University Catalog 2025-2026

Aerospace Engineering (MS)

Master of Science Degree Requirements

Non-Thesis Option

Required Courses *27
Select a minimum of 18 credits (6 courses) of 500-level to 700-level MAE courses
Select a maximum of 9 credits (3 courses) of non-MAE or MAE technical elective courses approved by the Director of Graduate Programs
Project Course3
Project Work In Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Total Hours30

Thesis Option

Required Courses *21
Select a minimum of 12 credits (4 courses) of 500-level to 700-level MAE courses
Select 9 credits (3 courses) of non-MAE or MAE technical elective courses approved by the Director of Graduate Programs
Research Course9
Master's Thesis Research
Total Hours30
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"Required Courses" may include up to three non-MAE courses approved by the Director of Graduate Programs

Accelerated Bachelor's/Master's Degree Requirements

The Accelerated Bachelors/Master’s (ABM) degree program allows exceptional undergraduate students at NC State an opportunity to complete the requirements for both the Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at an accelerated pace. These undergraduate students may double count up to 12 credits and obtain a non-thesis Master’s degree in the same field within 12 months of completing the Bachelor’s degree, or obtain a thesis-based Master’s degree in the same field within 18 months of completing the Bachelor’s degree.

This degree program also provides an opportunity for the Directors of Graduate Programs (DGPs) at NC State to recruit rising juniors in their major to their graduate programs. However, permission to pursue an ABM degree program does not guarantee admission to the Graduate School. Admission is contingent on meeting eligibility requirements at the time of entering the graduate program.

Faculty

Full Professors

  • Igor A. Bolotnov
  • Matthew Bryant
  • Gregory D. Buckner
  • Tarek Echekki
  • Farhan Saifuddin Gandhi
  • Tasnim Hassan
  • He Huang
  • Jack Ray Edwards Jr.
  • Srinath Ekkad
  • Tiegang Fang
  • Ashok Gopalarathnam
  • Xiaoning Jiang
  • Andrey Valerevich Kuznetsov
  • Hong Luo
  • Kevin M. Lyons
  • Andre P. Mazzoleni
  • Marie Muller
  • Venkateswaran Narayanaswamy
  • Gracious Ngaile
  • Brendan Timothy O'Connor
  • Lokendra Pal
  • Kara Jo Peters
  • Afsaneh Rabiei
  • Katherine Saul
  • Rohan A. Shirwalker
  • Hooman Vahedi Tafreshi
  • Fen Wu
  • Chengying Xu
  • Fuh-Gwo Yuan
  • Yong Zhu
  • Mohammed A. Zikry

Associate Professors

  • Sajjad Bigham
  • Justin M. Bradley
  • Scott M. Ferguson
  • Landon Grace
  • Timothy Joseph Horn
  • Hsiao-Ying Shadow Huang
  • Arun Kumar Kota
  • Jun Liu
  • Jong Eun Ryu
  • Alexei V. Saveliev
  • Nitin Sharma
  • Liming Xiong

Assistant Professors

  • James Braun
  • Darius Carter
  • Chuyi Chen
  • Curtis Congreve
  • Mohammad Heiranian
  • Jingjie Hu
  • Florian M. Laggner
  • Andrew Jeungahn Lee
  • Donggun Lee
  • Jaemin Lee
  • Seyed Mehran Mirramezani
  • Rohith Mittapally
  • Mark Moretto
  • Laura Paquin
  • Jason F. Patrick
  • Susmita Sarkar
  • Henry Oliver Tenadooah Ware
  • Chi-An Yeh
  • Chi-An Yi
  • Jie Yin

Teaching Associate Professor

  • Felix Ewere

Teaching Assistant Professors

  • Mingtai Chen
  • Etana A. Ferede

Teaching Professors

  • Anna Howard
  • Chau Tran

Assistant Research Professor

  • Huaiyu Wu

Emeritus Faculty

  • Michael A. Boles
  • Thomas A. Dow
  • Herbert Martin Eckerlin
  • Jeffrey W. Eischen
  • Richard David Gould
  • Hassan A. Hassan
  • Richard F. Keltie
  • Clement Kleinstreuer
  • David S. McRae
  • Robert T. Nagel
  • Lawrence M. Silverberg
  • John S. Strenkowski