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Aerospace Engineering

Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering

Coursework Location(s)

Main/Tucson

Areas of Interest
  • Engineering & Technology
  • Environment & Sustainability
  • Physical & Space Sciences

Aerospace engineers advance space exploration and improve aircraft design. Aerospace and defense is one of the strongest industrial sectors in the United States; Arizona is a significant player, and the University of Arizona is a major pipeline for aerospace engineers. Students in the Aerospace Engineering Bachelor of Science program learn to design and maintain spacecraft, commercial aircraft, fighter jets, missiles, rockets and satellites. They graduate with working knowledge of aerodynamics, control system design, gas dynamics, solid and fluid mechanics, and thermodynamics. Undergraduates complete industry-sponsored capstone projects, some of which become commercial products. They also have opportunities to test materials in the university's array of wind tunnels ?the newest of which shoots air at Mach 4 and Mach 5 to study the effects of flight at hypersonic speeds.

Sample Courses
  • AME211: Computer Aided Drafting and Manufacturing
  • AME 321: Aircraft Performance
  • AME 457: Orbital Mechanics and Space Flight
Career Fields
  • Government agencies,Military,Defense,Aircraft design,Aircraft mechanics,Control systems
Level of Math
Substantial Knowledge
LEVEL OF SECOND LANGUAGE
None
Pre-major Required?
NO
Sample Plans 2020 - Aerospace Engineering

First Year

1st semester
Credits
ENGR 102A Intro to Engineering Lecture Series
1.00
ENGR 102B Intro to Engineering
2.00
ENGL 101 First Year Composition
3.00
MATH 125 Calculus I
3.00
CHEM 151 General Chemistry 1
4.00
Tier I General Education
3.00
2nd semester
Credits
ECE 175 Intro to Programming
3.00
AME 105 Intro to MATLAB I
1.00
PHYS 141 Introductory Mechanics
4.00
MATH 129 Calculus II
3.00
Tier I General Education
3.00
ENGL 102 First Year Composition
3.00

Second Year

3rd semester
Credits
AME 205 Intro to MATLAB II
1.00
PHYS 241 Intro to Electricity and Magnetism
4.00
CE 214 Statics
3.00
MATH 223 Vector Calculus
4.00
AME 211 Intro to CAD and Solid Modeling
3.00
Tier I General Education
3.00
4th semester
Credits
AME 220 Intro to Aerospace Engineering
3.00
AME 230 Thermodynamics
3.00
AME 250 Dynamics
3.00
MATH 254 Differential Equations
3.00
Tier I General Education
3.00

Third Year

5th semester
Credits
AME 300 Instrumentation Lab
3.00
AME 301 Engineering Analysis
3.00
AME 320 Aerodynamics
3.00
AME 324A Mech Behavior of Engineering Materials
3.00
MSE 331R Fundamentals of Materials for Engineers
3.00
AME 313 Machine Shop
1.00
6th semester
Credits
AME 302 Numerical Methods
3.00
AME 321 Aircraft Performance
3.00
AME 323 Gasdynamics
3.00
AME 324C Aerospace Structures
3.00
AME 324L Mechanicsof Materials Laboratory
1.00
Tier II General Education
3.00

Fourth Year

7th semester
Credits
AME 401 Senior Aerospace Laboratory
2.00
AME 420 Aerospace Conceptual Design
3.00
AME 425 Aerospace Propulsion
3.00
AME 427 Stability and Control of Aerospace Vehicles
3.00
AME 457 Orbital Mechanics
3.00
AME 495S Senior Colloquium
1.00
8th semester
Credits
AME 422 Aerospace Engineering Design
3.00
AME 463 Finite Element Analysis w/ ANSYS or AME 431 Numerical Methods in Fluid Mech + Heat Trnsfr.
3.00
Technical Elective
3.00
AME 4XX Technical Elective
3.00
Tier II General Education
3.00

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