500 Thesis (1-15)
Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
Repeatability: May be repeated.
502 Registration for Use of Facilities (1-15) Required for the student not otherwise registered during any semester when student uses university facilities and/or faculty time before degree is completed.
Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
Repeatability: May be repeated.
Credit Restriction: May not be used toward degree requirements.
503 Air Vehicles (3) Current capabilities and future requirements for civilian and military air vehicles. Parameters significant for air vehicle type selection. Integration of air vehicle into aviation systems.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 518.
506 Aircraft Design (3) Design process, compromise of conflicting requirements, economical, industrial, and legal aspects. Definition of mission requirements, synthesis and optimization techniques, safety and reliability, systems integration, standards and regulations, teamwork, and decision-making process.
507 Introduction to Airborne Radar (3) Theory and application of airborne radar. Radar detection and measurement techniques through aviation systems applications. Ground effects on radar signals of multipath and clutter. Pulsed operation, coding, filters, processing techniques, Doppler effects. Problems of range and range rate and tracking. Methods and techniques for reducing radar cross section.
508 Flight Test Instrumentation (3) Principles of measurement, measuring devices with views toward both ground and flight aerospace testing: measurement fundamentals, sensors for specific parameters (e.g. temperature, heat flux, flow rate, pressure, acceleration, vibration, strain, and humidity), data bus integration, signal condition, telemetry, and fabrication.
509 Introduction to Aircraft Structures (3) Design and analysis of structures: light-weight and modern materials used for aircraft structures. Topics: load determination and aviation regulations, airworthiness, ultimate loads, limit loads, load factors; simplifying assumptions to safe side; basics of stress and strain, elasticity, shear, bending, torsion; statically indeterminate systems, frames; structural instabilities, buckling of columns, thin plates; tension field beams; principles of stressed skin construction; open, closed, thin-walled beams; tapered beams, fuselages and frames, wings and ribs; laminated composite structures; elementary aeroelasticity.
510 Special Topics in Aviation Systems (3) Current problems.
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
Credit Restriction: Maximum of 12 hours may be applied toward degree requirements.
512 Helicopter Performance Flight Test Techniques (3) Experimental test techniques for helicopter performance flight testing. Theoretical derivation of flight test techniques. Participation in series of flight test experiments demonstrating acquisition of flight test data. Instrumentation and data reduction techniques.
513 Helicopter Stability and Control Flight Test Techniques (3) Experimental test techniques for helicopter stability and control flight testing. Theoretical derivation of flight test techniques. Participation in series of flight test experiments demonstrating acquisition of flight test data. Instrumentation and data reduction techniques.
515 Aviation Human Factors (3) Human factors pertinent to aviation: concept of human factors, human error, fatigue, body rhythms, performances, motivation, vision and visual illusions, communication, attitudes, training and devices, displays and controls, space and layout, anthropometry, flight deck design and evaluation, aircraft cabin design and evaluation, flying qualities evaluation, and performance measurement techniques. Applied aviation systems.
516 Aircraft Flight Controls (3) Feedback control concepts, root locus techniques, bode analysis, PID control design, and controller and observer design concepts applied to aircraft. Complex analysis and matrix algebra.
517 Systems Flight Testing (3) Civil airworthiness requirements for development and certification of large fixed wing transport category aircraft. FAA regulatory and advisory information is explained and applications are made to systems flight test planning and execution. Flight test examples are provided for all major aircraft systems to include hydraulic, propulsion, electrical, avionics, autopilot, pneumatic, and ice protection.
518 Aviation systems: an overview (3) Introduction to aviation systems and the discipline of flight test engineering. Topics: aviation fundamentals, basic airmanship, aerospace mathematics and physics, basic aerodynamics, performance, and stability and control, flight test instrumentation and data acquisition, flight test fundamentals, and flight test data analysis and reporting. Course structure will be weekly classroom academics with 3 flight labs during the semester. Course is designed for full time attendance during the semester and will not be offered as a distance learning course.
521 Experimental Flight Mechanics (3) Performance. Experimental techniques for flight mechanics. Specially equipped airborne laboratory: student participation in series of experiments demonstrating acquisition of flight test data. Necessary theory supports class experiments. Tests cover broad range of aircraft performance, stability and control characteristics in addition to instrumentation and data reduction methods.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 422.
522 Experimental Flight Mechanics (3) Stability and control. Experimental techniques for flight mechanics. Specially equipped airborne laboratory: student participation in series of experiments demonstrating acquisition of flight test data. Necessary theory supports class experiments. Tests cover broad range of aircraft performance, stability and control characteristics in addition to instrumentation and data reduction methods.
(DE) Prerequisite(s): 422.
550 Project in Aviation Systems (3)
Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 15 hours.
Credit Restriction: Maximum of 3 hours may be applied toward degree requirements.
Comment(s): Non-thesis aviation systems majors only.