AE441 Aerospace Systems Design

This is the capstone design course in the undergraduate Aerospace Engineering curriculum. The following information is for the Spring 1997 course offering. Information from previous course offerings is available by "clicking" on the following.

Spring 1996 - Design for Assembly : A Low-Cost, Unmanned Airborne Observation Vehicle

Additional details on this course, design proposals and video records of the flight tests are available by contacting Stephen M. Batill. This page was last updated April 24, 1997.

Project Description and Major Milestones:

• Request for Proposals
• Critical Design Review, April 3, 1997
• The flight demonstration for this year's designs will be conducted at the Loftus Center on Friday, April 25th from 5:00 until 6:30 p.m.. The public is invited.

Design Teams:

• The Gold Team (a.k.a. C-Wolf)
  and "Piglet".

  

• The Blue Team
  and the "Hermit Crab".

  

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  The groundtest systems integration vehicle developed by the Blue Team.

  The Blue Team main wing under construction.

  The Blue Team fuselage nears completion.

  The Blue Team avionics installation.

  The Gold Team wing main wing under construction.

  

  The Gold Team fuselage under construction.

  

  The Gold Team's Piglet undergoing preliminary taxi tests.

  Do you mean all of this actually fits inside the airplane and then has to work?????

  Blue team and Team Leader, Nestor Ojeda, and the new class "pilot" Mr. PC provide instructions to the Hermit Crab?????

  

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  Course Personnel:

  • Instructor:

    Stephen M. Batill, Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Rm. 101 Hessert Center, 631-5591, batill.1@nd.edu

  • Graduate Teaching Assistants:
    • Mr. Marc Stelmack, 631-4329, Marc.A.Stelmack.1@nd.edu
    • Mr. Eric Falk, 631-4338, Eric.A.Falk.2@nd.edu