Courses & Workshops
Stay at the top of your game with AIAA's continuing education offerings. You will leave with invaluable improvements and solutions that you can put to immediate use.
AIAA Courses are carefully selected for their technical relevance and expert instructors. Courses feature lectures and demonstrations with ample opportunity to ask questions and interact.
Students receive a set of course notes and course completion certificates; students may also claim CEUs/PDHs for all AIAA courses.
All of our Online Courses can be found in the Online Learning Catalog.
UPCOMING Courses
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A Practical Approach to Gas Turbine Engine Performance & Design using GasTurb14 – Online Short Course (Started April 16, 2024)
16 April - 6 June 2024
This new 32-hour course introduces GasTurb14 through software demonstration, complete engine model generations, simulations, and optional homework assignments.
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Optimal Control Techniques for Unpiloted Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) - Online Guided Short Course (Started April 17, 2024)
17 April - 8 May 2024
This unique course covers the application of optimal control theory for UAVs.
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Test Foundations for Flight Test – Online Short Course (Starts May 6, 2024)
6 May - 10 June 2024
This course introduces the components involved with planning, executing, analyzing, and reporting on a flight test program.
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Human Spaceflight Operations: Lessons Learned from 60 Years in Space – Online Short Course (Starts 7 May 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.
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Composite Structures: Process Analysis, Progressive Damage, Failure Analysis, and Advanced Software - Online Short Course (May 13-16, 2024)
13 May - 16 May 2024
This new, practical course taught by premier experts in Composite Aircraft Structures will cover advanced topics in composite analysis and use software from Digital Blue to demonstrate example frameworks.
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Design of Experiments: Improved Experimental Methods in Aerospace Testing – Online Short Course (Starts Jun 3, 2024)
3 June - 26 June 2024
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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The Anatomy of Autonomy – Online Short Course (Starts June 3, 2024)
3 June - 19 June 2024
This course enables a fundamental understanding of autonomous capabilities, the foundations of their design, and their impact on current and future aviation and space systems.
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Applied Space Systems Engineering – Online Short Course (June 10 - 13, 2024)
10 June - 13 June 2024
Applied Space Systems Engineering examines the practical application of space systems engineering processes throughout the mission lifecycle.
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Guidelines for the Development of Civil Aircraft & Systems – Online Short Course (Starts June 18, 2024)
18 June - 27 June 2024
This course is designed to equip participants with the fundamental knowledge and skills necessary for the development of civil aircraft and systems based on ARP4754B and conducting the safety assessment process based on ARP4761A.
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Guidance and Control of Hypersonic Vehicles – Online Short Course (Starts September 3, 2024)
3 September - 26 September 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.
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Organized by AIAA Technical Committees and experts in their fields in conjunction with AIAA forums, workshops focus on problems and challenges in a specific discipline area or in a general area related to aerospace. Participants get hands-on experience and can share best practices and lessons learned with each other.
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
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5th AIAA CFD High Lift Prediction Workshop (HLPW) - 1.5 Days at 2024 AVIATION FORUM
2 August - 3 August 2024
Assess the numerical prediction capability of current-generation CFD technology/codes for swept, medium-to-high-aspect ratio wings for landing/take-off (high-lift) configurations.