Courses

EPET/ME 400: Spacecraft Mission Design

Design a spacecraft from concept to component selection with consideration for science, budget, and risk.

Topics cover the space environment, orbital mechanics, systems engineering, and spacecraft bus design that incorporates mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, computer science, and fundamental physics.

Text: Spacecraft Mission Design, F. Zhu et al., 2020

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ME 696/ ICS 699: Machine Learning in Dynamic Systems

Summary of Methods by Brandon Amos

Explore advanced topics related to machine learning in dynamic system applications and expose students to new ideas and people.

Ensure that the applications investigated in the paper are dynamical systems 

Domain of problem: regression, state prediction, model discovery

Secondary objectives: generalization, adaptation, applications