Summary of the Five Day Short Course on Missile Design and System Engineering

The most comprehensive option for my short course is the five day short course. A system-level, integrated method is provided for the missile design, development, analysis, and system engineering activities in addressing requirements such as cost, performance, risk, and launch platform integration. The methods presented are generally simple closed-form analytical expressions that are physics-based, to provide insight into the primary driving parameters. Configuration sizing examples are presented for rocket-powered, ramjet-powered, and turbo-jet powered baseline missiles. Typical values of missile parameters and the characteristics of current operational missiles are discussed as well as the enabling subsystems and technologies for missiles and the current/projected state-of-the-art. Sixty six videos illustrate missile development activities and missile performance. Attendees participate in daily roundtable discussion. Finally, each attendee could design, build, and fly a small air powered rocket. For courses of less than five day duration, attendees will vote on the relative emphasis of the material to be presented. Attendees receive course notes and may also receive the textbook, Tactical Missile Design, 2nd edition.

What you Will Learn

• Key drivers in the missile design and system engineering process.
• Critical tradeoffs, methods and technologies in aerodynamic, propulsion, structure, seeker, warhead, fuzing, and subsystems sizing to meet flight performance and other requirements.
• Launch platform-missile integration.
• Robustness, lethality, guidance, navigation & control, accuracy, observables, survivability, reliability, and cost considerations.
• Sizing examples for missile systems and missile technologies.
• Missile system and missile technology development process

.Who Sould Attend

The course is oriented toward the needs of missile engineers, sytem engineers, system analysts, marketing personnel, program managers, university professors, and others working in the area of missile systems and missile technology development. Attendees will gain an understanding of missile design, missile technologies, launch platform integration, missile system measures of merit, and the missile system development process.