Course Name: Introduction to Aircraft Design

Course abstract

This course is designed to provide students an understanding of procedure followed in conceptual design of an aircraft, meeting the user-specified design requirements and safety considerations specified by the aircraft certification agencies. The students will be exposed to types of aircraft and their features, requirements capture, configuration selection, initial sizing, determination of aerodynamic coefficients, constraint analysis, mass break down, types of loads, V-n diagram, Operational issues (noise, emissions, Range-Payload diagram), and life cycle cost analysis. A special feature of this course will be to take the students through a complete exercise in re-sizing and of a baseline civil transport aircraft to meet a specified market requirement. This exercise will be conducted through a series of tutorials which will run all along the course.


Course Instructor

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Prof. Rajkumar S. Pant

Prof. Rajkumar S. Pant has Bachelors, Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering. His areas of specialization include Aircraft Conceptual Design, Air Transportation, and Optimization. He has been a member of faculty of Aerospace Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay since December 1989. Prior to that, he worked at HAL for five years in Kanpur (1984-88) and Nasik (1988-89) divisions in the Design & Engg. Department. Prof. Pant has been a Visiting Professor at School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore for a year in 2016. He has been a visiting faculty at Department of Aerospace & Ocean Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2010-11, and a visiting researcher at Instituto Tecnol?gico de Aeron?utica, Brazil in 2012, Texas A&M University in 2011, Cambridge University in 2008, and Imperial College London in 2006. Prof. Pant is an alumnus of College of Aeronautics, Cranfield University, UK, where he earned his Ph.D. under Commonwealth Scholarship Scheme, and IIT Madras, where he did his Masters in Aeronautical Engineering.
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 Course Duration : Jul-Oct 2021

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 Syllabus

 Enrollment : 20-May-2021 to 02-Aug-2021

 Exam registration : 17-Jun-2021 to 17-Sep-2021

 Exam Date : 23-Oct-2021

Enrolled

2447

Registered

193

Certificate Eligible

115

Certified Category Count

Gold

2

Silver

20

Elite

40

Successfully completed

53

Participation

48

Success

Elite

Silver

Gold





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AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75 AND FINAL SCORE >=40
BASED ON THE FINAL SCORE, Certificate criteria will be as below:
>=90 - Elite + Gold
75-89 -Elite + Silver
>=60 - Elite
40-59 - Successfully Completed

Final Score Calculation Logic

  • Assignment Score = Average of best 8 out of 12 assignments.
  • Final Score(Score on Certificate)= 75% of Exam Score + 25% of Assignment Score
    Note:We have taken best assignment score from both July 2020 and July 2021 courses
Introduction to Aircraft Design - Toppers list
Top 1 % of Certified Candidates

SHWETA PALIWAL 91%

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

VIKAS PASI 91%

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited


Top 2 % of Certified Candidates

Top 5 % of Certified Candidates

SENTHIL BALAMURUGAN 88%

MADRAS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

NIHAL HEBBAR 87%

R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

B C LIKHITH MAADHAV 87%

R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

PV PRANAV 85%

R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

YASHASVI HUGAR 85%

R V COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

ARAVIND ANBALAGAN 85%

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

Enrollment Statistics

Total Enrollment: 2447

Registration Statistics

Total Registration : 193

Assignment Statistics




Assignment

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Score Distribution Graph - Legend

Assignment Score: Distribution of average scores garnered by students per assignment.
Exam Score : Distribution of the final exam score of students.
Final Score : Distribution of the combined score of assignments and final exam, based on the score logic.

The exam pattern of this course was absolutely splendid especially the crosswords. I don't know how it worked in past but keeping it up will be stupendous. The topics of the course were lively and had been able to match with real-time events with utmost similarity. It enhanced my vocabulary and thinking, perception in a design process. Thanks a lot for such a course.