J. I. Craig Home Page

Georgia Institute of Technology

Aerospace Engineering

Home Page for Professor J. I. Craig

Room: Knight 321-5, Phone: 404-894-3042

Email: james.craig@ae.gatech.edu

Spring Semester 2008

This is the primary home page for Professor Craig. It contains information about current research interests, active sponsored research projects, and teaching assignments for the current term.

Students enrolled in classes that I am currently teaching will find links to web pages that support those classes. These pages may include special class notes, current homework assignments, homework solutions, quiz solutions, copies of previous exams and any other relevant course materials.

Please report any problems or send specific questions to Prof. J. Craig, Aerospace Engineering.

General Information:

Biosketch for Prof. J. I. Craig: This is a tradtional biosketch (very dated) that contains information about research accomplishments and publications, current research interests, and current funded research projects. It also contains information about current and past public and Institute service.
Undergrad & Grad Student Advisement Appointment: Use this link to make appointments for academic advising for the next semester. This is usually scheduled during the week after Drop Date for the current term. Please check the AE Web Page (undergraduate section) where I post the latest information on course offerings and academic rules and regulations. For any other advisement matters or any questions concerning your program of study or any aspect of your enrollment, please contact me by email or phone at any time.

Oxford Study Abroad Program:

I will be teaching COE2001 Statics and COE3001 Deformable Mechanics at the Oxford Study Abroad Program at the University of Oxford during Summer 2008. This is part of the full Study Abroad Program that includes additional courses taught in connection with travel through several European cities before arriving at Oxford. For more details, go to the Program Web Page or to see some of my impressions you can look here.

Current Courses:


AE3125 Aerospace Structural Analysis: This is the last course in the structures sequence and it covers basic theory of elasticity, work and energy methods, thin-walled structures, and introductory computational structural analysis. The most recent version of the online notes (Aerospace Structural Analysis) is available here.. (Web pages for the current semester are on TSquare only.)

Other Courses:

Provided below are links to other material for AE and CS courses that I regularily teach but am not teaching this term. If you were a student in one of my classes, these links will allow you access to the course material at any time during your undergraduate program. Other students are welcome to use this material, but it may not provide the same level of detail used by other faculty members when they teach the same course.

AE3145 Structures Laboratory: This is the laboratory course that accompanies the other structures courses.
AE4375-AE6380 Fundamentals of Computer Aided Engineering and Design: CAD is an important tool in engineering and this course examine how these tools are designed and built. Matlab assignments will illustrate fundamental concepts and CATIA will be used in applications.

AE6382 Computing Systems for Design Engineering Research: This is a special course developed to supplement the graduate courses in aerospace systems design. It covers some of the basic software tools and commonly used programming languages and environments.

COE2001 Statics: This is the introductory statics course for engineers and it covers advanced statics (beyond intro physics) for engineering applications. This course is required for all AE, CE and ME students, and it is a technical elective for other engineering majors. (Current course web pages are on TSquare only.)

COE3001 Deformable Mechanics: This is the introductory course in deformable mechanics and it follows COE2001. It introduces basic concepts of deformable mechanics and applications to beams (bending stresses, lateral deflections, column buckling). This course is required for all AE, CE and ME students, and it is a technical elective for other engineering majors. (Web pages are on TSquare only.)
AE4131-Introduction to Finite Element Analysis: This is an AE technical elective that will introduce you to the powerful and versatile finite element method which is widely employed for most structural analysis today. The course begins with the basic concepts and will illustrate these with simple Matlab examples. We will also spend time learning how to use a commercial finite element software package called ABAQUS which is available in the AE Computing Lab in Knight 318 as well as in the Engineering Computing Services labs in the French Building.