Week 1 Introduction
"İnsanoğlu yorgunluktan çekinmez; ufuksuz olmaktan harap olur. Menzili bildikten sonra yürümek daima kolaydır. Kaldı ki milletimizin tarihi terbiyesi ona öyle bir kudret vermiştir ki büyük tanıdığı işler için hiçbir fedakarlıktan çekinmez. Ona hakiki hedefi gösterelim; programını verelim, yeter. O zaman bütün küskün sandığımız tanrılar, başta huzur olmak üzere dönecek ve fani bedenimize bürünecekler, hayatımıza şekil vereceklerdir." A. H. Tanpınar, 1947.
Periodicals and textbooks [Presentation]
Cognitive development in college [pdf]
Seventeen sustainability goals
THK University brochure [pdf]
We ignore the past at our peril
Week 2 The future of flight
Full report [Google doc]
Presentation [link]
YouTube presentations [playlist]
Changing aviation [link, audio]
Propulsion systems [link, audio]
Aviation and the environment [link, audio]
Supersonic aeroplanes [link, audio]
Urbain air mobility [link, audio]
Extra
Changes in the air, 2011 Technology Quarterly by The Economist [link]
Week 3 Drone techonology
Civilian drones [pdf]
Industries waking with the buzz
Four steps to extend drone use in research
Surge in applications to develop drones
Technology for fighting drones
Rules for flying drones [docx]
Technology to combat rogue drones [docx]
The growing appetite for armed drones in the Middle East [docx]
All documents [Google docs]
Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones [pdf]
Week 4 Electrification
The death of the internal combustion engine [pdf]
A better motor is the first step towards electric planes
Future electric aircraft [docx]
Small hybrid-electric airliners ready for take off [docx]
Launching aircraft using electric motors
Electric cars will arrive early
Potential for electric aircraft [pdf]
Technological, economic and environmental prospects of all-electric aircraft [pdf]
A literature review on electrifying aircraft [pdf]
Week 5 Materials for Aerospace
https://www.nature.com/collections/eegdejdage
How to knit a sports car [docx]
Giant setup for additive printing
No easy solutions for aerospace materials
Materials for Space Exploration and settlement
Interview with David Rugg (Senior Engineering Fellow in Materials at Rolls-Royce plc.)
Multimaterial 3D printing [video]
Week 6 Aviation and the environment
Formation and radiative forcing of contrail cirrus
Yim, S. H. L. et al. Global, regional and local health impacts of civil aviation emissions.
Current and future noise impacts of the UK hub airport
COMMERCIAL INTRA-CITY ON-DEMAND ELECTRIC-VTOL STATUS OF TECHNOLOGY NASA Urban Aviation Report
Climate Climate warming 101 and predicting the future climate
Overwintering fires in boreal forests
Week 7 Satellites and remote sensing
Balloon flotilla detects an earthquake from high in the sky
Observatory signup, Quantum cubesats
Repurposing wayward satellites
Megaconstellation satellites threaten astronomical observation
Using satellites to spot industry's methane leaks
Open source intelligence intro and briefing
Week 8 Super- and hypersonics
A new engine could bring back supersonic air-travel
How supersonic jets may become less noisy
Microfluidics and article
An uncorked champagne bottle imitates a fighter jet
Week 9 Control, autonomy, robots and accidents
Boeing airliner crashed in Ethiopia [docx]
Boeing 737 Max 8 crashes [doc]
Automation : Computer in the cockpit [doc]
Controlled flight of a soft-robot
Emergency landing system [article audio]
Garmin promotion [video1] [video2]
The manager of the garmin autoland project [linkedIn]
Robots’ abilities to recognise and manipulate things are improving
Week 10 Energy
A combo solar cell and battery
Chineese space power stations [more]
Making wind power more predictable
Week 11 Weapons and defense
Iran’s attack on Iraq shows how precise missiles have become
Priorities for the Pentagon [docx]
A history of laser weapons [pdf]
Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty 1
Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty 2
Saudi Arabia’s missile race [docx]
Hypersonic missiles [pdf]
Anti-satellite missiles: China and India (1/2)
Week 12 Fluid and aerodynamics
How jumping up and down in a canoe propels it forwards
Artificial swimmers [Introduction 1][ Introduction 2]
Beads dancing to music creates 3D images [news article] [video]
Ultrasonic leviation [video]
A volumetric display for visual, tactile and audio presentation using acoustic trapping [research article]
How lagging swimmers can get ahead using fluid dynamics
Aerodynamic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 in two Wuhan hospitals
Week 13 International
X-rays v radiowave for space communications [pdf]China lands on the moons far side [pdf]
India launches Mars-bound probe, 5 Nov 2013
India gears up for second Moon mission, 24 Oct 2017
Indian start-up’s Moon mission in doubt, 19 Jan 2018
India’s surprise plan to send people to space by 2022, 5 Sep 2018
Astronautics Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashes into the Moon
Video : We choose to go the moon
Video : We will try again, starting tomorrow.
Industrial engineering Global value chains [docx]
About the first powered flight
Apollo 9, which was launched on February 28, 50 years ago.
Week 14 Moon, Mars and more..
South Korea set for first Moon mission
Japan’s Hayabusa2 craft touches down on asteroid Ryugu
More about the black hole news [video1] [video2]
Square kilometer array radio telescope
How to build a moon baseThe world gets ready to return to the Moon
Pioneering Mars rover mission formally ends after 15 years
Entanglement-based secure quantum cryptography over 1,120 kilometres
Week 15 Air travel
Air travel is nasty and unprofitable
The case against private jets [docx]
Should we turn our backs on flying? [podcast]
Other
Flying low and slow over endangered whales
Week 16 Commercial aerospace