Jack Welter : Academic

Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, GPA: 3.34/4.0
Minor in Spanish, GPA 4.0/4.0

Current Coursework

Properties of wing and fuselage sections. Buckling of beams and plates. Torsion of thin-walled and skin-stringer multiple-cell sections. Failure mechanisms and predictions. Non-symmetrical bending of skin-stringer sections. Flexural shear in open and closed thin-walled and skin-stringer sections. Deflection by energy method. Introduction to composite structures.

Thin airfoil theory, lifting line theory, compressible flow fundamentals, steady normal shock waves, steady oblique shock waves, Prandtl-Meyer expansion, shock-expansion theory for loads on airfoils, wave drag, compressible nozzle flow, linearized compressible subsonic flow, linearized supersonic flow. Design applications.

Kinematics and kinetics of particles and rigid bodies. Topics include a particle in orbit, systems of particles, vibrations, Euler's equations of motion, Eulerian angles, and aerospace vehicle dynamics.

Signal processing and spectral analysis for aerospace engineering. Fourier and fast Fourier transforms. Estimation of natural frequencies. Review of Laplace transforms. An introduction to state space. Bode plots. An introduction to linear circuits and filtering. Low pass, band pass and high pass filters.

Reinforce concepts in compressible fluid mechanics and wing aerodynamics taught in AAE 33400, laminar airfoils, flaps and slats, pressure on an airfoil, finite wings, wing tip vortices and wing tip devices, supersonic wind tunnel, normal and oblique shock waves, expansion fans, compressible nozzle flow, optical flow visualization, wind tunnel techniques and instrumentation.

The role of design in aerospace engineering. Introduction to aerodynamics, performance, propulsion, structures, stability and control, and weights. Layout and general arrangement of aerospace vehicles. Design concept generation and selection. Computational methods for design. Trade studies and graphical optimization. Conceptual design exercise involving aircraft, spacecraft or both. Technical presentations and communication for aerospace engineering.

Basic Engineering Thermodynamics. Basic energy concepts and definitions. First and second laws of thermodynamics, ideal and real gases, thermodynamic properties, and cycle analysis.

This course is to introduce aerospace engineering students to the mechanics of solids concepts of force/stress/equilibrium, deformation/strain/compatibility, and stress/strain material behaviors. These concepts, through examples, are applied to basic aerospace structural components of rods in tension and compression, shafts in torsion, beams in bending and shear, and thin walled vessels under pressure.

Computer Science (C & MATLAB)
Computer Graphics (CATIAv5)
Physics (mechanics & electromagnetism)
Math (Calculus, linear algebra, and Differential/Partial Differential Equations)