Advanced Solid Rocket Propulsion
Take advantage of this opportunity to engage in an extensive review of solid rocket propulsion.
Dr. Robert Frederick
- Instructor
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Description
A joint NASA/UAH/Industry initiative resulted in bringing the national experts in solid rocket propulsion to UAH to educate the next generation of solid rocket motor engineers.
Take advantage of this opportunity to engage in an extensive review of solid rocket propulsion. You will learn from recognized specialists about rocket component design and propellant properties, leaving the course with information you can apply in your work.
- Online
- Intakes: On Demand
What you will Learn
- Solid rocket motor overview
- Solid rocket motor design
- Ballistic modeling and burn rate
- Propellant fundamentals
- Combustion and Two-Phase-Flow Propellant grain design
- Motor case design
- Thermal protection and insulation
- Nozzle design Igniter design
- Motor manufacturing
- Motor demo and performance
- System engineering and trades
- Motor failure
- Solid rocket motor project
Meet your Instructor
Dr. Robert Frederick is Director of the UAH Propulsion Research Center. He has directed over 10 million dollars of research and published extensively. Topics include combustion stability of liquid injectors, solid propellant combustion, hybrid fuel combustion, thermal stability of hydrocarbon fuels, and characterization of rocket plume emissions.
He pioneered an international, team-based aerospace systems design laboratory that integrates students from Engineering, Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, and Business disciplines. Dr. Frederick is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA and former chairman of the AIAA Hybrid Rocket Technical Committee.
He has been a technical advisor to NATO in solid propulsion. Dr. Frederick received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University in 1988. His professional experience includes positions at Allison Turbine Engines, the Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory, and Sverdrup Technology, AEDC Group. He joined UAH in 1991.