What courses do you study for aerospace majors?

Aerospace majors mainly study the basic knowledge of mathematics and mechanics, the basic theory of aircraft engineering, the overall structural design and strength analysis and test ability of aircraft, and train senior engineers and researchers who can engage in aircraft (including spacecraft and launch vehicles) design, structural design and research, structural strength analysis and test, and general mechanical design and manufacturing.

The main courses of this major include aerodynamics, heat transfer and combustion, engine design, flight control, flight mechanics, structural mechanics of aircraft, aircraft design, aircraft integrated electronic system, aviation safety and human factors, and aviation manufacturing technology.

In a narrow sense, aerospace majors include aircraft design and engineering, aircraft power engineering, aircraft manufacturing engineering, aircraft environment and life support engineering, detection guidance and control technology and other major disciplines. However, aircraft and spacecraft are the crystallization of comprehensive science and technology, involving materials, electronic communication equipment, instruments and meters, remote control and telemetry, navigation, remote sensing and so on. So in a broad sense, materials science and engineering, electronic information engineering, automation, computer, transportation, quality and reliability engineering are all indispensable disciplines of aerospace technology. With the rapid development of space industry, new specialties such as space transportation and control, remote sensing science and technology have been born in recent years.

Aerospace major is a major in aerospace research. The training goal of aerospace specialty is to train senior engineers and researchers who have good basic knowledge of mathematical mechanics, basic theory of aircraft engineering, overall structural design, strength analysis and test ability of aircraft, and can be engaged in structural design and research, structural strength analysis and test, and general mechanical design and manufacture of aircraft (including spacecraft and launch vehicles).

Aerospace industry is an extremely huge, complex and comprehensive system engineering. Therefore, in a broad sense, the aerospace major is a comprehensive major that basically covers the fields of materials, electronic engineering, automatic control and manufacturing. Taking Harbin Institute of Technology as an example, related majors such as automation, engineering mechanics, composite materials and engineering, electronic science and technology, optical information science and technology have been set up for aerospace.