Aeross Summer Courses: Project Report

Authors

Vinamr L. Sachdeva, Om Gupta, Ashvin Verma

Brief Description

The 2019 Aeross Summer Courses cover all essential knowledge required for high school students to start solving problems faced by the aerospace industry and pursue projects like Nanosatellites, High Altitude Balloon and other educational aerospace projects. The course was systematically designed and divided into relevant modules, covering Aerospace, Basics of Flight, Applications of Electronics in Aerospace and 3D Modelling.

Need Statement

Making cubesats, launching a high altitude balloon and pursuing other aerospace projects require an understanding of complex ideas that one learns about at University, impelling all high school aerospace enthusiasts to indulge in rigorous, extensive research. The journey is extremely arbitrary, and should be made systematic. To address this need, we decided to develop a free summer programme for our juniors to introduce them to relevant concepts.

Teaching Methodology

We have tried to incorporate a few elements to our teaching methodology, which aren't present in other alternative sources of learning and which are paramount to what these courses intend to do.

• We not only educate them about physics concepts but also introduce them to its industrial application and the scope of their utilisation.
• The weekly assignments in which the questions made them explore more and give them an insight into what the industry is up to in that field of study.
• Problem-solving is incorporated into the curriculum by questioning them about their ideas to solve real-world problems the industry is facing today.

Course Material

Google Drive Folder

Course Material In Blog Form

Course overviews:

Aerospace 101 Overview

Basics of Flight Overview

Application of Electronics in Aerospace Overview

Blender3D Overview

Introduction to Orbital Mechanics Overview

Link to main page: http://www.aeross.org/2019-summer-courses/

Link to all articles:

Introduction

1. Aerospace 101 Overview
2. Basics of Flight Overview
3. Application of Electronics in Aerospace Overview
4. Blender3D Overview
5. Introduction to Orbital Mechanics Overview

Aerospace 101

1. Orbits and getting into Orbit
2. Aerodynamics in Aerospace
3. Rockets and Propulsion

Basics of Flight

1. Lift and Angle of Attack
2. Efficiency in High Speed Flight
3. Stability and Control
4. Building Efficient Engines
5. High Performance Engines

Applications of Electronics in Aerospace

1. I/O Guide for Arduino

Blender3D

1. Edit Mode, General
2. Modifiers, Edit Mode Continued

Introduction to Orbital Mechanics

1. Introduction to Orbital Mechanics

More than 80 students took this course. They read all modules given to them and then completed weekly assignments. They also clarified their doubts, and shared their ideas on our subreddit.

Conversation Threads for all Modules

Week 1

Module 1:https://www.reddit.com/r/aeross/comments/bx5g3z/week_1_course_material_module_1_of_3/

Module 2:https://www.reddit.com/r/aeross/comments/bzawcv/week_1_course_material_module_2_of_3/

Module 3:https://www.reddit.com/r/aeross/comments/bz14jy/basics_of_flight_week_1_module_3_of_3_and/

Week 2

Module 1:https://www.reddit.com/r/aeross/comments/c0oa62/week_2_course_material_module_1/

Module 2:https://www.reddit.com/r/aeross/comments/c26snx/week_2_course_material_module_2/

Module 3:https://www.reddit.com/r/aeross/comments/c2tnsd/basics_of_flight_week_2_course_material_module_3/

Assignment Submission:https://www.reddit.com/r/aeross/comments/c2zfs4/week_2_assignment_submission/

Intro to Orbital Mechanics, Electronics and Blender3D (Week 3)

Course Material Thread:https://www.reddit.com/r/aeross/comments/c52wwd/intro_to_orbital_mechanics_electronics_and/

Assignment Thread:https://www.reddit.com/r/aeross/comments/c6hbgw/intro_to_orbital_mech_electronics_blender3d/