AEROSPACE SCIENCES

Catalog description

This introductory course will provide pre-service teacher candidates, aviation students, and students at large the opportunity for a science oriented general education course. The curriculum will be focused in the areas of earth and space science, geospatial technology, and aeronautics. Key topics for this course will include the geoscience practice of Geographic Information Systems, Global Positioning System, and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory/ UNO designed Data-Slate remote sensing program. Also included will be space sciences focused solar system exploration, satellite technology, and astronautics. Students will engage in aeronautic science topics inclusive of the study of aerodynamics of flight, meteorological science and weather, and flight technology. All students will be provided opportunity to apply concepts of flight in the Aviation Institute's Advanced Simulation Facility.