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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 Piloted and UAV Applications with Hands-on Training using CIFER®
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
Atmospheric and Near-Earth Space Environment – Online Short Course (Starts 6 February 2025)
6 February 2025 - 10 April 2025
Atmospheric Flight Dynamics and Control
Aviation Cybersecurity
Business Development for Aerospace Professionals
Cislunar Exploration: Challenges and Opportunities – Online Short Course (Starts 3 Mar 2025)
3 March 2025 - 17 March 2025
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
Designing Space Missions
Digital Engineering Fundamentals – Online Short Course (Starts 24 March 2025)
24 March 2025 - 2 April 2025
Electric VTOL Aircraft Design: Theory and Practice – Online Short Course (Starts 25 Feb 2025)
25 February 2025 - 27 March 2025

In this joint course from AIAA and the Vertical Flight Society, the latest and greatest in eVTOL technology is presented.

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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
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
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
Fundamentals of Kalman Filtering – A Practical Approach
Fundamentals of Python for Engineering Programming and Machine Learning (Starts 4 Feb 2025)
4 February 2025 - 25 February 2025

This course introduces the Python programming language and its rich ecosystem focusing on engineering applications along with machine learning concepts, capabilities, and limitations applied to engineering-type problems.

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Fundamentals of Space Domain Awareness
Fundamentals of Space Systems
Fundamentals of Space Vehicle Guidance, Control, and Astrodynamics
Fundamentals of Structural Dynamics – Online Short Course (Starts 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
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
LEARNING TRACK: Responsible AI in Aerospace (Starts 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
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® – Online Short Course (Dec 9 – 12, 2024)
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
Safety Management System (SMS) in Aviation
Satellite and SmallSat Thermal Control Engineering
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 – Online Short Course (September 9-12, 2024)
Space Domain Cybersecurity
Space Mission Operations – Online Short Course (17–20 Mar 2025)
17 March 2025 - 20 March 2025
Space Standards and Architectures
Spacecraft Avionics Systems Design and Applications
Spacecraft Design, Development, and Operations
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 (Starts 1 Apr 2025)
1 April 2025 - 10 April 2025
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 – Online Short Course (Started 18 Feb 2025)
18 February 2025 - 13 February 2025
Test Foundations for Flight Test – Online Short Course (Starts 18 Feb 2025)
18 February 2025 - 13 March 2025
The Anatomy of Autonomy
The Digital Transformation of Test & Evaluation – Online Short Course (Starts 5 May 2025)
5 May 2025 - 14 May 2025
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 – Online Short Course (11–13 Feb 2025)
11 February 2025 - 13 February 2025
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
Wind Tunnel Testing for Aircraft Development – Online Short Course (Starts 4 March 2025)
4 March 2025 - 20 March 2025