MAE 2783 creditsPrereq: MTH 137 or MTH 141 ; PHY 107 or PHY 117 ; ASE or ENS Majors Only
MAE 278: Introduction to Aerospace Engineering Practice
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- An overview of aerospace engineering; introduces aerospace history, airplane and rocket anatomy, flow and fluid properties, earth atmosphere, wind tunnels, aerodynamic drag, aircraft performance, aircraft structures and materials, supersonic and hyper-sonic flight, propulsion, orbital mechanics, and future of air and space transportation. If you have completed 300-level MAE courses, and did not complete MAE 278, you should replace MAE 278 with a 300- or 400-level 3-credit SEAS course.
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- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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- Lieselle Trinidad
- Paul Schifferle
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