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Aerospace Engineering and Design OpenCourseWare: A Free Bachelor Level Aerospace Engineering Course by MIT

Published Jan 26, 2009

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For engineering students who want their designs to take to the skies, 'Introduction to Aerospace Engineering and Design' provides a background in designing vehicles for air and space flight. This free course from MIT is suitable for students pursuing a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering.

Introduction to Aerospace Engineering and Design: Course Specifics

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Introduction to Aerospace Engineering and Design: Course Description

Students in the original free introductory-level Aerospace Engineering course learned the basics of aeronautic and astronautics engineering. Through class lectures, taught by Professor Dava Newman, students learned about structures and engineering techniques used to build air and space vehicles. Students applied aeronautical engineering principles to rocketry design through a laboratory assignment. Throughout the last half of the class, students in the original course worked in teams on a lighter-than-air vehicle project. Student teams designed balloon-based flying vehicles with an emphasis on stability and then raced them on the last day of class. This introductory-level class is intended for freshmen undergraduates in an Aerospace Engineering degree program. Students need to understand physics, chemistry and mathematics on at least a college freshman level.

This free engineering OpenCourseWare provides guidelines for the lighter-than-air project, instructions for a rocket lab, a reading list, homework assignments and hyperlinks to online resources on aerospace design. To investigate whether or not you would like to build your own air or space vehicle, visit the aeronautics and astronautics course page.

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