The following courses are offered by the Auburn Department of Aerospace Engineering:

UNDERGRADUATE

 

ENGR 1110 Intro to Engineering .......... (2 Credits)  
DESCRIPTION: Introduction to engineering design, engineering teams, graphical presentation, technical
writing, oral presentation.
     


ENGR 2050 Statics ....................... (3 Credits)
DESCRIPTION: Principles of vectors, forces, moments, free body diagrams, force systems, 2-D and 
3-D equilibrium, friction, geometric properties of plane areas.





AERO 2200 Aero Fundamentals ............. (2 Credits)
DESCRIPTION: Introduction to the fundamental physical concepts required for the successful design of 
aircraft and spacecraft.


AERO 3110 Aerodynamics I ................ (3 Credits)
DESCRIPTION: Properties of fluids, fluid statics, conservation of mass and momentum, atmospheric properties, 
two dimensional airfoils, three dimensional wings, drag, and flight performance.
 


AERO 3610 Aerospace Structures I ........ (2 Credits)
DESCRIPTION: Fundamental concepts employed in the mechanical testing of engineering materials and structures. 
Load, stress and strain measurement techniques are utilized to determine material properties and structural response.


ENGR 
2350 Dynamics ...................... (3 Credits)
DESCRIPTION: Fundamental principles of dynamics including kinematics and kinetics of particles, 
kinematics and kinetics of rigid bodies, mass moments of inertia, three-dimensional dynamics of rigid bodies,
 and simple harmonic motion.

AERO 3120 Aerodynamics II ............... (3 Credits)
DESCRIPTION: Principles of compressible flow including flows with area changes, friction and heat transfer. 
Fundamental analysis of aerodynamics and potential flow theory. Correlation of potential flow theory with
experimental data.


AERO 3130 Aerodynamics Lab .............. (2 Credits) 
DESCRIPTION: Application of fundamental aerodynamic principles to subsonic and supersonic wind
tunnel experiments.


AERO 
3220 Aerospace Systems ............. (3 Credits)
DESCRIPTION: Modeling of system elements, classical feedback control techniques used in the analysis 
of linear systems, analysis of systems undergoing various motions connected with flight.


AERO 2310 Orbital Mechanics ............. (3 Credits)
DESCRIPTION: Geometry of the solar system and orbital motion, mathematical integrals of motion, detailed
analysis of two-body dynamics and introduction to artificial satellite orbits; Hohmann transfer and patched conics
for lunar and interplanetary trajectories.


AERO 
3230 Flight Dynamics ............... (4 Credits)
DESCRIPTION: Airplane performance and stability and control including analytical prediction of performance 
characteristics, experimental determination of static stability parameters, and analytical prediction of dynamic stability
characteristics.


AERO 4620 Aerospace Structures II ....... (3 Credits)
DESCRIPTION: Aircraft and space vehicle structures. An introduction to the finite element method and its
application to structural analysis.


AERO 4510 Aerospace Propulsion .......... (4 Credits)
DESCRIPTION: Fundamental analysis of air breathing jet propulsion. Introduction to chemical rocket propulsion.


AERO 
4140 Aerodynamics III .............. (3 Credits)
DESCRIPTION: Theoretical background essential to a fundamental understanding of laminar and turbulent 
boundary layers and their relations to skin friction and heat transfer.


AERO Design Option I .................... (3 Credits) 
DESCRIPTION: Introduction to the principles of Class I and Class II fixed-wing aircraft design.


AERO 4630 Aero Structural Dynamics ...... (3 Credits)
DESCRIPTION: Free, forced and damped vibration of single and multiple degree-of-freedom systems.
Introduction to flutter theory and aero elasticity.
 


Design 
Option II ........................ (3 Credits)
DESCRIPTION: Application of the principles of Class I and Class II fixed-wing aircraft design through construction 
of an actual small-scale glider.
AERO Curriculum