ENME488-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

Special Topic: Mechanics of Flight and Spaceflight

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

Special Topic.

The response of the vehicle to changing forces during flight, and the control of the attitude (pointing direction) of the craft.

Learning Outcomes

  • Washington Accord (V4) Summary of Graduate Attributes attained in this course:


  • Course topics with Learning Outcomes (and Washington Accord (WA) and UC Graduate Attributes) identified.

    1. Formulate aircraft equations of motion and control theory.
           1.1. Demonstrate understanding of the response of a vehicle to changing forces during flight, and the control of the attitude (pointing direction) of the craft.
           1.2. Application of relevant strategies to flight control problems.
           1.3. Use relevant software for predicting and controlling flight.
           1.4. Incorporate kaupapa Māori in the design of aerospace systems. (BCC7)
    2. Demonstrate understanding of the challenges associated with analysing, predicting, and controlling the orbital dynamics of spacecraft.
           2.1. Formulate the equations of motion for spaceflight using common approximations.
           2.2. Use appropriate orbit determination methods.
           2.3. Create lunar and interplanetary trajectories.
           2.4. Contrast current practice with Māori perspectives on aviation and the space sector. (BCC7)
    • University Graduate Attributes

      This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

      Biculturally competent and confident

      Students will be aware of and understand the nature of biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, and its relevance to their area of study and/or their degree.

Prerequisites

Course Coordinator

John Cater

Notes

For detailed course, policy, regulatory and integrity information, please refer to the UC web site, or see relevant Course or Department LEARN pages, (which are available to enrolled students).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,122.00

International fee $6,238.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Mechanical Engineering .

All ENME488 Occurrences

  • ENME488-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025