KU Aerospace Engineering Program Overview

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KU Aerospace EngineeringProgram Overview

• Vision
• People
• Facilities
• Curriculum
• Student Extracurricular Activities
• Current Faculty Research
• The Future

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Past, Present Future

• Up to now
• Curriculum aircraft system design focus
• Students design, build, fly teams
• Faculty research individual effort
• Now
• Curriculum design, build, test/fly threads
• Students increased undergrad research
• Faculty research significant cooperation

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Vision

• Curriculum
• Fully integrated design, build, test/fly
• Students
• Design, build, fly teams fully enabled
• Indispensable to research effort
• Faculty Research
• Substantial cooperation
• New faculty supported by external funding

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People

• Faculty 8
• Staff 4
• Electronics technician
• AP mechanic
• Students
• Undergrads 120
• Graduate students 25

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Facilities

• Learned Hall
• Wind tunnels
• Design Lab
• Composites labs
• Machine shop
• Airport
• Flight test center
• Machine shop
• Vehicle Manufacturing Facility
• Propulsion test stands
• Nichols Hall
• Structural Acoustic Lab
• Fort Riley
• UAV flight operations area

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Wind Tunnels

• Subsonic
• 4 by 3 foot test section
• Reynolds Number lt 105
• ?Laser Doppler Velocimeter

• Supersonic
• 8 by 3 inch test section
• 10 seconds operation

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Composites Facilities

• Layup area
• Robotic fiber placement system
• Fiber winding machine
• Textile loom
• 1 x 1 x 3 foot 600o, 300 psi autoclave
• Heated press
• Walk-in ambient pressure furnace
• Immersion ultrasonic test system

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Design Laboratory/ Operations Center

• 24 workstations
• Tiered seating
• Industry-standard codes
• PATRAN/NASTRAN
• Catia
• Unigraphics
• Satellite Toolkit (STK)
• ?Ideal for UAV operations training center

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Machine Shop

• Full service machine shop
• 3-D printer
• 5-axis CNC mill

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Airport Facilities

• Walter Garrison Flight Test Center
• ? 2,000,000 grant for capital improvements
• 2000 ft2 hangar bay 2000 ft2 office space
• Avionics instrumentation shop
• Aircraft
• Machine shop
• Vehicle Manufacturing Center
• Sheet metal fabrication center
• Home to RSDO SAE
• ?Clean Room, Environmental Testing go here
• Mal Harned Propulsion Test Lab

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Aircraft

• Cessna 182 RG
• Experimental certificate
• Flys multispectral camera missions
• Equipped with air data system
• Cessna 172
• 1/3 scale model J-3 Cub
• New air vehicle
• to be named later

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Curriculum

• Traditional core Aerospace curriculum
• Overall focus on vehicle system design
• Recent focus on Design, Build, Fly
• Capstone system design courses
• AE 521, Individual Aircraft Design
• Second system design course
• AE 522 Team Aircraft Design
• AE 523 Team Spacecraft Design
• AE 524 Team Engine Design

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Creating a Design, Build, Fly Infrastructure
Design, Build, Test at the component level
Preliminary design, AE 507
Detail design, AE 421 508
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Creating a Design, Build, Fly Infrastructure(cont
inued)
Manufacture, AE 510
Limit load test, AE 430
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Student Extracurricular Activity

• AIAA Student Design Contest Winners
• Numerous Awards in Aircraft, Spacecraft Engines
  
• ?Best record in the country in Aircraft Design
• A rich history of Design, Build, Fly activity
• Get-Away Special on Space Shuttle (90?)
• SAE Heavy Lift Contest
• Won AeroDesign East, Summer 2003
• Rocket Systems Development Organization
• Builds liquid-fueled rocket motors for fun
• Conducted 3 static tests in the last 4 years
• Flew a 17-foot rocket in 1998

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RSDO Mojave Desert Launch
rocket on the way to the pad
dusk launch
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Current Research

• David Downing
• Navigation, Guidance Control
• Small Aircraft Transportation System (SATS)
• NASA
• Mark Ewing
• Design Optimization
• Structural Dynamics
• Boeing, Raytheon Cessna
• Saeed Farokhi
• Propulsion Integration
• Vortex flow control

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Current Research(Continued)

• Rick Hale
• Composite Manufacturing
• Steered-Fiber Composites
• DoD, NSF, NASA
• Eddie Lan
• AIAA Fellow
• AIAA Aerodynamics Award winner
• Dynamic Aerodynamics
• NASA

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Current Research(Continued)

• Jan Roskam
• Aircraft Design
• Trevor Sorensen
• Spacecraft mission design
• Ray Taghavi
• Propulsion Integration
• Jet acoustics
• NASA

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The Future

• Our mission
• The KUAE mission is to educate aerospace
  engineering students with balanced knowledge and
  skills in advanced design, design integration and
  manufacturing of aerospace vehicles, and to serve
  the needs of Kansas as well as United States
  industries and government.
• Our Design, Build, Fly focus is expected to
• Better prepare students to be
• Engineers
• Productive members of our research enterprise
• Enable growth of our research enterprise in
• UAVs
• Satellites