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Engineer our future in space and beyond
Space engineering involves all aspects of conceiving, designing, constructing, launching and operating space systems including balloons, rockets, spacecraft, satellites, shuttles and space stations. Most space missions have three components: the launch vehicle, the spacecraft with its payload (which might include astronauts) and the ground communications and support system. To get all these elements working well together, a space engineer must have a background in areas such as orbital mechanics, computers and software, electrical power systems, wireless communications, structural design and rocket science in order to deliver and maintain the payload in the right orbit, to keep it operational, and to receive and transmit data to and from the spacecraft.
Space engineers also need core skills in math, physics, chemistry and earth sciences, as well as business and “soft skills” like writing, public speaking, management and leadership. The space engineering curriculum provides the student with many transferable skills, making them employable in a range of mechatronic industries. Ideally space engineering graduates are ready to work in the space industry in Canada or abroad, but can also find work with companies in telecommunications, robotics and automation, aviation, remote sensing, and biomedical instrumentation.
program description
Accredtied by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB), York’s Space Engineering program is the only one of its kind in Canada and educates you in the design, manufacture, integration and management of complex hardware and data systems typically found in space projects and other industries. As a student in York's Space Engineering program you will receive hands-on training in leading space technologies including an opportunity to track spacecraft at the Algonquin Radio Observatory.
excellence in space engineering
York’s faculty have been directly involved with many Canadian and international space missions, including the Phoenix Mars Lander; Scisat-1, measuring constituents of the earth’s atmosphere; WINDII instrument on NASA’s Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite; OSIRIS instrument on Sweden’s Odin satellite; Argus mini-spectrometer measuring atmospheric CO2 from a nanosatellite. |
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Upper Year Courses in Space Engineering
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2nd year
Engineering Management, Economics and Safety
Geomatics and Space Engineering
Fundamentals of Data Structures
Software Tools
Fortran for Scientists and Engineers
Geophysics and Space Science
Fundamentals of Surveying
Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Continuum Mechanics
Applied Multivariate and Vector Calculus
Differential Equations
Environment, Technology and Sustainable Society
Electricity and Magnetism
3rd year
Professional Engineering Practice
Global Geophysics and Geodesy
Geodetic Concepts
Space Mission Design
Microsystems Technology
Materials and Thermal Analysis for Space Applications
Computational Methods for Engineers
Electronics
Space Communications
Physics of the Space Environment
An industrial internship is optional between third and fourth year
4th year
Engineering Project
Introduction to Robotics
Space Hardware
Payload Design
Dynamics of Space Vehicles
Mechanical Design
Finite Element Methods
Remote Sensing
Global Positioning Systems
Radio Techniques for Space Exploration
Planets and Planetary Systems
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