Space Domain Awareness (SDA) is the tasking and examination of remote sensing and human factors data to infer or construct an operating picture of the space domain to enable awareness and decision making for continued safe operations. This certificate recognizes focus and specialization in the cross-disciplinary area of SDA. This certificate is sponsored by the Ann and H. J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences (AES) and involves a variety of inter-disciplinary courses in Smead AES, the Department of Computer Science (CSCI), Department of Information Science (INFO), and ATLAS Institute (ATLS). This certificate is the first national or international graduate certificate in SDA, and is intended to help unify the community, develop a common lexicon and understanding of the problem and to train the future highly-skilled practitioners.
Requirements
The standard requirements of this certificate are the completion of fifteen (15) hours of graduate-level coursework (i.e., five 3-credit courses) with grades of B or better in each course. In addition to ASEN 5050/ASEN 5052 and ASEN 5044, each student is free to choose the other three courses from one specialization area as specified below.
Students also pursuing other graduate certificates cannot use the same courses to count for both certificates. Some courses are cross-listed with other departments and/or colleges; for the purposes of this certificate, equivalent cross-listed courses to those specified below are acceptable.
The certificate curriculum has been designed with enough options to provide students with a viable subset of courses for certificate completion, considering prerequisites and fall/spring course offerings.
| Code | Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Requirements | ||
| ASEN 5044 | Statistical Estimation for Dynamical Systems | 3 |
| ASEN 5050 | Space Flight Dynamics | 3 |
| Three (3) courses from one specialization area | ||
| Specialization Areas | ||
| Phenomenology and Sensor Processing | ||
| Radar and Remote Sensing | ||
| Aerospace Environment | ||
| Advanced State Estimation | ||
| Space Instrumentation | ||
| Optical Multi-Target Tracking | ||
| Remote Sensing Data Analysis | ||
| Estimation, Tasking, and Decision Theory | ||
| Linear Control Systems | ||
| Decision Making under Uncertainty | ||
| Advanced State Estimation | ||
| Statistical Orbit Determination | ||
| Optical Multi-Target Tracking | ||
| Interfaces, Human Factors, and Cognitive Sciences | ||
| Human Operation of Aerospace Vehicles | ||
| Research Methods in Human-Robot Interaction | ||
or CSCI 5402 | Research Methods in Human-Robot Interaction | |
| Adv Topics (Human-Robot Interaction) | ||
or CSCI 7000 | Current Topics in Computer Science | |
| Algorithmic Human-Robot Interaction | ||
| User-Centered Design and Development 1 | ||
| Input, Interaction, and Accessibility | ||
| Issues and Methods in Cognitive Science | ||
| Current Topics in Computer Science (Physical Human-Robot Interaction) | ||
| Information Visualization | ||
| Applied Machine Learning | ||
| User-Centered Design | ||
| Recommender Systems | ||
By special approval from the certificate coordinator, a graduate-level special topics class may be substituted for any one class from a specialization area.