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AOE-3054: Experimental Methods

Description: Fundamental terminology of experimental work and testing in aerospace and ocean engineering. Flow quantities, displacement, and strain measurements of simple structures in both static and dynamic settings. Analog and digital instrumentation. Data acquisition systems and appropriate software. Through teamwork design, prepare, and conduct an experiment, and document its results and findings. Ethics of technical reporting, through proper external source citation and honestly describing procedures and reporting data. Statistical concepts.

Pathways: 1A Discourse Advanced, 10 Ethical Reasoning

Course Hours: 3 credits

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 11

Average GPA: 3.38 (rounds to B+)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 28.47%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.31%

Aurelien Borgoltz202450.7%39.6%7.4%1.6%0.3%0.3%3.3811

Grade Distribution Over Time

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