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AOE-4604: Booster Design, Fabrication, and Operation

Description: Theory, design, operations, and fabrication methodologies employed to manufacture boosters. The rocket equation, solid, liquid, and hybrid propellant systems, combustion chamber design, vehicle structures, telemetry, guidance and navigation, launch operations, and failure modalities.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: AOE-2074 and AOE-3124 and AOE-3154 and AOE-3164

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: N/A

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 3

Average GPA: 3.78 (A)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 61.57%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.74%

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