Orlando Aerospace Short Course
KU Aerospace Short Courses in Orlando
Orlando, Florida
October 14-18, 2024
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Course Schedule & Registration
Learn the latest industry knowledge from expert instructors
Early registration deadline: August 30, 2024
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Courses
Instructors: Case van Dam
October 14-18, 2024
8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday - Friday
This course covers recent advances in high-lift systems and aerodynamics as well as cruise drag prediction and reduction. It includes discussion of numerical methods and experimental techniques for performance analysis of wings and bodies and boundary-layer transition prediction/detection.
Earn 35 classroom hours and 3.5 CEUs.
Who should attend?
Designed for engineers and managers involved in the aerodynamic design and analysis of airplanes, rotorcraft and other vehicles.
$2,595 (early registration)
$2,795 (regular registration)
Register for Aerodynamic Design Improvements: High-Lift and Cruise
Instructor: Mark Ewing
October 14-18, 2024
8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday - Friday
This course provides an introduction to the analysis and design of aircraft structures. Course content includes design criteria, structural design concepts, loads and load paths, metallic and composite materials, static strength, buckling and crippling, durability and damage tolerance, practical design considerations, certification and repair. Analysis exercises and a design project are included to better involve students in the learning process.
$2,595 (early registration)
$2,795 (regular registration)
Instructor: Thomas Taylor
October 14-18, 2024
8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday - Thursday and 8 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Friday
This course discusses the FAA Code of Federal Regulations (CFRs) and design concepts required to ensure all aspects of aircraft electrical wiring and installation are safe. It examines aircraft wiring as a system and reviews all Part 25 CFRs related to EWIS FAA certification. Student teams will review FAA Advisory Circulars and present practical applications of the information in a simulation of the EWIS certification process. EWIS requirements for aircraft maintenance and inspection will also be discussed.
Earn 31.5 classroom hours and 3.15 CEUs.
Who should attend?
The course is designed for all aircraft design areas including electrical, avionics, and HIRF/lightning engineers and aircraft technicians. Aircraft managers and project engineers working in electrical/avionics related areas should also attend.
$2,595 (early registration)
$2,795 (regular registration)
Register for Electrical Wiring Interconnection System (EWIS) and FAA Requirements
Instructors: C. Bruce Stephens
October 14-18, 2024
8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday - Thursday and 8 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Friday
This course discusses the concepts of aircraft ground and flight testing that may be required to ensure aircraft level systems are safe for operation when exposed to the effects of electromagnetic effects (EME), high intensity radiated fields (HIRF), lightning, precipitation static (P-static), and transmitting personal electronic devices (TPEDs). This course presents the fundamentals of coordinating and performing aircraft testing from a very practical, step-by-step perspective, and examines the process used by aircraft OEMs to show compliance to regulations relating to EME, HIRF, lightning, p-static, and TPEDs. The course will also include a high-level overview for electromagnetic effects areas including electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), high intensity radiated fields (HIRF), lightning transit analysis, precipitation static (P-static) and transmitting personal electronic devices (TPEDs) requirements.
Earn 31.5 classroom hours and 3.15 CEUs.
Who should attend?
The course is designed for engineers and technicians working in all aircraft design and testing areas, including electrical, avionics and communications. Aircraft managers and project engineers who coordinate airplane testing and/or certification-related areas are also recommended to attend. It is recommended you have taken the following course prior to taking this course: Introduction to Electromagnetic Effects (EME) and Aircraft Engineering Requirements.
$2,595 (early registration)
$2,795 (regular registration)
Register for Electromagnetic Effects Aircraft Level Testing and FAA Requirements
Instructor: Michael H. Jenkins
October 14-18, 2024
8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 8 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. on Friday
This course covers fundamental design issues, along with analysis and design methodologies for aerospace hydraulic and flight control systems. Topics include design requirements, component description and operation, component and system math modeling, component sizing, system layout rationale, system sizing and airframe integration. The course emphasizes the fundamentals and necessary engineering tools (both analytical and otherwise) needed to understand and design aerospace hydraulic and flight control systems. Practical examples and actual systems are presented and discussed throughout the class.
Earn 31.5 classroom hours and 3.15 CEUs.
Who should attend?
This course is designed for system- and component-level engineers and managers, including airframe, vendor, industry and government. It is also designed for educators involved with aerospace mechanical systems.
$2,595 (early registration)
$2,795 (regular registration)
Register for Flight Control and Hydraulic Systems
Instructor: George Cusimano and Greg Lewis
October 14-18, 2024
8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday - Friday
This course provides an introduction to and definition of the basic flight test process, application of engineering principles to flight test and description of common flight test practices, along with an introduction to the flight test discipline. The course is embellished with a variety of examples from completed flight test programs.
Earn 35 classroom hours and 3.5 CEUs.
Who should attend?
The course is designed for all levels of engineers and managers in industry working on flight test projects, military and civil project engineers, test pilots and flight test engineers, government research laboratory personnel and FAA and other regulatory agency engineers. It is ideally suited for engineers and managers from other disciplines who are moving into the flight test discipline for the first time or who must interact with flight test engineers regularly on a given project.
$2,595 (early registration)
$2,795 (regular registration)
Instructor: Albert Helfrick
October 14-18, 2024
8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday - Friday
This course provides a very broad overview of avionics. It covers the historical evolution of the avionics industry and usage of avionics to the present day. You will learn why avionics is what it is today, in addition to understanding how it works. The course covers legacy systems still in use and the latest state-of-the-art systems currently being installed. The avionics environment is an important part of this course. In the context of this course, "environment" refers not only to the physical environment of pressure, temperature, vibration, etc. but the regulatory environment. Systems are an important part of this course, and system communications and assessment are covered. This course introduces you to the unique language of avionics (abbreviations, terms and acronyms) and connects these terms to the systems they represent.
Earn 35 classroom hours and 3.5 CEUs.
Who should attend?
This course is for engineers and technicians involved with avionics but may not have attended formal courses in avionics. It would also suit those who work in a specific area of avionics and who would benefit from learning the latest developments in areas outside of their discipline or a brush-up on basics.
$2,595 (early registration)
$2,795 (regular registration)
Instructor: Travis Dahna
October 14-17, 2024
8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday - Thursday
This course will provide an overall understanding of the 14 CFR Part 21 requirements necessary to obtain design, production and airworthiness approvals for civil aviation products and articles. Title 14, CFR Part 21 regulations are the backbone of the regulatory framework that enables Aircraft Certification Service (AIR) to conduct its certification responsibilities on products and articles. Under 14 CFR Part 21, ยง21.1, the FAA defines a product as an aircraft, engine or propeller, while an article means a material, part, component, process or appliance. In addition to 14 CFR Part 21, this course will delve into certain aspects of 14 CFR Part 43, outlining the requirements to receive approval for alterations/repairs for civil aviation products and articles. An overview is provided on FAA organizational structure, additional 14 CFR Parts, regulatory/guidance material, and rulemaking procedures.
Earn 28 classroom hours and 2.8 CEUs.
Who should attend?
Certification Engineers, Design Engineers, Engineering Management, Program Managers, Business Development Personnel, and Designated Engineering Representatives (DER)/Organization Designation Authorization Unit Members (ODA UM).
$2,295 (early registration)
$2,495 (regular registration)
Register for Introduction to FAA Airworthiness Approval Requirements
Instructor: Mario Asselin
October 14-18, 2024
8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday - Friday
This course provides an overview of airplane performance theory and prediction, certification standards and basic flight test practices. The course will focus on turbojet/turbofan powered aircraft certified under JAR/CAR/14 CFR Part 25. This standard will briefly be compared to military and Part 23 standards to show different approaches to safety, certification, operational and design differences.
Earn 35 classroom hours and 3.5 CEUs.
Who should attend?
This course is designed for aeronautical engineers in the design or flight test departments, educators, aircrews with engineering background, and military personnel involved in managing fleets of 14 CFR Part 25 (FAR 25) certified aircraft.
$2,595 (early registration)
$2,795 (regular registration)
Register for Operational Aircraft Performance and Flight Test Practices
Instructor: Thomas Hermann
October 14-18, 2024
8 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday - Thursday, and 8 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. on Friday
This course is designed to provide a qualitative understanding of aeroelastic behavior for aerospace vehicles. The class will explore different forms of aeroelastic phenomena and associated issues in structural dynamics and aerodynamic-structure interaction. Topics include solution methodologies, computational methods for aeroelastic analysis, development of the operational flight boundary, aeroservoelasticity, and contemporary topics such as limit cycle oscillations and related nonlinear pathologies in aeroelastic systems. The class addresses practical issues such as ground and flight tests. The course material will require selected study of the essential equations.
Earn 31.5 classroom hours and 3.15 CEUs.
Who should attend?
This course is designed for engineers and technical managers involved in aerospace vehicle design, analysis and testing related to aeroelastic response and stability issues. The level of class instruction is appropriate for engineers and managers with an undergraduate degree in engineering.
$2,595 (early registration)
$2,795 (regular registration)