About the Program

Stanford’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics prepares students for professional positions in industry, government and academia through a comprehensive program of graduate teaching and research. In this broad program, students have the opportunity to learn and integrate multiple engineering disciplines. The program emphasizes structural, aerodynamic, guidance and control, and propulsion problems of aircraft and spacecraft.

What You’ll Study

What you will study at the graduate level depends on your particular degree, academic interests, and professional goals. Key features of our program offerings include:

• Fundamental and applied research on autonomous systems and controls.

• Advanced space mission design and system engineering.

• Design manufacturing and experimental characterization of advanced structures and material.

• Chemical propulsion and high-speed reacting flows, next-generation sustainable fuels, advanced electric and plasma propulsion technologies, and related energy conversion processes.