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Introduction to aircraft (Mooc 2018) – Review

Posted by VdN on 20. November 2018
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By Estonian Aviation Academy

Course description:

The course is dedicated to categorization of aircraft. All possible categories of aircraft flying up to date are been discussed starting from their history and brief information about most known representatives of each category is given.

Course authors: Jaan Susi, Hans Künka

Language: English

Training volume: 1 ECTS (26 hours)

Course duration: 6 weeks

Course dates: 15.10.2018 to 25.11.2018

Platform : Moodle

Course target group: people intrested in aviation

Course certification: Students who successfully complete weekly quizzes ( scores of at least 50%) will receive the Estonian Aviation Academy certificate

Course outcomes:

All of the persons, having passed the course, will know the basic principles of categorization of aircraft, know the categories of aircraft, distinguish the belonging of some different aircraft to different categories, know some facts from the history of aircraft and also some basic technical data of some aircraft.

Review :

The course is presented in a form of full E-aid, containing 11 different lessons. For each lesson (video lectures, about 30 minutes per video)), an additional brief written form content of the particular lesson is given, as well as a glossary and a 10-question multiple choice test is proposed at the end of each lesson.

Topics :

  • Aviation and aircraft. Balloons and airships
  • Rotorcraft
  • Miscellaneous aircraft
  • Propeller driven civil aircraft
  • Sports and entertainment aircraft
  • Propeller-driven military aircraft
  • Non-powered aircraft
  • Jet-driven civil aircraft
  • Jet-driven military aircraft
  • Personal and business jets
  • Rocket-driven aircraft

A very well structured course of presentation and classification of aircraft, including lot of videos, pictures and links. I really enjoyed this introduction Mooc, easily accessible for beginners, but also including useful information for those who are already familiar with aircraft (for instance infos about VTOl Jets, tiltwing aircraft,…). One of the few Moocs, where the required time-investment isn’t too important and corresponds to reality (26 academic hours, with the optional possibility to get more information via the provided links and personal researches). For each test you have two attempts, personal score was 95%, based on one single attempt.

Reinhard Finke

 

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Mooc 2018 : Introduction to Aerospace Structures and Materials – Review

Posted by VdN on 20. June 2018
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Explore the structural and material design of aircraft and spacecraft from the viewpoint of an aerospace engineer.

Course description :

How do you design an aircraft or spacecraft? And in doing so, how do you keep the risk of failure minimal while bearing in mind that they will eventually fail?

In this course you will be taken on a journey through the structural and material design of aircraft. You will see and understand how aircraft and spacecraft are manufactured, and learn how safety is enshrined at every stage.

Experts from the Aerospace Structures and Materials Department of Delft University of Technology will help you explore and analyze the mechanical properties of materials; learning about manufacturing techniques, fatigue, loads and stresses, design considerations and more – all the scientific and engineering principles that structural and materials engineers face on a daily basis. By the end of the course, you will have learned to think like they do! What you will learn :

  • How aerospace structures are designed and why particular choices are made
  • Which materials are used and the reasons for using them
  • How to explain loads and stresses aerospace structures have to withstand
  • How aircraft and spacecraft are manufactured
  • The safety philosophies that are used in aerospace structural design and how they affect design choices
  • How to create preliminary design solutions for structural design problems

 

TU Delft : Delft University of Technology (largest and oldest Dutch public technological university)

Starts on August 28, 2018

Language : English

Platform : edX

Length : 7 weeks

Effort : 4 to 6 hours per week

Price : free, possibility to add a verified Certificate for $50 USD

Prerequisites : Basic knowledge of Physics (concepts of forces and moments, springs and temperature) and some familiarity with aircraft and spacecraft terminology: (e.g. wing, fuselage, tail plane, rocket, launcher).

Trailer : https://youtu.be/lGjtqxOgHf0

Review

Content : An interesting Mooc in which theoretical concepts of strenght, stiffness, stress of materials and structures of aircraft are explained. The course is nevertheless very theoretic and doesn’t contain many practical examples. A lot of not guided researches by your own are required, especially about the materials used in aircrafts and how to design structural elements. For instance, without any introduction or given links, you’re asked to list the principal materials and their properties of your favorite aircraft or to design a firewall bulkhead for a two-seater sports-aircraft. Personally, I’ve got the impression that I’ve learned more by my own researches than by the Mooc content in itself, an approach which is interesting but very time-consuming and which requires much more investment than announced. Also, the content and the explanations aren’t always very clear, and some formula errors and missing units don’t facilitate the required calculations of values.

Discussions: Interesting questions and contributions by the students. More responsiveness by the staff to the numerous questions and remarks would be welcome.

Evaluations / Certifications : Different forms of evaluation are available and the given explanations of the evaluation criteria are more than confusing. So, here my personal experience: Each of the 7 chapters finishes with a 10 question multiple choice test (1 to 3 attempts available in function of the question); minimum required is 60% for each test. Only if you are successful in this test, a second assignment to accomplish for each chapter becomes available: mostly a more or less complicated essay to publish in relation to design and material topics; evaluations are either self-evaluations, peer-to-peer evaluations or sometimes pre-defined multiple choice questions. There again, a minimum of 60% of good answers is required. To accomplish successfully the Mooc and to get an EDX-certification (50$), the lower limit is fixed to 85% of success, which doesn’t let a lot of margins of errors or bad peer-to-peer evaluations. My personal overall score was 97%, but it costs me a lot of time- and research-investment.

This was the very first session of the Mooc. It’s a Mooc with much potential and is worth to continue, but I hope that the mentioned deficiencies will be corrected.

Reinhard Finke

 

Mooc 2018 : The Conquest of Space: Space Exploration and Rocket Science – self-paced. Review

Posted by VdN on 11. April 2018
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Mooc Aeronautics, Reinhard Finke, simandflight

NASA Image and Video Library : NASA Rocket Experiment Finds the Universe Brighter Than We Thought – NASA ID: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000912

Explore the history of space travel and learn the basics of aerospace engineering.

  • Language: English
  • Platform : edX
  • Length: 7 weeks
  • Effort: 3 to 4 hours per week
  • Prerequisites : High-school mathematics and physics
  • Price: FREE  (you can add a Verified Certificate for $50 USD)
  • Institution: UC3Mx, University Carlos III, Madrid
  • Level: Introductory
  • Video Transcripts: English

Trailer

Course description

Space exploration plays a major role in the history of humankind. The cultural, political and sociological repercussions are extraordinary, and the amount of resources dedicated to space exploration is enormous. This aerospace course is a first step for those interested in learning more about the history of the space and the impact of space exploration on our daily lives.

Each week we will focus on a major chapter in the history of space exploration accompanied by an introduction to the relevant technical topics to fully understand these historical developments. During the seven weeks of the course, we will follow the technical, political and cultural contexts that lead to the birth of the space age, uncover the evolution of space exploration from competition to cooperation in the Apollo and post-Apollo era and finally, analyze current trends in space exploration.

By successfully completing this course, you will acquire the critical tools to understand the key events and developments of the Space Age. You will learn to solve basic technical and engineering problems of space travel, rocket propulsion, space systems, and human space flight.

Evaluation

The evaluation is based on seven final tests about the contents: videos and documents. To pass the course it is necessary to obtain the 60% of the final grade.

Feed-back

History of space travels and flights, of missiles, rockets and space stations, life in space, space exploitation for humankind (telecom, earth observation, GNSS,…), propulsion systems – a very well structured and rich content Mooc, containing videos and lecture materials. Each test consists of 10 questions, a few of them are based on calculations, others are more general and refer to the presented documents and videos. Some internet researches are necessary to respond. There is only 1 single attempt to answer the questions, so one has to be careful and pay attention to each word. Personal score was 91%.

Reinhard Finke

Introduction to Aeronautical Engineering – self-paced, in progress

Posted by VdN on 4. April 2018
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Mooc (2018) by Delft University of Technology (TU Delft, largest and oldest Dutch public technological university)

Type : self-pacedasset-v1-delftxae1110x3t2016typethumbnailblockimages_course_image-375x200, designed for 7 weeks duration, 84 h. You may spend more than 7 weeks to finish the course. This aviation Mooc is challenging but it is also very well designed; one of my favorite aviation Moocs.

Platform : edX

Language : English

Start date : May 1, 2018 – clic here to enroll

For more details and a review, clic here.

Reinhard Finke – VdN

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Mooc 2018 : Technical maintenance of aircraft and aircraft engines – self-paced, review

Posted by VdN on 30. March 2018
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Samara State Aerospace University Reinhard Finke

Mooc offered by Samara State Aerospace University.

Platform : Stepik

Language : English

Instructor : Prokhor

Commitment : about 6 – 8 hours (personal experience)

Requirement : non

Credential : no; but possibility to save results and scores by screenshots

Course description :

In this course you will learn about civil aviation in the Russian economy, the role of an engineer of aircraft technical maintenance, and training facilities and benefits at Samara University.

About the course

After completing the course, students will know:

  1. he state of the civil aviation of the Russian Federation, and its tasks;
  2. majors popular in the Russian civil aviation;
  3. the role of maintenance engineers to ensure the flights of aircraft;
  4. types and features of maintenance and repair of aircraft;
  5. benefits of training at Samara University;
  6. possible scope of activities of Samara University graduate with a major in “Technical maintenance of aircraft and aircraft engines”

Trailer

Clic here to enroll.

Review :

Interesting and well structured Mooc about Technical maintenance of commercial airlines. It adresses to further students in aeronautical engineering and gives an idea of technical skills and responsibilities to manage. Video lectures (followed by transcriptions) and external videos are about aviation engineering services, brief descriptions of aircraft components and structures, and types of aircraft maintenance services. You also learn facts about the state of the Russian civil aviation industry, and what kind of education options, qualifications and job-training Samara State Aerospace University offers.

After each lesson, you can achieve a multiple choice question test. There is no limit in attempts, but proposed answers are changing in order and content. Quizzes contain also some cloze tests, but currently they don’t seem to work (correct answers don’t match).

You can comment the lessons, but as the Mooc is self-paced, there are no possibilities to discuss with other students.

A very good introduction to aviation engineering and maintenance skills for future students.

Reinhard Finke