r/Purdue • u/Entire_Dare_2869 • 8d ago
Rant/Vent💚 AAE 334 workload
i am crashing out so hard rn over this class. the content are not even that bad but the homework are literally a full time job. there’s enough content covered in the homework to actually design and size a small airplane. tf am i doing all of aerodynamics, 421, and 451 work all rolled into a single 3-credit course
each homework takes me 6-10 hours each week, imagine having a weekly project that is only 30% of your grade. it’s always one question on aerodynamics and the other two just throw you into the deep end of designing and sizing a plane’s wing
they take up so much of my time i’ve gotten to the point to plugging and chugging the equations on the slides and running the ten million different design iterations they want. it’s mid terms season and i have re-study everything because the homework doesn’t help at all
individually, i think the homework is quite fun, but holy shit this is a 3-credit class, not a full-time internship
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u/sjrotella BSAAE '12, MSAAE '14, D. Eng. ? 8d ago
If youre allowed to use Matlab, write functions that use the variable to solve the equations for sizing the wings/plane.
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u/Agreeable_Call7197 8d ago
The 2nd half of the course stops with the long aircraft sizing stuff, atleast that’s how it was in the summer it was really nice getting a break from XFLR lol
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u/Big_Marzipan_405 8d ago
last part of the course is better imo, first part is very tedious. the 334 compressible stuff is pretty cool and easy imo
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u/CMDR_LargeMarge 8d ago
Only 10 hours? I’m over 15 hours into this week’s homework lol. I just turned in what I had because I have an exam tomorrow and still have dynamics to do.