Air Transportation Systems Architecting
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this graduate course on designing air transportation systems during the conceptual phase of product definition. Students work through a realistic system case study, such as a Very Large Transport Aircraft, a Supersonic Business Jet, or a Next Generation Cargo System, weighing technical, economic, market, environmental, regulatory, legal, manufacturing, and societal factors. The course includes guest lectures from industry and government engineers, team projects, and individual assignments that build toward a semester-long deliverable: a business plan and system specifications document usable to assess candidate aircraft systems. Materials include lecture notes, assignments, and project guidelines from MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, free to access under a Creative Commons license with no certificate offered.