Aerospace Engineering Technical Electives
Technical Elective Program Requirements
Aerospace Engineering students are required to earn a minimum of 9 credit hours of technical elective credit to complete degree requirements. The Aerospace Engineering program has three technical elective tracks available to students. In addition to the standard technical elective track, there are two undergraduate research tracks (honors and non-honors) offered to students.
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Standard Elective Track
The Standard Elective Track requires that Aerospace Engineering students complete a minimum of 9 credit hours of technical elective credit hours from the following list of approved courses. Students are required to complete at least 6 credit hours of Aerospace Engineering (AEROENG) courses. Students may take any 5000-level, 6000 (with permission), or 7000 (with permission) level Aerospace Engineering (AE) courses to fulfill degree requirements.
The courses listed below are approved to fulfill Technical Elective degree requirements. These are NOT "approved" for automatic enrollment in the course if you do not meet the pre-requisites. If you do not meet the pre-requisites, please reach out to the instructor for instructor permission.
Please Note: Course offerings are subject to change and not guaranteed to be offered in any given term.
Students may petition alternate courses for technical electives. Please speak to your advisor for guidance.
AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COURES
| Course # | Course Title | Credit Hours | Course Description |
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AEROENG 5610 |
Helicopter Aerodynamics | 3 | Basic treatment of helicopter aerodynamics, performance, and design. Prereq: 3570. |
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AEROENG 5612 |
Aircraft Performance and Flight Test Engineering |
3 | Determination of the performance, stability, controllability, and handling qualities of general aviation aircraft through analysis and flight tests. Prereq: 3520 and 3570. |
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AEROENG 5615 |
Introduction to Computational Aerodynamics | 3 | Introduction to computational methods used in aerodynamics flow problems. Prereq: 3570 and 3581, and AeroEng major. |
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AEROENG 5616 |
Advanced Flight Vehicle Design | 3 | The course introduces advanced flight vehicle design techniques applied during the conceptual design phase. The optimum design process and problem formulation is introduced, with an in-depth focus on multivariate graphical optimization techniques for aircraft. We will conduct optimal design based on first principles, and apply best practices to multidisciplinary flight vehicle design. Prereq or concur: 4550, and 4515 or 4517; or Grad standing in AeroEng; or permission of instructor. |
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AEROENG 5620 |
Stability and Control of Flight Vehicles | 3 | Analysis and design of aircraft, helicopter and missile flight control systems and the associated guidance and navigation systems. Prereq: 3521. |
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AEROENG 5621 |
Guidance, Navigation, and Control of Aerospace Vehicles | 3 | Spacecraft (satellite) control systems analysis and design. Prereq: 3521 |
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AEROENG 5626 |
Orbital Mechanics for Engineers | 3 | Introduction to orbital mechanics with orbit determination techniques, orbital maneuvers and lunar and interplanetary trajectories. Prereq: 3520 and MechEng 2030. |
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AEROENG 5751 |
Advanced Air Breathing Propulsion | 3 | Fundamental and advanced concepts of gas turbine operation. Prereq: 4550. |
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AEROENG 5752 |
Advanced Space Propulsion | 3 | Analysis of different propulsion techniques for access to space and inter-planetary flight: liquid, solid, hybrid, nuclear and electric. Emphasizes fundamentals based on physics and mathematics. Prereq: 4550, or permission of instructor. |
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AEROENG 5775 |
Hypersonic Flow | 3 | Introduction to hypersonic inviscid and viscous flows, Newtonian theory, high-temperature effects and heat transfer. Prereq: 3570 and 4550. |
NON-AEROSPACE ENGINEERING COURSES
A maximum of 3 credit hours can be chosen from this category.
| Course # | Course Title | Credit Hours | Course Description |
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MECHENG 5139 |
Applied Finite Element Method | 3 | Overview of finite element method, description of finite element software, modeling requirements and techniques, analysis using general purpose software, and case studies. Prereq: 2020, 2040, or equiv, and enrollment in MechEng major; or Grad standing in Engineering. |
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MECHENG 5144 |
Engineering Fracture Mechanics | 3 | Fracture and fatigue of solids; stress intensity factors; stability of cracks; compliance and energy methods; plane stress, plane strain effects; crack propagation and arrest criteria. Prereq: 2020 or 2040, and Math 2174, 2177, or 2415; or Grad standing in Engineering |
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MECHENG 5162 |
Introduction to Laminated Composite Materials | 3 | Introduction to anisotropic material behavior and failure assessment of laminated composite materials. Classical lamination theory, beams, plates and shells. Prereq: 2020 or 2040; or Grad standing in Engineering; or permission of instructor. |
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MECHENG 5240 |
Vibration and Acoustic Design | 3 | Free and forced vibration analysis of single-degree-of-freedom systems with various forms of damping, vibration isolation and control methods and devices, vibration sensors, equations of motion of multi-degree of freedom systems using Lagrange's method, Eigen value problem, modal analysis method for free and forced vibration analysis, frequency-domain data analysis fundamentals. Prereq or concur: 3360, or Grad standing in Engineering. |
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MECHENG 5372 |
Design and Control of Mechatronic Systems | 3 | Introduction to multi-domain (mechanical, thermal, fluid, electrical, electronic, electro-mechanical) system design, dynamic modeling, and control system design and analysis techniques. Prereq: 3360 or 3361, or Grad standing in MechEng, or permission of instructor. |
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MECHENG 5539 |
Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer | 3 | Introduces basic concepts in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Computational Heat Transfer (CHT), teaches thermo-fluid analysis of engineering systems, and enhances understanding of fluid flow and heat transfer. Prereq: 3501 or 3502, and 3503 or 3504. Prereq or concur: 4510, or Grad standing in MechEng. |
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MECHENG 5751 |
Design and Manufacturing of Compliant Mechanisms and Robots | 3 | Introduces methods and theories for kinematic and force analysis, synthesis of rigid body and compliant (flexible) mechanisms and robots. Pseudo-rigid-body model and CAD/CAE software will be used for modeling and analysis study. Students will be required to work on a team project to solve a real world design problem related to mechanisms and robots. Prereq: 3670 or equiv, or Grad standing in Engineering. |
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NUCLREN 4505 |
Intro to Nuclear Science and Engineering | 3 | Discussion of nuclear energy and nuclear radiation; sources, methods of utilization, and projections for future engineering uses. Prereq: Math 2173, 2177, 2255 (255), or 2415 (415); and Physics 1251 (133), or permission of instructor. |
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NUCLREN 5606 |
Radiation Protection and Shielding | 3 | General principles of radiation, radioactivity, and radiation protection including radiation sources, radioactive decay, radiation interactions, radiation detection, radiation shielding, radiation dose calculations, and biological effects. Prereq: Math 2153, 2173, or 2177, and Physics 1250; or Grad standing. |
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CIVILEN 5420 |
Remote Sensing of Environment | 3 | The energies of the natural and cultural environment, current remote sensing systems and case histories of applications in measuring the environment. Prereq: 2410, or permission of instructor. |
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CIVILEN 5441 |
Introduction to GPS: Theory and Applications | 3 | Introduction to reference systems; fundamentals of GPS design and operation; GPS observables, error analysis and handling; data collection and data processing; interdisciplinary applications of GPS. Prereq: Math 1172 or 1544 or 2153, and Jr standing or above; or Grad standing; or permission of instructor. |