- Online students may choose the non-thesis option, except with special permission from the department to complete a thesis.
- Complete a minimum of 30 credit hours of graduate (6000 and above)-level course work that must include 21 credit hours of courses such as the following:
- AERO 6330 Applied Orbital Mechanics 3 hours
- AERO 6520 Rocket Propulsion 3 hours
- AERO 6530 Space Propulsion 3 hours
- AERO 6620 Dynamic Simulation 3 hours
- AERO 6630 Aerospace Applications of Composite Materials 4 hours
- AERO 6750 Legal Aspects of Engineering Practice 3 hours
- AERO 7100 Advanced Supersonic Aerodynamics 3 hours
- AERO 7120 Dynamics of Viscous Fluids I 3 hours
- AERO 7130 Dynamics of Viscous Fluids I 3 hours
- AERO 7200 Dynamics of Flight 3 hours
- AERO 7210 Flight Dynamics of Hypervelocity Vehicles 3 hours
- AERO 7220 Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics and Control 3 hours
- AERO 7330 Orbit Determination 3 hours
- AERO 7370 Fundamentals of the Global Positioning System 3 hours
- AERO 7510 Thrust Generation 3 hours
- AERO 7520 Advanced Airbreathing Propulsion 3 hours
- AERO 7530 Aereothermochemistry of Propulsion 3 hours
- AERO 7620 Aerospace Computational Structural Analysis: Static Structures 3 hours
- AERO 7630 Aerospace Computational Structural Analysis: Structural Dynamics 3 hours
- AERO 7660 Aerolasticity 3 hours
- AERO 7670 Introduction to Large Space Structures 3 hours
- AERO 7890 Aerospace Engineering Project 3 hours
*View a complete AERO course list and course descriptions. Graduate courses are those listed as level ”6000” and up. Those that are also offered online have a corresponding listing with a course section beginning in "D" (e.g., AERO 7670 Dxx). The course section will change from term to term.