Graduate Program Prerequisites

The Aerospace Engineering Graduate Program encourages applicants with other related engineering backgrounds to apply to our program. The Graduate Admissions Committee may recommend that an incoming student take selected undergraduate courses before the core courses.

Prerequisite courses are listed to assure that students have the necessary academic background before enrolling in a given course. The ENAE 283 course ( Introduction to Aerospace Systems) is required for students without any aerospace engineering background.

1) ENAE283 Introduction to Aerospace Systems
Prerequisite: ENES 102 PHYS 161 MATH 141
Co-requisite: PHYS 260 PHYS 261
Introduction to airplanes and space vehicles as aerospace systems. Fundamentals that describe these systems. Elements of aerodynamics, airfoils, and wings. Airplane performance, stability, and control. Aircraft and rocket propulsion. Fundamentals of orbital motion. Aspects of vehicle conceptual design.

2) ENAE311 Aerodynamics I
Prerequisite: ENAE 283 MATH 246
Fundamentals of aerodynamics. Elements of compressible flow. Normal and oblique shock waves. Flows through nozzles, diffusers and wind tunnels. Elements of the method of characteristics and finite difference solutions for compressible flows. Aspects of hypersonic flow.

3) ENAE414 Aerodynamics II
Prerequisite: ENAE 311
Aerodynammics of inviscid incompressible flows. Aerodynamic forces and moments. Fluid statics/buoyancy force. Vorticity, circulation, the stream functionand the velocity potential. Bernoulli's and Laplace's equations. Flows in low speed wind tunnels and airspeed measurement. Potential flows involving sources and sinks, doublets, and vorteces. Development of the theory of airfoils and wings.

GPA
The Graduate School requires students to maintain a 3.0 GPA in all courses for credit since enrollment.