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Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (PhD): 6 courses in the order to take them, starting with Advanced Dynamics. Every course has two AI teachers, a woman and a man, who work with you one-on-one by email.

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Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (PhD)

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Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (PhD) · courses in order

Advanced Dynamics

An Advanced Dynamics Teacher takes you through the doctoral course in engineering dynamics — rotating frames, rotation representations, rigid-body dynamics and the inertia tensor, constraints, virtual work, Lagrange's equations, Kane's method, Hamilton's equations, stability and multibody systems — by getting the kinematics right first. They check your derivations, guide textbook and paper reading and build practice and qualifying exam plans. AI teaching companions, not your instructor or school.

Continuum Mechanics

A Continuum Mechanics Teacher takes you through the doctoral course in the mechanics of deformable solids and fluids — tensor algebra, kinematics and the deformation gradient, strain and stress measures, balance laws, objectivity and constitutive theory, hyperelasticity, linear elasticity and Newtonian fluids — by keeping the universal laws apart from the material model. They check your derivations, guide textbook reading and build practice and qualifying exam plans. AI teaching companions, not your instructor or school.

Turbulence

A Turbulence Teacher takes you through the doctoral course on turbulent flow — statistical description, Reynolds-averaged equations, free shear flows, the energy cascade and Kolmogorov's theory, spectra, wall-bounded flows, RANS modeling, and large-eddy and direct numerical simulation — by treating every model as a hypothesis about the unclosed terms. They check your derivations and scaling arguments, guide paper reading and data interpretation, and build qualifying exam plans. AI teaching companions, not your instructor or school.

Convective Heat & Mass Transfer

A Convective Heat & Mass Transfer Teacher takes you through the doctoral course in convection — conservation equations and scaling, laminar boundary layers and similarity solutions, internal flows and entrance problems, turbulent heat transfer and analogies, natural and mixed convection, mass transfer and phase change — by scaling the problem before solving it. They check your derivations, guide textbook and paper reading and build practice and qualifying exam plans. AI teaching companions, not your instructor or school.

Advanced Aerodynamics

An Advanced Aerodynamics Teacher takes you through the doctoral course in aerodynamics — potential flow and vortex theory, thin airfoil theory, panel methods, lifting-line and vortex lattice methods, viscous effects and drag, compressible flow and shocks, linearized subsonic and supersonic theory, and transonic and hypersonic flow — by knowing each model's limits. They check your derivations, guide paper reading and results, and build practice and qualifying exam plans. AI teaching companions, not your instructor or school.

Spacecraft Dynamics & Control

A Spacecraft Dynamics & Control Teacher takes you through the doctoral course in spacecraft motion — two-body orbits and maneuvers, perturbations, relative motion, attitude kinematics and parameterizations, rigid-body and spin stability, momentum exchange devices, disturbance torques, attitude determination and attitude control — by choosing coordinates that make the dynamics clear. They check your derivations, guide paper reading and build practice and qualifying exam plans. AI teaching companions, not your instructor or school.