| Course: | EA203 |
| Title: | Principles Of Aerospace Engineering I |
| Credits: | 2—2—3 |
| Description: | First of a two-course introductory sequence in the theory and practice of aeronautics and astronautics. Focus is placed on the development and application of theories relating to the study of aeronautics and atmospheric flight. This sequence prepares the beginning aerospace engineering student for future studies in either the aeronautics or astronautics track and develops engineering reasoning, problem solving, and technical writing practices. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: None. Coreq: SP211 or equivalent. 4C require Dept Chair permission. Prer |
| Course: | EA204 |
| Title: | Principles Of Aerospace Engineering Ii |
| Credits: | 2—2—3 |
| Description: | Second of a two-course introductory sequence in the theory and practice of aeronautics and astronautics. The lessons in this course emphasize topics in astronautics. This sequence prepares the beginning aerospace engineering student for future studies in either the aeronautics or astronautics track and develops engineering reasoning, problem solving, and technical writing practices. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EA203. Coreq: EA208 or equivalent. Prereq: EA203 Coreq: EA208 Prereq: EA |
| Course: | EA208 |
| Title: | Engineering Analysis |
| Credits: | 1—2—2 |
| Description: | This course introduces students to the MATLAB® programming environment. Structured programming fundamentals are taught through the application of numerical theory and analysis to relevant engineering problems. Students learn the basics of structured programming by using MATLAB® to solve solutions of systems of linear and nonlinear equations, implement techniques in numerical calculus, and use statistics to analyze and plot data. |
| Requisites: | Coreq: SM212 |
| Course: | EA221 |
| Title: | Mechanics For Aerospace Engineers |
| Credits: | 3—2—4 |
| Description: | This course is an introduction to solving engineering problems with a focus on statics and mechanics of materials. Topics include vector representation of forces, resultant forces and moments, equilibrium of concurrent and nonconcurrent forces, determinate and indeterminate force systems; area moments and products of inertia; support reactions and free-body diagrams for simple models of structures; internal forces and moments in slender members; Cauchy's stress, linear strain, and Hooke's law for isotropic solids; axial, bending, and torsion stress and strain in slender members; axial and hoop stresses in thin-walled pressure vessels; and failure criteria for isotropic material. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: SM221 and SP211. |
| Course: | EA222 |
| Title: | Materials For Aerospace Engineers |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | An introductory course in materials science and engineering for aerospace engineering majors. Topics include atomic structure and microstructure of materials, physical properties of materials, and broad coverage of the processing, manufacturing, and testing methods utilized in producing materials and structures, and how to prevent failure processes. Metals, alloys, and composites common in aerospace applications are emphasized. Laboratory demonstrations and exercises used to complement and reinforce the lectures and reading assignments include composite materials manufacturing, mechanical property tests, heat treatments, fracture, fatigue, corrosion, creep, and NDE/NDI methods. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EM221, SC112. Prereq: EM221 AND SC112 Coreq: Prereq: EM221 AND SC112 Cor |
| Course: | EA232 |
| Title: | Dynamics In Aerospace Engineering |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | Classical vector kinematics and dynamics of particles and rigid bodies, building from one degree-of-freedom, to planar, and finally to an introduction to six degree-of-freedom problems of rigid bodies. Energy and momentum concepts and principles are also featured. Aerospace examples and applications are emphasized to build a foundation for future study of structural dynamics and aerospace vehicle dynamics and control. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EA221 or EM221. Coreq: SM212 Prereq: EA221 OR EM221 Coreq: SM212 Prereq: |
| Course: | EA301 |
| Title: | Aerodynamics I |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | An engineering science course on the fundamentals of incompressible, inviscid fluid mechanics and 2-D aerodynamics. Topics include fluid statics, flow kinematics, integral and differential forms of the governing equations, potential flow theory, and thin airfoil theory. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EA203 AND (SM212 OR SM21 Coreq: Prereq: EA203 AND (SM212 OR SM21 Coreq: |
| Course: | EA303 |
| Title: | Wind Tunnel Laboratory |
| Credits: | 1—2—2 |
| Description: | A laboratory course in wind tunnel test techniques. [fall] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: None; Coreq: EA301. Prereq: Coreq: EA301 Prereq: Coreq: EA301 Prereq: |
| Course: | EA304 |
| Title: | Aerodynamics Ii |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | This course is the second in a sequence of two courses which provides knowledge of the fundamentals of fluid mechanics and aerodynamics. Fluid mechanics as applied to the theory of flight prepare students to understand external flows over aircraft including wing design, drag build-up, and viscous phenomena. The course concludes with an introduction to modern computational fluid dynamic tools. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EA301 Prereq: EA301 Coreq: Prereq: EA301 Coreq: Prereq: EA301 Coreq: |
| Course: | EA305 |
| Title: | Fluid And Gas Dynamics |
| Credits: | 2—2—3 |
| Description: | This course covers essentials of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics applicable to high-speed flows, as required for both Aeronautics and Astronautics track students. Control volume analysis is used in establishing the integral forms of the conservation equations, which are subsequently applied to one-dimensional, compressible flow. This enables the analysis of isentropic flow through a converging-diverging nozzle, for example. Normal shock waves are covered for 1D supersonic flow, and shock-expansion theory is applied to 2D supersonic flow. The effects of friction (Fanno flow) and head addition (Rayleigh flow) on compressible flows are quantified. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EA203, SM212, and EM319. Prereq: EA203 AND SM212 AND EM31 Coreq: Prereq: |
| Course: | EA322 |
| Title: | Structural Mechanics For Aerospace Engineers |
| Credits: | 3—2—4 |
| Description: | Review of mechanics of materials. Introduction to linear elasticity, including stress and strain, generalized Hooke's law, and principal stresses. Form and function of aerospace structural components. Materials allowable, and factors and margins of safety. Flight and ground loads. Bending of beams having asymmetric cross-sections. Shear flow analyses of stress in idealized semimonocoque cross-sections. Elastic buckling of columns and thin-wall structures. Laboratory work with instrumented structures and computer work with solid modeling and finite element analysis are integrated. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EA203, EA222, EA232, SM212. Prereq: EA203 AND EA222 AND EA23 Coreq: Prer |
| Course: | EA362 |
| Title: | Astrodynamics I |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | Introduction to the principles of planetary and satellite motion. Topics include the classical two-body problem, orbital elements, orbit determination, orbit transfers and maneuvers, perturbations and atmospheric drag effects, ballistic missile trajectories, rendezvous, and lunar and interplanetary travel. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EA204 Prereq: EA204 Coreq: Prereq: EA204 Coreq: Prereq: EA204 Coreq: |
| Course: | EA364 |
| Title: | Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics And Control |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | Rigid body attitude dynamics and control of spacecraft. Attitude description using Euler angles, direction cosine matrices, and quaternions. Coordinate transformations. Inertia properties of rigid bodies, body-centered equations of motion, torque-free motion. On-orbit environmental disturbances and their modeling. Attitude control using electromagnetic torquers, thrusters, and momentum exchange devices. Attitude control system design and simulation. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EA362 Coreq: EW410 Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: |
| Course: | EA367 |
| Title: | Spacecraft Communications And Power |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | This course is intended to develop satellite communications and power fundamentals with emphasis on analog and digital communications, link and power budget analysis, and power subsystems. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EA362. Coreq: EE331 Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: |
| Course: | EA400 |
| Title: | Introduction To Aeronautics |
| Credits: | 3—2—4 |
| Description: | Introduces students to the applied science of air-breathing atmospheric flight. The course describes airplanes and how they fly from a design and application perspective. Included are topics in fluid dynamics, airfoil and wing theory, aircraft performance, stability, structures, and aircraft design. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: SM122 or SM162. Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: |
| Course: | EA401 |
| Title: | Aircraft Performance |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | Aerodynamics calculations are extended to analyze complete fixed-wing and vertical-lift aircraft. Topics include static and dynamic point performance analysis and identification of flight conditions for optimized performance, energy methods, optimum flight trajectories, and mission analysis and assessment. Course outcomes lead to design selection criteria. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EA203 Coreq: EA208 |
| Course: | EA405 |
| Title: | Aerospace Propulsion - Astro |
| Credits: | 2—2—3 |
| Description: | The principles of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics are applied to the problem of propulsion of aircraft and space vehicles. Propulsion performance parameters evaluation, rocket thrust chamber analysis, propellant selection to include thermochemistry fundamentals, rocket flight performance, propellant budget and mission analysis are covered. Liquid, solid and hybrid propellant design and analysis as well as electric propulsion fundamentals are presented. An overview of air-breathing propulsion capability and basic cycle analysis of ramjets and turbojets is also introduced. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EA305 or EA332. Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: |
| Course: | EA413F |
| Title: | Airplane Stability And Control |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | Introduces fixed-wing airplane static and dynamic stability and control. Develops and provides the tools required to analyze and design the stability and control attributes of an airplane in preparation for capstone design courses. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EA401F or USAFA equivalent. Coreq: EW410. Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq |
| Course: | EA413R |
| Title: | Rotorcraft Stability And Control |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | Rotary-wing aeromechanics analysis methods are introduced. Basic principles for rotor dynamics are extended to entire flight vehicle static and dynamic stability and control analysis. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EA401R. Coreq: EW410. Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: |
| Course: | EA413V |
| Title: | Vertical-Left Aircraft Stability & Control |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | Concepts, theory, and computational tools are developed and applied for analyzing and designing the static and dynamic stability and control attributes of conventional aircraft and vertical-lift aircraft. Handling qualities are characterized and compared with published standards. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EA304 AND EA401V Coreq: EW410 Prereq: EA304 AND EA401V Coreq: EW410 Prer |
| Course: | EA414 |
| Title: | Airplane Simulation And Control |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | Implementation of linear and non-linear airplane models for man-in-the-loop and batch simulation of airplane flight dynamics. Application of modern control methods to the design of airplane Stability Augmentation Systems and autopilots. [spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EA413; Coreq: EW410 or equivalent. Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Prere |
| Course: | EA417 |
| Title: | Flight Test Engineering |
| Credits: | 3—2—4 |
| Description: | A lecture and laboratory course providing practical application of aeronautics principles from prior courses in airplane performance, aerodynamics, and stability and control. Topics include engineering test planning, risk management, flight test instrumentation, test execution, data analysis, and report writing. Students will employ industry-accepted methods to conduct a limited scope flight test of a light airplane, evaluating its attributes against a mission specification, FAA certification standards, and relevant military specifications. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EA401F or EA401V, or permission of department chair. Prereq: EA401F OR E |
| Course: | EA427 |
| Title: | Aerodynamics Iii |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | An advanced course continuing the study of compressible high-speed flow including general conservation laws for inviscid flows, unsteady flow problems, numerical techniques for supersonic flows and real gas effects. Hypersonic flow. [spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EA304. Prereq: EA304 Coreq: Prereq: EA304 Coreq: Prereq: EA304 Coreq: |
| Course: | EA428 |
| Title: | Computational Aerodynamics |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | Introduction to the major numerical techniques used in computational aerodynamics. Topics include mathematical methods, boundary conditions, stability, panel methods, lattice methods, nonlinear problems, time dependent solutions and transonic flow problems. [spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EA301. Prereq: EA301 Coreq: Prereq: EA301 Coreq: Prereq: EA301 Coreq: |
| Course: | EA429 |
| Title: | Aerospace Propulsion - Aero |
| Credits: | 2—2—3 |
| Description: | This course applies the fundamentals of fluid mechanics and thermodynamics to the study of air-breathing (turbojets, turbofans, and turboprops/turboshafts) and non air-breathing (rocket) air vehicle propulsion systems. Propulsive forces and performance parameters for these propulsion systems will be explored. Propeller characteristics and performance and unmanned aircraft electric propulsion systems are studied. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EA332 or EA305. Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: |
| Course: | EA435 |
| Title: | The Aerodynamics Of V/Stol Aircraft |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | An advanced course covering the aerodynamics of vertical and short takeoff and landing aircraft, including fixed wing and rotary wing types, with major emphasis on the helicopter. [spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: 1/C, aeronautical track major. Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: |
| Course: | EA439 |
| Title: | Aerospace System Preliminary Design |
| Credits: | 1—4—3 |
| Description: | Preliminary design of an aerospace system in a team environment. Includes performance and stability analysis, structural design and systems integration. When followed by EA440, this course provides a two-semester capstone engineering design sequence. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: 1/C standing in Aeronautics Track or Department Chair approval. Coreq: E |
| Course: | EA440 |
| Title: | Aerospace System Design |
| Credits: | 1—4—3 |
| Description: | Design of an aerospace system in a team environment. Includes performance and stability analysis, structural design and systems integration. When preceded by EA439, this course provides a two-semester capstone engineering design sequence. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: 1/C standing in Aeronautics Track or Department Chair approval. Prereq: |
| Course: | EA450 |
| Title: | Drafting And Additive Manufacturing |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | Introduces the engineering language of drafting, both by hand as well as in Computer Aided Design software. Current additive manufacturing technologies and their applications are introduced. Engineering design, drafting, and rapid prototyping skills are then utilized in a project-based learning environment with potential for tangible contribution to the operating forces. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: |
| Course: | EA460 |
| Title: | Human Spaceflight |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | An understanding of the history, requirements, challenges, accomplishments, strategy, architecture, and future opportunities regarding human spaceflight. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: Prereq: Coreq: |
| Course: | EA461 |
| Title: | Space Environment |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | Introduction to the environment of the upper atmosphere, near Earth space, and interplanetary space. Topics include: properties of the upper atmosphere and ionosphere, the geomagnetic field, radiation belts and magnetosphere of the Earth, the solar wind and interplanetary medium, remote sensing of the atmosphere and oceans, environmental implications for spacecraft design. [fall] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: SP212. Prereq: SP212 Coreq: Prereq: SP212 Coreq: Prereq: SP212 Coreq: |
| Course: | EA462 |
| Title: | Astrodynamics Ii |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | Advanced topics in astrodynamics including potential of an arbitrary body and of the earth, orbit determination from observations including numerical techniques for data smoothing, special and general perturbations of orbits and interplanetary trajectories, drag effects on low altitude orbits. Special projects. [fall] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EA362. Prereq: EA362 Coreq: Prereq: EA362 Coreq: Prereq: EA362 Coreq: |
| Course: | EA463 |
| Title: | Space Operations |
| Credits: | 3—0—3 |
| Description: | This course investigates the relationship between mission operations and the other elements of a space mission. It defines a process for translating mission objectives and requirements into a viable mission operations concept. The course focuses on how we get information to and from space and then to the user in a usable format. [spring] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EA362. Prereq: EA362 Coreq: Prereq: EA362 Coreq: Prereq: EA362 Coreq: |
| Course: | EA467 |
| Title: | Spacecraft System Laboratory |
| Credits: | 0—4—2 |
| Description: | Laboratory analysis of the major system elements of space systems to include ground control and power, attitude control, communications, propulsion and thermal control. Constraints imposed by system application launch vehicles, and environment are considered. Introduction to the engineering design process as well as its computer adaptations. [fall] |
| Requisites: | Prereq: EA367 Prereq: EA367 Coreq: Prereq: EA367 Coreq: Prereq: EA367 Coreq: |
| Course: | EA469 |
| Title: | Space System Design I |
| Credits: | 1—4—3 |
| Description: | Preliminary design of an aerospace system in a team environment. Includes mission objectives definition, system requirements development and conceptual and detailed design using systems engineering practices, design iteration, and prototyping. When followed by EA470, this course provides a two-semester capstone engineering design sequence. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: 1/C standing in Astronautics Track or Department Chair Approval. Prereq: |
| Course: | EA470 |
| Title: | Space System Design Ii |
| Credits: | 1—4—3 |
| Description: | Hardware manufacture, software development, system integration, testing, design iteration, and operation of a space system in a team environment. When preceded by EA469, this course provides a two-semester capstone engineering design sequence. |
| Requisites: | Prereq: 1/C standing in Astronautics Track or Department Chair Approval. Prereq: |