Published 2016-17 SGS Calendar for editing purposes only [exported July 28, 2016]

Aerospace Studies: Aerospace Science and Engineering Introduction

Faculty Affiliation

Applied Science and Engineering

Degree Programs

Aerospace Science and Engineering

MASc / Emphases:​
Robotics and Mechatronics
Sustainable Aviation
Sustainable Energy
​
MEng / Emphases:
Advanced Manufacturing
Engineering and Globalization
Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Innovation and Technology in Engineering (ELITE)​
Robotics and Mechatronics
PhD / Emphases:
Robotics and Mechatronics​
Sustainable Aviation
Sustainable Energy

Overview

The University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) offers graduate programs leading to research-intensive Master of Applied Science (MASc) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees and a professionally oriented Master of Engineering (MEng) degree. Optional emphases are also offered (see the table above).
Faculty research areas include advanced aerospace structures, aircraft flight systems and control, aerospace mechatronics, autonomous space robotics, combustion and emissions in aviation, combustion and propulsion, computational aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics and propulsion, computational modelling, and design optimization under uncertainty, dynamic systems, experimental engines, experimental fluid dynamics, flow control and experimental turbulence, fusion energy, nanosatellite and microsatellite missions, space robotics, space and terrestrial autonomous robotic systems, spacecraft dynamics and control and microsatellites, and vehicle simulation. Details of entrance regulations and courses of study are given in this calendar and on the UTIAS website.

Contact and Address

Web:
Telephone: (416) 667-7714
Fax: (416) 667-7743
University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies
Room 169, 4925 Dufferin Street
Toronto, Ontario M3H 5T6
Canada

Aerospace Studies: Aerospace Science and Engineering: MEng

Master of Engineering​

Minimum Admission Requirements
  • Applicants holding an appropriate bachelor of applied science degree in engineering are considered for admission under the General Regulations of the School of Graduate Studies.
Program Requirements
  • Under the guidance of the Graduate Coordinator or a staff supervisor, a student selects a program of study that consists of at least 10 half courses (5.0 full-course equivalents [FCEs]). Individual programs will be arranged to make up for background deficiency. The program may be pursued on a full-time, extended full-time, or part-time basis.
  • Full-time option: students normally complete the requirements in three sessions (one year).
  • Extended full-time option: students are expected to complete the requirements in six sessions (two years) and are limited to six half courses per year and three half courses per session.
  • Part-time option: students are limited to four half courses per year and two half courses per session. Students normally complete the requirements in nine sessions (three years).
  • Once students are registered, transfer between the full-time, extended full-time, or part-time option is not permitted.
  • Students in the MEng program have the option of completing an emphasis in Advanced Manufacturing; Engineering and Globalization; Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Innovation and Technology in Engineering (ELITE); Robotics and Mechatronics; Sustainable Aviation; or Sustainable Energy as part of their degree program. Please see details below.
Program Length
3 sessions full-time (typical registration sequence: F/W/S);
6 sessions extended full-time (typical registration sequence: F/W/S/F/W/S);
9 sessions part-time
Time Limit
3 years full-time and extended full-time;
6 years part-time

Aerospace Studies: Aerospace Science and Engineering: MASc

Master of Applied Science

Minimum Admission Requirements
  • Applicants are admitted under the General Regulations of the School of Graduate Studies. Applicants must also satisfy UTIAS’s additional admission requirements stated below.
  • Qualified graduates in engineering, mathematics, physics, or chemistry are encouraged to apply. Individual programs are arranged to make up for background deficiencies.
Program Requirements
  • Minimum of 2.5 full-course equivalents (FCEs), of which 0.5 FCE must be AER 1800H Research Seminar in Aerospace Science and Engineering.
  • All required courses must be completed during the first year of the program.
  • A thesis based on research or development, selected in consultation with the student's supervisor.
  • Research performance is assessed by a Research Assessment Committee (RAC), which includes the student's supervisor.
  • MASc students are anticipated to complete their degree requirements in 20 months.
  • Students interested in pursuing a PhD degree, who have achieved excellent performance in an MASc program at UTIAS, are encouraged to transfer directly into a PhD program, under the same supervisor, at the end of their first year of MASc studies. Approval for transfer is based on the student’s research ability, research progress during the first year, and academic standing. Students transferring from an MASc to a PhD program shall be referred to as "transfer students."
  • Students in the MASc program have the option of completing an emphasis in Robotics and Mechatronics, Sustainable Aviation, or Sustainable Energy as part of their degree program. Please see details below.
Program Length
5 sessions full-time (typical registration sequence: F/W/S/F/W)
Time Limit
3 years full-time

Aerospace Studies: Aerospace Science and Engineering: PhD

Doctor of Philosophy

Minimum Admission Requirements
  • Applicants are admitted under the General Regulations of the School of Graduate Studies. Applicants must also satisfy UTIAS’s additional admission requirements stated below.
  • An MASc degree in engineering, mathematics, physics, or chemistry and demonstrated ability to perform advanced research. Applicants with an appropriate bachelor's degree from a recognized university who wish to pursue PhD studies at UTIAS will initially be admitted into the MASc program and will be considered for transfer into the PhD program.
Program Requirements
  • Full-time continuous registration for every session, including the Summer session, until all degree requirements are completed. PhD students starting with an MASc or MEng degree must spend a minimum of two years in the program. Transfer students spend a minimum of three years in the program from the date of registration in the MASc program.
  • A flexible-time PhD option may be available to practising professionals, upon approval by the graduate unit. Full-time registration is required for the first four years of study, and part-time registration is expected for the remaining period of study within the normal length.
  • Following acceptance into a PhD program, the student shall undertake a program of study under the guidance of a Doctoral Examination Committee (DEC) which includes the student's supervisor.
  • Coursework and a thesis which must be based on research conducted while registered for the PhD program. PhD students starting with an MASc or MEng degree require 2.0 full-course equivalents (FCEs). Transfer students need 1.0 FCE in addition to the 2.5 FCEs completed prior to the MASc to PhD transfer for a total of 3.5 FCEs. All courses must be completed during the first two years in the PhD program.
  • A student with a master's degree in a discipline appropriate to the field of PhD study is anticipated to complete the PhD program on a full-time basis in less than four years. The anticipated period for transfer students is less than five years from the date of registration in the MASc program. The DEC plays an important role in assisting students to meet this goal. The functions of the DEC are to:
  • ascertain the suitability of the student for advanced research,
  • assess the thesis topic,
  • conduct formal reviews of the student’s progress at least once a year (unsatisfactory progress may result in the termination of the student’s candidacy), and
  • provide first assessment of the completed thesis.
  • Program milestones:
  • The first DEC meeting is held within six months of PhD program start (or date of transfer for transfer students), within 12 months for flexible-time PhD students; the aim is to identify the topic and scope of the thesis.
  • The second DEC meeting (approximately 1.5 years after PhD start, within 24 months for flexible-time PhD students) is the Qualifying Examination, which determines whether the student should continue in the program or whether his or her candidacy should be terminated.
  • Subsequent DEC meetings are held at least once a year.
  • ​Upon thesis completion, the student presents the thesis at a Departmental Doctoral Seminar before defending it at the Doctoral Final Oral Examination as prescribed under the SGS Degree Regulations in this calendar.
  • Prior to convocation, PhD students must prepare at least one formal manuscript, based on the thesis, for publication in refereed journals or refereed conference proceedings.
  • Students in the PhD program have the option of completing an emphasis in Robotics and Mechatronics, Sustainable Aviation, or Sustainable Energy as part of their degree program. Please see details below.
Program Length
4 years full-time; 5 years direct-entry; 6 years flexible-time
Time Limit
6 years full-time; 7 years direct-entry; 7 years transfer-from-master's; 8 years flexible-time

Aerospace Studies: Aerospace Science and Engineering: MEng, MASc, PhD Emphases

Emphasis: Advanced Manufacturing

MEng students must successfully complete:
  • Four half courses (2.0 full-course equivalents [FCEs]), including at least one core course.
  • Elective courses may include other core courses, and courses from either of two streams: Manufacturing Engineering and Manufacturing Management.
Core Courses
AER 501H, AER 1403H, APS 1028H, CHE 1123H, MIE 1740H, MIE 1742H​.
Elective Courses—Manufacturing Engineering
AER 521H, AER 1415H,
CHE 575H, CHE 1134H,
MIE 506H, MIE 540H, MIE 1713H, MIE 1718H, MIE 1743H,
MSE 558H, MSE 561H, MSE 1013H, MSE 1015H, MSE 1028H, MSE 1029H, MSE 1031H,
ROB 501H.​
Elective Courses—Manufacturing Management
APS 520H, APS 1005H, APS 1011H, APS 1012H, APS 1013H, APS 1014H, APS 1017H, APS 1020H, APS 1​023H, APS 1026H, APS 1088H, APS 1501H,
CHE 561H, CHE 1434H,
MIE 1505H, MIE 1514H, MIE 1715H, MIE 1721H, MIE 1723H, MIE 1727H.​

Emphasis: Engineering and Globalization

MEng students must successfully complete four half courses (2.0 full-course equivalents [FCEs]) from the following lists, with at least two half courses (or one full course) taken from Group A.
Group A
APS 510H, APS 530H, APS 1420H, GLA 1000H, JCR 1000Y (full-year course)
Group B
APS 1015H, APS 1020H, APS 1024H, CHL 5700H, JMG 2020H
Note: Students who choose to pursue an MEng project in their home department that aligns with the Centre for Global Engineering (CGEN)'s disciplinary focus, as deemed by the CGEN Director, may count the project as one required Group B course.

Emphasis: Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Innovation and Technology in Engineering (ELITE)

MEng students must successfully complete any four of the following courses (2.0 full-course equivalents [FCEs]):
Leadership
APS 1010H, APS 1011H, APS 1019H, APS 1026H, APS 1027H, APS 1029H, APS 1030H, APS 1501H
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
APS 1012H, APS 1013H, APS 1015H, APS 1023H, APS 1033H, APS 1035H, APS 1036H, APS 1088H
Finance and Management
APS 502H, APS 1001H, APS 1004H, APS 1005H, APS 1009H, APS 1014H, APS 1016H, APS 1017H, APS 1020H, APS 1022H, APS 1028H, APS 1032​H
Engineering and Society
APS 510H, APS 1018H, APS 1024H, APS 1025H, APS 1031H, APS 1034H, APS 1420H​, JMG 2020H​

Emphasis: Robotics and Mechatronics

Students must successfully complete four courses (2.0 full-course equivalents [FCEs]) chosen from at least three of the following groups:

Group 1: Control

ECE 1619H, ECE 1636H, ECE 1647H, ECE 1653H, ECE 1657H, ECE 557H (exclusion: ECE410H),
MIE 1064H, MIE 1068H

Group 2: Signal and Image Processing

AER 1513H,
CSC 2503H, CSC 2506H, CSC 2515H,
ECE 1511H, ECE 1512H, ECE 516H,
JEB 1433H

Group 3: Dynamics

AER 1503H, AER 1512H, AER 506H,
JEB 1444H,
MIE 1001H

Group 4: Systems Integration

AER 1514H, AER 525H (exclusion: ECE 470H),
ECE 1373H, ECE 1460H, ECE 532H,
MIE 1070H, MIE 1071H, MIE 1809H, MIE 505H, MIE 506H

Emphasis: Sustainable Aviation

Doctoral-stream (MASc/PhD) students must successfully complete:
  • At least two half courses (1.0 full-course equivalent [FCE]) from: AER 1303H​, AER 1304H, AER 1306H, AER 1308H, AER 1310H, AER 1316H, AER 1318H, AER 1319H, AER 1403H, AER 501H, AER 510H, CIV 1307H, PHY 1498H, PHY 2504H, PHY 2505H, CHE 1123H, JCC 1313H.
  • AER 1315H (0.5 FCE).
  • A thesis in an area of relevance to sustainable aviation with approval of the Scientific Committee.
MEng students must successfully complete:
  • At least five half courses (2.5 FCEs) from: AER 1303H, AER 1304H, AER 1306H, AER 1308H, AER 1310H, AER 1316H, AER 1318H, AER 1319H, AER 1403H, AER 501H, AER 510H, CIV 1307H, PHY 1498H, PHY 2504H, PHY 2505H, CHE 1123H, JCC 1313H.
  • AER 1315H (0.5 FCE).

Emphasis: Sustainable Energy

Doctoral-stream (MASc/PhD) students must successfully complete:
  • At least three half courses (1.5 full-course equivalents [FCEs]) from the course lists below.
  • A thesis in an area of relevance to sustainable energy with approval of the Institute of Sustainable Energy steering committee.
MEng students must successfully complete:
  • Four courses (2.0 FCEs) from the following lists below, of which at least one (0.5 FCE) must be a core course.

Core Courses

APS 1032H,
MIE 515H, MIE 1120H.

Elective Courses

AER 507H, AER 1304H, AER 1315H, AER 1415H,
CHE 568H, CHE 1053H, CHE 1123H, CHE 1142H, CHE 1143H,
CIV 575H, CIV 576H, CIV 577H, CIV 1303H, CIV 1307H,
ECE 533H, ECE 1055H, ECE 1057H, ECE 1085H, ECE 1086H, ECE 1094H,
MIE 516H, MIE 517H, MIE 1128H, MIE 1129H, MIE 1130H, MIE 1715H,
MSE 558H, MSE 1022H, MSE 1028H.

Aerospace Studies: Aerospace Science and Engineering: MEng, MASc, PhD Courses

This list represents course offerings at the time of publication. Course descriptions are available on the UTIAS website. Courses marked (PR) have prerequisites.

Aircraft Flight Systems

​AER 0503H / Aeroelasticity​
​AER 1202H / Advanced Flight Dynamics
​AER 1211H / Human Control of Flight Systems​
​AER 1216H / Fundamentals of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles​

Aerodynamics, Fluid Dynamics, and Propulsion

​AER 0510H​ / Aerospace Propulsion​
​AER 1301H / Kinetic Theory of Gases​
​AER 1303H / Advanced Fluid Mechanics (PR)​
​AER 1304H / ​Fundamentals of Combustion
​AER 1306H / Special Topics in Reacting Flows​
​AER 1308H / Introduction to Modern Flow Control​
​AER 1310H / ​Turbulence Modelling
​AER 1311H / Unsteady Gasdynamics​
​AER 1316H / ​Fundamentals of Computational Fluid Dynamics​
​AER 1318H / ​Topics in Computational Fluid Dynamics
​AER 1319H / ​Finite Volume Methods for Computational Fluid Dynamics
​AER 1320H / Air-Breathing Propulsion​
​AER 1322H / ​Modern Aircraft Propulsion (prerequisite: AER 0510 or equivalent; undergraduate-level training in compressible flow)

Structures and Multidisciplinary Optimization

​AER​ 0501H / Advanced Mechanics of Structures​
​AER 1403H / Advanced Aerospace Structures (PR)​
​AER 1415H / ​Computational Optimization
​AER 1416H / Numerical Methods for Uncertainty Quantification​

Sustainable Aviation

AER 1315H / Sustainable Aviation

Space Systems Engineering

​AER 0506H​ / Spacecraft Dynamics and Control I​​
​​AER 0521H / Mobile Robotics and Perception​
​AER 0525H / Robotics​
​AER 1503H / Spacecraft Dynamics and Control II​
​AER 1512H / Multibody Dynamics​
​AER 1513H / ​State Estimation for Aerospace Vehicles
​AER 1514H / Mobile Robotics​
​AER 1515H / Intelligent Robotics​
​AER 1520H / ​Microsatellite Design I
​AER 1521H / Microsatellite Design II​

Engineering Physics

​AER 0​507H / Introduction to Fusion Energy​
​AER 1717H / Applied Plasma Physics I (reading course)​
​AER 1720H / Applied Plasma Physics II (reading course)​

Research Seminars and Professional Courses

​AER 1800H / Research Seminar in Aerospace Science and Engineering (for first-year MASc students only)​
​AER 1810H / ​MEng Project (for MEng students only)
​JDE 1000H / ​​​Ethics in Research (Students registered in the MASc or PhD programs are required to participate in this non-credit seminar course during their first or second session of registration. This course must be completed in order to graduate.)​