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Dec 29, 2025
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AAE 33900 - Aerospace Propulsion
Credit Hours: 3.00. Survey of air-breathing and rocket propulsion systems for AAE students not in the propulsion option. Thermodynamic cycles, analysis of air-breathing systems and components. Rocket Equation, rocket cycles, liquid and solid propellants, chemical equilibrium.
Learning Outcomes
1. Knowledge of propulsion applications that use gas turbine engines and rockets.
2. Understanding of the Brayton cycle and ability to calculate enthalpy and work balance.
3. Ability to solve mass, momentum, and energy balances using a control volume approach.
4. Ability to perform top-level performance and sizing calculations of gas turbine engines.
5. Ability to apply Euler’s work equation to compressors and turbines to calculate work.
6. Ability to use the Rocket Equation to calculate impulse requirements and size rocket thrusters.
Credits: 3.00
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