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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: 6

Average GPA: 3.40 (rounds to B+)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 40.36%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.25%

Pradeep Raj202451.6%37.5%10.6%0.0%0.0%0.3%3.425
Robert A Canfield202345.8%39.0%15.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.271

Grade Distribution Over Time

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Spring 2019Spring 2020Spring 2021Spring 2022Spring 2023Spring 2024Term050% W