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
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A Practical Approach to Gas Turbine Engine Performance & Design using GasTurb14
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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 Hydrogen Aerospace Technologies and Design – Online Short Course (Starts 8 October 2024)
8 October - 7 November 2024
This new joint course from AIAA and HYSKY Society, the latest and greatest in hydrogen aerospace technology is presented in the context of Fixed-Wing and eVTOL aircraft/vehicle design.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Advanced Solid Rockets – Online Short Course (Started 24 Sept 2024)
24 September - 10 October 2024
This course presents fundamental themes and advanced concepts related to solid rockets.
Open for registration. Register Now
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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®
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Aircraft Handling Qualities
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Aircraft Maintenance Management – Online Short Course (Starts 13 Nov 2024)
13 November - 22 November 2024
This interactive instructor-led professional development course is designed to equip participants with the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to systematically manage maintenance operations within an MRO facility.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Aircraft Reliability & Reliability Centered Maintenance
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Application of Thermal Vacuum Testing
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Applied Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) – Online Short Course (18–21 Nov 2024)
18 November - 21 November 2024
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).
Open for registration. Register Now
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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 11 February 2025)
11 February - 20 February 2025
This course is ideal for aerospace technical and scientific people transitioning to new business roles with responsibility for generating and growing sales.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Complex Systems Competency
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Composite Structures: Process Analysis, Progressive Damage, Failure Analysis, and Advanced Software
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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
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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
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Design of Electrified Propulsion Aircraft
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Design of Experiments: Improved Experimental Methods in Aerospace Testing
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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 10 Mar 2025)
10 March - 16 April 2025
This comprehensive course applies numerous engineering disciplines to the design & analysis of launch vehicles, including many practical applications not found elsewhere.
Open for registration. Register Now
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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 – Online Short Course (Starts 25 Feb 2025)
25 February - 27 March 2025
In this joint course from AIAA and the Vertical Flight Society, the latest and greatest in eVTOL technology is presented.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Electrochemical Energy Systems for Electrified Aircraft Propulsion: Batteries and Fuel Cell Systems
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Emerging Principles in Fast Trajectory Optimization
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Essential Model-Based Systems Engineering
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EVA 101: Life Support Systems
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eVTOL Infrastructure Considerations for Advanced Air Mobility
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Financial and Business Acumen for Navigating the Aerospace Industry
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Flight Vehicle Guidance Navigation and Control Systems (GNC): Analysis and Design
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Foundations of Digital Engineering
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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 and Applications of Thermal Vacuum Testing – Online Short Course (Starts 28 Oct 2024)
28 October - 20 November 2024
This is the definitive course on Vacuum Testing from AIAA, reviewing the physics and fundamentals of thermo-vacuum testing, satellite test requirements and the physics behind vacuum bake-out, cycling, and balance testing.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Fundamentals of Aeroelasticity: From Basics to Application
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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
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Fundamentals of Kalman Filtering - A Practical Approach
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Fundamentals of Python for Engineering Programming and Machine Learning (Starts 4 Feb 2025)
4 February - 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.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Fundamentals of Space Domain Awareness
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Fundamentals of Space Domain Awareness (European Offering) – Online Short Course (November 6–7, 2024)
6 November - 7 November 2024
This is the ONLY course that provides complete coverage 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
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Guidelines for the Development of Civil Aircraft & Systems
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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
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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
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Hypersonic Flight Vehicle Design and Performance Analysis
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Hypersonic Propulsion Concepts: Design, Control, Operation, and Testing – Online Short Course (Starts 22 Oct 2024)
22 October - 14 November 2024
This new 16-hour online course, instructed by experts from AIAA’s High Speed Air-Breathing Propulsion Technical Committee, will introduce participants to the most important fundamentals of the technical discipline.
Open for registration. Register Now
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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 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 – Online Short Course (Starts 22 Oct 2024)
22 October - 7 November 2024
This course reviews the key basics of structural dynamics, then uses those fundamentals to create the building blocks of CLA, finally using those building blocks in CLA.
Open for registration. Register Now
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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
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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
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Non-intrusive Laser-based Diagnostic Techniques for Hypersonic Flows
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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
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Optimal Control Techniques for Unpiloted Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
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Optimal Design in Multidisciplinary Systems
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Orbital Mechanics and Mission Simulation
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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® – Online Short Course (Dec 9 – 12, 2024)
9 December - 12 December 2024
The course will be a combination of lectures, interspersed with associated hands-on lab exercises (aircraft and rotorcraft) to be completed by the students on their own computers using a 2-month trial of the CONDUIT® Pro version, provided with the course.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Principles of Success in Spaceflight from Andrew Chaikin
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Propeller Aerodynamics for Advanced Air Mobility: Fundamentals and Integration Effects
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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
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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
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Space Domain Awareness – Online Short Course (September 9-12, 2024)
This is the ONLY course that provides complete coverage of Space Domain Awareness (SDA).
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Space Domain Cybersecurity – Online Short Course (28–31 Oct 2024)
28 October - 31 October 2024
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
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.
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Space Standards and Architectures
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Spacecraft Avionics Systems Design and Applications – Online Short Course (Starts November 5, 2024)
5 November - 21 November 2024
This new practical course taught by a mission/system expert offers a rare deep dive into spacecraft avionics systems engineering and design.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Spacecraft Design, Development, and Operations - Online Short Course (Starts 16 Oct 2024)
16 October - 25 November 2024
This 36-hour comprehensive course focuses on the application of numerous engineering disciplines to the design and analysis of spacecraft. It is arguably THE most comprehensive short course on spacecraft design available.
Open for registration. Register Now
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Spacecraft Lithium-Ion Battery Power Systems – Online Short Course (Started 30 Sept 2024)
30 September - 23 October 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.
Open for registration. Register Now
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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 11 Nov 2024)
11 November - 20 November 2024
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 18 Feb 2025)
18 February - 13 March 2025
This course introduces the components involved with planning, executing, analyzing, and reporting on a flight test program.
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The Anatomy of Autonomy
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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 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
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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 4 March 2025)
4 March - 20 March 2025
This course is a primer on wind tunnels and wind tunnel testing, primarily for aviation applications. The course considers these aspects from both the client side and the facility side, underpinned by a focus on cost and data quality.
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