Unified Engineering I, II, III, & IV
About
An abstracted aircraft wing, illustrating the connections between the disciplines of Unified Engineering. (Image by MIT OpenCourseWare.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Mark Drela
Prof. Steven Hall
Prof. Paul A. Lagace
Prof. Ingrid Kristina Lundqvist
Prof. Gustaf Naeser
Prof. Heidi Perry
Prof. Raúl Radovitzky
Prof. Ian A. Waitz
Col. Peter Young
Prof. Jennifer L. Craig
MIT Course Number
16.01 / 16.02 / 16.03 / 16.04
As Taught In
Fall 2005 - Spring 2006
Level
Undergraduate
Course Features
- Selected video lectures
- Faculty introduction - video
- Class competition - video
- Assignments: problem sets with solutions
- Exams and solutions
Course Highlights
This course features materials from Unified Engineering which comprise more than four times the volume of a typical one-semester MIT course. The seven disciplines covered in this site, along with the course's organization and pedagogy, are explained in the detailed syllabus.
Course Description
The basic objective of Unified Engineering is to give a solid understanding of the fundamental disciplines of aerospace engineering, as well as their interrelationships and applications. These disciplines are Materials and Structures (M); Computers and Programming (C); Fluid Mechanics (F); Thermodynamics (T); Propulsion (P); and Signals and Systems (S). In choosing to teach these subjects in a unified manner, the instructors seek to explain the common intellectual threads in these disciplines, as well as their combined application to solve engineering Systems Problems (SP). Throughout the year, the instructors emphasize the connections among the disciplines.