AER 814 - Aircraft Design
Project
Course Facts Sheet
Course
Instructors: Dr. J. Chung, EPH317, ext. 7213
Dr.
S. Hashemi, S140B, ext. 6421
Synopsis: Profs.
Chung and Hashemi will concurrently teach the course. Dr. Chung will handle
aspects of the course related to aerodynamics, propulsion and flight
performance. Dr. Hashemi will cover
items related to the aircraft structure, systems, and aspects related to
the aircraft structural design.
Office:
Office hours will be announced by each professor during the first meeting with
students.
Lectures:
Throughout the semester, the three faculty advisors will be delivering a number
of refresher lectures on various topics related to the design project.
Furthermore, the students are highly encouraged to go beyond the information
delivered by their advisors by visiting various area libraries, and checking
the Web. Some of the reference textbooks mentioned in the course outline are
placed on reserve in the Ryerson Library. There are many other good texts in
the field, which approach the subject from a variety of perspectives; do not
hesitate to go beyond the suggested list.
Guest
Seminars: On occasion, a guest speaker will be invited from
industry or government to give a seminar on a topic of interest pertinent to
your project, and/or pertinent to aircraft design in general. This is a
valuable component of the design course, in bringing to the students a “real
world” perspective.
Group Visits:
The faculty advisors will be meeting with the various design groups on a weekly
basis, after the lecture/tutorial/seminar hours on Wednesdays (with the
exception that the timing of a seminar might prevent such a meeting). These are
important meetings and should be attended by every member of a given design
group. Careful notes and observations are made by the advisors during these
meetings in an attempt to form an idea of a student’s individual contribution
to his/her group.
Handouts: Some
handouts may be given as the term progresses.
Group
Organization: The students will be asked to organize into
groups of six to ten students in the first week of the term. Once the groups
are formed, the students decide on a group coordinator and divide the various
project tasks amongst themselves. This is a design competition, and as such it
is highly competitive in nature as every group is aspiring to be the winner at
the end of the semester. While student
groups have in the past resorted to industrial espionage on each other, we do
not encourage or condone such behaviour, nor do we necessarily enforce against
it. Therefore, groups should beware of intruders!
Attendance:
Attendance and punctuality are compulsory in this course. Student names will be
read at the beginning of each class and absentees will be noted. Penalties will
be applied against the grades of those students who miss a class or group
meeting without a valid reason. Students who miss more than three classes or
group meetings will be asked to drop the course or assigned an F.
Academic
Honesty: Any materials you can find in libraries, notes from
other classes, previous projects, etc., are OK to use to help you in your
design, but everything must be referenced in your assignment and group reports.
It is expected that the final submission of individual assignments and reports represent
the work of that and only that individual student or group. Academic dishonesty
is a severe breach of the student’s and engineer’s code of conduct, and will be
treated accordingly.
A Note on
Submission of Work: For reports (individual or group),
we expect to see complete, well ordered, and nicely presented technical
dissertations, with tables of contents, abstracts, introductions, references,
summaries, appendices, etc. When
providing solution details or calculations, be sure to delineate each step of
your work along the way. Show a clear and logical approach to your solution. Be
sure a clear, written description of the algorithm used is included when
presenting the results of computer calculations. These steps will make your
assignments and reports a better reference for you, and will make it easier for
us to give you partial credit in cases of numerically incorrect answers.
Computer
Work: This year you are required to provide design details
of your main wing using CATIA, followed by a finite element stress and
deflection analysis using ANSYS. You will have reserved access to the W71B
computers. Here are the weekly
doorcodes for W71B Lab:
>
2004/01/05 02230* > 2004/02/02 76280*
> 2004/03/01 72265*
> 2004/03/29 82743*
> 2004/01/12 25486* > 2004/02/09 40811* > 2004/03/08 46860*
> 2004/04/05 85625*
> 2004/01/19 46741* > 2004/02/16 08120* > 2004/03/15 34650*
> 2004/04/12 43228*
> 2004/01/26 26631* > 2004/02/23 41477* >
2004/03/22 78100*
Please contact the
front desk at QW71 with any questions.