Aeroelasticity
Aeroelasticity is the investigation of the interactions between structural dynamics and the unsteady aerodynamic airflow over the structure.
Aerospace System Development and Life Cycle Model
Include stage of concept, stage of development, stage of production, stage of utilization and stage of disposal.
Aircraft Aerodynamics
Aerodynamics is the study of forces and the resulting motion of objects through the air. Weight, lift, thrust, and drag are the four principles of aerodynamics.
Aircraft Performance
The primary factors most affected by performance are the take-off and landing distance, rate of climb, ceiling, payload, range, speed, manoeuvrability, stability, and fuel economy.
Aircraft Power Plant Installation
An aircraft engine, or powerplant, produces thrust to propel an aircraft.
Aircraft Stability and Control
Stability is an aircraft's ability to maintain/return to its original flight path. Allows aircraft to maintain uniform flight conditions, recover from disturbances, and minimize pilot workload.
Computer Aided Design (CAD)
The use of computers (or workstations) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design.
Design and Analysis of Composite Structures
Deliver an in depth understanding of performance properties such as stress, strain, and thermal properties which allows for design optimization to reduce material while delivering adequate performance.
Design for Manufacture and Operation
Focuses on reducing the required number of manufacturing operations while still meeting the product's functional requirements.
Design of Airframe Systems
Focuses on the integration of new technologies and systems with current and advanced configurations.
Detail Stressing
The stresses that imposed upon it by the flight and ground loads without any permanent deformation.
Fatigue, Fracture Mechanics and Damage Tolerance
To determine when these cracks become critical, that is, when they will reach a size at which the crack will grow catastrophically at an operational stress well below the yield strength.
Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
Computer-aided engineering (CAE) tool used to analyse how a design reacts under real-world conditions.
Flight Experience
Each experience is 2 to 3 hours in duration and includes a pre-flight safety briefing outlining the details of the manoeuvres to be flown, a flight of approximately 1 hour, and a post-flight debrief to discuss aspects of the flight with the instructor.
Initial Aircraft Design
Designers seek to achieve a conceptual design that meets all of the aircraft’s requirements, including aerodynamics, propulsion, performance, the shape of the aircraft’s fuselage, wing location, engine size and more.
Integrated Vehicle Health Management
The unified capability of systems to assess the current or future state of the member system health and integrate that picture of system health within a framework of available resources and operational demand.
Landing Gear Design
Various requirements of strength, stability, stiffness, ground clearance, control and damping under all possible ground attitudes of the aircraft.
Loading Actions
Way that ensures maximum allowable weights are not exceeded and the centre of gravity remains within the prescribed limits.
Reliability, Safety Assessment and Certification
The various approaches to assessing the safety of increasingly complex aircraft systems and understanding the issues to be faced for the certification of new systems and aircraft.
Management Principles
The activities that plan, organize, and control the operations of the basic elements of [people], materials, machines, methods, money and markets, providing direction and coordination, and giving leadership to human efforts, so as to achieve the sought objectives of the enterprise.
Engineering Computing
A detailed introduction to the state-of-the-art computational methods and their applications for digital age aerospace engineering applications.
Technological Mathematics
Topics will include measurement, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, graphs, and statistics. These are presented on an introductory level and the emphasis is on applications.
Engineering Science
A broad discipline that encompasses many different scientific principles and associated mathematics that underlie engineering.
Airworthiness
The possession of the necessary requirements for flying in safe conditions, within allowable limits.
Project Planning and Control
The application of processes, methods, skills, knowledge and experience to achieve specific project objectives according to the project acceptance criteria within agreed parameter
Air Transportation
Explains the international regulations in aviation. Under open skies agreements, airlines of both countries can fly any route they wish between the countries and can continue those flights into third countries. Deregulation opened up opportunities for investment in airline business for private players.
Materials
Combines engineering, physics and chemistry principles to solve real-world problems associated with nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, energy, manufacturing and other major engineering disciplines.
Interpersonal Skills
The ability to communicate or interact well with other people.
Solid Mechanics
Studies the behaviour of solid materials, especially their motion and deformation under the action of forces, temperature changes, phase changes, and other external or internal agents.
Foundation of Aircraft Leasing
Contractual arrangement whereby a properly licensed air operator gains commercial control of an entire aircraft without transfer of ownership
Aircraft Structural Analysis
To analyse in detail all structural elements of an airframe, as well as the behaviour of the aircraft structure as a whole. The airframe has to be decomposed in its major components such as fuselage sections, wings and control surfaces to allow the distribution of the analyses among the engineers.
Theory of Flight and Control
Discusses the aircraft fly and the related theoretical background which is the inevitable consequence of flight.
Electrical Fundamental
The collection of phenomena associated with the presence of electrically charged particles.
Material and Hardware
Discusses the various types of threaded fasteners, quick-release fasteners, rivets, electrical hardware, and other miscellaneous hardware.
Maintenance Practices
To understand the health and safety precautions directly associated with aircraft ground handling, weighing and balancing, first line maintenance, stores systems and quality processes associated with aircraft maintenance.
Aircraft Fire Protection and Fuel Systems
Onboard systems designed to extinguish fires which occur either in the air or on the ground and enables fuel to be loaded, stored, managed and delivered to the propulsion system of an aircraft.
Piston Engine
Combustion engine that uses one or more reciprocating pistons to convert pressure into a rotational motion.
Electronics Fundamental
Electronics underpins all avionic systems, and semiconductor devices such as diodes, transistors and integrated circuits are the basic building blocks of.
Aircraft Flight Control System
The respective cockpit controls, connecting linkages, and the necessary operating mechanisms to control an aircraft's direction in flight
Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems
Hydraulic systems in aircraft provide a means for the operation of aircraft components. The operation of landing gear, flaps, flight control surfaces, and brakes.
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Pneumatic systems do not utilize reservoirs, hand pumps, accumulators, regulators, or engine-driven or electrically driven power pumps for building normal pressure.
Aviation Legislation
To understand the legislative and regulatory framework of national and international aviation authorities and the relationship between them; role of Part-66 and Part-145 guidance material and their use in complying with the airworthiness requirements and maintenance regulations of EASA, the applicable National and International requirements and the EASA Part-M regulation for the continued airworthiness and maintenance of aircraft
Human Factors
Concerned with the application of what we know about human beings, their abilities, characteristics, and limitations, to the design of equipment they use, environments in which they function, and jobs they perform.
Introduction to Entrepreneurship
New business in the face of risk and uncertainty for the purpose of achieving profit and growth by identifying significant opportunities and assembling the necessary resources to capitalize on them.
Instruments and Avionics System
The instruments in the cockpit of an aircraft that provide the pilot with data about the flight situation of that aircraft, such as altitude, airspeed, vertical speed, heading and much more other crucial information in flight.
Aircraft Cabin Interior System
Cabin interiors must be aesthetically pleasing and comfortable for passengers yet remain lightweight to reduce fuel consumption.
Aircraft Electrical System (AES)
To generate, regulate, and distribute electrical power throughout the aircraft.
Digital Technique (Mechanical)
Identification of common logic gate symbols, tables and equivalent circuits; Applications used for aircraft systems, schematic diagrams.
Propeller
An aerodynamic device which converts rotational energy into propulsive force creating thrust which is approximately perpendicular to its plane of rotation.
Electronics Instrument System (EIS)
An aircraft instrumentation system that provides flight and systems information to the flight crew on cathode-ray tubes and flat-panel displays.
Aircond and Pressurisation System
A system which ensures the comfort and safety of crew and passengers by controlling the cabin pressure and the exchange of air from the inside of the aircraft to the outside.