Special Topics in Aerospace Engineering
Who: Seniors, Graduate Students, Professionals
How: In-person, Online-Synchronous, Online-Asynchronous
To audit: Register at a participating university
Credits: 3 graduate or undergraduate, Certificate for non-degree seeking for tuition reimbursement
Prerequisites: Engineering UG and Your Curiosity
Course Information
Topics to cover Multi-Disciplinary Hypersonic Technology:
- Introduction to Hypersonic Systems
- Hypersonic Environments and Phenomenology
- Structures and Materials for Hypersonic Systems
- Hypersonic Propulsion Concepts
- Control Systems for Hypersonic Vehicles
- Hypersonic Testing and Experimentation
Taught by the Leading Subject Matter Experts of Each Topic.
Guest Instructors
- Ragini Acharya, UT/SI
- Chris Goyne, UVA
- Jonathan Rogers, GTech
- Iain Boyd, Colorado
- David Lipke, MS&T
- José Camberos and David Jacques, AFIT






Course is offered at 6 Universities:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- University of Virginia
- Missouri University of Science and Technology
- Georgia Tech
- Florida Agricultural Mechanical University
- Florida State University
- Air Force Institute of Technology
Enroll at any of the 6 participating universities.
Course audit is allowed with instructor permission. Please contact individual university POC’s for information about audit.
Course sit-in (no audit or credit) is allowed with instructor permission. Please contact ragini.acharya@utsi.edu.
“This course is useful in expanding skills for the growing hypersonic workforce.”
–Lori Stiglitz, JHTO Workforce Development Lead.