Undergraduate Program:
With an MIT aerospace engineering degree, you can seek career opportunities in such fields as commercial and military aircraft and spacecraft engineering, space exploration, air and space telecommunications, academia, research and military service.
AeroAstro Undergraduate Program
AeroAstro students built these UAVs for the US Air Force to employ in ground based sensor system calibration.
The MIT AeroAstro (or Course 16 as were known at MIT) undergraduate program prepares you for entry-level positions in aerospace and related engineering fields, and for continuing on to graduate school. Employers place a premium on MI
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Undergraduate Program:
With an MIT aerospace engineering degree, you can seek career opportunities in such fields as commercial and military aircraft and spacecraft engineering, space exploration, air and space telecommunications, academia, research and military service.
AeroAstro Undergraduate Program
AeroAstro students built these UAVs for the US Air Force to employ in ground based sensor system calibration.
The MIT AeroAstro (or Course 16 as were known at MIT) undergraduate program prepares you for entry-level positions in aerospace and related engineering fields, and for continuing on to graduate school. Employers place a premium on MIT graduates knowing that they are the best-prepared new aerospace engineers in the world. Our demanding technical education emphasizing the understanding of complex systems is also excellent preparation for careers in business, law, medicine, and public service.
AeroAstro offers a comprehensive undergraduate curriculum. While undergraduates normally enter the department in their sophomore year, there are numerous opportunities in AeroAstro for first-year students.
Sophomore students start with Unified Engineering, which offers a sound understanding of aerospace engineering's fundamental disciplines: statics, materials and structures, thermodynamics and propulsion, fluid mechanics, and signals and systems. Laboratory experiments are also performed in Unified Engineering. Our majors also complete Differential Equations.
To complete the core requirements, students pursuing the Course 16 degree take additional core subjects in dynamics, principles of automatic control, statistics and probability, and in computer programming. Students matriculating in the Course 16-ENG program also take computer programming and either dynamics or principles of automatic control; they are not required to take statistics and probability.
In addition to the above, Course 16 degree candidates complete a minimum of four subjects (48 units) from among a group of professional area subjects, with subjects in at least three areas. As stated earlier, these areas include fluid mechanics, materials and structures, propulsion, computational tools, estimation and control, computer systems, communication systems, and humans and automation. Students may choose to complete an "option" in Aerospace Information Technology by taking a minimum of 36 units (out of the 48 units required) from a designated group of subjects specified in the Course 16 degree cha
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