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AEM Class Offerings Summary for Spring 2020

Required and Elective courses for the BAEM with 3103 Degree only

AEM 2011 -- Statics, 3 credits (Required Course)

Instructor(s): zhan4817

Prerequisites: CSE student, PHYS 1301, concurrent Math 2374 or equiv.

Force and moment vectors, resultants. Principles of statics and free-body diagrams. Applications to simple trusses, frames, and machines. Distributed loads. Internal forces in beams. Properties of areas, second moments. Laws of friction.

AEM 2012 -- Dynamics, 3 credits (Required Course)

Instructor(s): Hesla, Todd

Prerequisites: CSE student, AEM 2011, concurrent MATH 2373 or equiv.

Kinematics and kinetics of particles; Newton's laws; energy and momentum methods; system of particles; kinematics and kinetics of planar motions of rigid bodies; plane motion of rigid bodies; mechanical vibrations.

AEM 2301 -- Mechanics of Flight, 3 credits (Required Course)

Instructor(s): Aksaray, Derya

Prerequisites: CSE student, concurrent MATH 2373 or equiv., PHYS 1301W.

Standard atmospheric properties, basic aerodynamics, generation of lift/drag. Airfoils and finite wings. Elements of aircraft performance and atmospheric flight mechanics. Introduction to MatLab and simulations for aircraft design.

AEM 3031 -- Deformable Body Mechanics, 3 credits (Required Course)

Instructor(s): Hesla, Todd

Prerequisites: CSE student, [AEM 2011 or AEM 2021 or [BMEN 3011, BMEN major]], [Math 2374 or equiv], [concurrent Math 2373 or equiv]

Uniaxial loading and deformation. Stress and strain at a point, Mohr's circle. Internal forces in beams. Material behavior, linear elasticity. Torsion of circular shafts. Bending of beams of symmetrical section. Column buckling. Statically indeterminate structures.

AEM 4202 -- Aerodynamics, 4 credits (Required Course)

Instructor(s): Mahesh, Krishnan

Prerequisites: CSE upper division student or graduate student, AEM 4201.

Inviscid aerodynamics. Subsonic, transonic, and supersonic airfoil theory; wing theory. Introduction to compressible flow; normal and oblique shock waves; Prandtl-Meyer expansions. Linearized compressible flow. Wing-body combinations. Computational aerodynamics methods.

AEM 4203 -- Aerospace Propulsion, 4 credits (Required Course)

Instructor(s): Coletti, Filippo

Prerequisites: CSE upper division or graduate student, AEM 4202.

Basic one-dimensional flows: isentropic, area change, heat addition. Overall performance characteristics of propellers, ramjets, turbojets, turbofans, rockets. Performance analysis of inlets, exhaust nozzles, compressors, burners, and turbines. Rocket flight performance, single-/multi-stage chemical rockets, liquid/solid propellants.

AEM 4247 -- Hypersonic Aerodynamics, 3 credits (Technical Elective)

Instructor(s): Candler, Graham V

Prerequisites: CSE upper division student, AEM 4202

Importance/properties of hypersonic flow. Hypersonic shock and expansion-wave relations. Local surface inclination methods. Approximate/exact methods for hypersonic inviscid flow fields. Viscous flow: boundary layers, aerodynamic heating, hypersonic viscous interactions, computational methods. Hypersonic propulsion and vehicle design.

AEM 4301 -- Orbital Mechanics, 3 credits (Required Course)

Instructor(s): Mueller, Joseph B

Prerequisites: CSE upper division or graduate student, MATH 2373 or equiv., AEM 2012 or equiv.

The two-body problem. Earth-satellite operations, rocket performance, reentry dynamics, space environments, interplanetary trajectories. Numerical simulations. Design project.

AEM 4303W -- Flight Dynamics and Control, 3 credits (Required Course)

Instructor(s): Gebre Egziabher, Demoz, Hemati, Maziar S

Prerequisites: [2012, 2301, 3101, [WRIT 1301 or equiv], [CSE upper div or grad student]] or #

Forces/moments, trim, linearization, transfer functions, dynamic response characteristics for aircraft. Aircraft stability/control derivatives, static longitudinal/lateral stability. Phugoid, short period, spiral, roll subsidence, dutch roll modes. Handling qualities. Design project.

AEM 4305 -- Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics and Control, 3 credits (Technical Elective)

Instructor(s): Caverly, Ryan

Prerequisites: [4301, [3101 or ME 3281 or EE 3015], CSE upper div] or grad student

Kinematics/dynamics for six-degree of freedom rigid body motions. Euler's angles/equations. Torque free motion, spin stabilization, dual-spin spacecraft, nutation damping, gyroscopic attitude control, gravity gradient stabilization. Linear systems analysis, Laplace transforms, transfer functions. Linear control theory. PID controllers. Applications. MATLAB/Simulink simulations. Design project.

AEM 4333 -- Aerospace Design: Special Projects, 3.0 credits (Technical Elective)

Instructor(s): Weyrauch, John R, Regan, Chris

Prerequisites: AEM 4331 or instructor consent

Student groups design, build, and test aerospace projects. Projects include designs from AEM4331 or projects such as microgravity experiments. Students create and maintain an electronic project data repository, prepare weekly status reports, build and test their design, and prepare a final report.

AEM 4490 -- Special Topics in Aerospace Systems, 1 - 3 credits (Technical Elective)

Instructor(s): Flaten, James A

Prerequisites:

Topics vary each semester within the field of Aerospace Systems

AEM 4501 -- Aerospace Structures, 3 credits (Required Course)

Instructor(s): Elliott, Ryan S

Prerequisites: CSE upper division or graduate student, AEM 3031 or equiv.

Advanced strength of materials analysis of elastic structures with aerospace applications. Failure modes and criteria, buckling, matrix methods for analysis, plane truss design. Energy and Castigliano methods for statically determinate and indeterminate structures. Torsion and bending of asymmetrical thin-walled sections. Design project.

AEM 4511 -- Mechanics of Composite Materials, 3 credits (Technical Elective)

Instructor(s): Leo, Perry H

Prerequisites: CSE upper division or graduate student, AEM 3031 (or AEM 2031 for MatSci majors).

Analysis, design and applications of laminated and chopped fiber reinforced composites. Micro- and macro-mechanical analysis of elastic constants, failure and environmental degradation. Design project.

AEM 4601 -- Instrumentation Laboratory, 3 credits (Required Course)

Instructor(s): Ketema, Yohannes

Prerequisites: CSE upper division or graduate student, EE 3005, EE 3006, CS 1113.

Introduction to laboratory instrumentation. Computerized data acquisition. Statistical analysis of data. Time series data and spectral analysis. Transducers for measurement of solid, fluid and dynamical quantities. Design of experiments.

AEM 4894 -- Directed Studies: Senior Honors Thesis, 3 credits (Technical Elective)

Instructor(s): Ketema, Yohannes

Prerequisites: Honors student, permission of University Honors Program, AEM major

Writing thesis under direction of AEM faculty member.

AEM 5247 -- Hypersonic Aerodynamics, 3 credits (Technical Elective)

Instructor(s): Candler, Graham V

Prerequisites: CSE graduate student, AEM 4202 or equiv

Importance/properties of hypersonic flow. Hypersonic shock and expansion-wave relations. Local surface inclination methods. Approximate/exact methods for hypersonic inviscid flow fields. Viscous flow: boundary layers, aerodynamic heating, hypersonic viscous interactions, computational methods. Hypersonic propulsion and vehicle design.

AEM 5503 -- Theory of Elasticity, 3 credits (Technical Elective)

Instructor(s): Elliott, Ryan S

Prerequisites: MATH 2263 or equiv., AEM 4501 or equiv., or Instructor Approval.

Introduction to the theory of elasticity, with emphasis on linear elasticity. Linear and nonlinear strain measures, the boundary value problem for linear elasticity, plane problems in linear elasticity, and three dimensional problems in linear elasticity. Other topics will be selected from nonlinear elasticity, micromechanics, contact problems and fracture mechanics.