Master's in Aerospace Engineering

The Master's in Aerospace Engineering at Stevens gives you rigorous graduate-level training in the core disciplines that drive the aerospace, defense, and space industries — fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, control theory, and space mission design — integrated with modern applications in aerodynamics, propulsion, space systems, and AI-enabled engineering analysis.

You'll learn to design, analyze, and optimize real aerospace systems — aircraft, spacecraft, satellites, and propulsion systems — using the computational and analytical tools aerospace engineers rely on every day.

Graduates go on to careers in the aerospace, defense and space sectors — including roles in space exploration and national security — or continue to Ph.D. programs. Two degree options are available: the practice-oriented Master of Engineering and the research-focused Master of Science, both launching Fall 2026.

Why Stevens?

Stevens faculty are advancing aerospace research in hypersonics, robotics, controls, autonomy, and AI — with collaborations across NASA, national laboratories, and military research centers. Students learn from faculty actively pushing the field forward and contributing to that work, engaging multidisciplinary problems at the intersection of aerospace, robotics, and intelligent technologies.

COURSE CATALOG COMING SOON

Standout courses to include:

• Mathematical Foundations of Digital Twins

• Machine Learning in Mechanical Engineering

• Satellite and Spacecraft Design

• Structural Dynamics and Computational Mechanics of Aerospace Systems

The Stevens Advantage: Widen Your Career Options

To compete in today’s career climate, graduates must adapt to rapidly-evolving technologies impacting all corners of the job market, like generative AI. At Stevens, you’ll learn the in-demand skills you need to fill the talent gap. Our core curriculum – infused with AI electives and hands-on education opportunities – develops the deep expertise, critical thinking, interdisciplinary collaboration, and entrepreneurial savvy required to thrive in a technologically disrupted marketplace.

Stevens’ Hoboken, N.J., location boasts easy access to both Manhattan and the New Jersey innovation corridor, offering students ample opportunities for collaboration, networking and eventual employment opportunities. You can also pursue a dual degree track, earning an MBA from the Stevens School of Business as you complete your mechanical engineering master’s program.

Learn more about what makes an engineering education from Stevens a unique experience:

• Core AI Curriculum: To help build the next iteration of an AI-competent workforce, our standard graduate curricula is infused with core and elective artificial intelligence courses.

• Graduate Cooperative Education Program: Available with two tracks, your co-op experience can serve as a starting point for a research project or augment your on-campus research with complimentary experience.

• International Student Experience: Tap into our expanding worldwide network of research, academic and alumni partners and mentor with our expert faculty in a number of federally-designated STEM degree programs. Optional Practical Training (OPT) or Curricular Practical Training (CPT) is available to gain work experience in your major/field of study.

• State-of-the-Art Research Labs and Facilities: Build, tinker and test your designs in Stevens' MakerCenter, Prototype and Object Fabrication Lab, or numerous other research facilities.

• Research Opportunities: Renowned faculty, labs and research centers – as well as industry partnerships and funding from leading national agencies – support strategic and interdisciplinary research in engineering and science.

More opportunities for Stevens graduate students include:

• Wide selection of Graduate Certificates

• Student Organizations

• Optional research or clinical thesis

• Credit for on-the-job projects with your current employer

• Extensive hands-on laboratory experience

• Research with clinical collaborators

Find out more about life as a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stevens by visiting the links below.