space: An Introduction to Astronautics and Space Systems Engineering
- Verification and Validation in Scientific Computing
- Vibration of Periodic Structures in Aerospace Engineering – Online Short Course (Starts 12 May 2025)
12 May 2025 - 9 June 2025
This new practical online course is applicable to the practice of vibration, flutter, and structural-acoustic analysis of stiffened structures, used in aerospace engineering and design.
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- Vision-Based Control for Autonomous Vehicles
- 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