Courses
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Undergraduate Courses
1000 Level Courses
AEM 1301 - Ballooning: Design, Build, and Fly (offered every Fall)
AEM 1303 - Aircraft: Design, Build, and Fly (offered every Spring)
2000 Level Courses
AEM 2011 - Statics (required for entrance into BAEM Major, offered every Fall, Spring & Summer)
AEM 2012 - Dynamics (offered every Fall, Spring & Summer)
AEM 2021 - Statics and Dynamics (offered every Fall & Spring)
AEM 2301 - Mechanics of Flight (offered every Spring)
3000 Level Courses
Required for BAEM Major
AEM 3031 - Deformable Body Mechanics (offered every Fall, Spring & Summer)
AEM 3100 - Software Applications in AEM (offered periodic Fall & Spring)
AEM 3101 - Mathematical Modeling and Simulation in Aerospace Engineering* (offered every Fall)
AEM 3103 – Computer Methods in Aerospace Engineering.
AEM 3391 - Independent Design Project (offered every Spring)
*This course is no longer offered. To satisfy this requirement, take AEM 3103 Computer Methods in Aerospace Engineering instead.
4000 Level Courses
Required for BAEM Major
AEM 4201 - Fluid Mechanics (offered every Fall)
AEM 4202 - Aerodynamics (offered every Spring)
AEM 4203 - Aerospace Propulsion (offered every Spring)
AEM 4301 - Orbital Mechanics(offered every Spring)
AEM 4303W - Flight Dynamics and Control (offered every Spring)
AEM 4321 – Automatic Control Systems
AEM 4331 - Aerospace Vehicle Design (offered every Fall)
AEM 4501 - Aerospace Structures (offered every Spring)
AEM 4601 - Instrumentation Laboratory (offered every Spring)
AEM 4602W - Aeromechanics Laboratory (offered every Fall)
Technical Electives - Fluids
AEM 4293 - Directed Studies in Fluid Mechanics (offered every Fall & Spring)
AEM 4290 - Special Topics in Fluid Mechanics (offered periodic Fall & Spring)
AEM 4247 - Hypersonic Aerodynamics (Honors students may take AEM 5247) (offered Spring semester of odd years)
AEM 4253 - Computational Fluid Mechanics (Honors students may take AEM 5253) (offered every Fall)
Technical Electives - Aerospace Systems
AEM 4305 - Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics and Control (offered every Spring)
AEM 4333 - Aerospace Design: Special Projects (offered every Spring)
AEM 4391 - Independent Design Project (offered when 4333 is not offered)
AEM 4490 - Special Topics in Aerospace Systems (offered periodic Fall & Spring)
AEM 4493 - Directed Studies in Aerospace Systems (offered every Fall & Spring)
AEM 5401 - Intermediate Dynamics (offered every Fall)
AEM 5431 - Trajectory Optimization (offered periodic Fall & Spring)
AEM 5441 - Structural Dynamics (offered periodic Fall)
AEM 5451 - Optimal Estimation (offered Fall semester of even years)
AEM 5651 - Aeroelasticity (offered every Fall)
Technical Electives - Structures and Solids
AEM 4502 - Computational Structural Analysis (offered Fall semester of odd years)
AEM 4511 - Mechanics of Composite Materials (offered every Spring)
AEM 4581 - Mechanics of Solids (Honors students may take AEM 5581) (offered Fall semester of even years)
AEM 4590 - Special Topics in Solid Mechanics and Materials (offered periodic Fall & Spring)
AEM 4593 - Directed Studies: Solid Mechanics (offered every Fall & Spring)
AEM 5501 - Continuum Mechanics (offered every Fall)
AEM 5503 - Theory of Elasticity (offered every Spring)
Internship and Honors Thesis Courses
AEM 4796 - Professional Experience (offered every Fall, Spring, & Summer)
AEM 4894H - Senior Honors Thesis (offered every Spring)
AEM 4896 - International Professional Experience (offered every Fall, Spring, & Summer)
**The most current course schedules and information can be found on One Stop.**
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Graduate Courses
5000 Level Courses
AEM 5247 - Hypersonic Aerodynamics (offered Spring semester of odd years)
AEM 5253 - Computational Fluid Mechanics (offered every Fall)
AEM 5321 - Modern Feedback Control (offered every Fall)
AEM 5333 - Design-to-Flight: Small Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (offered Periodic Spring)
AEM 5401 - Intermediate Dynamics (offered every Fall)
AEM 5451 - Optimal Estimation (offered Fall semester of even years)
AEM 5501 - Continuum Mechanics (offered every Fall)
AEM 5503 - Theory of Elasticity (offered every Spring)
AEM 5581 - Mechanics of Solids (offered Fall semester of even years)
AEM 5651 - Aeroelasticity (offered every Fall)
The most current course schedules and information can be found on One Stop.
8000 Level Courses
AEM 8000 - Seminar: Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics (offered every Fall & Spring)
AEM 8201 - Fluid Mechanics I (offered every Fall)
AEM 8202 - Fluid Mechanics II (offered every Spring)
AEM 8203 - Fluid Mechanics III (offered every Fall)
AEM 8207 - Hydrodynamic Stability (offered periodic Fall)
AEM 8211 - Theory of Turbulence I (offered periodic Fall)
AEM 8212 - Theory of Turbulence II (offered periodic Fall)
AEM 8213 - Turbulent Shear Flows (offered periodic Fall)
AEM 8221 - Rheological Fluid Mechanics (offered periodic Fall)
AEM 8231 - Molecular Gas Dynamics (offered periodic Fall)
AEM 8232 - Physical Gas Dynamics and Molecular Simulation (offered periodic Spring)
AEM 8233 - Multi-phase Flows: Fundamentals, Measurement, and Modeling (offered Spring semester of even years)
AEM 8241 - Perturbation Methods in Fluid Mechanics (offered periodic Fall)
AEM 8251 - Finite-Volume Methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics (offered periodic Spring)
AEM 8253 - Computational Methods in Fluid Mechanics (offered periodic Fall)
AEM 8261 - Nonlinear Waves in Mechanics (offered periodic Fall)
AEM 8271 - Experimental Methods in Fluid Mechanics (offered periodic Fall)
AEM 8333 - FTE: Master's (offered every Fall, Spring & Summer)
AEM 8400 - Seminar: Aerospace Systems (offered every Fall & Spring)
AEM 8411 - Advanced Dynamics (offered periodic Spring)
AEM 8421 - Robust Multivariable Control Design (offered periodic Spring)
AEM 8423 - Convex Optimization Methods in Control (offered periodic Fall)
AEM 8426 - Optimization and System Sciences (offered periodic Fall)
AEM 8442 - Navigation and Guidance Systems (offered periodic Fall)
AEM 8444 - FTE: Doctoral (offered every Fall, Spring & Summer)
AEM 8451 - System Identification: Theory and Applications (offered periodic Spring)
AEM 8511 - Advanced Topics in Continuum Mechanics (offered perioidic Fall)
AEM 8521 - Advanced Topics in Elasticity (offered perioidic Fall)
AEM 8523 - Elastodynamics (offered periodic Fall)
AEM 8525 - Elastic Stability of Materials (offered Fall semester of even years)
AEM 8531 - Fracture Mechanics (offered periodic Fall & Spring)
AEM 8533 - Theory of Plasticity (offered periodic Fall)
AEM 8541 - Mechanics of Crystalline Solids (offered periodic Fall)
AEM 8551 - Multiscale Methods for Bridging Length and Time Scales (offered periodic Spring)
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