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AOE-4065: Air Vehicle Design

Description: Fundamental principles of innovative air vehicle design. Qualitative and quantitative decision-making tools. Multidisciplinary design teams with emphasis on ethics and professionalism. Project risks and mitigation plans. Oral presentations for design reviews. Written engineering design report. 4065: Proven conceptual design process. Tradeoff studies. Air vehicle weight estimation. Air vehicle concepts feasibility assessment; 4066: Preliminary design tools and processes. Efficient and light-weight air vehicles. Air vehicle design validation.

Pathways: 1A Discourse Advanced, 10 Ethical Reasoning

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: AOE-2104 and AOE-3124 and AOE-3054 and AOE-3134 and AOE-3114 and AOE-3164

Required By: AOE-4066

Corequisites: AOE-4105

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 38

Average GPA: 3.33 (A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 40.37%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

James F Marchman200780.0%20.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.704
Alan J Brown201057.4%37.1%5.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.437
Kevin A Shinpaugh201036.9%61.7%1.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.375
Christopher D Hall200545.5%52.7%0.0%0.0%1.8%0.0%3.392
William H Mason200940.6%49.8%8.9%0.7%0.0%0.0%3.295
Pradeep Raj202335.9%48.5%14.9%0.7%0.0%0.0%3.1911
Yan Yee A Ko200712.8%87.2%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.101
Rakesh K Kapania201154.1%45.9%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.551
Rajkumar S Pant201022.8%47.3%26.3%0.0%3.5%0.0%2.891
Robert A Canfield202238.7%38.8%22.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.131

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