From CS to Aerospace Eng. in graduate school.

<p>Hey guys, is it possible to do graduate school in Aerospace Eng. if I graduate from Computer Science? Are there any courses that will help me when applying to Aerospace graduate programs?</p>

<p>I know I don’t know the for sure answer but I am confident you could go into aerospace engineering grad school if you were a CS undergrad. First of all, you could be valuable to various Aerospace professors since there are a lot of aerospace problems that require extensive programming, such as controls and simulations. </p>

<p>Given what skills you already have, you may want to look into learning about computational tools for simulations, such as finite element,finite volume and finite difference , and practice coding up some of those to solve various ordinary and partial differential equations. Maybe look into some CFD books too. Now, general aerospace courses that could help would be incompressible and compressible flow classes, a structures class and some dynamics classes. But I am sure you have a good chance with just a CS degree to get into grad school, although you would need to learn a bit during grad school I am sure.</p>

<p>You probably want to take some physics and mechanical / aerospace engineering undergraduate courses that are prerequisites to the graduate level specialty of aerospace engineering that you are interested in.</p>