A growing assortment of new and upgraded graduate and undergraduate courses in space engineering, biomedicine, and science will soon be available to support the goal of the Pitt Space initiative, which is to address the critical needs of the US space community in terms of workforce development as well as basic and applied research.
For example, the Swanson School of Engineering at Pitt recently developed a new graduate certificate in Space Engineering that features courses on Intro to Space Engineering, Dependable Systems, Extreme Environment Electronics, and Space Systems Project from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with additional elective courses now in development from other engineering departments. This new academic program leverages the space expertise, facilities, and missions in the NSF Space Center known as SHREC, which is led by Pitt, and throughout the engineering school. We are next developing a new minor in Space Engineering that will provide undergraduate majors in computer, electrical, mechanical, civil, bio, and materials engineering, as well as various STEM majors across campus, the opportunity to prepare to enter the workforce in the US space community.
In the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, faculty are building upon longstanding strengths in physics, astronomy, and geology to develop new courses and programs in Space Science. Similarly, the six Schools of the Health Sciences at Pitt are building upon their world-renowned strengths to develop new courses and programs in Space Biomedicine.
