This course is about aircraft and rocket design. You will learn some of the basics of aerodynamics, structures, stability, propulsion, and performance as applied to flight vehicle design. In other words, you will be exposed to the fundamentals of aerospace engineering. Rather than a deep dive into any one discipline, our focus is understanding tradeoffs amongst multiple disciplines to allow one to approach vehicle-level design problems. The class involves a combination of theory, analytic methods, computational tools, and a hands-on design project.
