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ENAE Engineering, Aerospace( The A. James Clark School of Engineering) ENAE200 Aerospace Engineering Profession II; (1 credit) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.Prerequisite: permission of department. Recommended: ENAE100. For ENAE majors only. Overview of the engineering profession as it pertains to the role of the engineer in society, professional practice and ethical standards, career development, opportunities and need for lifelong learning, importance of safety and standards, effective written, visual, and oral communications, and the impact of the engineering profession on global issues. ENAE202 Aerospace Computing; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. For ENAE majors only. Also offered as ENCE202. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENAE202 or ENCE202. Introduction to computational tools for the solution of engineering problems. C++ & MATLAB programming including branching and loops, functions, file handling, arrays, and data structures. Students will be introduced to object-oriented programming, basic computing, algorithms, and principles of software engineering. ENAE324 Aerospace Structures; (4 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: ENES220. For ENAE majors only. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: ENAE322 or ENAE324. Formerly ENAE322. Analysis of torsion, beam bending, plate bending, buckling and their application to aerospace. ENAE398H Honors Research Project; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. ENAE404 Space Flight Dynamics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: ENAE301. ENAE majors only or permission of department. Three-dimensional motion under central fields. Solutions to orbital motion, orbital elements, time elements. Kepler's laws. Orbital maneuvering, rendezvous and station-keeping. Rigid-body attitude dynamics, spacecraft attitude dynamics. ENAE414 Aerodynamics II; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: ENAE311. ENAE majors only or permission of department. Junior standing. Formerly ENAE371. Aerodynamics of inviscid incompressible flows. Aerodynamic forces and moments. Fluid statics/buoyancy force. Vorticity, circulation, the stream function and the velocity potential. Bernoulli's and Laplace's equations. Flows in low speed wind tunnels and airspeed measurement. Potential flows involving sources and sinks, doublets, and vortices. Development of the theory of airfoils and wings. 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. ENAE425 Mechanics of Composite Structures; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: MATH246. Corequisite: ENAE324. Introduction to structures composed of composite materials and their applications in aerospace. In particular, filamentary composite materials are studied. Material types and fabrication techniques, material properties, micromechanics, anisotropic elasticity, introduction to failure concepts. ENAE432 Control of Aerospace Systems; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: grade of C or better in ENAE283 and ENAE301. Junior standing. For ENAE majors only. Formerly ENAE332. An introduction to the feedback control of dynamic systems. Laplace transforms and transfer function techniques; frequency response and Bode diagrams. Stability analysis via root locus and Nyquist techniques. Performance specifications in time and frequency domains, and design of compensation strategies to meet performance goals. ENAE464 Aerospace Engineering Laboratory; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisites: ENAE311; ENAE324; ENAE432; and ENAE362. ENAE majors only or permission of department. Application of fundamental measuring techniques to measurements in aerospace engineering. Includes experiments in aerodynamics, structures, propulsion, flight dynamics and astrodynamics. Correlation of theory with experimental results. ENAE482 Aeronautical Systems Design; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. CORE Capstone (CS) Course. Prerequisites: ENAE403; ENAE423; ENAE455; and ENAE481. Senior standing. For ENAE majors only. Senior capstone design course in the aeronautics track. Introduction of computerized methods for sizing and performance analysis. More comprehensive methods to predict weight, aerodynamics and propulsion system characteristics. Consideration in design disciplines such as vulnerability, maintainability, produceability, etc. Groups of students will complete, brief and report on a major design study to specific requirements. ENAE484 Space Systems Design; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. CORE Capstone (CS) Course. Prerequisites: ENAE423; ENAE441; ENAE457; and ENAE483. For ENAE majors only. Senior capstone design course in the space track. Group preliminary design of a space system, including system and subsystem design, configuration control, costing, risk analysis, and programmatic development. Course also emphasizes written and oral engineering communications. ENAE488C Topics in Aerospace Engineering: Computational Structural Mechanics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as ENAE652. ENAE488P Topics in Aerospace Engineering: Fundamentals of Engineering Design; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Click here to view the course description. ENAE499 (PermReq) Elective Research; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. ENAE632 Helicopter Aerodynamics II; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisites: {ENAE 631; and ENAE 311 and ENAE 414 or equivalent} or permission of department. Basic aerodynamic design issues associated with main rotors and tail rotors, discussion of detailed aerodynamic characteristics of rotor airfoils, modeling of rotor airfoil characteristics, review of classical methods of modeling unsteady aerodynamics, the problem of dynamic stall, review of methods of rotor analysis, physical description and modeling of rotor vortical wakes, discussion of aerodynamic interactional phenomena on rotorcraft, advanced rotor tip design, physics and modeling of rotor acoustics. ENAE633 Helicopter Dynamics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: ENAE 631 or permission of both department and instructor. Flap dynamics. Mathematical methods to solve rotor dynamics problems. Flap-lag-torsion dynamics and identify structural and inertial coupling terms. Overview on rotary wing unsteady aerodynamics. Basic theory of blade aeroelastic stability and ground and air resonance stability, vibration analyses and suppression. ENAE634 Helicopter Design; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: ENAE 631 or permission of both department and instructor. Principles and practice of the preliminary design of helicopters and similar rotary wing aircrafts. Design trend studies, configuration selection and sizing methods, performance and handling qualities analyses, structural concepts, vibration reduction and noise. Required independent design project conforming to a standard helicopter request for proposal (RFP). ENAE642 Atmospheric Flight Control; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisites: ENAE 432 and ENAE 403, or equivalents. Exposure to flight guidance and control. Draws heavily from vehicle dynamics as well as feedback theory, and careful treatment of the non-linear aspects of the problem is critical. Conventional sythesis techniques are stressed, although modern methods are not ignored. Multivariable system analysis is included, along with flight-control design objectives and hardware limitations. Emphasis on aircraft and missiles. ENAE652 (PermReq) Computational Structural Mechanics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: permission of both department and instructor. Fundamentals of structural mechanics and computational modeling. Finite element modeling of two- and three-dimensional solids, plates and shells. Geometrically nonlinear behavior. Structural stability such as buckling and postbuckling. Also offered as ENAE488C. ENAE654 Mechanics of Composite Structures; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: ENAE 452 or permission of both department and instructor.. Corequisite: ENAE 423 or equivalent. An introduction to structures composed of composite materials and their applications in aerospace. In particular, filamentary composite materials are studied. Material types and fabrication techniques, material properties, micromechanics, anisotropic elasticity, introduction to failure concepts. ENAE670 Fundamentals of Aerodynamics; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: permission of department. Introduction to aerodynamics for aerospace engineering students specializing in fields other than aerodynamics. Broad coverage of flight regimes, inviscid theory, incompressible theory, subsonic compressible flow, linearized supersonic flow, hypersonic flow, viscous flows, Navier-Stokes equations, boundary layer theories. ENAE741 Interplanetary Navigation and Guidance; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisites: ENAE 432 and ENAE 601. Interplanetary trajectory construction; patched and multiconic techniques. Methods of orbit and attitude determination; applied Kalman filtering. Guidance algorithms and B-plane targeting. Interplanetary navigation utilizing in situ and radio techniques. ENAE742 Robust Multivariable Control; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisites: ENAE 432 or equivalent, plus graduate-level exposure to linear systems and linear algebra. Limitations on achievable performance in multivariable feedback systems due to uncertainty. Singular values, matrix norms, multivariable Nyquist stability theory, uncertainty modeling in aerospace systems. Loop-shaping, generalization of Bode design principles. Characterizing the uncertainty, robustness and performance analysis, and synthesis, primarily in the frequency domain. Current research directions. Aerospace examples are used to complement the theory. ENAE743 Applied Nonlinear Control of Aerospace Vehicles; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: ENAE 641. Modern methods of analysis and synthesis of multivariable nonlinear control techniques for aircraft, spacecraft, and space manipulator systems. Topics include passivity and Lyapunov theory, feedback linearization, nonlinear observers, Hamiltonian methods, robust controller design, and an introduction to adaptive nonlinear control methods. ENAE791 Launch and Entry Vehicle Design; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Prerequisite: ENAE 601. Design of aerospace vehicles for atmospheric transit to and from space. Generic formulation of atmospheric flight dynamics. Ballistic and lifting entry trajectories. Estimation of vehicle aerodynamic properties and aerothermodynamic heating. Entry thermal protection design. Trajectory analysis of sounding rockets and orbital launch vehicles. Serial, parallel, and hybrid multistaging schemes, optimal multistaging. Constrained trajectory optimization. Launch vehicle economic and reliability analysis, flight termination systems, sensors and actuators. 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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