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
Fundamentals of Space Domain Awareness
12–13 SEPTEMBER 2023
Understand the areas of Space Domain Awareness (SDA) that are focused on the actionable knowledge required to predict, avoid, deter, operate through, recover from, and attribute cause to losing or degrading space capabilities and services.
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Spacecraft Design, Development, and Operations
STARTS 18 SEPTEMBER 2023
Learn how to apply numerous engineering disciplines to the design and analysis of spacecraft including the process involved with the ascent of a spacecraft into orbit, a history of spacecraft, current and future launch vehicles, the pre-launch and launch environment, and spacecraft orbits and trajectories.
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Fundamentals of High Speed Air-Breathing and Space Propulsion
STARTS 19 SEPTEMBER 2023
This course examines five classes of engines (both deployed and being developed) from the perspective of their underlying physical principles. The equations used to determine the thrust produced by airbreathing rockets, ram/scramjets, detonation wave engines, arcjets, and ion thrusters are developed highlighting relevant issues and approximations in their use.
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Featured On-Demand Courses
Aircraft Maintenance Management
Learn the necessary skills to systematically manage maintenance operations within an MRO facility and identify key considerations in maintenance inventory and supply chain management.
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Safety Management System (SMS) in Aviation – Online Short Course
This interactive instructor-led professional development training course is designed to equip participants with the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary to develop and implement a Safety Management System (SMS) within an aviation context based on the ICAO Annex 19 Framework.
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Digital Engineering Fundamentals
Gain an in-depth understanding of digital engineering tools with a focus on how to transform lifecycle processes to deliver knowledge enabling better decision making.
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Design of Gas Turbine Engines: From Concept to Details
Learn how thermodynamic, aerodynamic, and structural concepts are turned into hardware and review the extent of current practical design techniques.
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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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Overview of Python for Engineering Programming
Discover the Python programming language and its rich ecosystem while focusing on engineering applications with practice examples on implementing elegant and efficient algorithms.
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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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Spacecraft Design, Development, and Operations
Learn the process involved with the ascent of a spacecraft into orbit, current and future launch vehicles, and how the space environment determines design features.
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Human Spaceflight Operations: Lessons Learned from 60 Years in Space
Led by 15 space operations experts, including a former astronaut, this unique online course shares the collective experience from over 60 years of human spaceflight operations.
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