Curriculum:
Core Courses
MAE 5065 – Introduction to Spaceflight Mechanics
MAE 5160 – Spacecraft Technology and Systems Architecture
Either or both of the following:
MAE 5830 – Astronautic Optimization (not offered 24-25)
MAE 6060 – Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics, Estimation and Control
Specialization Courses
Spacecraft Dynamics, Guidance, Navigation, and Control
MAE 5150 – GPS: Design and Theory (not offered 24-25)
MAE 5730 – Intermediate Dynamics
MAE 5780 – Feedback Control Systems
MAE 5790 – Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
MAE 6280 – Adaptive and Learning Systems
MAE 6700 – Advanced Dynamics (not offered 24-25)
MAE 6720 – Advanced Astrodynamics
MAE 6760 – Model-Based Estimation (not offered 24-25)
MAE 6770- Formal Methods for Robotics (not offered 24-25)
MAE 6780 – Multivariable Control Theory
MAE 6810 – Methods of Applied Mathematics I
ECE 5110 – Random Signals in Communications and Signal Processing
Space robotics
MAE 5180 – Autonomous Mobile Robots
MAE 5810- Robot Perception
MAE 5816- Space Robotics (not offered 24-25)
MAE 6670- Formal Methods of Robotics (not offered 24-25)
ECE 5470 – Computer Vision
Space Science
AEP 6060 – Introduction to Plasma Physics
ASTRO 6509 – General Relativity I
ASTRO 6510 – General Relativity II
ASTRO 6523 -Modeling, Mining and Machine Learning in Astronomy
ASTRO 6560 – Physics of Stars, Neutron Stars and Black Holes
ASTRO 6570 – Physics of the Planets
ASTRO 6577 – Planetary Surface Processes (not offered 24-25)
ASTRO 6590 – Galaxies and the Universe
Space-Based Earth Observation
EAS 5350 – Statistical Methods in Meteorology and Climatology
EAS 6800 – Atmospheric Chemistry: From Air Pollution to Global Change
EAS 5011 – Evolution of the Earth System
EAS 5840 – Inverse Methods in the Natural Sciences
EAS 5750 – Planetary Atmospheres (not offered 24-25)
EAS 5780 – Planet Formation and Evolution (not offered 24-25)
Space Travel, Exploration, Commercialization, and Settlement
MAE 5910 – Model Based Systems Engineering
MAE 5920 – Systems Architecture, Behavior, and Optimization
MAE 5930 – Systems Engineering and Six Sigma for the Design and Operation of Reliable Systems
MAE 6530 – Space Exploration Engineering (not offered 24-25)
MAE 5230 – Intermediate Fluid Dynamics with CFD
MAE 5430 – Combustion Processes
MAE 5510 – Aerospace Propulsion
MAE 5540 – Propulsion of Spacecraft (not offered 24-25)
MAE 6540 – Space Propulsion Physics and Engineering (not offered 24-25)
MAE 6640 – Mechanics of Bone
BME 5390 – Circuits, Signals and Sensors: Instrumentation Laboratory
MAE 6680 – Cancer for Engineers and Physicists
ARCH 5612 – Structural Concepts
ARCH 5613 – Structural Systems
ARCH 5611 – Environmental Systems I: Site and Sustainability
ARCH 5616 – Environmental Systems II: Building Dynamics
CEE 5510 – Microbiology for Environmental Engineering
CEE 6910 – Project Management
NBA 5070 – Entrepreneurship for Engineers and Scientists
Advanced Technology
ECE 5815 – Introduction to Nuclear Science and Engineering
ECE 5840 – Introduction to Controlled Fusion: Principles and Technology
MAE 5010 – Future Energy Systems
CHEME 6662 – Solar Energy Module
MSE 5801 – Materials Structure and Electronic Properties
MSE 5310 – Introduction to Ceramics
MSE 5850 – Electronic, Magnetic, and Dielectric Properties of Materials (not offered 24-25)