L30 — Project 3 Presentations#
Block 3 closes with your results. Each group briefs its signature trade study to the design review, HW3 comes due, and Quiz 3 checks that the block's physics stuck.
Presentation logistics#
10 minutes of group results presentation plus 5 minutes of Q&A.
Every member speaks.
Slides (PDF) and code are due before class starts. Late deliverables require coordination at least 24 hours in advance; non-coordinated late submissions receive a zero.
The audience is the design review: lead with the recommended package, then defend it with the loudest-band story — which band limits, where the limiter jumps as you invest, and why your package beats the obvious X-band-RAM buy within the same budget.
Innovation bonus: up to +5% for analysis or visualization that goes meaningfully beyond the tasking — an aspect heat map, a threat-conditioned kill probability, a full budget search. See the handout.
Also due today#
HW3 — Signatures and IR EW is due at the start of class. Individual work; see HW3.
Quiz 3 is taken in class: open book, 15 minutes, individual. It covers your project work and the Block 3 topics (L21–L28). If you did the project honestly, the quiz is a victory lap.
What’s next#
Block 3 is complete: you can read the infrared spectrum, defeat a seeker, shape and treat an airframe’s radar cross-section, and fuse every band into one loudest-band budget. Block 4 — Aircraft Survivability and Mission Planning integrates the whole toolkit — low observability, electronic warfare, and tactics — into a survivable mission against a modern integrated air-defense system. (Coming soon.)