Private Short Courses
AIAA Training Links
For information, group discounts, and private course pricing, contact:
Lisa Le, Education Specialist (lisal@aiaa.org)
Bring Aerospace Short Courses to You!
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 jasonc@aiaa.org.
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A Practical Approach to Flight Dynamics and Control of Aircraft, Missiles, and Hypersonic Vehicles – Online Short Course (Started Sept 26, 2023)
26 September - 19 October 2023
This course introduces a practical approach to flight dynamics and control of aircraft, missiles, and hypersonic vehicles, which utilizes MATLAB’s computational tools of control systems design and simulation.
Open for registration. Register Now
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A Practical Introduction to Preliminary Design of Air Breathing Engines
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Additive Manufacturing: Structural and Material Optimization
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Advanced Spacecraft Control and Dynamics
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Aeroelastic Wind Tunnel Testing and Aeroelasticity Considerations for Non-Aeroelastic Tests
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Aerospace Survivability
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AI for Air Traffic Safety Enhancement
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Aircraft and Rotorcraft System Identification Engineering Methods for Piloted and UAV Applications with Hands-on Training using CIFER® - Online Short Course (Dec 4 – 7, 2023)
4 December - 7 December 2023
This comprehensive course will review the fundamental methods of Piloted and UAV aircraft and rotorcraft system identification for determining flight dynamics and control models from test data with Hands-on Training using CIFER®.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Aircraft Handling Qualities
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Aircraft Maintenance Management – Online Short Course (Starts January 16, 2024)
16 January - 25 January 2024
Open for registration. Register Now
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Aircraft Reliability & Reliability Centered Maintenance – Online Short Course (Starts March 19, 2024)
19 March - 28 March 2024
This interactive instructor-led short course is designed to equip participants with the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to model, predict, and statistically evaluate the reliability of aircraft and aircraft items.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Application of Thermal Vacuum Testing
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Applied Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) - Online Short Course (October 10-13, 2023)
10 October - 13 October 2023
This 4 day course provides a broad introduction to the what, why and how of the processes, practices, tools and techniques that comprise the emerging discipline of model-based systems engineering (MBSE).
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Applied Space Systems Engineering
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Atmospheric Flight Dynamics and Control
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Aviation Cybersecurity
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Business Development for Aerospace Professionals – Online Short Course (Starts November 7, 2023)
7 November - 16 November 2023
This course is designed to teach smart technical and scientific aerospace professionals how to identify innovation opportunities that that match winning value propositions with customer needs.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Complex Systems Competency
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Computational Aeroacoustics - Methods and Applications
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Computational Aeroelasticity
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Cryogenic Fluid Management for Storage & Transfer of Liquid Propellants in Space – Online Short Course (Starts Jan 30, 2024)
30 January - 8 February 2024
New practical course, taught by a team of AIAA experts, covering a critical aspect of launch vehicle and spacecraft performance and mission success.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Decision Analysis
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Design and Operation of Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels (COPV)
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Design Evolution of Aircraft Structures – Online Course (Starts March 19, 2024)
19 March - 18 April 2024
This applied introductory course covers the evolution of the most important fundamental and practical concepts of modern aircraft structures.
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Design of Electrified Propulsion Aircraft
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Design of Experiments: Improved Experimental Methods in Aerospace Testing (2-Day Course at 2024 SciTech Forum)
6 January - 7 January 2024
Orlando, FL. 2024 AIAA SciTech Forum. This course details a formal approach to experiment design to ensure empirical model adequacy, quantify variability in predictions, and identify all possible independent variable interactions.
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Design of Gas Turbine Engines: From Concept to Details
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Design of Modern Aircraft Structures
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Design of Space Launch Vehicles – Online Short Course (Starts February 26, 2024)
26 February - 3 April 2024
This comprehensive course applies numerous engineering disciplines to the design & analysis of launch vehicles, including many practical applications not found elsewhere.
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Designing Space Missions
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Digital Engineering Fundamentals
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Electric VTOL Aircraft Design: Theory and Practice
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Electrochemical Energy Systems for Electrified Aircraft Propulsion: Batteries and Fuel Cell Systems
In this course, participants will learn about Electro-chemical Energy Systems (EES), with an emphasis on electrified aircraft propulsion and power applications.
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Emerging Principles in Fast Trajectory Optimization
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Essential Model-Based Systems Engineering
This course is for professionals preparing to undertake digital transformation in their organizations.
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eVTOL Infrastructure Considerations for Advanced Air Mobility
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Financial and Business Acumen for Navigating the Aerospace Industry – Online Short Course (Starts March 5, 2024)
5 March - 26 March 2024
This course will provide the baseline for engineers to develop financial/business acumen at all levels within both non-profit and for-profit organizations.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Flight Vehicle Guidance Navigation and Control Systems (GNC): Analysis and Design
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Foundations of Digital Engineering – Online Short Course (Oct 30 – Nov 2, 2023)
30 October - 2 November 2023
The Foundations of Digital Engineering course prepares knowledge workers on the front line of this transformation to navigate the transition to the 4th Industrial Revolution - Digital Transformation.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Foundations of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
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Fundamentals and Applications of Pressure Gain Combustion
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Fundamentals of Aeroelasticity: From Basics to Application – Online Short Course (Starts February 13, 2024)
13 February - 7 March 2024
This course will provide a condensed introduction to aircraft aeroelasticity from fundamentals to application.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Fundamentals of Classical Astrodynamics and Applications
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Fundamentals of Composite Structure Design
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Fundamentals of Data and Information Fusion for Aerospace Systems
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Fundamentals of High Speed Air-Breathing and Space Propulsion – Online Short Course (Started Sept 19, 2023)
19 September - 12 October 2023
This course examines five classes of engines (both deployed and being developed) from the perspective of their underlying physical principles.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Fundamentals of Kalman Filtering - A Practical Approach
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Fundamentals of Space Domain Awareness
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Fundamentals of Space Domain Awareness (European Offering)– Online Short Course (November 17, 2023)
17 November 2023 0900 - 1730
This new 8.5-Hour virtual course provides an overview of Space Domain Awareness (SDA).
Open for registration. Register Now
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Fundamentals of Space Systems
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Fundamentals of Space Vehicle Guidance, Control, and Astrodynamics
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Fundamentals of Structural Dynamics
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Fundamentals of Tactical and Strategic Missile Guidance
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Fundamentals of Thermal Vacuum Testing Science
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Guidance and Control of Hypersonic Vehicles – Online Short Course (Starts May 14, 2024)
14 May - 6 June 2024
This course presents a comprehensive overview of the recent, emerging technological advances in hypersonic flight vehicles, with an emphasis on solving a variety of guidance and control problems of hypersonic vehicles.
Open for registration. Register Now
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High Altitude Testing of Aircraft Engines
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Higher Fidelity Designs for the Aerospace Industry with Fluid-Thermal Structural Interaction (FTSI)
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Human Spaceflight Operations: Lessons Learned from 60 Years in Space – Online Short Course (Starts May 7, 2024)
7 May - 27 June 2024
This course aims to share the collective experience from over 60 years of human spaceflight operations. The experience and expertise of the many instructors is unmatched in this field.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Hybrid Rocket Propulsion
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Hypersonic Air-Breathing Propulsion
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Hypersonic Applications: Physical Models for Interdisciplinary Simulation – Online Short Course (Starts Oct 30, 2023)
30 October - 15 November 2023
This unique 12-hour short course is meant to introduce attendants to physical models for interdisciplinary simulation of hypersonic applications.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Hypersonic Flight Vehicle Design and Performance Analysis
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Hypersonics: Test and Evaluation (1-Day Course at 2024 SciTech Forum)
7 January 2024 0800 - 1700
Orlando, FL. 2024 AIAA SciTech Forum. The course introduces the concept of hypersonic flight and describe the critical physics that is encountered at this unique and formidable speed regime.
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Integrated CubeSat Engineering
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Integrating Program Management, Systems Engineering, and Six Sigma
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Introduction to Propellant Gauging
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Introduction to Shock-Wave Boundary-Layer Interactions
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Launch Vehicle Coupled Loads Analysis: Theory and Approaches
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Liquid Atomization, Spray, and Fuel Injection in Aircraft Gas Turbine Engines
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Making Decisions in Missile Defense
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Metal Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace Applications – Online Short Course (Starts Oct 10, 2023)
10 October - 26 October 2023
This comprehensive course details all aspects of the additive manufacturing process for aerospace applications from concept, process selection, material evaluation, post-processing, design, and certification.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Missile Aerodynamics, Propulsion, and Guidance
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Missile Design and System Engineering
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Missile Guidance
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Missile Propulsion
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Mission-based Vehicle Design: Digital Mission Engineering for Advanced Air Mobility (Online Short Course – Starts Jan 29, 2024)
29 January - 7 February 2024
This class familiarizes users with the workflows of modeling and analyzing a UAV mission using digital mission engineering best practices.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Non-intrusive Laser-based Diagnostic Techniques for Hypersonic Flows
This course aims to provide background theory on several spectroscopy techniques, technology required to execute measurements, and examples how they have been implemented previously for large scale wind tunnel testing.
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NPSS - A Practical Introduction
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OpenFOAM® CFD Aeroacoustics
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OpenFOAM® CFD Dynamic Mesh Modeling
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OpenFOAM® CFD External Aerodynamics
This course introduces some advanced topics of the open source CFD toolbox, OpenFOAM. It concentrates on the topics important for external aerodynamics computations.
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OpenFOAM® CFD Foundations
Learn OpenFOAM® CFD Fundamentals for Aerospace with a combination of lectures and associated hands-on lab exercises.
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Optimal Control Techniques for Unpiloted Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
This unique course covers the application of optimal control theory for UAVs.
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Optimal Design in Multidisciplinary Systems
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Overview of Python for Engineering Programming – Online Short Course (Starts October 2, 2023)
2 October - 18 October 2023
In this popular course, taught for years at Boeing by the instructor, the Python programming language and its rich ecosystem are introduced.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Practical Design Methods for Aircraft and Rotorcraft Flight Control for Conventional Civil/Military, UAV, and AAM Applications with Hands-on Training using CONDUIT®
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Principles of Success in Spaceflight from Andrew Chaikin – Online Short Course (February 21-22, 2024)
21 February - 22 February 2024
This course explores the impact of human behavior on success and failure in spaceflight projects through the lens of NASA history.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Propeller Aerodynamics for Advanced Air Mobility: Fundamentals and Integration Effects (2-Day Course at 2024 SciTech Forum)
6 January - 7 January 2024
Orlando, FL. 2024 AIAA SciTech Forum. Course covering the aerodynamics of propellers for aircraft applications, from fundamentals to complex propeller-airframe integration challenges.
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Quantifying Uncertainties in Engineering Applications
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Radar Principles and Applications
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Robust Aeroservoelastic Stability Analysis
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Safety Management System (SMS) in Aviation – Online Short Course (Sept 10 – 13, 2024)
10 September - 13 September 2024
This course prepares students to develop and implement a Safety Management System (SMS) within an aviation context based on the ICAO Annex 19 Framework.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Satellite and SmallSat Thermal Control Engineering
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Sensitivity Analysis, Uncertainty Propagation, and Validation for Computational Models
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Space Architecture: Designing a Lunar Habitation System
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Space Architecture: Designing an Orbital Habitation System: Challenges and Consequences – Online Short Course (Starts October 31, 2023)
31 October - 16 November 2023
This unique course is at the leading edge of system-design-integration for weightless human missions, covering the development strategies and design challenges of locating and building orbital habitats.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Space Domain Cybersecurity - Online Short Course (Oct 16-19, 2023)
16 October - 19 October 2023
This exciting, fast-paced 4-day course examines the practical issues of developing and sustaining a secure cyber environment through all phases of the space mission lifecycle.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Space Mission Operations
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Space Standards and Architectures
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Spacecraft Design, Development, and Operations – Online Short Course (Started Sept 18, 2023)
18 September - 25 October 2023
This 30-hour course presents an extensive and coherent treatment of the fundamental principles involved with the interdisciplinary design of spacecraft. It is arguably THE most comprehensive short course on spacecraft design available.
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Spacecraft Lithium-Ion Battery Power Systems – Online Short Course (Starts May 21, 2024)
21 May - 13 June 2024
New practical course covering the basic fundamental principles underlying the design and development of LIB-based EPS for various types of spacecraft mission applications.
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Stability and Transition - Theory, Experiment, and Modeling
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Sustainable Aviation: Challenges, Design Implications, Recent Advancements, Noise, Emissions, Alternative Fuels, Electric Aircraft, and Emerging Technologies
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Systems Engineering Verification and Validation
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Systems Requirements Engineering
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Systems Thinking for Modern Aerospace Complexity
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Taking the Next Steps in Your Aerospace Career
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Technical Writing Essentials for Engineers – Online Short Course (Starts Oct 24, 2023)
24 October - 2 November 2023
This short course introduces students to essential technical writing skills for proposals, technical reports, and process or requirements documents.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Test Foundations for Flight Test – Online Short Course (Starts April 8, 2024)
8 April - 8 May 2024
This course introduces the components involved with planning, executing, analyzing, and reporting on a flight test program.
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The Space Environment - Implications for Spacecraft Design
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Trusted Artificial Intelligence
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Turbomachinery for Emerging Space Applications: Liquid Rocket Propulsion – Online Short Course (Starts March 11, 2024)
11 March - 17 April 2024
Open for registration. Register Now
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Turbulence Modeling for Aerodynamic Flows
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UAV Aircraft Design by Dan Raymer
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Understanding Aircraft Noise: From Fundamentals to Design Impacts and Simulations
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Understanding Space: An Introduction to Astronautics and Space Systems Engineering
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Verification and Validation in Scientific Computing
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Vibration of Periodic Structures – Online Short Course (Starts Feb 6, 2024)
6 February - 14 March 2024
This new practical online course is applicable to the study of vibration, flutter, and structural-acoustic analysis of stiffened structures, used in Aerospace, Civil and Mechanical Engineering.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Vision-Based Control for Autonomous Vehicles
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Weaponeering - Conventional Weapon System Effectiveness
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Wind Tunnel Testing for Aircraft Development – Online Short Course (Starts Oct 17, 2023)
17 October - 16 November 2023
This short course is designed to provide the ‘big picture” of wind tunnel testing best practices used in the industry and government laboratories in support of aircraft design, development, and certification.
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