MAE 278—Introduction to Aerospace Engineering Practice

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.