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Heads up to anyone who just found this series: they revamped it on MIT Open Learning Library where it's a lot easier to follow, with lecture slides and everything. It starts off with history and jumps into the technical side a few lectures in.
@786HKHM Click the "View the complete course" link under the video. It will take you to MIT's archive for this course where you can find a PDF with all the slides as well as bios and other information.
MIT faculty are truly experts in their field, students are given the freedom (& responsibility) of doing research to learn materials. This is a superior method of teaching elite students who dont need babysitting, more than they need guidance. i studied their for 1 semester, IMO i learned more then than all of my succeeding studies. aside from memorizing facts, critical thinking was the main thing I gained while I was there, that by itself will allow any person to go about any career they wish
Thank you MIT! You have inspired me greatly. I'm in the process of constucting my own upper athmosphere craft. As soon as I get my helium tank delivered I will fill a huge balloon and tie it in my lawnchair. Then I go as high as I in the athmosphere (hoping to reach stratosphere to be specific) can and jump out with my parachute. Thanks again MIT!
Here are the slides from this lecture: ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-885j-aircraft-systems-engineering-fall-2005/video-lectures/myers_shtl_orign.pdf See ocw.mit.edu/16-885F05 for more course materials.
Some of this I knew but Dale Myers gives excellent insight why the Shuttle became what it is, i.e. Fletcher and Low were faced with the end of manned space flight! Good that Dale quickly dismissed SSTO, he knows physics of the rocket equation (too bad key people didn't realize the same when they started X33/Venturestar). Dale said Fletcher spread development costs so congress doesn't get hit with a big bill later in program (too bad key people didn't think of this during Constellation).
This video buffers for a split second and it skips to another video. for some reason I couldn't play any of these ASE videos! Did anyone face this problem??
You have course materials on the MIT courseware site for ASE, all the slides are there in .pdf. But yeah, I agree, it could've been recorded a bit better.
That's one of the few problems with the MIT stuff, the camera person just points it at the speaker, not the information. We know what the speaker looks like after 5 seconds, show the bloody slides!
Dude the systems engineering decisions were as much societal/political as they were technical. STS was a massive capital (prestige) aerospace project designed and built with tax revenue and run by a government of the Murricans. Cohen says right in the first video that external factors guided the requirements as much as anything else.
@HabeKeinMitleid I dont want to be an engineer I was asking cuz i want to be a pilot or something to do with flying an my mom told me to be an aircraft engineer (I'm the only child)>>
Aerospace Engineering is very hard subject. There is so intensive programme. Aerospace Engineers are not human. They study like a robot who programmed to study 24/7. No relaxing time. It is unbelievable. It is like a suicide.
Bro, I am an Aerospace Engineer and I am a human but believe me I am not crazy specially after my flight mechanics exam.. Systems Engineering is boring.. Aerodynamics is interesting..
***** say so Mr knowledgeable person... I loved this subject before until second year but now I am almost going to fail... Why? Because these fucking lecturers has no mercy about asking hard questions.... Becoming aerospace engineer was the biggest dream of my entire life and now, this dream will be difficult to complete...
ae vurucu I also agree with you.. this year has been one of the toughest year of my life.. day and night staying in the library doing flying labs was cool but was like a bit giving hope..
Rakib Fiha Aerospace is very cool subject and it is hard but in spite of that I wanna graduate and become aerospace engineer. I enjoy it but our course is so intensive. I am studying 6 different units in each semester and 12 totally in a year. All of them is like a specialize areas... you can do a lot of research about each subject in your entire life..they teach us this units within 10 weeks.. it is difficult to cope with them and put in balance... I mostly write reports and attending labs therefore I don't even have a sufficient time to revise my other important and difficult subjects.. I can't even attend lectures due to so many courseworks... I go to exam like what I know without revising...
Many of our earlier videos intentionally avoided recording the slides to avoid possible copyright issues. Our more recent recordings are not as conservative. We do have a few presentations and lecture notes available, which will help fill in the gaps. See the MIT OpenCourseWare site for the materials at: ocw.mit.edu/16-885F05.
Interesting to look at SpaceX in light of Dale’s comments about design rules to follow. It seems that Elon has followed Dale’s recommendations fairly well.
