Teaching Aircraft Design: A Description of the Method by which Aircraft Design is Taught in the Postgraduate Course at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield

Abstract

Aircraft Design has been taught at the College of Aeronautics since 1946. The course is at postgraduate level and is of two years' duration. In the first year the students are given three exercises in component design which aim to teach a logical approach and the fundamentals of the subject. During the second year each student works as a member of a team engaged in the design of a complete aircraft, which is chosen to be of a type currently being investigated by industry. The project aircraft invariably incorporates experimental features and the design work is therefore of the nature of research.

Citation

Newell, A.F. and Howe, D. (1964), "Teaching Aircraft Design: A Description of the Method by which Aircraft Design is Taught in the Postgraduate Course at the College of Aeronautics, Cranfield", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 36 No. 10, pp. 330-332. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb033939