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Welcome
Welcome to
Professor Crossley's homepage for the A&AE 451 "Aircraft Design"
course. The purpose of this course is to
offer senior-level undergraduate students the opportunity to participate in a
capstone design experience focusing upon an aircraft system.
Students will work in teams
to develop a conceptual design description for a highly efficient,
environmentally friendly, low boom, commercial aircraft with an Initial
Operational Capability (IOC) of 2020.
This project is based upon the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission
Directorate’s 2008-09 University Competition, so that the student teams will be
well suited to enter this competition, if they choose.
The student teams will
develop a set of design requirements for the aircraft, describe advanced
technologies and concepts utilized in their aircraft design, generate and
select aircraft concepts to meet the requirements, and then size the selected
aircraft concept.
This web site is always being
updated and modified to meet the needs of the class, so some links might not
work exactly as expected. All material
needed for class should be available; if you find this is not the case, please
e-mail the instructor. Information given in class will supersede
information given in these pages.
Meeting Times and Location
Tuesday,
8:30am - 11:20am CIVL 2108 (“lab”) – will eventually move to ARMS 2106-1
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:30pm - 2:20pm ARMS B071 (“lecture”)
This class schedule includes
two "lectures" and one "lab" per week. Typically,
this arrangement will allow enough time for meetings between each design group
and the instructor during the "lab" session on Tuesday mornings; this
also ensures students in the course will have time to meet with their groups
during the "lab" session when their group is not meeting with the
instructor. The instructor will often use the Tuesday "lecture"
period to present information to the entire class. The Thursday
"lecture" period will often consist of short "five-minute"
review presentations that each team will share with the entire class. As
required, this use of scheduled time for the course will change as needed.
Instructor
Professor William A. Crossley
ARMS 3209
phone: (49) 6-2872
e-mail: crossley (at) purdue.edu
Office Hours
Friday 9:30 – 11:20 am, "open door", or by
appointment
Teaching Assistant
Stephan Lehner
ARMS
3174
phone: (49) 4-5156
e-mail: slehner
(at) purdue.edu
Office Hours
held in ARMS 2085
Thursday
3:00 – 5:00pm