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  • Homegrown Employment

    Start your career in Arizona with some of the biggest aerospace and defense companies in the world.

  • Far-Reaching Research

    Investigate flight dynamics and control, space robotics, implantable medical devices and renewable energy.

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    Work in supersonic and subsonic wind tunnels. Design prototypes in an on-site machine shop.
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The Arizona Advantage

UA Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering is a top pick for undergraduates and graduate students interested in designing and developing technology in a variety of high-tech areas – from space exploration and defense systems to renewable energy and biomedical devices.

Flexible academic programs, career-oriented internships, high-profile research, commercial design projects and club competitions are integral to the student experience. 

Consider a degree in aerospace or mechanical engineering at a top-tier research university!

Undergrads in the Spotlight

Meet a few of AME’s dreamers and doers.

Technology in the Works

From guidance systems to green energy, learn about AME research.

A Club for Every Student

Head to the races, build drones and design wacky contraptions.

Online MS

Check out the master’s degree geared to working engineers
Featured News
Bradley Williams, a University of Arizona alumnus and employee, and recent recipient of a 2019 Flinn-Brown Fellowship, poses with the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in the Lockheed Martin cleanroom.

Fellow Blends Space, Politics

June 20, 2019
Alex Craig smiles and rests his arm on a 104-foot silver wind tunnel.

Bringing Hypersonics to the Fore

May 28, 2019
A TuSimple truck on a flat highway in the desert, with mountains in the distance.

Autonomous Trucking Gets Closer

May 23, 2019
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$3M in NASA Funding to Help Students Build CubeSats

July 18, 2019
Illustration of a CubeSat in space
By the Numbers
6 th
highest paying college major
(U.S. News & World Report)
4 :1
graduate student-faculty ratio
22 nd
R&D ranking, public universities
(National Science Foundation)
48 th
world ranking, aerospace engineering schools
(Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities)
Top 30 %
mechanical engineering schools
(U.S. News & World Report)
4 th
aerospace manufacturing, state ranking
(PricewaterhouseCoopers)
Upcoming Events

Dec. 13, 2019

Final Examinations
(All day)

For a full list of important dates, see the UA Catalog Academic Calendar. 

Dec. 19, 2019

Winter Commencement
7:00pm

The College of Engineering celebrates its fall graduates. RSVP required.

July 27, 2020

Short Course: Aerodynamic Heating
(All day)

This five-day course runs 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. from Monday, July 27-Friday, July 31.

Advance your career and earn CEU credits with a short course on aerodynamic heating, heat fluxes to surfaces and heat flux distributions, taught by professor Anatoli Tumin.

View the syllabus (PDF).

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Job-Ready Students

“It really speaks well of the market and the program here that all these students are finding jobs. I think the curriculum at UA is superior.”

Alumnus Scott Rowland

OSIRIS-REx Experience

“Just to know that something I worked on and people around me worked on was actually going to happen, and that it was going to do something big – it was just a very surreal moment.”

2018 senior Namrah Habib

Hypersonic Expertise

“Having these researchers under the same roof gives our department an edge in being able to bridge gaps in knowledge and best prepare our students to solve problems of hypersonic flight.”

Assistant professor Stuart “Alex” Craig
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Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering
1130 N. Mountain Ave.
P.O. Box 210119
Tucson, AZ 85721
520.626.2053

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