University of Houston

The Houston area is recognized nationally for the strength of its aerospace-oriented companies and its proximity to the NASA Johnson Space Center. The Aerospace Program offers the opportunity for graduate study to those employed or seeking employment in the aerospace field to help them advance in the technical track of this profession.

M.S. degree requirements:

The M.S. degree has two options: non-thesis and thesis. The M.S. non-thesis option degree consists of a minimum of thirty semester hours of graduate course work. Eighteen of these semester hours should be completed with courses in the following core areas:

(A)     Aerodynamics and Heat Transfer,

(B)     Structural Mezzchanics and Materials, and

(C)     Controls and Dynamics.

Approved courses in these core areas are listed below under the Courses heading. Students can select a core area of concentration where they take the majority of their core courses. However, as a breadth requirement, students should take at least six semester hours of core course work outside their core area of concentration. The remaining twelve semester hours of graduate work should be completed with courses from the above core areas or from approved graduate elective courses listed under the Courses heading. The course work should be selected with the approval of the Aerospace Engineering Program Director. The M.S. thesis option degree consists of a minimum of twenty-one semester hours of course work and nine semester hours of thesis work. As in the non-thesis option, eighteen of the course work semester hours should be completed in the core areas (A), (B), and (C) with at least six semester hours of core course work outside the core area of concentration. The remaining three hours of course work should be completed with a course from the approved elective courses or the core courses. For the M.S. thesis option the course work should be selected based on the recommendations of the student’s thesis advisor. For both M.S. degree options a maximum of six hours of course work may be completed at the 5000 level.