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Subject offerings of new and developing areas of knowledge in aerospace engineering intended to augment the existing curriculum. See Class Schedule or department course information for topics and prerequisite. Course Information: 1 to 4 undergraduate hours. 1 to 4 graduate hours. May be repeated in the same or separate terms if topics vary to a maximum of 9 undergraduate hours or 12 graduate hours.

4 hours Topic: Estimation and Data Assimilation. The future state of a dynamical model depends on control parameters such as initial conditions, model errors, parameters of the model, and boundary conditions. Insufficient knowledge of these parameters leads to uncertainty of the prediction. Information about the dynamical state and its uncertainty is collected from observations or data. Blending the information from observations with information from dynamical models to estimate the state or the model parameters is called data assimilation which is a complex interdisciplinary subject that involves engineering, signal processing and mathematics.