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School of Aerospace Engineering

Academic Year 2015-2016

FIRST YEAR (Academic Year 2015-16)

Course Credits

FUNDAMENTALS OF SPACE SYSTEM Mod. 1: NAVIGATION Mod. 2: ATTITUDE DETERMINATION AND CONTROL OF SPACE VEHICLES

12

ADVANCED TOPICS IN AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY 9

AEROSPACE TRAJECTORIES Mod. 1: OPTIMIZATION MOTHODS IN ORBITAL MECHANICS Mod. 2: DYNAMIC GAME THEORY IN FLIGHT MECHANICS

12

DESIGN OF SPACE VEHICLES 9

A COURSE SELECT AMONG: NUMERICAL MODELING OF SPACE STRUCTURES THEORY AND OPERATIONS OF FORMATION FLYING ORBIT DETERMINATION DUAL USE OF SPACE SYSTEM

9

A COURSE SELECT AMONG: CONTROL THEORY FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS ELECTRICAL POWER SYSTEMS FOR SPACE E-XPLORATION ELECTRONICS FOR SPACE TELECOM SYSTEMS

6

SECOND YEAR (Academic Year 2015-16)

Course Credits

DESIGN OF ELETRONIC SYSTEMS FOR SPACE Mod. 1: HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE DESIGN TECHNIQUES Mod. 2: RELIABILITY ENGINEERING

12

ADVANCED TOPICS IN AEROSPACE ENGINEERING 9

A COURSE SELECT AMONG: SPACE TECHNOLOGY SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING: SPACE EXPLORATION ROBOTIC SYSTEMS ADVANCED CONTROL OF SPACE VEHICLES

9

A COURSE SELECTED AMONG HYPERSONIC FLIGHT AND REENTRY THERMOMECH. INTERACTIONS IN SPACE VEICHLES ELECTROMAG. COMPATIBILITY IN AEROSP. SYSTEMS FUND. OF NUCLEAR ENGIN. FOR ASTRONAUTICS LAW IN SPACE ACTIVITIES LIFE SUPPORT SYST. FOR PLANETARY EXPLORATION RADAR TELEMETRY FOR ASTRONAUTICS HYBRID PROPULSION AND NEW LAUNCH SYSTEMS

9

Sapienza Università di Roma - School of Aerospace Engineering Via Salaria 851, 00138 Rome (+39) 06 49919753 - (+39) 06 49919752 - Fax (+39) 06 49919757 - segreteriadidattica.sia@uniroma1.it

Background

The School of Aerospace Engineering at Sapienza University

of Rome is one of the oldest academic institutions worldwide

in the field of aerospace engineering. Founded in 1926, it

soon became a world-leader institution in areonautics through

the achievement of important research and technological

results. Starting from the1960’s the School’s activities focu-

sed mainly in the field astronautics; professors and techni-

cians from the school designed and assembled the satellites

of the “San Marco” series. Thanks to the launch of first satelli-

te of the series, in 1964 Italy became the third nation in the

world after USA and USSR, to inject its own satellite in orbit.

In 1962 the school set-up a launch platform near Malindi,

Kenya, that was without any launch failure till 1988.

In 2000 the School started a unique educational program

called “UniSat”, which consisted in having students design

and manufacture satellites; each “UniSat” satellite was laun-

ched into space by the Dniepr Russian-Ukrainian rocket ap-

proximately every other year. Thanks to the “UniSat” series

and other later satellites produced at the School, called

“Edusat”, “Lares”, and “TigriSat”, the School has became a

worldwide flagship institution in the field of astronautics.

The School’s Educational Project

Since 1963 the School offers the”Special Laurea” degree in

Aerospace Engineering. The latter is an academic degree

and represents the final educational stage of a professional

aerospace engineer. The Special “Laurea” degree is of higher

level of a Master and it is closer to a Professional Doctorate

(PrD) than to a Philosophy Doctorate (PhD); in fact, while

typical PhD students learn “how to think” within a specific

topic of aerospace engineering, the students of the School

earn a complete advanced education on “how to do”. As a

matter of fact, the Special “Laurea” program besides acade-

mic training and research training incudes also pratical

training obtained through students’ partecipation to real-world

projects. Each year a board composed by School’s profes-

sors, staff of the Italian Department of Defence, and staff from

areospace industries, proposes pratical projects to students

in fields such as manufacturing of micro and mini-satellite,

space robotics, space experiments in general relativity, space

guidance navigation and control, space applications of ther-

moacoustic, advanced space propulsion, advanced space

materials etc.

The pratical projects are supervised by professors of the

School and will be executed in the School’s facilities which

include the following: Electronics Lab, Aerospower Lab, Stru-

cure and Materials Lab, Thermo-vacuum Chamber, Space

Simulator, Clean Room, Guidance and Navigation Lab, Flight

Mechanics Lab, Robotics and Space Systems Lab, Thermo-

Acoustic Lab. The School’s facilities comprise also a Satellite

Ground Station which is used to track and command the sa-

tellites designed by the school’s students that are currently in

orbit.

Admission

In order to be admitted to the Special “Laurea” program the

students are required to possess a University degree in any

Engineering discipline.

Curriculum of the Special Laurea Program

The duration of the Special Laurea Program is two-years;

however the students that have already earned a Master de-

gree in Aerospace Engineering or an equivalent title are en-

rolled directly to the second year.

The study program consists of both coursework and project.

A thesis must be submitted at the end of the project and de-

fended in front of a committee whose members are profes-

sors, aerospace professionals, and industry representatives.