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Sustainability fundamentals and their application in aviation/aerospace. Environmental effects from aviation/aerospace operations. Aviation sustainability schemes and standards (ie ICAO CORSIA CERT tool, ISO 14001). Environmental risk assessment methods in aviation facilities; CSR and social sustainability for aviation. New technologies' impact in aviation sustainability.
Investigate sustainable operations of aviation and aerospace organizations. Analyze how the distinctive operations of aviation and aerospace organizations could move along with sustainability practices. Sustainable strategies must be a core element within aviation and aerospace organizations; the development of a sustainable strategy should consider the distinctive characteristics of the industry and the interactions among its stakeholders.
The role of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) in aviation; SAF's economic, social and environmental benefits to aviation industry and society; environmental assessment of SAF and conventional aviation fuels using life cycle assessment software tools; assess market trends and supply chain challenges; the role of SAF in carbon offsetting emission schemes.
Sustainable processes and operations in Air Traffic Management (ATM) systems. Address existing air traffic management operations, and new technologies, and schemes, SESAR, DREAMS and Performance Based Navigation (PBN), and their role in meeting sustainability principles.
Distinguish the applicable sustainability policies, regulations and initiatives for aviation operations. Assess the National and international agencies and their goals and schemes for emissions, operations, design and fuel use. International treaties, the Paris Agreement, Pathways to Net Zero initiatives, ICAO's sustainability guidance, and national and global sustainability schemes in aviation and aerospace.
Design and development of technologies that form the new, sustainable era of aviation. Electric Vehicles, Hydrogen fuel cells, Drones and Urban Air mobility vehicles, space operations and their role in aviation/aerospace sustainability are assessed, along with aerodynamic designs and structures for fuel-efficient aircraft with reduced noise and emissions generation.
Evaluate necessary components of aviation corporate sustainability management. Create and evaluate indicators measuring aviation and aerospace sustainability activities. Address factors that leadership in aviation organizations must consider in meeting sustainability goals. Creation of corporate sustainability strategies including investment tools for applying sustainability initiatives in the industry.
The use of financial accounting information in business operations. The accounting cycle; adjusting entries; merchandising operations; inventory; depreciation; accounting for assets, liabilities, and stockholder's equity; financial statement analysis.
The use of managerial accounting information in business operations. Job order costing, process costing; cost management systems; cost-volume-profit analysis; costing methods; business decisions; budgets; control activities; performance measurement. Pre-Requisite: if student is in 2021-2022 catalog or newer
Accounting concepts for business managers. Emphasizes ethical decisions to business scenarios and developing communications skills. Accounting cycle, financial statements, and accrual accounting, and understanding accounting information user Define accounting and its role in business.
Analysis of stress and deformation in rods, beams, plates, shells and solids using the elementary theories of elasticity and plasticity. Theories of strength, impact, fatigue and creep. Computer methods and applications.
Vibrations of deformable elastic structures using the assumed modes method. Analysis of a continuous system for specialized cases. Undamped and damped free and forced vibration of single-degree-of-freedom and multiple-degree-of-freedom system. Computer programming skills are necessary.
Introduction to mechanical behavior of common aerospace materials as it relates to structural performance. Methods for strengthening and toughening of metals ceramics and composites. Materials selection basics using functions, constraints, objectives. Ashby materials property charts. Materials selection with multiple constraints and conflicting objectives and shape factors. Designing hybrid materials and composites. Case studies from general and aerospace engineering. Course project
Basic equations of the theory of elasticity. Energy principles. Formulation and assembly of stiffness matrices and load vectors for elastic solids. Modeling considerations. Solution methods Computer implementation of finite element and stress analysis procedures. Interpretation of computer solutions. Design applications.
Fiber materials, tapes cloths, resin systems. Theory of elastic anisotropic materials. Elastic constants for multi-ply composites. Matrix formulation. Computer analysis. Strength and theory of failure. Sources and use of experimental data. Design considerations.
Review of numerical optimization techniques. Structural applications of linear and discrete methods, approximation techniques and sensitivity analysis, shape and topology optimization. Optimality criteria methods. Applications to trusses, frames and composite laminates. Optimization simulations using computer graphics software. Emphasis on modern optimization techniques linked to numerical methods of structural analysis (finite element method) through a structural design course project.