Due to the critical importance of the turbopump applied in Liquid-Propellant Rocket Engines (LPRE) and the importance in the use of specific engineering software to design and analyze turbomachines, a Project-Based Learning (PBL) methodology was implemented in the undergraduate Turbopumps (TP) discipline at the Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), taught for aerospace engineering students. This methodology was applied, using as a class example, the Liquid Oxygen (LOX) booster turbine of the Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME), aiming at an enhancement in the discipline’s syllabus, to become the theory and practice closer to the real engineering, and to increase the discipline’s attractiveness. The results obtained with this methodology showed that the students have more interest and attention in the classes in which an engineering problem is evaluated and discussed with details using appropriate examples and engineering software that are used by the academia and industry. Several turbomachines issues as velocity triangles, power, blade geometrical aspects, flow quality, losses and in this case, the importance of tip clearance, could be better understood by the students. About the numerical results, the aim is that the students, after the preliminary project ends, evaluate the results and compare them with experimental data from National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). One of the most important experience in this project is the results evaluation by the students and the discussion around it, as lessons learned, given suggestions to improve the project, if the results are not in the right way what can be done to correct them and understanding all physical phenomena involved. The learning experience was fascinating and effective, as noticed by students and noted by Professors.
