Gain insights into using Python for mechanical and aerospace engineering. Learn about basics, graphing techniques, airfoil plotting, and dynamic pressure and orbital modeling in 2D and 3D.

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In this course, you will learn about the Python programming language in the context of mechanical and aerospace engineering. 

You will start with the basics of Python, like variables, collections, and different types of loops. Once you have the basics out of the way, the real fun begins. You will learn how to: graph thrust available and thrust required, graph dynamic pressure during a rocket launch, and how to plot airfoil coordinates. 

Towards the end, you will get a strong overview of orbital parameters and learn how to model both 2D and 3D static orbits. Once you’ve completed this course, you will have a better understanding of Python and how it works in the context of mechanical/aerospace engineering.

Python for Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

This course has been adapted from [*Python for Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering*](https://www.alexkenan.com/pymae/). The interactive nature has its advantages over a standard book format. 

I decided to create this course to address the gap between mechanical and aerospace engineering and Python. Hopefully, the use of engineering examples showed you how Python could help you in your everyday life.

Hopefully, this course sparked an interest in learning more about Python. This course is merely a crash course in Python’s usefulness in engineering applications. Python already has great libraries for creating GUIs, machine learning, logging, website development, pattern matching with regular expressions, interacting with data sources, and much more. I highly recommend reading through the NSA tutorial on this course's GitHub page to learn more about how Python can be useful in various applications.

Since you are already on Educative.io, there are some great additional courses to learn more about Python!

Getting Comfortable with Python

FizzBuzz

Graphing Thrust Available and Thrust Required

Graphing Dynamic Pressure During a Rocket Launch

Getting and Plotting Airfoil Coordinates

Modeling a 2-Body Orbit in 2D and 3D

Unit Conversions

Introduction to Web Scraping

Modeling Camera Shutter Effect

Writing Reports with Pweave

The End

Concluding Remarks for the Course