School of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Graduate)

Website: https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAE

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Academic Programs

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics offers masters and doctoral degrees in aeronautical and astronautical engineering.

The Gambaro Graduate Program of Aeronautics and Astronautics is among the top, as well as largest, aerospace engineering programs in the country. The program offers Professional MS, non-thesis MS, thesis MS, and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics. The program offers a wide selection of courses and world-class research facilities.

Programs

• Aeronautics and Astronautics, PHD

• Aeronautics and Astronautics, MSAAE

• Hypersonics, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate

Courses

• AAE 50700 - Principles Of Dynamics
• AAE 50800 - Optimization In Aerospace Engineering
• AAE 51100 - Introduction To Fluid Mechanics
• AAE 51200 - Computational Aerodynamics
• AAE 51400 - Intermediate Aerodynamics
• AAE 51800 - Low-Gravity Fluid Dynamics
• AAE 51900 - Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics
• AAE 52000 - Experimental Aerodynamics
• AAE 52100 - Plasma Laboratory
• AAE 52300 - Introduction To Remote Sensing
• AAE 53200 - Orbit Mechanics
• AAE 53300 - Space Traffic Engineering Management
• AAE 53400 - Spacecraft Electric Propulsion
• AAE 53500 - Propulsion Design, Build, Test
• AAE 53700 - Hypersonic Propulsion
• AAE 53800 - Air Breathing Propulsion
• AAE 53900 - Advanced Rocket Propulsion
• AAE 54500 - Dynamic Behavior of Materials
• AAE 54600 - Aerospace Structural Dynamics And Stability
• AAE 54800 - Mechanical Behavior Of Aerospace Materials
• AAE 55000 - Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
• AAE 55100 - Design Theory And Methods For Aerospace Systems
• AAE 55200 - Nondestructive Evaluation Of Structures And Materials
• AAE 55300 - Elasticity In Aerospace Engineering
• AAE 55400 - Fatigue Of Structures And Materials
• AAE 55500 - Mechanics Of Composite Materials
• AAE 55600 - Aeroelasticity
• AAE 55800 - Finite Element Methods In Aerospace Structures
• AAE 56000 - System-Of-Systems Modeling And Analysis
• AAE 56100 - Introduction To Convex Optimization
• AAE 56400 - Systems Analysis And Synthesis
• AAE 56700 - Introduction To Applied Stochastic Processes
• AAE 56800 - Applied Optimal Control And Estimation
• AAE 57100 - Complex System Safety
• AAE 57500 - Introduction To Satellite Navigation And Positioning
• AAE 59000 - Projects In Aeronautical Engineering
• AAE 59500 - Aerospace Seminar
• AAE 59700 - Independent Study In Aerospace Engineering
• AAE 60700 - Variational Principles Of Mechanics
• AAE 61300 - Viscous Flow Theory
• AAE 61500 - Aeroacoustics
• AAE 62400 - Laminar-Turbulent Transition
• AAE 62600 - Turbulence And Turbulence Modeling
• AAE 63200 - Advanced Orbital Dynamics
• AAE 64200 - Graduate Professional Practice
• AAE 64600 - Elastic Wave Propagation
• AAE 64800 - Modeling Damage And Strengthening Mechanisms In Materials
• AAE 65400 - Fracture Mechanics
• AAE 66600 - Nonlinear Dynamics, Systems, And Control
• AAE 66800 - Hybrid Systems: Theory And Analysis
• AAE 67500 - Advanced Signals And Systems For Satellite Navigation
• AAE 69000 - Advanced Aeronautical Engineering Projects
• AAE 69800 - Research MS Thesis
• AAE 69900 - Research PhD Thesis