Space Domain Awareness Certificate

Space Domain Awareness (SDA) is the tasking and examination of remote sensing and human factors data to infer or construct an operating picture of the space domain to enable awareness and decision making for continued safe operations. This certificate recognizes focus and specialization in this cross-disciplinary area. 

This certificate incorporates a variety of interdisciplinary courses in Smead Aerospace, the Department of Computer Science, Department of Information Science, and the ATLAS Institute. 

This certificate is the first national or international graduate certificate in space domain awareness, and is intended to help unify the community, develop a common lexicon and understanding of the problem and to train the future highly-skilled practitioners.

Certificate Requirements

The standard requirements of this certificate are the completion of fifteen (15) hours of graduate-level coursework (i.e., five 3-credit courses) with grades of B or better in each course. In addition to ASEN 5050/ASEN 5052 and ASEN 5044, each student is free to choose the other three courses from one specialization area.

See the Graduate Handbook for a complete list of certificate requirements.

Enrollment

Awarding a Completed Certificate

  • Completed your certificate? Congratulations! Please fill out the Certificate Award Request Form.
    • This form is for both degree-seeking and non-degree seeking students.
    • A grade of B or higher is required in all courses to earn a certificate.
    • If you are also pursuing other graduate certificates, you cannot use the same courses to count for both certificates.

Informational resources

Contact

Aerospace Engineering Sciences Graduate Program Advisor Maureen Craig.