Computational Science
Minor Degree in Computational Science
The minor in Computational Science was created to provide an opportunity for graduate students in all colleges and majors topursue a focused set of courses that emphasize all aspects of computational science. Computational science involves using
computers to study scientific problems and complements the areas of theory and experimentation in traditional scientific investigation.
The Aerospace Engineering Department administers this interdisciplinary minor. Each student's program is planned by the student and a designated computational science adviser, in consultation with the graduate adviser in the student's major field. The minor requires 9 credits in computational science courses for a masters degree and 15 credits for a doctoral minor. All students are required to take the two-semester (3 credits total) computational science colloquium (AERSP 590). Six additional credits are taken from AERSP 424, NUC E 530 (or CSE 557), or MATH 523. For the Ph.D. minor, six additional credits are chosen from a list of approved courses. More information can be found at