Mech aircraft performance and stability

MECH1907 – Introduction to Aerospace Engineering

Fall 2022–2023

• Office: Room 2562
• Phone: 3469 2295
• E-mail: rpliem@ust.hk
• Office hours: By appointment

Teaching assistants: Mr. Richard Yan Ho LOUIE and Mr. Huu Canh NGUYEN (Chris)

Notes:
All questions about course contents MUST be posted in the Discussions Forum on Canvas. Past experience told us that many students often had similar questions, so we would have a common place to share all those questions and answers, to help ensure consistency and completeness. The course instructor and TA’s will check the Forum from time to time and we strive to give you speedy responses. While other students are strongly encouraged to join the discussion and chip in with solutions/opinions to questions posted in Forum, we will make sure to give the right answers or confirm the right answers (from other students) to make things clear. All non-sensitive and non-confidential questions sent via e-mails to the course instructor and TA’s will not be entertained and students will be referred to the Discussions Forum instead.

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3 Textbook and Reference Materials

The main textbook for this course the Introduction to Flight by John D. Anderson, Jr. The latest edition is the 9th(available in Course Reserve), but you can also find some earlier editions in the HKUST library. The content should be more or less the same, i.e., it should not matter which edition you use. You can find some pdf file of the earlier edition online too.

• Recent news in aviation (e.g., the retirement of jumbo jets)
• Any new discoveries or intriguing discussion in aerospace engineering (e.g., engine-less flying vehicles, electric/hybrid aircraft, solar-powered UAV, etc)

• Any interesting discussion from the previous lectures• ...

Midterm assignment – guided self-learning assignment Students will pick a topic (among the list provided) and perform a self-study/exploration. The final submission will be in the form of short term paper/short video/presentation slides/poster of each student’s choosing. More details to be provided later.

Final exam The final exam will contain both computational and conceptual questions (typically in a 7:3 ratio). In the final exam, students are expected to demonstrate their understanding and mastery not only on the subject matters but also on how they (e.g., aerodynamics and propulsion) are interrelated with each other.

Table 1: Grade weighting factors.

Table 2: MECH 1907 Fall 2022/23 course schedule (tentative). Note that the schedules for mini individual assignments/quizzes, midterm, and final exam are not shown here. Please check an-nouncement in class and/or Canvas.

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2. For each question involving calculations and/or equations, state clearly:

(a) GIVEN: what information is provided in the question

5. When presenting your answers, you must discuss your approach to solving them (i.e., the rationale behind your answers), instead of only writing down the equations and numbers. State any assumptions clearly.

7 Collaboration Policy