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Welcome to the home for AIAA Online Learning. With an emphasis on practical applications, our online courses are convenient, affordable, and taught by the world’s leading aerospace experts.
From live short courses taught over Zoom, to on-demand recordings and materials, inside our learning Catalog you will find invaluable knowledge and solutions that you can put to immediate use and help you advance your career.
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Featured Upcoming Courses
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Practical Design Methods for Aircraft and Rotorcraft Flight Control for UAV, AAM, and Civil/Military using CONDUIT®
9–12 DECEMBER
Combines lectures and 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. View Details
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Spaceflight Physiology
3 FEBRUARY–21 APRIL 2025
Understand the physiological changes and adaptations that occur during each phase of spaceflight: ascent, early orbit, long-term flight, extravehicular activities, and reentry. View Details
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Fundamentals of Python for Engineering Programming and Machine Learning
4–25 FEBRUARY 2025
Learn about the Python programming language and its rich ecosystem, with a focus on engineering applications with practice examples of implementing elegant and efficient algorithms. View Details
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Atmospheric and Near-Earth Space Environment
6 FEBRUARY–10 APRIL 2025
Gain a comprehensive overview of the atmospheric and space environment experienced by suborbital and orbital spacecraft. The course will introduce the relevant aspects of each environment with a focus on dynamics, chemistry, radiation environment and energetic particle environment. View Details
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Understanding Space: An Introduction to Astronautics and Space Systems Engineering
11–13 FEBRUARY 2025
Understand the "big picture" of space missions from cradle to grave. This course is ideal for technical or non-technical professionals new to the space industry or who need a refresher on fundamentals. View Details
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Business Development for Aerospace Professionals
11–20 FEBRUARY 2025
Learn how to identify innovation opportunities that match winning value propositions with customer needs. This course is ideal for technical and scientific aerospace professionals transitioning to new business roles with responsibility for generating and growing sales. View Details
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Engineering and Operations for Planetary Field Geology
12 FEBRUARY–16 APRIL 2025
Gain a foundational understanding of the requirements, methods, and limitations of conducting field science operations during EVAs (extravehicular activities) on planetary surfaces such as the moon and Mars. View Details
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Test Foundations for Flight Test
18 FEBRUARY–13 MARCH 2025
Understand the fundamental components involved with planning, executing, analyzing, and reporting on a flight test program. View Details
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Wind Tunnel Testing for Aircraft Development
4–20 MARCH 2025
This course is delivered from two perspectives, one from the facility side in terms of furnishing high-quality and productive facilities with broad capabilities. The other perspective is from the client side who uses these facilities to execute aircraft performance, icing, and stability and control wind tunnel testing. View Details
Featured On-Demand Courses
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Cryogenic Fluid Management for Storage & Transfer of Liquid Propellants in Space
Understand how the storage and transfer of cryogenic propellant in space play a crucial role in building and maintaining a space-based fuel depot system for refueling spacecraft in the future long-duration missions. View Details
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Human Spaceflight Operations: Lessons Learned from 60 Years in Space
Learn from the collective experience of 15 space operations experts who have served as flight directors, flight controllers, astronauts, and mission engineers. View Details
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Guidance and Control of Hypersonic Vehicles
Learn about the recent, emerging technological advances in hypersonic flight vehicles, with an emphasis on solving a variety of guidance and control problems of hypersonic vehicles. View Details
- Digital Engineering Fundamentals – Online Short Course (Started 24 March 2025)
- Spacecraft Design, Development, and Operations – Online Short Course (Starts 15 September 2025)
- Wind Tunnel Testing for Aircraft Development – On-Demand Short Course
- Cislunar Exploration: Challenges and Opportunities – On-Demand Short Course
- 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)
- Test Foundations for Flight Test – On-Demand Short Course
- Electric VTOL Aircraft Design: Theory and Practice – Online Short Course (Started 25 Feb 2025)
- Design of Space Launch Vehicles – Online Short Course (Started 10 Mar 2025)
- AI Design and Deployment Risks for Aerospace Applications – Online Short Course (Starts 29 April 2025)
- Technical Writing Essentials for Engineers – On-Demand Short Course
- Launch Vehicle Coupled Loads Analysis: Theory and Approaches – Online Short Course (Starts 4 November 2025)
- Scramjet Propulsion: The Systems and Technologies to Enable Hypersonic Flight – Online Short Course (Starts 21 October 2025)
- Weapons Bay Cavity and Store Separation – Online Short Course (Starts 14 October 2025)
- Applications of Generative AI with Large Language Models in Aviation and Aerospace – Online Short Course (Starts 13 May 2025)
- Systems Engineering and Artificial Intelligence for Aerospace Applications – Online Short Course (Starts 1 Apr 2025)
- LEARNING TRACK: Responsible AI in Aerospace (Starts 1 Apr 2025)
- Fundamentals of Python for Engineering Programming and Machine Learning – On-Demand Short Course
- Business Development for Aerospace Professionals – On-Demand Short Course
- Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics – Online Short Course (Starts 16 September 2025)
- Machine Learning for Aircraft Applications – Online Short Course (Starts 8 September 2025)
- Design of Electrified Propulsion Aircraft - On-Demand Short Course
- The Anatomy of Autonomy – On-Demand Short Course
- Design and Operation of Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels (COPV) – On-Demand Short Course
- eVTOL Infrastructure Considerations for Advanced Air Mobility - On-Demand Short Course
- Taking the Next Steps in Your Aerospace Career - On-Demand Short Course
- Aerodynamic Interactions in Multi-Propeller Aircraft Configurations – Online Short Course (Starts 7 October 2025)
- Rotorcraft and Propeller Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics: Numerical Approaches and Practical Applications – Online Short Course (Starts 2 Sept 2025)
- Financial and Business Acumen for Navigating the Aerospace Industry – On-Demand Short Course
- Human Spaceflight Operations: Lessons Learned from 60 Years in Space – On-Demand Short Course
- Optimal Control Techniques for Unpiloted Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) – Online Guided Short Course (Starts 28 May 2025)
- Practical Design Methods for Aircraft and Rotorcraft Flight Control for UAV, AAM, and Civil/Military using CONDUIT® – On-Demand Short Course
- AI for Aerospace Applications: Ethics, Policy, and Society – Online Short Course (Starts 15 April 2025)
- A Practical Approach to Gas Turbine Engine Performance & Design using GasTurb14 – On-Demand Short Course
- Spacecraft Design, Development, and Operations - On-Demand Short Course
- Launch Vehicle Coupled Loads Analysis: Theory and Approaches – On-Demand Short Course
- Vibration of Periodic Structures in Aerospace Engineering – Online Short Course (Starts 12 May 2025)
- Guidelines for the Development of Civil Aircraft & Systems – Online Short Course (Starts 10 June 2025)
- Advanced Flight Dynamics and Control of Aircraft, Missiles, and Hypersonic Vehicles – Online Short Course (Starts 6 May 2025)
- Aircraft Reliability & Reliability Centered Maintenance – Online Short Course (Starts 20 May 2025)
- Hypersonic Propulsion Concepts: Design, Control, Operation, and Testing – On-Demand Short Course
- Fundamentals and Applications of Thermal Vacuum Testing – On-Demand Short Course
- Flight Test Techniques for UAS – Online Short Course (Starts 28 April 2025)
- Spacecraft Avionics Systems Design and Applications – On-Demand Short Course
- Fundamentals of High Speed Air-Breathing and Space Propulsion – Online Short Course (Starts 22 April 2025)
- Aircraft Handling Qualities – Online Short Course (Starts 7 April 2025)
- Design of Modern Aircraft Structures – On-Demand Short Course
- Flight Dynamics and Einsteins Covariance Principle – On-Demand Webinar
- Advanced Hydrogen Aerospace Technologies and Design – On-Demand Short Course
- Metal Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace Applications – On-Demand Short Course
- Fundamentals of Structural Dynamics – Online Short Course (Starts 31 Mar 2025)
- Spacecraft Lithium-Ion Battery Power Systems – On-Demand Short Course
- The Digital Transformation of Test & Evaluation – Online Short Course (Starts 5 May 2025)
- Essential Model-Based Systems Engineering – Online Short Course (29–30 Apr 2025)
- Applied Space Systems Engineering – Online Short Course (12–15 May 2025)
- Advanced Solid Rockets – On-Demand Short Course
- Guidance and Control of Hypersonic Vehicles – On-Demand Short Course
- Aircraft and Rotorcraft System Identification Engineering Methods with Hands-on Training using CIFER® - On-Demand Short Course
- Turbomachinery for Emerging Space Applications: Liquid Rocket Propulsion – On-Demand Short Course
- Design of Experiments: Improved Experimental Methods in Aerospace Testing – On-Demand Short Course
- Composite Structures: Process Analysis, Progressive Damage, Failure Analysis, and Advanced Software – On-Demand Short Course
- Optimal Control Techniques for Unpiloted Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) - On-Demand Short Course
- Design Evolution of Aircraft Structures – On-Demand Short Course
- Mission-based Vehicle Design: Digital Mission Engineering for Advanced Air Mobility – On-Demand Short Course
- Fundamentals of Aeroelasticity: From Basics to Application – On-Demand Short Course
- Cryogenic Fluid Management for Storage & Transfer of Liquid Propellants in Space – On-Demand Short Course
- Space Architecture: Designing an Orbital Habitation System: Challenges and Consequences – On-Demand Short Course
- Hypersonic Applications: Physical Models for Interdisciplinary Simulation – On-Demand Short Course
- Advanced and Additive Manufacturing for Liquid Rocket Engines - On-Demand Webinar
- A Practical Approach to Flight Dynamics and Control of Aircraft, Missiles, and Hypersonic Vehicles – On-Demand Short Course
- Fundamentals of High Speed Air-Breathing and Space Propulsion – On-Demand Short Course
- Space Architecture - Designing a Lunar Habitation System: Challenges and Consequences – On-Demand Short Course
- Design of Gas Turbine Engines: From Concept to Details - On-Demand Short Course
- Sustainable Aviation: Challenges, Design Implications, Recent Advancements, Noise, Emissions, Alternative Fuels, Electric Aircraft, and Emerging Technologies - On-Demand Short Course
- Hypersonic Flight Vehicle Design and Performance Analysis – On-Demand Short Course
- Understanding Aircraft Noise: From Fundamentals to Design Impacts and Simulations – On-Demand Short Course
- Hypersonics: Test and Evaluation – On-Demand Short Course
- Hypersonic Air Breathing Propulsion - On-Demand Short Course
- Fundamentals and Applications of Pressure Gain Combustion – On-Demand Short Course
- Liquid Rocket Engines: Emerging Technologies in Liquid Propulsion – On-Demand Short Course
- Rocket Testing - On-Demand Workshop
- Turbulence Modeling for Aerodynamic Flows – On-Demand Short Course
- Higher Fidelity Designs for the Aerospace Industry with Fluid-Thermal Structural Interaction (FTSI) – On-Demand Short Course
- Computational Aeroelasticity – On-Demand Short Course
- Trusted Artificial Intelligence – On-Demand Short Course
- AI for Air Traffic Safety Enhancement – On-Demand Short Course
- Uncertainty Quantification: Machine Learning for Quantifying Uncertainties in Engineering Applications – On-Demand Short Course
- Fundamentals of Space Systems - On-Demand Short Course
- Advanced Space Propulsion – On-Demand Short Course
- Fundamentals of Thermal Vacuum Testing Science – On-Demand Short Course
- Applications of Thermal Vacuum Testing – On-Demand Course
- Introduction to Propellant Gauging – On-Demand Short Course
- Satellite and SmallSat Thermal Control Engineering – On-Demand Short Course
- Fundamentals of Space Vehicle Guidance, Control, and Astrodynamics – On-Demand Short Course
- Designing Better CubeSats Using System-Level Simulations – On-Demand Short Course
- Fundamentals of Classical Astrodynamics and Applications – On-Demand Short Course
- Fundamentals of Airplane Performance, Stability, Dynamics and Control - On-Demand Short Course
- Flight Vehicle Guidance Navigation and Control Systems (GNC): Analysis and Design – On-Demand Short Course
- Missile Aerodynamics, Propulsion, and Guidance – On-Demand Short Course
- Missile Design: A Comprehensive Guide to Propulsion, Aerodynamics, Weight, Flight Performance, Guidance, Lethality, System Engineering, and Development
- Fundamentals of Data and Information Fusion for Aerospace Systems - On-Demand Short Course
- Complex Systems Competency – On-Demand Short Course
- Electrified Aircraft Propulsion Technologies: Powering the Future of Air Transportation – On-Demand Short Course
- Fundamentals of Systems-of-Systems – On-Demand Webinar
- Predictive Maintenance with MATLAB: A Data-Based Approach – On-Demand Webinar
- Aircraft and Rotorcraft System Identification Engineering Methods for UAV Applications – On-Demand Webinar
- Deciding on the Form of Missile Defense – On-Demand Webinar
- Thermal Modeling and Regenerative Cooling of Liquid Rocket Engines – On-Demand Webinar
- Lessons from Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research (SUGAR) Study – On-Demand Short Course
- Nuclear and Future Flight Propulsion: Advanced Concepts in Rocket Propulsion, Nuclear Systems, Advanced Physics, and Propellants – On-Demand Webinar
- Introduction to Bio-Inspired Engineering – On-Demand Webinar
- Advanced Composite Materials and Structures – On-Demand Webinar
- Space Radiation Environment and Its Effects – On-Demand Webinar
- Space Systems: Risk Analysis and Management – On-Demand Webinar
- Fundamentals of Communicating by Satellite – On-Demand Webinar
- Introduction to Communication Satellites and their Subsystems – On-Demand Webinar
- Electric Aircraft Design Fundamentals: Enabling Technologies and Analysis Methods for More-, Hybrid-, and All-Electric Aircraft – On-Demand Webinar
- Materials and Structures for Hypersonic Vehicles – On-Demand Webinar
- Overview of Missile Design and System Engineering – On-Demand Webinar
- Applications of Model-Based Systems Engineering – On-Demand Webinar
- Introduction to Uncertainty Quantification and Industry Challenges – On-Demand Webinar
- Introduction to Computational Aerodynamics – On-Demand Webinar
- Practical Design Methods for Aircraft and Rotorcraft Flight Control for UAV Applications – On-Demand Webinar
- Introduction to Launch Vehicle Pogo Stability – On-Demand Webinar
- Step-by-Step Process for Designing Weightless Space Habitats – On-Demand Webinar
- Mechanics of Structure Genome: A New Unified Approach to Modeling Composite Structures – On-Demand Webinar
- Structural Considerations in Liquid Rocket Engine Design – On-Demand Webinar
- Capacitors for Aerospace Energy Storage and More-Electric Design – On-Demand Webinar
- Advances in Turbomachinery in Liquid Propulsion - On-Demand Course