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ENAE Engineering, Aerospace( The A. James Clark School of Engineering) ENAE100 (PermReq) The Aerospace Engineering Profession; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.Recommended: ENES100 and MATH140. Overview of salient aspects of professional practice of Aerospace Engineering. Introduction to the range of technical expertise needed to succeed in the profession and the objectives of the various parts of the Aerospace Engineering program at UMCP in supporting students' efforts in gaining the required knowledge and skills. Familiarization with departmental faculty and their areas of research, creation of links with other students, professional society student chapters, and available resources. Discussion of ethical issues, business requirements, and their interactions with technical developments. ENAE283 Introduction to Aerospace Systems; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisites: PHYS161, ENES102 and MATH141. Corequisites: PHYS260 and 261, formerly PHYS262. Formerly: ENAE281 and ENAE282. For ENAE majors only. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENAE281 and ENAE282 or ENAE283. Introduction to airplanes and space vehicles as aerospace systems. Fundamentals that describe these systems. Elements of aerodynamics, airfoils and wings. Airplane performance, stability and control. Aircraft and rocket propulsion. Fundamentals of orbital motion. Aspects of vehicle conceptual design. ENAE283H (PermReq) Introduction to Aerospace Systems; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisites: PHYS161, ENES102 and MATH141. Corequisites: PHYS260 and 261, formerly PHYS262. Formerly: ENAE281 and ENAE282. For ENAE majors only. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENAE281 and ENAE282 or ENAE283. ENAE301 Dynamics of Aerospace Systems; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisites: ENAE283, MATH240, MATH246, and {PHYS270 and PHYS271 (Formerly: 263)}.ENAE majors only or permission of department. Junior standing. Kinematics and dynamics of three dimensional motion of point masses and rigid bodies with introduction to more general systems. Primary emphasis on Newtonian methods. Practice in numerical solutions and computer animation of equations of motion using MATLAB. ENAE311 Aerodynamics I; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisites: ENAE283 and MATH246. ENAE majors only or permission of department. Formerly ENAE 471. Fundamentals of aerodynamics. Elements of compressible flow. Normal and oblique shock waves. Flows through nozzles, diffusers and wind tunnels. Elements of the method of characteristics and finite difference solutions for compressible flows. Aspects of hypersonic flow. ENAE311H (PermReq) Aerodynamics I; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F. Prerequisites: ENAE283 and MATH246. ENAE majors only or permission of department. Formerly ENAE 471. ENAE362 Aerospace Instrumentation and Experimentation; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisites: Grades of C or better in PHYS270 and PHYS271 (formerly PHYS263), ENAE283, and MATH246. Corequisites: ENAE380. Junior standing. For ENAE majors only. Basic instrumentation electronics including DC electronics, AC electronics, semiconductors, electro-optics and digital electronics. Sensing devices used to carry out experiments in Aerospace Engineering includes metrology, machine tool measurements, bridge circuits, optical devices, and introduction to computer based data acquisition. Topics chosen to support measurements in aerodynamics, flight structures and flight control. ENAE380 Flight Software Systems; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: ENAE202 and ENAE283. Junior standing. For ENAE majors only. Avionics using advanced sensor and computing technologies are at the heart of every modern Aerospace vehicle. Advanced software systems to improve cockpit safety and enable unmanned and deep-space missions. Object-oriented programming and software engineering concepts required to design and build complex flight software systems. Software validation, verification and real-time performance analysis to assess flight software system reliability and robustness. Human-machine interface design for piloted systems. Automatic onboard data acquisition and decision-making for unmanned air and space vehicles. Three hours of lecture and two hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite: ENAE202 and ENAE283. Junior standing. For ENAE majors only. ENAE398H Honors Research Project; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. ENAE403 Aircraft Flight Dynamics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisites: ENAE432 and ENAE414. ENAE majors only or permission of department. Study of motion of aircraft, equations of motion, aerodynamic force representation, longitudinal and lateral motions, response to controls and to atmospheric disturbances, handling qualities criteria and other figures of merit. ENAE415 Helicopter Theory; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: ENAE414. For ENAE majors only. Elementary exposition on the theory and practice of aerodynamics applied to helicopters and other rotary wing aircraft. ENAE423 Vibration and Aeroelasticity; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: ENAE324. ENAE majors only or permission of department. Dynamic response of single and multiple degrees of freedom systems, finite element modeling, wing divergence, aileron reversal, wing and panel flutter. ENAE423H Vibration and Aeroelasticity; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: ENAE324. ENAE majors only or permission of department. ENAE441 Space Navigation and Guidance; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisites: ENAE432 and ENAE404. ENAE majors only or permission of department. Principles of navigation. Celestial, radio, and inertial navigation schemes. Navigational and guidance requirements for orbital, planetary, and atmospheric entry missions. Fundamentals of communications and information theory. Link budgets, antennas and telemetry systems. ENAE455 Aircraft Propulsion and Power; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F. Prerequisite: ENAE311, ENAE414 and ENME232. ENAE majors only or permission of department. Thermodynamic cycle analysis, aerothermochemistry of fuels and propellants, operating principles of piston, turbojet, fanjet, and other variations of airbreathing aircraft power units. ENAE457 Space Propulsion and Power; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F. Prerequisites: ENAE311, ENME232 and (PHYS270 and 271 {Formerly: PHYS263}). ENAE majors only or permission of department. Senior standing. Thermodynamic cycle analysis, aerothermochemistry of fuels and propellants, operating principles of rocket, ion, and other exoatmospheric power units. ENAE471 Aircraft Flight Testing; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: ENAE414;. Corequisite: ENAE403. For ENAE majors only. Provides basic instruction to aircraft flight testing and demonstrates need for systematic, well-proven technique to allow for accurate airplane performance. Concepts of aerodynamics, airplane performance, and stability and control. Emphasis on single-engine general aviation type aircraft. ENAE481 Principles of Aircraft Design; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisites: ENAE324, ENAE362 and ENAE432. Corequisite: ENAE414. ENAE majors only or permission of department. Aircraft design principles blending both synthesis and analysis. The iterative nature of the design process. Applied aerodynamics. Elements of aircraft performance calculation and optimization. Design of aircraft including payload, crew and avionics provisions, propulsion selection and sizing, aerodynamic configuration optimization, mass properties, stability and control characteristics, and vehicle subsystems. Individual student projects in aircraft design. ENAE483 Principles of Space Systems Design; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisites: ENAE324; ENAE432; ENAE362; and ENAE404. ENAE majors only or permission of department. Principles of space systems analysis and vehicle design. Launch vehicle performance analysis and optimization. Design of vehicle systems including avionics, power, propulsion, life support, human factors, structures, actuator and mechanisms, and thermal control. Design processes and design synthesis. Individual student projects in vehicle design. ENAE499 (PermReq) Elective Research; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. ENAE601 Astrodynamics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisites: ENAE 404 and ENAE 441. Mathematics and applications of orbit theory, building upon the foundations developed in ENAE 404 and ENAE 441. Topics include two body orbits, solutions of Kepler's equation, the two-point boundary value problem, rendezvous techniques, and Encke's method. ENAE631 (PermReq) Helicopter Aerodynamics I; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisites: ENAE 311 and ENAE 414 or permission of both department and instructor. A history of rotary-wing aircraft, introduction to hovering theory, hovering and axial flight performance, factors affecting hovering and vertical flight performance, autorotation in vertical descent, concepts of blade motion and control, aerodynamics of forward flight, forward flight performance, operational envelope, and introduction to rotor acoustics. Those sections that begin with a letter are taught via ITV and are not intended for College Park campus students. ENAE641 Linear System Dynamics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: ENAE 432. Linear systems; state space, multi-input, multi-output models; eigenstructure; controllability, observability, singular value analysis; multivariable Nyquist condition; observer design; introduction to Kalman filtering. Full state feedback techniques including pole placement and LQR/LQG techniques; introduction to loop shaping and robustness. ENAE651 Smart Structures; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Topics related to the analysis, design, and implementation of smart structures and systems: modeling of beams and plates with induced strain actuation; shape memory alloys; electro-rheological fluids; magnetostrictor and electrostricter actuators and fiber optic sensors. Those sections that begin with a letter are taught via ITV and are not intended for College Park campus students. ENAE653 Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Continua; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: ENAE 652 or equivalent. Finite element formulation of nonlinear and time dependent processes. Introduction to tensors, nonlinear elasticity, plasticity and creep. Application to nonlinear solids including aerospace structures, such as shells undergoing finite rotations. ENAE655 Structural Dynamics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: ENAE 452 or permission of department. Advanced principles of dynamics necessary for structural analysis; solutions of eigenvalue problems for discrete and continuous elastic systems, solutions to forced response boundary value problems by direct, modal, and transform methods. ENAE656 Aeroelasticity; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: ENAE 655 or permission of department. Topics in aeroelasticity: wing divergence; aileron reversal; flexibility effects on aircraft stability derivatives; wing, empennage and aircraft flutter; panel flutter; aircraft gust response; and aeroservoelasticity of airplanes. ENAE662 Advanced Propulsion II; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: ENAE 661. Special problems of thermodynamics and dynamics of aircraft power plants; jet, rocket and ramjet engines. Plasma, ion and nuclear propulsion for space vehicles. ENAE681 Engineering Optimization; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: permission of department. Methods for unconstrained and constrained minimization of functions of several variables. Sensitivity analysis for systems of algebraic equations, eigenvalue problems, and systems of ordinary differential equations. Methods for transformation of an optimization problem into a sequence of approximate problems. Optimum design sensitivity analysis. ENAE684 Computational Fluid Dynamics I; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: permission of department. Partial differential equations applied to flow modelling, fundamental numerical techniques for the solution of these equations, elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic equations, elements of finite difference solutions, explicit and implicit techniques. Applications to fundamental flow problems. ENAE692 Introduction to Space Robotics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Analysis techniques for manipulator kinematics and dynamics. DH parameters, serial and parallel manipulators, approaches to redundancy. Applications of robots to space operations, including manipulators on free-flying bases, satellite servicing, and planetary surface mobility. Sensors, actuators, and mechanism design. Command and control with humans in the loop. ENAE696 Spacecraft Thermal Design; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Thermal sources in space. Black-body radiation; absorptivity and emissivity; radiative thermal equilibrium. Mutually radiating plates, view angles, and interior conduction. Techniques of spacecraft thermal analysis; approaches to passive and active thermal control. ENAE788D Selected Topics in Aerospace Engineering: Advanced Space Systems Design; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. ENAE788K Selected Topics in Aerospace Engineering: Estimation and Control of Stochastic Systems; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. ENAE799 Master's Thesis Research; (1-6 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. ENAE898 Pre-Candidacy Research; (1-8 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. ENAE899 (PermReq) Doctoral Dissertation Research; (6 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
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