Educational Objectives

During their first three to five years after graduation, Aerospace Engineering Sciences graduates will have

• Established themselves in professional careers or received a graduate degree
• Demonstrated ethical leadership, project management, and/or innovation
• Played significant roles in the research and development of engineering systems and products

Desired Outcomes

Students completing the undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering will be knowledgeable in the following areas:

• The professional context of the practice of aerospace engineering and expectations of new graduates in aerospace engineering organizations, including an awareness of ethics issues, economics, and the business environment;
• The history of aerospace engineering, providing a perspective on current events;
• Aerospace engineering as a highly multidisciplinary endeavor, requiring a systems perspective to integrate technologies and manage complexity;
• Major principles and scientific methods underlying the technologies comprising aerospace vehicles and systems

In addition, students will have developed the following general skills and abilities:

• Written, oral, and graphical communication skills;
• An ability to quantitatively estimate, model, analyze, and compute;
• An ability to define and conduct experiments using modern laboratory instruments, and to interpret experimental results;
• An ability to seek out and gather information, enabling independent and lifelong learning;
• Interpersonal and organizational skills that enable individuals to work effectively in teams;
• An ability to identify needs, requirements, and constraints, and to design appropriate engineering solutions;
• An ability to formulate technical problems clearly, and to correctly apply appropriate methods and procedure for their solution;
• An ability to program computers, and skills in the use of modern engineering analysis, simulation software and operating systems.