Tag: Graduate courses
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STIA 4403: Earth and Planetary Science
How did Earth become the planet we know today, and what can it teach us about worlds beyond our own? In this course, we’ll explore Earth as a dynamic system, from the crust that records our geologic history to the movement of water through aquifers, glaciers, and oceans, to the circulation of air that drives […]
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STIA 4405: The New Space Economy
Almost single handedly, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos have touched off a growing commercial space industry that NASA and the Pentagon increasingly rely on for services that for decades had been the exclusive domain of governments. Private companies now fly cargo, supplies and people to the International Space Station; they are developing the habitats that […]
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STIA 4414: Mission Design Lab
This interdisciplinary course will take you through our shared history of exploring space, from learning what the surface of Mars looks like up close to detecting ice plumes on Saturn’s moons. We will learn how we take measurements on remote celestial bodies, what we have found so far, and how those measurements have gradually reshaped […]
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STIA 4404: Warfighting in the Space Domain
This course builds directly on the success of Space Security by moving students into the most contested and urgent debate in contemporary space policy: whether outer space has become or is becoming a warfighting domain and what that means. For decades, space was militarized primarily through enabling functions such as, communications, navigation, intelligence, and early […]
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STIA 4427: Analytical Frontiers: Mass Spectrometry for Space
Mass spectrometry is a foundational analytical technique for identifying and characterizing molecules, and it plays a central role in planetary exploration. This course introduces the core principles of mass spectrometry, with an emphasis on how the technique is adapted and applied to spaceflight. Students will examine how molecules are ionized, separated according to their mass […]
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STIA 4409: Orbital Dynamics
Orbital Dynamics are the physical and mathematical principles governing the motion of all objects in space—from satellites orbiting Earth to spacecraft traveling toward the Moon and beyond. This course introduces Newtonian gravitation, Kepler’s laws, satellite motion in cislunar space, including the three-body problem, and key elements of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Students will learn […]
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BIOL 4947: Pop-Up Astrobiology Lab I
Welcome to Pop-Up Labs! In the first semester of this course, we will to tackle real-world astrobiology research questions. Regardless of where samples derive from, we’ll enter the world of extremophile microbiology and discover something new. In the fall semester, we will design our project in collaboration with this year’s astrobiology partners, collect and inventory […]
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SEST 6567: Space Technologies and Security
This course examines the extent to which spacepower doctrine, concepts, and operations influence national security strategy and international security. It identifies key space policy issues facing the United States and places them in the larger context of technological advances and a changing international strategic environment. The course will briefly examine the historical and policy foundations […]
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ERTH 4010: Environmental GIS
Students will learn how to work with geospatial data to understand and address environmental issues. Popular GIS tools (such as ArcGIS) will be used to create maps for the effective communication of many types of environmental data. Relevant applications in areas such as climate science, biodiversity monitoring, and human-ecosystem interactions will be explored. More advanced […]
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SEST 6518: Space Strategy, Policy, and Ops
This course examines the extent to which space power theory, concepts, and operations influence national security strategy and international security. It identifies key space policy issues facing the United States and places them in the larger context of a changing international strategic environment. This course will briefly examine the historical and policy foundations for U.S. […]