Course Description

Aerodynamics is a key academic research area for developing, designing, manufacturing, operating and maintaining airplanes, aircraft engines, gas turbines, steam turbines, wind turbines, fans, blowers, compressors, automobiles and trains. Students will study a well-established textbook and be given exercises dealing with practical problems. Through this series of lectures on aerodynamics, students will acquire abilities to find, to analyze and to solve problems and technical communication skills. These technical abilities and skills are essential for students who wish to become expert engineers or researchers in this field. Students will be able to acquire the knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes described in the diploma policy DP1 and DP2. Students will be given exercises and a report using the methodologies for active learning and project based learning.

Course Objectives

The goals of this course are to understand the fundamental ideas and introduction methods of basic equations of aerodynamics and to acquire applied skill for defining problems and introducing equations to bring solutions for actual engineering issues in the related fields.

Grading Policy

The learning results are evaluated according to exercises (50%) during the lectures and reports (50%). All reports are evaluated and returned to the students. The evaluation results are explained by the lecturer. All exercises are explained during lecture time.

Textbook and Reference

Requirements(Assignments)

Students are required to prepare the lectures by reading the textbook and consulting reference literature beforehand. Students are also required to review lectures and exercises. Students will need at least one hour and a half for preparation and one hour and a half for review except lecture time.

Note

Students need to bring their own textbook and calculator for each lecture and exercise.
Students can see the text book and own handwritten note books during each exercise.
Students can use their laptop personal computer for each lecture and exercise.

Schedule