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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-3054 and AOE-3134 and AOE-3124 and AOE-3164 and AOE-3114

Required By: AOE-4066

Corequisites: AOE-4105

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 6

Average GPA: 3.28 (rounds to B+)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 27.20%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

Pradeep Raj202340.1%47.2%12.7%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.284
Robert A Canfield202446.1%39.8%14.1%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.282

Grade Distribution Over Time

1234GPA
Fall 2019Fall 2020Fall 2021Fall 2022Fall 2023Fall 2024Term050% W