Private Short Courses
AIAA Training Links
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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 Introduction to Preliminary Design of Air Breathing Engines
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Additive Manufacturing: Structural and Material Optimization
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Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics
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Advanced Solid Rockets
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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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Agile Systems Engineering
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Aircraft and Rotorcraft System Identification Engineering Methods for Piloted and UAV Applications with Hands-on Training using CIFER®
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Aircraft Handling Qualities
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Aircraft Reliability & Reliability Centered Maintenance – Online Short Course (Starts Sept 13, 2022)
13 September - 22 September 2022
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
This course provides a broad overview of the processes, practices, tools, and techniques that comprise the emerging discipline of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) with an emphasis on practical application.
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Applied Space Systems Engineering – Online Short Course (May 2-5, 2022)
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Atmospheric Flight Dynamics and Control
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Aviation Cybersecurity – Online Short Course (Starts Oct 18, 2022)
18 October - 10 November 2022
This course covers Aviation Cybersecurity Management, a discipline that is fast becoming one of the most important aspects of the aviation industry.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Business Development for Aerospace Professionals – Online Short Course (Starts September 28, 2022)
28 September - 14 October 2022
Taught by a former Senior Vice President at Sierra Nevada Corporation Space Systems with vast experience and expertise in the field, this is the ONLY course of its kind that teaches business development management in the aerospace industry.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Computational Aeroacoustics - Methods and Applications
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Computational Aeroelasticity
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Decision Analysis
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Design and Operation of Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels (COPV)
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Design of Electrified Propulsion Aircraft - Online Short Course (Starts July 18, 2022)
18 July - 11 August 2022
In this course, participants learn about current developments in electrified propulsion, with an emphasis on hybrid-electric aircraft.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Design of Experiments: Improved Experimental Methods in Aerospace Testing
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Design of Modern Aircraft Structures
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Design of Space Launch Vehicles – Online Short Course (Started Apr 11, 2022)
11 April - 25 May 2022
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.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Designing Space Missions – Online Short Course (June 6-9, 2022)
6 June - 9 June 2022
Using a process-oriented approach, the course starts with basic mission objectives and examines the principles and practical methods for mission design and operations in depth.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Digital Engineering Fundamentals – Online Short Course (Started May 17, 2022)
17 May - 26 May 2022
This one-of-a-kind 8-hour course is at the leading edge of the rapidly emerging field of digital engineering.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Electro-optical Systems for Aerospace Sensing Applications
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Emerging Principles in Fast Trajectory Optimization
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Flight Vehicle Guidance Navigation and Control Systems (GNC): Analysis and Design – Online Short Course (Starts Sept 20, 2022)
20 September - 13 October 2022
This course focuses on the principles of GN&C (Guidance, Navigation and Control) systems analysis and design for aerospace flight vehicles
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 – Online Short Course (Starts Sept 28, 2022)
28 September - 21 October 2022
This course provides an overview of the unique aspects of Pressure Gain Combustion.
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 Kalman Filtering - A Practical Approach
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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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High Altitude Testing of Aircraft Engines
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Higher Fidelity Designs for the Aerospace Industry with Fluid-Thermal Structural Interaction (FTSI) – Online Short Course (Starts Oct 11, 2022)
11 October - 20 October 2022
This training will focus on modeling techniques for high fidelity Fluid Thermal-Structure interactions (FTSI) with several use cases that are relevant to the A&D industry space.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Human Spaceflight Operations: Lessons Learned from 60 Years in Space – Online Short Course (Started May 10, 2022)
10 May - 30 June 2022
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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Hydrogen Safety
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Hypersonic Air-Breathing Propulsion
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Hypersonic Applications: Physical Models for Interdisciplinary Simulation
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Hypersonic Flight Vehicle Design and Performance Analysis
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Hypersonics: Test and Evaluation
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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 Aviation Data Science with Machine Learning – Online Short Course (Starts Sept 27, 2022)
27 September - 3 November 2022
This course teaches you fundamentals of reproducible data science and analytic, probabilistic reasoning and statistical inference, and machine learning to leverage data generated within the large scope of aviation and aeronautics.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Introduction to Shock-Wave Boundary-Layer Interactions
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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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Mathematical Introduction to Integrated Navigation Systems, with Applications
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Missile Aerodynamics, Propulsion, and Guidance
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Missile Design and System Engineering
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Missile Design: A Comprehensive Guide to Propulsion, Aerodynamics, Weight, Flight Performance, Guidance, Lethality, System Engineering, and Development – Online Short Course (Starts Jun 15, 2022)
15 June - 10 August 2022
This online course will cover the most important aspects of missile aerodynamics, propulsion, guidance, lethality, system engineering, and development.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Missile Guidance
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Missile Propulsion
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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 – Online Short Course (June 7, 2022)
7 June 2022 1030 - 1930
This course covers Theoretical and Applied concepts in Computational Aeroacoustics (CAA) using OpenFOAM, touching on progressive Multiphysics design challenges, e.g. Aero-Vibro-acoustics (AVA).
Open for registration. Register Now
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OpenFOAM® CFD Dynamic Mesh Modeling – Online Short Course (June 8, 2022)
8 June 2022 1030 - 1930
This course covers dynamic mesh capabilities of OpenFOAM, covering simulations of rotating bodies (propellers, turbines, wheels), 6DoF and adaptive mesh refinement.
Open for registration. Register Now
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OpenFOAM® CFD External Aerodynamics – Online Short Course (May 24-25, 2022)
24 May - 25 May 2022
This course introduces some advanced topics of the open source CFD toolbox, OpenFOAM. It concentrates on the topics important for external aerodynamics computations.
Open for registration. Register Now
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OpenFOAM® CFD Foundations
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Optimal Control Techniques for Unpiloted Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) - Guided Online Short Course (June 2022)
1 June - 22 June 2022
This unique course covers the application of optimal control theory for UAVs.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Optimal Design in Multidisciplinary Systems
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Overview of Python for Engineering Programming – Online Short Course (Starts Oct 4, 2022)
4 October - 20 October 2022
In this popular course, taught for years at Boeing by the instructor, the Python programming language and its rich ecosystem is introduced.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Phased Array Beamforming for Aeroacoustics
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Propeller Aerodynamics for Advanced Air Mobility: Fundamentals and Integration Effects - Online Short Course (Starts Oct 4, 2022)
4 October - 27 October 2022
This course covers the basics of propeller performance up to complex propeller-airframe integration challenges.
Open for registration. Register Now
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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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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 Mission Operations – Online Short Course (Nov 7-10, 2022)
7 November - 10 November 2022
This exciting, fast-paced 4-day course explores the challenge of designing and implementing space mission operations in a practical, cost-effective way in the real world.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Space Standards and Architectures
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Spacecraft Design, Development, and Operations - Online Short Course (Starts Oct 12, 2022)
12 October - 21 November 2022
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.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Stability and Transition - Theory, Experiment, and Modeling
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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
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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
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Turbulence Modeling for Aerodynamic Flows
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UAV Aircraft Design by Dan Raymer
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Understanding Cybersecurity in the Space Domain – Online Short Course (Oct 12-14, 2022)
12 October - 14 October 2022
This exciting, fast-paced 3-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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Understanding Space: An Introduction to Astronautics and Space Systems Engineering
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Verification and Validation Best Practices for Integrated Computational Materials Engineering
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Verification and Validation in Scientific Computing
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Vision-Based Control for Autonomous Vehicles
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Weaponeering - Conventional Weapon System Effectiveness