AERO4491 Advanced Aircraft Design




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AERO4491 ADVANCED AIRCRAFT DESIGN 6 Credit Points

Classes:
Two 3hr design class per week in Aero Tut Room.  Classes shall be in the form of formal design meetings and work sessions, with occasional lectures and tutorials.

Assessment:
During design meetings and Design Project Reports, with final individual interviews.

Objectives/Outcomes:
To develop an  understanding of the application of design to the modern aerospace industry.  Students will gain an overview of how to manage a project and its associated design team and will also gain skills in setting design specifications and carrying out detailed design analysis.

References:
As per the list given in AERO4460 Aerospace Design 2.

Year 2006 PROJECT:

Project documents will be posted soon.

Students will be required to work in groups but with a predefined area of responsibility (eg. Aerodynamics, structural analysis, performance, stability and control, production, cost and marketing, etc.) to be decided at the first design meeting in Week 2. Design meetings will be held in the Aero Tut Room. Assessment will be based on the final design report for your allocated task, with ongoing assessments during the design meetings.

More details will be available as the project(s) progress(es).

ASSESSMENT As a guide, the course objectives are to: Task Summary must include aspects of the following: Note that cost considerations was not listed above, but please be aware that cost is a key driving factor for this particular project - so it should be reflected in all aspects. Likewise, marketing is not there because there isn't enough time to conduct a market survey etc - we'll leave that to someone else - but obviously the final "product" - system of modules should be versatile enough to be marketable to a broad range of applications. Proposals and reports can seem a waste of time, but it is very important these days to become good at producing such documents - particularly "executive summaries" of these documents.



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Updated: 3 August 2006
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