Overall schedule

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Overall schedule

• 1/17
• Course introduction
• Introduction to UAVs
• 1/24
• UAV conceptual design issues
• Fundamentals of system design
• 1/31
• Concepts of operation
• UAV operating environments
• 2/7
• Sortie rate estimates
• Requirements analysis
• 2/14
• Communication considerations and sizing
• 2/21
• Control station considerations and sizing
• Payload (EO/IR and radar) considerations and
  sizin
• Invited speaker (Randal R. Craft, BSc, LLD)

1-20
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Overall schedule

• 2/28
• Reliability, maintenance, safety and support
• Life cycle cost
• 3/7
• Mid term presentations
• 3/14
• Spring break
• 3/21
• Air vehicle parametrics
• Conceptual level aerodynamics
• Standard atmosphere models
• 3/28
• Parametric propulsion
• 4/4
• Parametric weights
• Parametric geometry

1-21
3
Schedule contd

• 4/11
• Air vehicle performance
• Integrated performance model
• Methodology and correlation
• 4/18
• Air vehicle design (example)
• 4/25
• System concept design
• 5/2
• Project preparations
• 5/7
• Project presentations

1-22