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[EN] The development of active-learning methods is strongly proliferating nowadays in Higher Education studies. Roughly speaking, active learning can be understood as a way of learning in which students are more directly involved in the learning process. It is commonly accepted that, in contrast to traditional methods, substantial improvement of the own learning process is achieved through active methodologies. In particular, teachers must address an extra effort to engage the interest of students when faced with subjects provided with strong theoretical background (such as automatic control related topics). Indeed, one of the main drawbacks reported by the own students is their difficulty to connect real engineering application and theoretical lessons. In this paper, we present an active learning method conceived for automatic control subjects with the aid of virtual laboratories compatible with a wide range of web browsers for this end. In a first stage, some real engineering problems for students in the classroom are raised. Through a suitable follow-up of intermediate results and the appropriate discussions, teachers will be able to obtain an immediate feedback while evaluating the quality of learning at each stage. It is worthwhile mentioning that virtual labs are developed using the standard web interactive programming language HTML and Javascript, which only requires a web browser to be executed. Hence, in comparison to previous academic years, it is expected to better promote the usefulness of the control engineering for the students¿ careers with high degree of autonomy for self-scheduling homework and low cost resources, while improving the self-motivation and long-term quality of learning.

[EN] The development of active-learning methods is strongly proliferating nowadays in Higher Education studies. Roughly speaking, active learning can be understood as a way of learning in which students are more directly involved in the learning process. It is commonly accepted that, in contrast to traditional methods, substantial improvement of the own learning process is achieved through active methodologies. In particular, teachers must address an extra effort to engage the interest of students when faced with subjects provided with strong theoretical background (such as automatic control related topics). Indeed, one of the main drawbacks reported by the own students is their difficulty to connect real engineering application and theoretical lessons. In this paper, we present an active learning method conceived for automatic control subjects with the aid of virtual laboratories compatible with a wide range of web browsers for this end. In a first stage, some real engineering problems for students in the classroom are raised. Through a suitable follow-up of intermediate results and the appropriate discussions, teachers will be able to obtain an immediate feedback while evaluating the quality of learning at each stage. It is worthwhile mentioning that virtual labs are developed using the standard web interactive programming language HTML and Javascript, which only requires a web browser to be executed. Hence, in comparison to previous academic years, it is expected to better promote the usefulness of the control engineering for the students¿ careers with high degree of autonomy for self-scheduling homework and low cost resources, while improving the self-motivation and long-term quality of learning.

[EN] The subject \Flight Loads" framed in the Master in Aerospace Engineering is based largelyon the concepts seen in courses like Flight Mechanics or Structural Analysis of the Degreein Aerospace Engineering. On the one hand, the equations involved can not be solved bytraditional methods but on the other hand we need our students to acquire speci c compe-tences derived from the interpretation of these equations. In the present article we proposea simple numerical and graphic tool developed in the Mathematica software environmentthat allows interactively solving the Flight Mechanics equations of an airplane and obtainresults directly related to the structural design. Several examples show how the presentedmodel works., [ES] La asignatura "Cargas en Vuelo'' enmarcada en el Máster en Ingeniería Aeroespacial se basa en los conceptos vistos en los cursos de Mecánica del Vuelo y Análisis Estructural del Grado en Ingeniería Aeroespacial. Por un lado, las ecuaciones involucradas no pueden resolverse por métodos tradicionales pero por otro necesitamos que nuestros estudiantes adquieran competencias específicas derivadas de la interpretación de dichas ecuaciones. En el presente artículo proponemos una herramienta numérica en forma de laboratorio virtual, sencilla e intuitiva, desarrollada en el entorno del software Mathematica que permite resolver interactivamente las ecuaciones de la Mecánica del Vuelo simétrico de un avión y obtener resultados directamente relacionados con el diseño estructural. Se muestra el funcionamiento del modelo con algunos ejemplos.

[EN] The subject \Flight Loads" framed in the Master in Aerospace Engineering is based largelyon the concepts seen in courses like Flight Mechanics or Structural Analysis of the Degreein Aerospace Engineering. On the one hand, the equations involved can not be solved bytraditional methods but on the other hand we need our students to acquire speci c compe-tences derived from the interpretation of these equations. In the present article we proposea simple numerical and graphic tool developed in the Mathematica software environmentthat allows interactively solving the Flight Mechanics equations of an airplane and obtainresults directly related to the structural design. Several examples show how the presentedmodel works., [ES] La asignatura "Cargas en Vuelo'' enmarcada en el Máster en Ingeniería Aeroespacial se basa en los conceptos vistos en los cursos de Mecánica del Vuelo y Análisis Estructural del Grado en Ingeniería Aeroespacial. Por un lado, las ecuaciones involucradas no pueden resolverse por métodos tradicionales pero por otro necesitamos que nuestros estudiantes adquieran competencias específicas derivadas de la interpretación de dichas ecuaciones. En el presente artículo proponemos una herramienta numérica en forma de laboratorio virtual, sencilla e intuitiva, desarrollada en el entorno del software Mathematica que permite resolver interactivamente las ecuaciones de la Mecánica del Vuelo simétrico de un avión y obtener resultados directamente relacionados con el diseño estructural. Se muestra el funcionamiento del modelo con algunos ejemplos.

[EN] The subject \Flight Loads" framed in the Master in Aerospace Engineering is based largelyon the concepts seen in courses like Flight Mechanics or Structural Analysis of the Degreein Aerospace Engineering. On the one hand, the equations involved can not be solved bytraditional methods but on the other hand we need our students to acquire speci c compe-tences derived from the interpretation of these equations. In the present article we proposea simple numerical and graphic tool developed in the Mathematica software environmentthat allows interactively solving the Flight Mechanics equations of an airplane and obtainresults directly related to the structural design. Several examples show how the presentedmodel works., [ES] La asignatura "Cargas en Vuelo'' enmarcada en el Máster en Ingeniería Aeroespacial se basa en los conceptos vistos en los cursos de Mecánica del Vuelo y Análisis Estructural del Grado en Ingeniería Aeroespacial. Por un lado, las ecuaciones involucradas no pueden resolverse por métodos tradicionales pero por otro necesitamos que nuestros estudiantes adquieran competencias específicas derivadas de la interpretación de dichas ecuaciones. En el presente artículo proponemos una herramienta numérica en forma de laboratorio virtual, sencilla e intuitiva, desarrollada en el entorno del software Mathematica que permite resolver interactivamente las ecuaciones de la Mecánica del Vuelo simétrico de un avión y obtener resultados directamente relacionados con el diseño estructural. Se muestra el funcionamiento del modelo con algunos ejemplos.

[EN] The subject \Flight Loads" framed in the Master in Aerospace Engineering is based largelyon the concepts seen in courses like Flight Mechanics or Structural Analysis of the Degreein Aerospace Engineering. On the one hand, the equations involved can not be solved bytraditional methods but on the other hand we need our students to acquire speci c compe-tences derived from the interpretation of these equations. In the present article we proposea simple numerical and graphic tool developed in the Mathematica software environmentthat allows interactively solving the Flight Mechanics equations of an airplane and obtainresults directly related to the structural design. Several examples show how the presentedmodel works., [ES] La asignatura "Cargas en Vuelo'' enmarcada en el Máster en Ingeniería Aeroespacial se basa en los conceptos vistos en los cursos de Mecánica del Vuelo y Análisis Estructural del Grado en Ingeniería Aeroespacial. Por un lado, las ecuaciones involucradas no pueden resolverse por métodos tradicionales pero por otro necesitamos que nuestros estudiantes adquieran competencias específicas derivadas de la interpretación de dichas ecuaciones. En el presente artículo proponemos una herramienta numérica en forma de laboratorio virtual, sencilla e intuitiva, desarrollada en el entorno del software Mathematica que permite resolver interactivamente las ecuaciones de la Mecánica del Vuelo simétrico de un avión y obtener resultados directamente relacionados con el diseño estructural. Se muestra el funcionamiento del modelo con algunos ejemplos.

[EN] The subject \Flight Loads" framed in the Master in Aerospace Engineering is based largelyon the concepts seen in courses like Flight Mechanics or Structural Analysis of the Degreein Aerospace Engineering. On the one hand, the equations involved can not be solved bytraditional methods but on the other hand we need our students to acquire speci c compe-tences derived from the interpretation of these equations. In the present article we proposea simple numerical and graphic tool developed in the Mathematica software environmentthat allows interactively solving the Flight Mechanics equations of an airplane and obtainresults directly related to the structural design. Several examples show how the presentedmodel works., [ES] La asignatura "Cargas en Vuelo'' enmarcada en el Máster en Ingeniería Aeroespacial se basa en los conceptos vistos en los cursos de Mecánica del Vuelo y Análisis Estructural del Grado en Ingeniería Aeroespacial. Por un lado, las ecuaciones involucradas no pueden resolverse por métodos tradicionales pero por otro necesitamos que nuestros estudiantes adquieran competencias específicas derivadas de la interpretación de dichas ecuaciones. En el presente artículo proponemos una herramienta numérica en forma de laboratorio virtual, sencilla e intuitiva, desarrollada en el entorno del software Mathematica que permite resolver interactivamente las ecuaciones de la Mecánica del Vuelo simétrico de un avión y obtener resultados directamente relacionados con el diseño estructural. Se muestra el funcionamiento del modelo con algunos ejemplos.

[EN] The subject \Flight Loads" framed in the Master in Aerospace Engineering is based largelyon the concepts seen in courses like Flight Mechanics or Structural Analysis of the Degreein Aerospace Engineering. On the one hand, the equations involved can not be solved bytraditional methods but on the other hand we need our students to acquire speci c compe-tences derived from the interpretation of these equations. In the present article we proposea simple numerical and graphic tool developed in the Mathematica software environmentthat allows interactively solving the Flight Mechanics equations of an airplane and obtainresults directly related to the structural design. Several examples show how the presentedmodel works., [ES] La asignatura "Cargas en Vuelo'' enmarcada en el Máster en Ingeniería Aeroespacial se basa en los conceptos vistos en los cursos de Mecánica del Vuelo y Análisis Estructural del Grado en Ingeniería Aeroespacial. Por un lado, las ecuaciones involucradas no pueden resolverse por métodos tradicionales pero por otro necesitamos que nuestros estudiantes adquieran competencias específicas derivadas de la interpretación de dichas ecuaciones. En el presente artículo proponemos una herramienta numérica en forma de laboratorio virtual, sencilla e intuitiva, desarrollada en el entorno del software Mathematica que permite resolver interactivamente las ecuaciones de la Mecánica del Vuelo simétrico de un avión y obtener resultados directamente relacionados con el diseño estructural. Se muestra el funcionamiento del modelo con algunos ejemplos.