Master of Engineering in Aerospace Engineering
Graduate Certificate in Engineering - Aerospace Engineering
For more information contact:
Dr. William L. Fourney, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
3179F Glenn L. Martin Hall
301-405-1129
email: four@umd.edu
The following are the recommended core courses in the Department of Aerospace Engineering . Some of these courses may be replaced by the technical electives listed and by other approved technical courses that meet the student's professional interests.
Aerospace Engineering Core
ENPM 620 Computer Aided Engineering Analysis (3) Computer assisted approach to the solution of engineering problems. Review and extension of undergraduate material in applied mathematics including vector analysis and vector calculus, analytical and numerical solutions of ordinary differential equations, analytical and numerical solutions of linear, partial differential equations, and probability and statistics.
ENPM 808D Applied Aerodynamics (3) Introduction to aerodynamics for aerospace engineering students specializing in fields other than aerodynamics. Presentation of available applied aerodynamic techniques including theoretical, computational, and experimental methods. 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.
ENAE 640 Atmospheric Flight Mechanics (3) Studies in the dynamics and control of flight vehicles. Fundamentals of the dynamics of rigid and non-rigid bodies and their motion under the influence of aerodynamic and gravitational forces.
ENAE 642 Atmospheric Flight Control (3) A practical fusion of modern linear control techniques with the available instrumentation, actuation, and avionic technologies of modern flight vehicles. Translation of performance and handling quality specifications into controller designs.
ENAE 652 Finite Element Method in Engineering (3) Prerequisite: permission of both department and instructor . Development of finite element representation of continua using Galerkin and variational techniques. Derivation of shell elements and parametric representation of two and three dimensional elements. Application to aerospace structures, fluids and diffusion processes.
ENAE 654 Composite Structures (3) Prerequisite: ENAE 423 or permission of both department and instructor . Stiffness of unidirectional composites, stress and strain transformation, inplane and bending stiffness of symmetric laminates, properties of general laminates, strength of composite structures, environmental effect.
ENAE 670 Fundamentals of Aerodynamics (3) 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.
ENAE 684 Computational Fluid Dynamics I (3) Prerequisite: permission of department . Partial differential equations applied to flow modelling, fundamental numerical techniques for the solution of these equations, elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic equations, elements of finite difference solutions, explicit and implicit techniques. Applications to fundamental flow problems.
Technical Electives
ENPM 808J Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics (3) Development and application of the three major analytical methods to quantify fatigue damage in order to design fatigue resistant structures, i.e. stress-life, strain-life, and damage tolerant analysis and design.
ENPM 808M Advanced Mechanics of Materials (3) To instill understanding of the fundamental mechanical models of behavior for structural components. To enumerate the stress resultant formulations of various shapes subjected to axial, torsional and bending loads. To evaluate and interpret the analyses based on the applied principles and the assumptions made.
ENPM 808O Mechanical Vibrations (3) Analytical techniques are formulated and applied to vibration problems in mechanical systems. Fundamentals of the theory of vibrations are developed and illustrated by examples. Numerical techniques are explained and applied to many practical vibration problems in machines and structures.
ENPM 808Q Probabilistic Methods in Engineering Mechanics (3) The objective is to understand probability concepts as applied to problems in engineering mechanics with particular emphasis on mechanical system reliability. The probability of failure (and its complement, reliability) will be calculated for several failure mechanisms; exceeding ultimate strength, yielding, fatigue, fracture, buckling, etc.
ENPM 808X Engineering Reliability & Risk Assessment (3) With ever-increasing frequency, aerospace professionals are being tasked with quantifying the reliability and the subsequent risk of aerospace systems. This is most evident in the engineering efforts for maintaining aging aircraft systems. Indeed, denumerable reliability and risk are the very core problems of the RCM (reliability centered maintenance) concept. Without objectively calculated reliability and risk assessments, life extension issues become clouded in vaguely expressed uncertainties. The vagueness engenders a lack of confidence in the knowledge base, which in turn engenders substantial conservatism in the decision-making process.
ENAE 601 Astrodynamics (3) Prerequisites: ENAE 404 and ENAE 441 . Mathematics and applications of orbit theory, building upon the foundations developed in ENAE 404 and ENAE 441. Topics include two body orbits, solutions of Kepler's equation, the two-point boundary value problems, rendezvous techniques, and Encke's method.
ENAE 602 Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics and Control (3) Prerequisites: ENAE 404 and ENAE 432 . Rigid body rotational dynamics of spacecraft; forced and unforced motion, torques produced by the orbital environment; orbit/attitude coupling; gas jet, momentum wheel, and magnetic torque actuators. Elementary feedback attitude regulators and algorithms for linear and nonlinear attitude tracking.
ENAE 631 Helicopter Aerodynamics I (3) Introduction to hovering theory, hovering and vertical-flight performance analyses, autorotation and vertical descent. Physical concepts of blade motion and rotor control. Aerodynamics of forward flight and performance calculations. Prediction and effect of rotor blade stall.
ENAE 632 Helicopter Aerodynamics II (3) Basic inviscid incompressible aerodynamic theory with application to the calculation of the flow field and loads for rotary wings.
ENAE 633 Helicopter Dynamics (3) Flap dynamics, mathematical methods to solve rotor dynamics problems. Flap-lag-torsion dynamics and structural and inertial coupling terms. Overview of rotary wing unsteady aerodynamics. Basic theory of blade aeroelasticity stability and ground resonance problems.
ENAE 692 Introduction to Space Robotics (3) Analysis techniques for manipulator kinematics and dynamics. DH parameters, serial and parallel manipulators, approaches to redundancy. Applications of robots to space operations, including manipulators on free-flying bases, satellite servicing, and planetary surface mobility. Sensors, actuators, and mechanism design. Command and control with humans in the loop.
Graduate Certificate in Engineering Courses
General
Four of the following courses and must include at least one course from each of the three subgroups:
- ENAE 670 , ENAE 674 , ENAE 676
- ENAE 640 , ENAE 641 , ENAE 642
- ENAE 654 , ENAE 655 , ENAE 656
Rotocraft
Four of the following courses:
- ENAE 631 , ENAE 632 , ENAE 633 , ENAE 634 , ENAE 635
Space
Four of the following courses:
- ENAE 601 , ENAE 602 , ENAE 691 , ENAE 694 , ENAE 696 ,
ENAE 741 , ENAE 788L , ENAE 791
