Do you want to obtain a solid understanding of the foundations of aerospace systems and learn professional problem-solving skills?
Through our innovative curriculum, expert instruction and hands-on experiences, you'll develop the engineering thinking and technical knowledge you'll need to make an impact in this exciting profession.
Become a Solinsky Engineer.
The Solinsky Engineers Program is designed to give future engineers a community, a $20,000 scholarship to attend Clarkson for four years, and a variety of incredible benefits to enhance their educational and co-curricular college experience.
We are transforming and elevating our industry-driven engineering education. How? Through scholarship offerings, game-changing facility upgrades and unmatched hands-on learning opportunities. Clarkson will give you the skills, confidence and experience to lead the future of engineering and manufacturing.
Being a Solinsky Engineer opens doors to real experience, camaraderie, and accelerated career growth. We'll choose up to 100 first-year engineering majors annually to be a part of this exciting initiative. Find out how to apply.
You'll gain a solid grounding of the foundations of aerospace systems: aerodynamics, structures, propulsion, dynamics and controls, and software, as well as unmanned air vehicles (UAVs), nano-materials, autonomous systems and wind energy.
A degree in aerospace engineering from Clarkson gives you highly transferrable skills, including business acumen, critical thinking, high-level math and written communication.
Aerospace engineering majors take courses in:
In the aerospace engineering capstone course, you'll work in teams to design an aircraft and apply the solution process to a real-life problem.
The Aerospace Engineering undergraduate bachelor's degree program consists of 87 credit hours out of 120 credit hours. Those 87 credit hours in aerospace engineering include classes in applied physics, applied mathematics, engineering science and mechanical engineering.
See the course catalogue for current Bachelor's requirements and course numbers.
Clarkson Common Experience
The following courses are required for all students, irrespective of their program of study. These courses are offered during the fall semester, with FY100 First-Year Seminar being required of only first-year students. Both FY100 and UNIV190 are typically taken during the fall semester of the first year at Clarkson.
FY100 First-Year Seminar
UNIV190 The Clarkson Seminar
Aerospace Engineering
Students are required to complete the following courses:
Professional Experience
Students are required to complete the following Professional Experience:
Internship, co-op, or directed research related to the student's professional goals.
Core Electives
Students must complete the following courses:
Engineering Science
Mathematics
Electives
Biology/Chemistry
Students must complete one course from the following:
Biology II: Cellular & Molecular Biology
General Chemistry II
Professional Electives
The student must complete 9 credits of professional electives. Professional electives are upper-division courses in mathematics, physics, other engineering disciplines; for example, Applied Statistics, Fourier Series and Boundary-Value Problems, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD), Optimal Engineering, Biomechanics, Additive Manufacturing and Welding and Metallurgy.
Knowledge Area/University Course Electives
Students majoring in aerospace engineering are required to take at least 15 credit hours to satisfy the Knowledge Area and/or University Course electives general education requirement. This must include Engineering & Society and a course in economics, such as Engineering Economics.
Free Electives
Students majoring in aerospace engineering have at least 3 credit hours available to use toward courses of their choice.
As an undergraduate student, you'll have the opportunity to have hands-on research experience with a faculty expert. Aerospace engineering majors benefit from the wide variety of research projects being pursued by faculty and graduate students within the department, from optimizing luge sleds for the U.S Olympic Luge Association and creating the newest ducted wind turbine technology to improving the operation and design of engineering systems for industry partners and understanding the laryngeal aerodynamics of voiced speech. Learn more about research at Clarkson.
Twice a year, nearly 200 employers come to campus to recruit undergraduate Clarkson students for internships and co-ops, and aerospace engineering students are in demand. Many students who have internships or co-ops with companies they meet at one of our Career Fairs receive full-time job offers before graduation. Learn more about co-ops and internships.
Undergraduate aerospace engineering students get hands-on experience through our SPEED (Student Projects for Engineering Experience and Design) teams, especially representing the department on our Design, Build, Fly team, which competes in the international American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Competition each year. Any major can join any of our 12 SPEED teams, with aerospace engineers joining other teams like FIRST Robotics, Baja SAE, Concrete Canoe, Formula SAE and Human-Powered Vehicle.
Aerospace engineering students can get involved outside the classroom through over 200 clubs and organizations on campus, including several related to aerospace engineering. Explore all clubs and organizations.
As various fields of medicine and healthcare increasingly depend on advances in technology, graduates with combined expertise in biomedical engineering principles and knowledge of biological sciences will be in high demand. Learn more about the biomedical engineering minor.
The minor in robotics provides a solid and coherent introduction to the field with four required core courses and three elective courses. Learn more about the robotics minor.
Clarkson has a wide range of minors, concentrations and professional advising tracks. We'll help you design an education that meets your goals and interests. Learn more about minors, concentrations and tracks.
How many recent grads do you know who launched a research satellite the year after graduation? Or founded a startup that launches satellites to act as eyes for other satellites and make navigation safer? Or were listed on Forbes’ “Next 1000: The Upstart Entrepreneurs Redefining the American Dream” list? We know one: aerospace engineering graduate Sergio Gallucci ’16.
Clarkson aerospace engineering graduates from the Class of 2023 had an average starting salary of more than $77K, with some as high as $150K.
Many of our graduates will go on to become aerospace engineers. However, the career opportunities for our aerospace engineering majors can also include roles such as:
Due to their technical skills and professional problem-solving experience, our graduates land positions at leading companies. Many aerospace engineering majors also choose to continue their studies at graduate schools.
Here is a sampling of companies who have recently hired Clarkson aerospace engineering graduates.
Hear from Kabir in this video interview, how his high school advisor introduced him to Clarkson University's Aerospace program.
Students in the Clarkson Rocketry Club are dedicated to designing, building and flying high-performance rockets using the knowledge obtained from their engineering classes.
Dr. Michael Bazzocchi and Professor Marcias Martinez's new AIDFab Lab features cutting-edge metal 3D printers, robotics, and other state-of-the-art technologies. This project addresses the increasing need for adaptive technology to support aging in place and is a collaboration between the Clarkson team and La Fondation Dassault.
Clarkson University's undergraduate aerospace, chemical, civil, computer, electrical, environmental, mechanical, and software engineering programs and undergraduate engineering and management program are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, www.abet.org. Read more on Engineering Program Objectives.
Find out how you can learn the foundations of aerospace systems and gain professional problem-solving skills with our Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering.
