J. I. Craig Home Page

Georgia Institute of Technology

Aerospace Engineering

Home Page for Dr. J. I. Craig, Professor Emeritus

Room: Weber 211C, Phone: 404-894-3042

Email: james.craig@ae.gatech.edu

Fall Semester 2009

This is the academic 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 all current course material at the Georgia Tech T-Square site.

If you have specific questions not covered here, please email me.

General Information:

Biosketch for Prof. J. I. Craig: This is a tradtional biosketch (somewhat 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.

Study Abroad Program:

Oxford: I will be teaching COE2001 Statics and COE3001 Deformable Mechanics at the Oxford Study Abroad Program at Worcester College, University of Oxford during Summer 2010. 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 from 3 previous sessions, you can look here.

Pacific Program: I taught COE2001 Statics and COE3001 Deformable Mechanics at the Wellington, NZ session of the Pacific Program in January-February 2009. This is also a great program for students who want to explore this part of the world while experiencing a much more personal level of instruction in small seminar-like classes. For more details, go to the OIE Program Web Page, or to see some of my impressions, you can look here.

Current Courses:

The official course web page is at the Georgia Tech T-Square site: http://t-square.gatech.edu but access is currently restricted to currently enrolled students.

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. In previous years, this course was taught using online notes developed by Prof. Bauchau and me. We have expanded these into a new textbook published by Springer that is now used for this course.

Other Courses:

Provided below are links to other material for AE and COE courses that I have regularly taught but am not teaching this term. This may help you evaluate the course or provide resources for related work.

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.