An updating program for undergraduate aircraft conceptual and preliminary design course

To improve an aircraft conceptual and preliminary design course that faces such problems as large-scale class, limited class hours and students with different majors, an updating program has been developed. Presented contents include the philosophy, program arrangements, competitive projects, application of design codes, and concepts accomplished by student design teams. The lessons and possible solutions are also discussed. The authors confirm that they, and/or their company or institution, hold copyright on all of the original material included in their paper. They also confirm they have obtained permission, from the copyright holder of any third party material included in their paper, to publish it as part of their paper. The authors grant full permission for the publication and distribution of their paper as part of the ICAS2008 proceedings or as individual off-prints from the proceedings.