AOE 4154 - AEROSPACE ENGINEERING LABORATORY

AOE 4154 - AEROSPACE ENGINEERING LABORATORY - COURSE OUTLINE 2011

Drs. Devenport, Ma, Neu, Patil, Schetz, Simpson, and Woolsey

TEXT: AOE Faculty, "Notes for AOE 4154" are available at www.aoe.vt.edu/~simpson/aoe4154/; pdf files for labs listed below.

REFERENCES:

Devenport, W.J., editor, "AOE 3054 Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Instrumentation and Laboratory", Online Course Manual, www.aoe.vt.edu/aoe3054.
Barlow, J. B., Rae, W. H., and Pope, A., Low-speed Wind Tunnel Testing, Wiley-Interscience, 1999, 713p.
Holman, J. P., Experimental Methods for Engineers, 7th Ed., McGraw-Hill, 2001, 698p.
Wu, James C., "What every ground testing manager needs to know," Aerospace America, Sept. 2001, pp.20-21 (AerospaceAmerica.pdf); used with permission of the AIAA, Inc.

SCHEDULE:


Aug. 22 - Sept. 2	Aeroelastic Divergence Experiment - Dr. Patil (aerodiv.pdf)
Sept. 5 - 16	Propeller Performance Tests - Dr. Neu (propellerlab.pdf)
Sept. 19 - 30	Hot-Wire Anemometry Experiment - Dr. Neu (hotwirelab.pdf)
Sept. 19 - 23	Quiz based on "Notes on the Design of Experiments" (expdes.pdf) and Wu (AerospaceAmerica.pdf) - Dr. Simpson
Oct. 3 - 7	Design of Experiments Problem due date (AOE4154des.exp.prob11.pdf) - Dr. Simpson
Oct. 3 - 14	Aerodynamic Measurements on a Wind Turbine Airfoil - Dr, Devenport (WindTurbineTesting.pdf, XFOILexamples.zip, matlabcode.zip)
Oct. 17 - 28	Aircraft Control Experiment - Dr. Woolsey (SPAAROExperiment2011.pdf)
Oct 31 - Nov. 12	Calibration of the Supersonic Wind Tunnel: Boundary Layer Investigation - Drs. Schetz and Ma(SupersonicBLlab.pdf)
Nov. 14 - Dec. 2	Use of Schlieren in Supersonic Flow Past a Wedge - Drs. Schetz and Ma (superFLOWVISlab.pdf)

GRADING:

Written Lab Reports must follow the format described in "AOE 4154 Aerospace Engineering Laboratory Reports" (aerolabreport.pdf). The "Results of Experiment" portion of the report must include the items asked for and the answers to questions in the lab assignment.
Lab reports are due ONE week after conduct of the given lab; late reports will be penalized 10% per day; reports from each lab and assignments for the Design of Experiments must be submitted to pass the course; students must sign an Honor System Pledge that the Lab Report is their own work.
The score from a pre-lab quiz may account for as much as 15% of a given lab assignment grade. A pre-lab quiz will cover only the material in "Notes for AOE 4154" for that given lab assignment and will be given before the lab experiment begins.
Final grade: 84% from Lab Reports, 16% from Design of Experiments. There will be no final exam.

ATTENDANCE POLICY:

Students must perform the lab in the section for which they are registered, unless they have received PRIOR APPROVAL from Prof. Simpson to perform the lab in another section or to be absent.
Only medical reasons for not attending the lab as scheduled will be approved without prior approval. Medical reasons must be accompanied by a written letter from a physician indicating that the student was physically unable to attend the lab as scheduled.
Failure to attend the lab section and perform the lab experiment without prior approval will result in a loss of 30% for that lab. As previously stated above, every student is required to submit a lab report for each assignment in order to pass the course. Thus, students who do not do the lab must still get the data from a fellow student in their lab group in order to have the proper data set to prepare the report. Submission of a report using any other data set will result in a zero grade.