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Course Title Textbook
AEM 2011 Statics Required: Vector Mechanics For Engineers: Statics, 9th edition, Beer, McGraw, ISBN: 007727556X
AEM 2012 Dynamics Required: Vector Mechanics For Engineers: Dynamics, 9th edition, Beer, McGraw, ISBN: 0077295498
AEM 2021 Statics and Dynamics Required: Vector Mechanics For Engineers: Statics and Dynamics, 9th edition, Beer, McGraw, ISBN: 0077275551
AEM 2301 Mechanics of Flight Required: Introduction to Flight, 6th edition, Anderson, McGraw, ISBN: 0073529397
AEM 3031 Deformable Body Mechanics Required: Mechanics of Materials, 7th edition, Gere, Cengage, ISBN: 0534553974
AEM 4201 Fluid Mechanics Required: Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, 7th edition, Fox/McDonald, Wiley, ISBN: 9780471742999
AEM 4202 Aerodynamics Required: Foundations of Aerodynamics, 5th edition, Kuethe/Chow, Wiley, ISBN: 0471129194
AEM 4203 Aerospace Propulsion Required: Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Propulsion, 2nd edition, Hill, Addison Wesley, ISBN: 0201146592
AEM 4301 Orbital Mechanics Required: Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students, Curtis, Elsevier, ISBN: 0750661690
AEM 4303W Flight Dynamics and Control Required: Flight Dynamics Principals, Cook, Butterworth Heinemann, ISBN: 9780750669276
AEM 4305 Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics and Control Required: Atmospheric and Space Flight Dynamics: Modeling and Simulation with MATLAB and Simulink, Tewari, Birkhauser, ISBN: 978-0-8176-4373-7
AEM 4331 Aerospace Vehicle Design I: Aircraft Required: Inviting Disaster: Lessons from the Edge of Technology , Chiles, Harper, ISBN: 0066620821;

Required: Design of Aircraft, Corke, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130892343;

Optional: AIAA Aerospace Design Engineers Guide, 5th Ed, 1563475901
AEM 4371 Helicopter Aerodynamics Principles of Helicopter Aerodynamics, Leishman, Cambridge University Press, ISBN: 521523966
AEM 4501 Aerospace Structures Optional: Advanced Strength and Applied Elasticity, 4th edition, Ugural/Fenster, Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0130473928
AEM 4502 Computational Structural Analysis Required: First Course in the Finite Element Method, 4th ed, Logan, Thompson, ISBN: 534385176

Required: ANSYS Tutorial, Release 11, Lawrence, SDC, 9781585034000

Optional: ANSYS Workbench Tutorial, Release 11, Lawrence, SDC, 9781585033973
AEM 4511 Mechanics of Composite Materials Required: Analysis & Performance of Fiber Composites, 3rd edition, Agarwal, Wiley, ISBN: 9780471268918
AEM 4601 Instrumentation Laboratory Required: Introduction to Engineering Experimentation, 3rd edition, Wheeler, Prentice Hall, 9780131742765
AEM 4602W Aeromechanics Laboratory Required: Introduction to Engineering Experimentation, 3rd edition, Wheeler, Prentice Hall, 9780131742765
AEM 5251 Computational Fluid Mechanics Required: Computational Fluid Dynamics - Vol. 1, 4th edition, Hoffman, EES, ISBN: 0962373109
AEM 5321 Modern Feedback Control Required: Linear Systems Theory, Hespanha, Princeton University Press, ISBN: 978-0-691-14021-6
AEM 5401 Intermediate Dynamics Required: Engineering Dynamics, Ginsberg, Cambridge University Press, 2008, ISBN: 978-0-521-88303-0
AEM 5431 Trajectory Optimization Required: Dynamic Optimization, Bryson, Addison-Wesley, ISBN: 9780201597905
AEM 5451 Optimal Estimation Required: Optimal State Estimation: Kalman, H Infinity, and Nonlinear Approaches, Simon, Wiley, ISBN: 0471708585
AEM 5501 Continuum Mechanics Optional: Continuum Mechanics, Chadwick, Dover, 486401804; An Introduction to Continuum Mechanics, Reddy, Cambridge, 9780521870443; Nonlinear Solid Mechanics, Holzapfel, Wiley, 471823198; Introduction to the Mechanics, Malvern, Prentice, 134876032
AEM 5503 Theory of Elasticity Required: Elasticity: Tensor, Dyadic, and Engineering Approaches, Chou/Pagano, Dover, ISBN: 0486669580; Optional: Elasticity: Theory, Applications, and Numerics 2nd Edition, Sadd, Academic Press, ISBN: 0123744466
AEM 8201 Fluid Mechanics I Optional: Fundamental Mechanics of Fluids, 3rd edition, Currie, Dekker, ISBN: 0824708865

Optional: Incompressible Flow, 3rd edition, Panton, Wiley, ISBN: 047126122X
AEM 8202 Fluid Mechanics II Optional: Incompressible Flow, 3rd edition, Panton, Wiley, ISBN: 047126122X
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