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Jason Cole
Email: jasonc@aiaa.org

Bring Aerospace Short Courses to Your Workplace

Your organization can realize substantial savings by bringing an AIAA short course to your workplace. On-site delivery is perfect for training 10 or more employees in a specific topic. Many of our courses are available for on-site presentation.

75 Years of Hypersonics Development: History, Resources, References, and Insights (ITAR-Restricted Course)
75+ Years of Hypersonics Development: History, Resources, References, and Insights
A Practical Introduction to Preliminary Design of Air Breathing Engines
Additive Manufacturing: Structural and Material Optimization (1-Day)
Advanced Composite Structures
Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics
Advanced High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion
Advanced Solid Rockets
Advanced Spacecraft Control and Dynamics
Aeroelastic Wind Tunnel Testing and Aeroelasticity Considerations for Non-Aeroelastic Tests
Aeroelasticity State-of-the-Art Practices
Aircraft and Rotorcraft System Identification Engineering Methods and Hands-on Training using CIFER
Aircraft Handling Qualities
Applied Model-Based Systems Engineering
Atmospheric Flight Dynamics and Control
Aviation Fuels - Physical and Combustion Properties
Basic Measurement Uncertainty, Methods and Applications
Basics of Satellite Communications and Communication Satellites
Basics of Structural Dynamics
Best Practices in Wind Tunnel Testing
Business Management for Engineers
CFD for Combustion Modeling
Computational Aeroacoustics - Methods and Applications
Computational Aeroelasticity – Online Short Course (Starts June 24, 2021)
24 June - 15 July 2021

This 8-hour online short course covers concepts and terminology associated with aeroelasticity, including structural dynamics, unsteady aerodynamics, aeroservoelasticity, and recent developments such as computational reduced-order models.

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Computational Fluid Turbulence
Computational Heat Transfer (CHT)
Decision Analysis
Design and Operation of Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels (COPV)

This course introduces the basic principles governing the design and operation of Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels (COPV).
Design for Advanced Manufacturing: Aviation Lightweighting (2-Day Course)
Design of Aircraft Structures
Design of Electrified Propulsion Aircraft
Design of Experiments: Improved Experimental Methods in Aerospace Testing
Design of Experiments: Improved Experimental Methods in Aerospace Testing

16-hour course in experimental methods that is applicable to multiple disciplines.
Design of Space Launch Vehicles – Online Short Course (Started April 6, 2021)
6 April - 13 May 2021

This 24-hour comprehensive online course focuses on the application of numerous engineering disciplines to the design and analysis of launch vehicles, including many practical applications not found elsewhere

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Electric Propulsion for Space Systems
Electrochemical Energy Systems for Electrified Aircraft Propulsion: Batteries and Fuel Cell Systems (Starts May 5, 2021)
5 May - 28 May 2021

In this joint AIAA / SAE online course, participants will learn about Electro-chemical Energy Systems (EES), with an emphasis on electrified aircraft propulsion and power applications.

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Electro-optical Systems for Aerospace Sensing Applications
Emerging Concepts in High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion
Emerging Principles in Fast Trajectory Optimization
Flight Vehicle System Identification in Time Domain
Foundations of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) - Online Short Course (Starts May 7, 2021)
7 May - 21 May 2021

This 1.5-day virtual course provides a broad overview of the processes, practices, tools, and techniques that comprise the emerging discipline of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) with emphasis on practical application.

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Fundamentals and Applications of Modern Flow Control
Fundamentals of Classical Astrodynamics and Applications

This 2-3 Day course focuses on the fundamental problems and applications of classical astrodynamics.
Fundamentals of Composite Structure Design
Fundamentals of Composite Structure Design
Fundamentals of Data and Information Fusion for Aerospace Systems

This 8-hour course provides an overview of the fundamental concepts, frameworks, representative applications, mathematical sketches, and research issues in the field of Data and Information Fusion for aerospace systems.
Fundamentals of Kalman Filtering - A Practical Approach
Fundamentals of Space Vehicle Guidance, Control, and Astrodynamics
Fundamentals of Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance
Fundamentals of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations for Non-Military Space Activities
Gossamer Systems - Analysis and Design
High Altitude Testing of Aircraft Engines
Hybrid Rocket Propulsion
Hydrogen Safety
Hypersonic Air-Breathing Propulsion
Hypersonic Flight Vehicle Design and Performance Analysis

This short course covers air-breathing hypersonic flight vehicles, emphasizing propulsion systems that range from ramjets, scramjets, dual-mode scramjets, turbine-based and rocket-based combined cycles to pre-cooled engine cycles.
Hypersonics: Test and Evaluation

Introduce students to high speed and hypersonic test.
Integrated CubeSat Engineering
Integrating Program Management, Systems Engineering, and Six Sigma
Introduction to Bio-Inspired Engineering
Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics
Introduction to Digital Engineering (1-Day)
Introduction to Integrated Computational Material Engineering
Introduction to Multiscale Modeling of Composite Structures and Materials with MSG/SwiftComp – Online Short Course (20 Hours)

This course will introduce mechanics of structure genome (MSG) as a unified framework for multiscale modeling of composite structures and materials starting from fiber/matrix scale all the way to macroscopic structural scale.
Introduction to Non-Deterministic Approaches
Introduction to Shock-Wave Boundary-Layer Interactions
Introduction to Software Engineering
Introduction to Space Systems
Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Combustion: Theory, Modeling, and Practice
Liquid Atomization, Spray, and Fuel Injection in Aircraft Gas Turbine Engines
Making Decisions in Missile Defense
Mathematical Introduction to Integrated Navigation Systems, with Applications
Missile Aerodynamics, Propulsion, and Guidance – Online Short Course (Started April 14, 2021)
14 April - 30 April 2021

This in-depth 12-hour online course will cover the most important aspects of missile aerodynamics, propulsion, and guidance.

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Missile Design and System Engineering
Missile Propulsion

This 2-day course provides a system-level, integrated approach for missile propulsion design, development, and system engineering.
NPSS - A Practical Introduction
Nuclear and Future Flight Propulsion - Nuclear Systems and How They Work
OpenFOAM CFD Foundations – Online Short Course (23-24 June, 2021)
23 June - 24 June 2021

This 2-day online course introduces the open source CFD toolbox, OpenFOAM.

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Optimal Control Techniques for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) - Guided Online Short Course (July 2021)
5 July - 30 July 2021

This unique guided online course (approx. 10-hours of self-study, with weekly classes/discussions) course covers the application of optimal control theory for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

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Optimal Design in Multidisciplinary Systems
Perturbation Methods in Science and Engineering
Phased Array Beamforming for Aeroacoustics
Preliminary Design of Air Breathing Engines
Radar Principles and Applications
Robust Aeroservoelastic Stability Analysis
Robust and Adaptive Control Theory
Satellite Attitude Estimation
Sensitivity Analysis, Uncertainty Propagation, and Validation for Computational Models
Sensor Systems and Microsystems - From Fabrication to Application
Space Standards and Architectures
Stability and Transition - Theory, Experiment, and Modeling
State Analysis - A Model-based Engineering Method for Systems and Software Engineers
Stochastic Mechanics of Materials and Structures
Sustainable (Green) Aviation
Sustainable Aviation

In this short course, participants learn about the history and current developments in sustainable aviation.
Systems Engineering Verification and Validation
Systems Requirements Engineering
Systems Thinking for Modern Aerospace Complexity
Taking the Next Steps in Your Aerospace Career - Online Short Course

In this 16 hour online course, the most important Professional Development skills for Aerospace Engineers looking to advance their careers
Technical Writing Essentials for Engineers

This 8-hour course presents (1) a multi-step process for organizing, drafting, and writing documents, (2) techniques for creating figures, and (3), guidelines for creating clear and succinct technical prose.
The Space Environment - Implications for Spacecraft Design
Trusted Autonomous Systems (ITAR-Restricted Course)
Turbine Engine Ground Test and Evaluation
Turbulance Modeling for Modern Industrial CFD
Understanding Space: An Introduction to Astronautics and Space Systems Engineering

Understanding Space is the ideal course for technical or non-technical professionals new to the space industry or who need a refresher on the fundamentals.
Verification and Validation Best Practices for Integrated Computational Materials Engineering
Verification and Validation in Scientific Computing
Vision-Based Control for Autonomous Vehicles
Weaponeering - Conventional Weapon System Effectiveness