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Students in Aerospace Engineering will explore the fundamentals of space flight! This is a six-week unit that we will begin with reverse engineering the rocket kits and entering the specifications of the rockets into a computer simulator called Open Rocket. It will then predict how high the rocket will travel with a particular rocket engine.
Then students will build the kits and test them! Students will analyze the information from the launches and the simulator to design a rocket out of all recycled materials! They will simulate launch data then build and test their recycled rocket.
The last piece of this unit is to design a rocket from scratch using the information they have learned. First using the simulator and then Autodesk Inventor to model the rocket and then 3D print the parts! Each time launching with different motors and analyzing the effects of aerodynamics on the success of their launch!
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Students in Aerospace Engineering will explore the fundamentals of space flight! This is a six-week unit that we will begin with reverse engineering the rocket kits and entering the specifications of the rockets into a computer simulator called Open Rocket. It will then predict how high the rocket will travel with a particular rocket engine.
Then students will build the kits and test them! Students will analyze the information from the launches and the simulator to design a rocket out of all recycled materials! They will simulate launch data then build and test their recycled rocket.
The last piece of this unit is to design a rocket from scratch using the information they have learned. First using the simulator and then Autodesk Inventor to model the rocket and then 3D print the parts! Each time launching with different motors and analyzing the effects of aerodynamics on the success of their launch!