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Rajalakshmi

Engineering
College
From the Department of Aeronautical Engineering

Volume 4, Issue 3

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VISION & MISSION STATEMENT


OF THE INSTITUTION
VISION
To be an Institution of Excellence in Engineering, Technology,
Management Education & Research. To Provide Competent and
Ethical Professionals with a Concern for Society.
MISSION
To Impart Quality Technical Education Imbibed with Proficiency and
Humane Values. To Provide Right Ambience and Opportunities for the
Students to Develop in to Creative, Talented and Globally Competent
Professionals. To Promote Research and Development
In Technology and Management for the Benefit of the Society.

VISION & MISSION STATEMENT


OF THE DEPARTMENT
VISION
To Provide Excellent Graduate Education in Aeronautical Engineering and
Continuously support the Community of Aerospace Professionals that will
spearhead and Strengthen the Design and Development of Aerospace Related
Industries and Institutions in India.
MISSION
Work to Quality Exposure in Theory and Practical with Proficiency, Skill and
Humane Values with the Best Teaching and Industrial Expertise.
Strive to Develop and Provide Excellent Laboratories.
Try to Provide Good Exposure to recent Trends in Industry.
Guide the Students in Right Direction, Providing them Better Ambience and
Opportunities to Develop in to Creative, Talented and Globally Competent
Aero Professionals.
Work to Promote Research and Development Activities in the Sphere of
Aeronautics for the Benefit of Society.

Rajalakshmi
Engineering
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PROGRAMME EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES


PEO # I
Our Graduates should have the Ability to Apply Knowledge Across the Disciplines and in Emerging Areas
of Aerospace Engineering for Higher Studies, Research, Employability and Product Development.

PEO # II
Our Graduates should have the Communication Skills sense of Responsibility to Protect the Environment
and Ethical Conduct towards their Profession Commitment to Serve the Society.

PEO # III
Our Graduates Should Possess Academic Excellence, Managerial Skills, Leadership Qualities and
Understanding the Need for Lifelong Learning for a Successful Professional Career.

PROGRAMME OUTCOMES
1. An ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and engineering
2. An ability to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems.
3. An ability to design a system, component or process to meet desired needs
4. An ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyze and interpret data
5. An ability to use the techniques, skills, and modern engineering tools necessary for engineering
practice.
6. An ability to design a system, component, or process to meet desired needs within realistic constraints
such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, manufacturability, and
sustainability.
7. The broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global,
economic, environmental, and social context
8. An understanding of professional and ethical responsibility
9. An ability to function on multidisciplinary teams
10. An ability to communicate effectively
11. Ability to apply project management techniques and financial aspects related to aeronautical
engineering projects.
12. Recognition of the need for, and an ability to engage in life-long learning.

PROGRAM SPECIFIC OUTCOMES (PSOs)


1. Demonstrate problem solving ability and hands-on skills to enter careers in the design, manufacturing,
testing, or maintenance of aeronautical systems.
2. Demonstrate an ability to use CAE packages and simulation language skills to solve practical, design
and analysis problems using the aeronautical engineering discipline
3. Behave in a professional and ethical manner, and to aid in solving societal problems using the
professional knowledge in aeronautical engineering.

Rajalakshmi
Engineering
College
From the Department of Aeronautical Engineering

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Progress towards an Economical Future - Reusable Rockets


- Dr. Yogesh Kumar Sinha (HOD-AERO) & Mr. Pracheesh P. (III Year, Aero)

Today's rockets are remarkable collections


of human ingenuity that have their roots in
the science and technology of the past.
They are natural outgrowths of literally
thousands of years of experimentation and
research on rockets and rocket propulsion.

The company is working towards the


development of the higher version i.e. BE4 (Blue Engine-4). The company is also
working on an orbital vehicle, which has
been nicknamed "Very Big brother

Blue Origin & SPACEX


Thousands of rockets have flown into
space, but not until 2015 did one return like
this: it came down upright on a landing pad,
steadily firing to control its descent, almost
as if a movie of its launch were being
played backward. If this can be done
regularly and rockets can be refuelled over
and over, spaceflight could become a
hundred times cheaper. Two tech
billionaires made it happen. Jeff Bezoss
Blue Origin first pulled off a landing in
November 2015; Elon Musks SpaceX did
it in December 2015. The companies are
quite different - Blue Origin hopes to propel
tourists in capsules on four-minute space
rides, while SpaceX already launches
satellites and space station supply missions
- but both need reusable rockets to improve
the economics of spaceflight.
Blasting things into space has been
expensive because rockets cost tens of
millions of dollars and fly once before
burning up in a free fall back through the
atmosphere."Rockets have always been
expendable. Not anymore, stated Jeff
Bezos Blue Origin has been somewhat
secretive about the progress of its
spaceflight vehicles and rockets; the
company typically doesn't announce test
flights until they are already completed.
They named their Rocket Engine as BE-3
which stands for Blue Engine - 3 .

Blue Origin - 3 during Take off


Watch the full video at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pillaOxGCo

SpaceX Falcon 9's reusable main-stage booster


landed on an ocean platform minutes later.
Watch the full video at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZXu_rYF51M

ISRO RLVTD
The first technology demonstrator (TD)
launch of the Indian Space Research
Organisations Reusable Launch Vehicle
(RLV), or the Space plane in popular
parlance, took place on May 23 (2016) at
9.30 a.m. from the Satish Dhawan Space
Centre (SDSC), Sriharikota. Visually, the
RLVTD is a rocket-aircraft combination
measuring about 17 m, whose first stage is
a solid propellant booster rocket and the
second stage is a 6.5 m long aircraft like
winged structure sitting atop the rocket.

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Reusable Rockets (CONTINUED)


However, the popular perception of the
technology as a marriage between rocket and
aircraft is a misnomer. In RLVTD, the first stage,
weighing about 9 tonnes, is merely the Satellite
Launch Vehicle (SLV3) flown in the 1980s.
The vehicle will take off like a rocket and the
RLV will be taken to a height of 70 km and
where the booster will release the vehicle to
carry out its manoeuvres.
According to Dr. K. Sivan, director of the Vikram
Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), where the RLV
was designed, assembled and where it
underwent basic electrical, hydraulic and sign
check tests, the objective is to achieve
hypersonic speeds to basically test the
hypersonic aerothermodynamic characterisation
of the winged bodys re-entry, its control and
guidance systems, autonomous mission
management to land at a specific location at
sea and testing of hot structures that make up
the structure of the RLV. The test is, therefore,
termed as Hypersonic Experiment 1 (HEX1).
A conventional launch vehicle (LV), spends the
lowest time of its flight in the atmosphere,
whereas the RLV system spends all the time in
the atmosphere. Also, while an LV experiences
limited flight regime of say Mach 0 to Mach 2 or
so, the RLV experiences a much wider range of
flight regimes. Hence the technology of an RLV
is much more complex basically arising from the
design of the control and guidance systems, he
pointed out. In HEX1, the winged RLV is
otherwise a dummy with no powered flight of its
own. At the end of the HEX1 mission, the
aircraft will land in sea. However, the ultimate
objective of the RLV programme of ISRO is to
enable the vehicle traverse a very wide range of
flight regimes from Mach 0 to Mach 25 based
on air breathing propulsion for achieving two
stage to orbit (TSTO) launch capability.

The integrated test system (booster plus the


RLVTD) is already at the SDSC (SDSC),
Sriharikota. Prior to being moved to Sriharikota,
the RLV subsystem underwent acoustic tests at
the National Aerospace Laboratories of the
CSIR (CSIRNAL) and the booster went as a
separate subsystem directly from VSSC. At
SDSC the two were mated together.
Dr. A.S. Kiran Kumar, ISRO Chairman, called
the first test launch HEX1 a very preliminary
step and stressed that we have to go a long
way before it could be called a reusable launch
system. But these are very essential steps we
have to take, he said.
Asked whether the Indian reusable launch
system was aimed at bringing down the launch
cost, the ISRO Chairman said, It will bring down
the cost. Towards that, we will have to work and
go through these initial steps, the Chairman
said.
The present design is basically a flying test bed
to evaluate various technologies, namely
hypersonic flight, autonomous landing, powered
cruise flight and hypersonic flight using airbreathing propulsion using a scramjet engine,
according to ISRO website. The HEX series of
experiments will be followed by the landing
experiment (LEX), return flight experiment and
scramjet propulsion experiment (SPEX). The
basic design of a scramjet has already been
evolved. A test launch of the engine aboard a
sounding rocket, which will achieve a flight
regime of up to Mach 8

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Engineering
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From the Department of Aeronautical Engineering

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Why is India buying those 36 Rafale jets


even after bad reviews of those jets?
The many reviews that you are seeing on the blogs
and forums are the courtesy of marketing ploys by the
disgruntled manufacturers, people, government of the
countries that lost the bid for the birds.
There is also a political reason behind the selection.
India has vowed to never buy first string weapons like
fighter jets from US, as US has pretty good history of
blocking important tech from reaching India. Germany
has a law which prohibits the sale of spare parts during
war, we may have to ground the Typhoon fleet in such
scenario and UK deprived us of spare parts for harrier
fleet during Kargil war, so we don't trust them.
It was only the French who supplied us with spare
parts for mirage 2000 on an emergency scale, there by
allowing mirage 2000 to boss the sub-continent
airspace. IAF is still in love with mirage 2000. The
credit goes where it deserves the most.
Let us look at the countries that lost the bid
USA: F18, F16 (obsolete)
US is okay. We are already buying too much of their
second string weapons.
Germany/UK/Spain/Italy: Eurofighter
UK media was so disappointed, it started saying that
India lives on its donation and UK MPs especially the
conservatives who were in power at that moment
started saying how dare their old colony reject
them.
Infact the only UK media house which
graciously accepted the failed bid and criticized its
government is Guardian.

Sweden: Gripen
come on! (with all due respect) who wants to buy a
cheap phone when you can royally afford the best
out there.
Russia: MIG 35
They are losing the credibility with Indian Armed
Forces with late delivery and jacking up the cost of
the weapons mid-way. Eg: INS Vikramaditya. Even
they are going on a snail speed with Sukhoi FGFA.
The serviceability of Su-30MKI is
awful so does their immediate jacking up of the
shells for T90S tanks. The poor after-sales service
of the Russians are well known. We have to
decrease our dependency on Russia to checkmate
their easy going nature, which is believed to be
successfully implemented with side stepping
Russian second string birds for US birds.
More over wont they be
disappointed when they lost $20billion opportunity
to add to your weak economy? infact you'd be
disgruntled.
No
surprise,
when
Russian
ambassador says that Chinese Sukhois can swat
Rafale like flies. An ambassador is like a marketing
manager, he markets his company(country), that
is his duty, and he failed there. He is just
disgruntled of his poor marketing skills.

Rajalakshmi
Engineering
College
From the Department of Aeronautical Engineering

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Rajalakshmi
Engineering
College
From the Department of Aeronautical Engineering

Volume 4, Issue 3

I'm having a wonderful time studying in the Technical


University of Delft, one of the three TUs in the Netherlands.
I started my Masters here last September, and since then, a
lot of interesting things have happened in my life. I had the
chance to visit ESTEC, one of the biggest centres of ESA in
the Netherlands. I also visited The Von Karman Institute of
Fluid Dynamics in Belgium, the European Transonic wind
tunnel facility in Cologne, the KLM engine facility inside the
Schipol Airport, Amsterdam and I will be visiting the DutchGerman Wind tunnel facility in Amsterdam next month. All
these visits have given me the opportunity to connect with
people from different areas of speciality and different
nationality.

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Deepak Prem (2012-16)

In addition to visiting places, I was privileged to meet eminent personalities, including Jan
Wrner, the Director General of ESA and Dr. Matt Taylor (Project Scientist of the Rosetta
Mission). I have taken a course, taught by Dr G. Heidelberg, the Director of DNW. The
opportunity to learn is immense in this University, and when looked in the right place, it is
not very difficult to secure an Internship, though it could be challenging. The student
population is also very talented. The team from TU Delft won the second place in the
Hyperloop competition conducted by SpaceX and the first place in the World Solar
Challenge last year. The student-run society, DARE, have designed and built a rocket
which holds the European altitude record for amateur rocketry, reaching an altitude of 21.5
km last October. Anyone from the university could be a part of these teams.
The course structure for my Masters consists of one year of coursework, three months of
obligatory internship and nine months of thesis. More details on the course structure can
be found in the University website. Hence, by the time you graduate from this university,
you will have both the theoretical knowledge and a relevant industrial exposure.
Speaking of my life here in the Netherlands, it has been extraordinary. The people are
very friendly and there is no necessity to learn Dutch in order to survive. However, you
may have to learn the language, if you need a job. If you love travelling, the you can plan
a weekend to visit any of the beautiful cities and places nearby. A bus ride will take you to
the next country. The university also has a good Indian population, so that you will not be
left out. Overall, this is one of the best places in the word, where you can pursue graduate
studies. If you have any additional queries regarding the university or the course, feel free
to contact me at dpkprm@gmail.com

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Vol4. Issue 3

Dr. Yogesh Kumar Sinha, has published a paper


titled, "Study of thermo-mechanical properties of
HTPB-paraffin solid fuel", in The Arabian Journal
for Science and Engineering (July 2016)

Chairman
Mr. G. Ezhilmaran (Assistant Professor) has
participated in ICTAT, a Faculty Development
Program on Personality Development conducted
at Panimallar Engineering College. (14 &
15.07.2016)
Dr. Suresh Chandra Khandai has participated in
Board of studies meeting at M. G. R. University.
(16.07.2016)
19 students of Final Year class underwent
FLIGHT TRANING PROGRAM at Flight Lab, IIT
Kanpur. (18.- 27.07.2016)

Dr. Yogesh Kumar Sinha


HOD (AERO)
Coordinator
Mr. Surendra Bogadi
Assistant Professor (SS), Aero
Student Editor
Niveditha B.
IV Year, Aero

47 students of III Year underwent NDT Training


Program at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic
Research, Kalpakkam. (20 22 July 2016)
surendrabogadi@rajalakshmi.edu.in
SELVAMUTHUKUMARAN V. of III Year has
presented Innovative Projects at Enactus
National Event. (21 & 22.07.2016)

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Mr. ARUNAGIRI Ex-DGM,HAL(HD), National


Aerospace Laboratories, has delivered a guest
lecture on DEVELOPMENT OF COMBAT
HELICOPTER. (22 July 2016)
LEKHASHREE U S, PRACHEESH R., SHAKTHI
UMA DEVI S., DEVAGANESH S., PAVAN
RANJITH BABU D K. have participated in an
Interactive Session On Education And Innovation
conducted by Confederation of Indian Industry,
Chennai. (29.07.2016)
Professor N. Muthusamy has participated in Pan
IIT Leadership Series ( PALS 2016-17) conducted
at IIT Madras. (30 July 2016)

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