Aerospace Engineering
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Overview
Leonardo da Vinci wrote, “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward. For there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” Perhaps, like da Vinci, you’ve always been obsessed with airborne machines: Gliders and lighter-than-air craft. Fixed-wing airplanes and jets. Autogyros and helicopters. Or even rockets, satellites, and spacecraft. Aeronautical engineers generally design aircraft to fly within the Earth’s atmosphere, while astronautical engineers design the technology for spacecraft to fly beyond the atmosphere. Either way, the sky’s the limit, if even that!
Minor Program
To declare your intention to pursue the Aerospace Minor, please use your Berkeley email address/calnet ID and fill out the following application to declare form.
All students can apply to declare the Aerospace Engineering Minor after completing the following prerequisite courses: MEC ENG C85 (Introduction to Solid Mechanics), MEC ENG 106 (Fluid Mechanics), and MEC ENG 132 (Dynamic Systems and Feedback) or their approved equivalents. Students must have a minimum overall grade-point average of 3.0, as well as a minimum grade-point average of 3.0 in the prerequisite courses, in order to be admitted to the minor program. For more information, please visit the AE Minor Program website.