"Junior-level Jet Engine Design Project Incorporating Aircraft Performance, Cost, and Environmental Issues"

Capstone design classes in aerospace engineering oftentimes employ a multi-disciplinary teambased approach to design projects.In discipline-specific non-capstone classes, the typical emphasis is to cover the necessary conceptual material, and the design project in such a class tends to consider optimization issues related to the discipline-specific topic.This paper discusses the author's attempt to incorporate aircraft performance, cost, and environmental issues in the turbojet engine design project of a junior-level propulsion course.Coverage of such issues is thought to better prepare students for the capstone design class where a multitude of multi-disciplinary topics are covered in a team-based approach.