BS Aerospace Engineering

The PEOs for the Aerospace Engineering program are to produce graduates who:

PEO1: competently apply engineering methods to solve professional problems associated with the design, development, manufacture, and maintenance of aerospace and related systems and understand the social, ethical, and environmental context of their work. 

PEO2: communicate clearly with diverse and international communities, collaborate competently in cross-functional teams, and assume leadership roles while meeting the expectations of their employers. 

PEO3: habitually engage in professional development. 

The Aerospace engineering program expects that graduates have a knowledge of aerodynamics, aerospace, structures, propulsion, flight mechanics, and stability and control. It is also expected that graduates have design competence that includes integration of various disciplines within aerospace engineering.

Curriculum Overview: The 120-credit program contains 87 credit hours of required technical courses, 33 credit hours of electives (including one professional elective, one Aerospace professional elective, one undesignated elective and five Knowledge Area/University Course, KA/UC, electives). 

Required Technical Courses: The first two years of the curriculum cover mathematics, physics, chemistry and engineering science courses (including basic principles of statics, dynamics, solid mechanics, electrical circuits, materials and the use of computers). 

In the third and fourth years, students take specialized courses on topics such as aerodynamics and flight mechanics. These courses provide knowledge and skills that strongly support the second outcome listed above, which is a key element in aircraft design. The laboratory components of the first-year physics and chemistry courses introduce study of the relationship between theory and reality. This fosters the development of the student’s technical intuition. Aerospace engineering laboratory courses add to this development.