2021-22 Academic Catalog

Department of Aerospace Engineering

This is an archived copy of the 2021-22 catalog. To access the most recent version of the catalog, please visit http://catalog.msstate.edu.

Interim Department Head: Professor Rani W. Sullivan
Academic Coordinator: Ms. Machaunda Bush
Office: 321 Walker Engineering Building

The Department of Aerospace Engineering at Mississippi State University provides an accredited undergraduate curriculum with the mission of preparing students to enter the workplace as qualified entry-level aerospace engineers or to enter any aerospace engineering graduate program adequately prepared for advanced study. This mission is accomplished by a strong foundation in mathematics and physical and engineering sciences upon which student problem-solving and application skills are developed. The curriculum stresses analytical and communication skills, with particular emphasis placed on engineering design throughout the curriculum. A capstone design experience in the senior year provides the opportunity to integrate design, analytical, and problem-solving skills along with communication skills in a team environment that emulates aerospace engineering practice.

The mission is accomplished by the following educational objectives, which describe the career and professional accomplishments we are preparing our graduates to achieve. Our graduates will:

  1. Be involved in solving unstructured engineering problems within their organization that will allow them to successfully advance in the engineering profession.
  2. Be engaged in lifelong learning and pursue professional development through actions such as persistent study of the current literature in the field, participation in graduate education, professional education or continuing education opportunities, attainment of professional licensure, or membership in professional societies.
  3. Be professionally and ethically responsible to the profession, society, and the environment incumbent on an engineering professional.
  4. Collaborate successfully and positively on multi-disciplinary, culturally-diverse teams in support of their organizational goals.
  5. Communicate effectively in various settings and contexts by activities such as writing technical reports and peer-reviewed articles and presenting at technical interchanges.
     

These objectives are accomplished in two different concentrations in the aerospace engineering curriculum, an aeronautics concentration and an astronautics concentration. The concentration in aeronautics focuses on the analysis and design of aircraft and other vehicles that operate primarily within the earth’s atmosphere, and the concentration in astronautics focuses on the analysis and design of spacecraft and other vehicles that operate primarily outside the earth’s atmosphere. A student in aerospace engineering will choose one of these two concentrations upon choosing the aerospace engineering major.

The aerospace engineering program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org.

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