Online Education
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
Technical Writing Essentials for Engineers
15–24 APRIL 2024
Gain expertise in the multi-step process for organizing and writing technical reports, proposal technical volumes, and engineering process documents.
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A Practical Approach to Gas Turbine Engine Performance & Design using GasTurb14
16 APRIL–6 JUNE 2024
Learn how to use GasTurb14 software to optimize thrust, fuel efficiency, and component lifespans crucial for aircraft propulsion, ensuring market competitiveness and operational cost-effectiveness.
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OpenFOAM® CFD Foundations
23–24 APRIL 2024
Gain hands-on experience with the open-source computational fluid dynamics (CFD) toolbox, OpenFOAM®. Learn how to use OpenFOAM® and make decisions on meshing, numerics, and boundary condition setup.
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Essential Model-Based Systems Engineering
29–30 APRIL 2024
Understand the MBSE value proposition across the project lifecycle. This course is ideal for technical or non-technical professionals preparing to undertake digital transformation in their organizations.
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Test Foundations for Flight Test
6 MAY–10 JUNE 2024
Understand the fundamental components involved with planning, executing, analyzing, and reporting on a flight test program. This is a broad course and best suited to those with less than 10 years of experience in flight test engineering.
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Human Spaceflight Operations: Lessons Learned from 60 Years in Space
7 MAY–27 JUNE 2024
Led by 15 space operations experts, including a former astronaut, this unique online course shares the collective experience from over 60 years of human spaceflight operations.
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Composite Structures: Process Analysis, Progressive Damage, Failure Analysis, and Advanced Software
13–16 MAY 2024
Understand advanced topics in composite analysis and use software from Digital Blue to demonstrate example frameworks.
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The Anatomy of Autonomy
3–19 JUNE 2024
Gain 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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Design of Experiments: Improved Experimental Methods in Aerospace Testing
3–26 JUNE 2024
Improve research quality and productivity through learning statistically based experiment design. Understand the key advantages of Design of Experiments over traditional experiment design methods.
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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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Hypersonic Flight Vehicle Design and Performance Analysis
Learn about air-breathing hypersonic flight vehicles, including propulsion systems that range from ramjets, scramjets, dual-mode scramjets, turbine-based and rocket-based combined cycles to pre-cooled engine cycles.
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Wind Tunnel Testing for Aircraft Development
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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