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AOE-4066: 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-4065

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: AOE-4106

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 38

Average GPA: 3.46 (A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 52.23%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.04%

James F Marchman200895.0%2.5%2.5%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.904
Alan J Brown201165.4%27.5%6.2%1.0%0.0%0.0%3.527
Kevin A Shinpaugh201151.4%40.9%7.8%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.435
Christopher D Hall200659.2%19.9%13.3%7.7%0.0%0.0%3.292
Pradeep Raj202449.6%38.6%11.0%0.8%0.0%0.1%3.3811
William H Mason201053.1%37.8%8.3%0.8%0.0%0.0%3.425
Yan Yee A Ko200834.0%55.3%10.6%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.231
Rajkumar S Pant201138.9%53.7%7.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.421
Robert A Canfield202345.8%39.0%15.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.271
Rakesh K Kapania201255.0%38.4%5.0%1.7%0.0%0.0%3.471

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