Provided below are descriptions of other AE and COE courses that I have regularly taught but am not teaching this term. Several of the AE courses have recently been replaced by new revised versions with slightly different numbers.
- AE3140 Aerospace Structural Analysis
- This is the last course in the structures sequence, and it covers basic theory of elasticity, work and energy methods, thin-walled structures, and introductory computational structural analysis. For many years, this course was taught using online notes developed by Prof. Olivier Bauchau and me. We expanded these into a textbook, textbook, Structural Analysis, published, published by Springer in 2008 that is now used for this course.
- COE2001 Statics
- This is the introductory statics course for engineers, and it covers advanced statics (beyond intro physics) for engineering applications. This course is required for all AE, CE and ME students, and it is a technical elective for other engineering majors.
- COE3001 Mechanics of Deformable Bodies
- This is the introductory course in deformable mechanics, and it follows COE2001. It introduces basic concepts of deformable mechanics and applications to beams (bending stresses, lateral deflections, column buckling). This course is required for all AE, CE and ME students, and it is a technical elective for other engineering majors.
- AE3125 Aerospace Structural Analysis (now AE3140)
- This is the last course in the structures sequence, and it covers basic theory of elasticity, work and energy methods, thin-walled structures, and introductory computational structural analysis.
- AE3145 Structures Laboratory (now AE2610, AE3610)
- This is the laboratory course that accompanies the other structures courses.
- AE4131-Introduction to Finite Element Analysis (now AE4132)
- This is an AE technical elective that introduce you to the powerful and versatile finite element method which is widely employed for most structural analysis today. The course begins with the basic concepts and will illustrate these with simple Matlab examples. We will also spend time learning how to use a commercial finite element software package called ABAQUS which is available in the AE Computing Lab in Knight 318 as well as in the Engineering Computing Services VirtualLab terminal server for remote access.
- AE4375-AE6380 Fundamentals of Computer Aided Engineering and Design
- CAD is an important tool in engineering, and this course examine how these tools are designed and built. Matlab assignments are used to illustrate fundamental concepts and CATIA is used in applications.
- AE6382 Computing Systems for Design Engineering Research
- This is a special course developed to supplement the graduate courses in aerospace systems design. It covers some of the basic software tools and commonly used programming languages and environments.