The minor in Aerospace Engineering is offered by the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Structural Engineering.  It is available to undergraduate students pursuing an ABET accredited BS degree in Engineering.  Students develop a solid, broad-based background in engineering, arts, humanities and social sciences with an emphasis in aerospace engineering which includes the study of aerospace sciences such as aerodynamics, flight dynamics and control, aerospace structures, aerospace propulsion and the design of air and space vehicles. During the junior and senior years, the students learn about aerospace engineering by taking five courses.

• Aerodynamics:  Thin airfoil theory, lifting-line theory for finite wings, slender body theory, linearized compressible flow and Prandtl-Glauert rule, supersonic thin airfoil theory, introduction to performance, and concepts of airfoil design.
  
  

• Flight Dynamics and Control:  Aircraft dynamics, aircraft stability, flight control, flying qualities, and the application of control theory to control system design.
  
  

• Aerospace Propulsion:  Introduction to propeller, jet, ramjet, and rocket propulsion, 1-D analysis of gas turbine engine performance, analysis and performance of airbreathing propulsion system, analysis and design of gas turbine engine components, e.g., inlets, nozzles, compressors, turbines, turbofan and turbopropeller and combustors.
  
  

• Aerospace Structures:  Key features of aerospace structures, basic properties of aerospace materials, principles of stressed skin construction; bending, shear, and torsion of open and closed thin-walled cross-section beams, structural idealization, loads on flight vehicles, applications to wings and fuselages.
  
  

• Aerospace Design:  Detailed design of an aircraft component (e.g., wing, fuselage, etc.) or a system (e.g., control system) or a spacecraft component or system.  Emphasis on engineering teamwork, ethics and professionalism.