Aerospace Engineering 5 year Curriculum

**First year - fall**
Course	Course Title	Hours
AE 245	Introduction to Aerospace Engineering	3
	KU Core Elective	3
AE 290	Aerospace Colloquium	.25
	KU Core Elective	3
MATH 125	Calculus 1	4
	TOTAL HOURS	13.25

**First year - Spring**
Course	Course Title	Hours
AE 290	Aerospace Colloquium	.25
MATH 126^H	Calculus II	4
PHSX 210^H	General Physics I for Engineers	3
PHSX 216	General Physics I Laboratory	1
	KU Core Elective	3
AE 211	Computing for Engineers	3
	TOTAL HOURS	14.25

**Second year - Fall**
Course	Course Title	Hours
AE 290	Aerospace Colloquium	.25
AE 345	Fluid Mechanics	3
CE 301^H	Statics & Dynamics	5
MATH 220^H	Applied Differential Equations	3
PHSX 212^H	General Physics II	3
PHSX 236^H	General Physics II Laboratory	1
	TOTAL HOURS	15.25

**Second year - Spring**
Course	Course Title	Hours
AE 290	Aerospace Colloquium	.25
MATH 127^H	Calculus III	4
AE 445	Aircraft Aerodynamics	3
CE 310	Strength of Materials	4
ME 212	Basic Engineering Thermodynamics	3
	TOTAL HOURS	14.25

**Third year - fall**
Course	Course Title	Hours
CHEM 150***	Chemistry for Engineers	5
	KU Core Elective*^H	3
AE 290	Aerospace Colloquium	.25
AE 507	Aerospace Structures I	3
MATH 290^H	Elementary Linear Algebra	2
	TOTAL HOURS	13.25

**Third year - Spring**
Course	Course Title	Hours
	KU Core Elective*^H	3
AE 290	Aerospace Colloquium	.25
AE 360	Introduction to Astronautics	3
AE 508^H	Aerospace Structures II	3
EECS 316	Circuits, Electronics & Instrumentation	3
	TOTAL HOURS	12.25

**Fourth year - fall**
Course	Course Title	Hours
AE 571	Reciprocating Propulsion	3
AE 550	Dynamics of Flight I	4
AE 290	Aerospace Colloquium	.25
AE 545^H	Fundamentals of Aerodynamics	4
	KU Core Elective*^H	3
	TOTAL HOURS	14.25

**Fourth year - spring**
Course	Course Title	Hours
AE 290	Aerospace Colloquium	.25
AE 551^H	Dynamics of Flight II	4
AE 430	Aerospace Instrumentation	3
AE 421	Computer Graphics	3
AE 572^H	Fundamentals of Jet Propulsion	3
	TOTAL HOURS	13.25

**Fifth year - fall**
Course	Course Title	Hours
AE 510	Aerospace Material & Processes	4
AE 520 OR 521^H	Aerospace Systems Design I	4
AE 590	Aerospace Seminar	1
	Technical Electives	3
	TOTAL HOURS	12

**Fifth year - spring**
Course	Course Title	Hours
AE 522^H	Aircraft Systems Design, or
AE 523	Spacecraft Systems Design, or	4
AE 524	Propulsion Systems Design
	Technical Electives	3
	TOTAL HOURS	7

Enrollment in junior-level aerospace courses is limited to students who have received grades of C- or higher in all first- and second-year courses in mathematics, physics, ME 212, CE 301, CE 310, AE 245, AE 345, and AE 445.

CURRICULUM NOTES

* Students must ensure the electives they choose fulfill all remaining KU Core requirements.
** Technical electives are selected from upper level aerospace courses, approved courses from other engineering departments or approved math courses.
*** Students with credit in CHEM 130 may add CHEM 149 to meet the CHEM 150 requirement.
^H Honors equivalent course is available.

CORE DISTRIBUTION

GE 1.1 CRITICAL THINKING: PHSX 210
GE 1.2 QUANTITATIVE LITERACY: MATH 125

GE 2.1 WRITTEN COMMUNICATION: ELECTIVE
GE 2.2 ORAL COMMUNICATION: AE 522 (or AE 523, 524, 721, or 722.)

GE 3H ARTS & HUMANITIES: ELECTIVE GE 3N NATURAL SCIENCES: CHEM 150
GE 3S SOCIAL SCIENCES: ECON 104^H, 142^H OR 144^H

AE 4.1 DIVERSITY IN UNITED STATES: ELECTIVE
AE 4.2 GLOBAL AWARENESS: ELECTIVE

AE 5.1 ETHICS & SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: AE 245, 290, 510, AE 520 or AE 521, AND 590

AE 6.1 INTEGRATION & CREATIVITY: Aerospace Engineering Capstone

2023-2024 Curriculum