DESCRIPTIONS EAS 4400 Stability and Control of Aircraft. F. Credits: 3; Coreq: EAS 4107. Static stability and control; equations of motion; stabil- ity derivatives; stability of longitudinal and lateral motion of aircraft. EAS 4412 Dynamics and Control of Space Vehicles. S. Credits: 3; Prereq: EGM 4313 or consent of instructor. Review of current guidance and control systems. Synthesis of open and closed loop guidance and con- trol systems using classical and modem control theory. Aerospace applications. EAS 4510 Astrodynamics. S. Credits: 3; Prereq: EGM 3401 & EGM 4313. Introduction to the solar system. Study of 2-body motion, Hohmann transfer, patched conics for inter- planetary & lunar trajectories, the restricted 3-body problem. Introduction to powered flights and artificial satellite orbits. EAS 4700 Aerospace Design 1. F. Credits: 3; Prereq: Senior standing (4EG and above), EAS 4107, EGM 3520. Applications of the principles of analysis and design to aerospace vehicles. EAS 4710 Aerospace Design 2. S. Credits: 3; Prereq: EAS 4700. Second part of EAS 4700-4710. EAS 4803 Instrumentation System Synthesis. S. Credits: 3; Prereq: EEL 3003, or EEL 3111, or consent of instructor. An introduction to the principles of instrumentation and their application to the synthesis and use of mod- em instrumentation systems for testing, research and development. Aerospace applications. EAS 4803L Instrumentation Lab. S. Credits: 1; Coreq: EAS 4803. A practical introduction to the elements used in instruments for analog measurements, telemetry, and data acquisition. Includes laboratory work with sen- sors, signal conditioning, analog/digital conversion devices, and interfacing instruments with computers and control systems. EAS 4805C Experimental Methods 2. S. Credits: 3; Prereq: EAS 3804C. A course on experimental planning and execution. Emphasis is placed on uncertainty analysis and statis- tical considerations in the planning, design, construc- tion, debugging, execution, data analysis, and report- ing of experimental programs in accordance with the ANSI/ASME standards on measurement uncertainty (ANSI/ASME PTC 19.1-1985). Students are required to perform a major experimental project in one of the subject areas: biomechanics, fluid mechanics, solid mechanics or dynamics and controls. Programming is performed in LabView and Matlab. Examples of advanced experimental methods and instrumentation are presented from current departmental research. EAS 4810 Space Systems Design. F. Credits: 3; Prereq: EAS 2001, EGM 3401 or consent of instructor. A discussion of the component systems of a spacecraft and typical missions requirements. The operation and character of different spacecraft hardware will be pre- sented, as well as typical mission time lines from early conception to final operations. Topics include: the space environment, spacecraft sensors and actuators, guidance/control/navigation systems, propulsion systems, thermal systems, power systems, launch sys- tems, communication systems, structural systems, and mission operations. This course will be useful to engi- neers, scientists, computer scientists, and any profes- sion who uses data. EAS 4850 Flight Test Engineering. F, S. Credits: 3; Prereq: EAS 2001 and consent of instruc- tor based on interview. Students work in teams under the supervisor of a group of faculty members to design and implement a flight test program using a Cessna 172 aircraft. Tests are conducted to investigate aerodynamic behavior, airplace performance, static and dynamic stability. Instrumentation includes a flow-visualization system, pressure measurement system, angular position and rate gyroscopes, a global positioning system and asso- ciated hardware and software for data acquisition and analysis. EAS 4905 Individual Study in Aerospace Engineering. F, S, SS. Credits: 1 to 4. May be repeated to a maximum of 8 credits. Prereq: Recommendation of department chairman. Selected problems or projects in the student's major field of engineering study. EAS 4939 Special Topics in Aerospace Engineering. F, S, SS. Credits: 1 to 4; Prereq: Permission of instructor. May be repeated with change in content to a maximum of 12 credits. EAS 4949 Co-op Work Experience. F, S, SS. Credits: 1; Prereq: 4EG classification; One term of industrial employment including extra work according to a pre-approved outline. Practical engineering work under industrial supervi- sion, as set forth in the College Regulations. Engineering Mechanics EGM 2010 Introductory Concepts for Engineering Science. F. Credits: 3; Prereq: PHY 3048. Basic concepts of various Engineering Sciences concen- tration areas are explored through a series of design- oriented projects. Commonly includes Biomedical Engineering, Solids and Structures, Dynamics and Control, Scientific Computing and others. EGM 2500 Elements of Statics. F, S, SS. Credits: 2; Prereq; PHY 3048; Coreq: MAC 2313. The minimum subset of material covered in EGM 3511 essential for further study of EGM 3400 or EGM 3401. This course is not an acceptable prerequisite for EGM 3520. EGM 2511 Engineering Mechanics-Statics. F, S, SS. Credits: 3; Prereq: PHY 3048; coreq MAC 2313. Reduction of force systems. Equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies. Vector methods. Application to structures and mechanisms. EGM 3311 Introduction to Engineering Analysis. F, S, SS. Credits: 3; Prereq: MAC 2313. Solution methods for first and second order ordinary differential equations. Applications to radioactive decay, mass spring systems and electric circuits. Treat- ment of the Bessel and Legendre equations. Laplace transform methods applied to constant coefficient equations. Solution of simultaneous first order equa- tions. (M) EGM 3400 Engineering Mechanics-Dynamics. F, S, SS. Credits: 2; Prereq: EGM 2511 (or EGM 3500), MAC 2313. Dynamics of particles and rigid bodies for rectilinear translation, curvilinear motion, rotation and plane motion. Principles of work and energy, also impulse and momentum. EGM 3401 Engineering Mechanics-Dynamics Alternative. F, S, SS. Credits: 3; Prereq: EGM 2511 (or EGM 3500), MAC 2313. Covers material of EGM 3400 plus extended coverage of Three-Dimensional Rigid-Body Dynamics and of Orbital Motion. EGM 3520 Mechanics of Materials. F, S, SS. Credits: 3; Prereq: EGM 2511 (not EGM 2500), MAC 2313. Stress and strain at a point, stress-strain-temperature relations and mechanical properties of materials. Systems subject to axial load, torsion and bending. Design concepts, indeterminate structures, applica- tions. EGM 3900 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering Design. F. Credits: 2; Prereq: Junior standing, BSC 2010. Introduction to problems which are encountered when dealing with living systems, and their effects on design in such areas. Classic design approaches are reviewed. Specific design projects are worked out on paper. Individuals or groups will work on open ended design projects. EGM 4001 Engineering Design 2. S. Credits: 4; Prereq: EGM 4000. Continuation of EGM 4000. EGM 4005 Experimental Optimum Engineering Design. S. Credits: 3; Prereq: EGM 3311 or MAP 3302. Formulation of design objectives as optimization problems. Application of optimization techniques to design. Response surface techniques for analytical and experimental optimium engineering design. Experi- mental optimization applied to a design project. EGM 4008 Introduction to Engineering Optics. F. Credits: 3; Prereq; PHY 3049. Definition of the optical system. Calculation of radio- metric quantities. Line and gray body sources. Atmospheric transmission. Selected topics in optics. Calculation of radiant flux through an optical system. EGM 4050 Introduction to Computational Mechanics. S. Credits: 3; Prereq: EGM 4344. Discretization and approximation. Boundary-con- forming transformation. Finite-difference and finite- element methods. Methods of weighted residuals. Application of the numerical methods to selected heat conduction, solid mechanics and fluid dynamics prob- lems. EGM 4200 Fundamental Vibration Analysis. F. Credits: 3; Prereq: EGM 3401 (or EGM 3400) and EGM 3520. Undamped free and forced vibrations of systems on one degree of freedom, damped vibrations. Vibrations of systems with more than one degree of freedom. Shock and vibration isolation. Instruments for vibra- tion analysis. EGM 4312 Engineering Analysis-Field Theory. F. Credits: 3; Prereq: EGM 3311 or MAP 2302. Several advanced topics of engineering mathematics are included in this course. Vector differential and integral calculus including integral theorems with applications to astrodynamics, structures and fluid mechanics. Introduction to linear algebra and the solution of linear algebraic systems. Introduction to complex analysis including analytic functions and conformal mapping with application to two-dimen- sional potential flow. tt Grading is on S-U basis only.