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
Design of Space Launch Vehicles
26 FEBRUARY–3 APRIL 2024
A new generation of companies and engineers are pushing the space industry further. This course will provide an enhanced understanding and exposure to practical aspects of design, engineering, manufacturing, and testing of space launch vehicles.
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Financial and Business Acumen for Navigating the Aerospace Industry
5–26 MARCH 2024
Develop a “business mindset” to make sound business/financial decisions for your organization, and successfully navigate the various funding avenues available, while also setting the foundation for leadership positions within your organizations.
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Aircraft Reliability & Reliability Centered Maintenance
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.
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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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Space Mission Operations
Explore the challenge of designing and implementing space mission operations in a practical, cost-effective way in the real world. Taking a functional approach, the course provides an in-depth view of the entirety of space mission operations.
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Principles of Success in Spaceflight from Andrew Chaikin
Presented by acclaimed space historian Andrew Chaikin, author of A Man on the Moon, this course leverages human behavior lessons from NASA’s history to guide spaceflight professionals on how to invite success and avoid failure.
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Wind Tunnel Testing for Aircraft Development
Learn best practices for wind tunnel testing used in industry and government laboratories in support of aircraft design, development, and certification. 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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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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Propeller Aerodynamics for Advanced Air Mobility
Gain an understanding of the basic working principles of (isolated) propeller aerodynamics and how propeller performance affects and is affected by neighboring elements like the wing, fuselage, or adjacent propellers.
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