These are courses I am currently offering at UK.
Teaching
I believe it is essential that students' interest in learning continues to grow as the course progresses. Besides, students in engineering must be able to effectively implement the knowledge they learn in class to address practical problems. To fulfill this philosophy, I incorporate active learning and inclusive teaching in my classroom.
University of Kentucky, Paducah Campus
AER 545 - Aircraft Control and Simulation | Graduate, Undergraduate | S24, S25, S26
This course covers advanced topics in dynamics and control of atmospheric flight vehicles. Major topics include six-degrees-of-freedom kinematic representations of aircraft motion, aerodynamic force modeling, aircraft equations of motion, flight stability and performance, and flight control design.
ME 440 - Design of Control Systems | Undergraduate | F23, F24, F25
Fundamentals of classical control theory. Mathematical representation of feedback control systems using block diagrams and transfer functions. Design and analysis of feedback control systems using root-locus, Nyquist, and Bode methods to ensure system stability and meet desired system response specifications. Numerical simulation of feedback control systems.
ME 340 - Introduction to Mechanical Systems | Undergraduate | S24, S25, S26
Modeling of mechanical, thermal, hydraulic and electrical systems, and other phenomena from a systems viewpoint. Analysis of continuous-time models for free and forced response. Laplace transforms and transfer functions. Introduction to numerical simulation. Analysis of higher-order systems.
EM 313 - Dynamics | Undergraduate | F24, F25
Study of the motion of bodies. Kinematics: cartesian and polar coordinate systems; normal and tangential components; translating and rotating reference frames. Kinetics of particles and rigid bodies: laws of motion; work and energy; impulse and momentum.
Past Courses
These are courses I taught in the past at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
AEROSP - 575 Flight and Trajectory Optimization | Graduate | W20 (Guest Lecturer, Online)
Formulation and solution of optimization problems for atmospheric flight vehicles and space flight vehicles. Optimality criteria, constraints, vehicle dynamics. Flight and trajectory optimization as problems of nonlinear programming, calculus of variations and optimal control. Algorithms and software for solution of flight and trajectory optimization problems.
AEROSP - 470 Control of Aerospace Vehicles | Undergraduate | F19 (Graduate Student Instructor)
Foundations of classical control theory; introduction to observers and state space control theory; effect of nonlinearities; application to aircraft and spacecraft; simulation of control systems using relevant software.