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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
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Featured On-Demand Courses
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.
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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.
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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.
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