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Degree description
The Master’s Degree in Space Engineering (MUSE) provides students with technical and scientific knowledge, skills, abilities and specific and transversal competences that enable them to work in engineering in the space sector, both in the flight segment and the ground segment. It brings together competences contributed by various professions separately.
Among others, these professions are aeronautical engineering, which provides knowledge about the spacecraft, its systems, and its attitude and orbital dynamics; telecommunications engineering, which provides communication with the ground segment, data handling and transmission, and applications; and computer systems engineering, which contributes all aspects related to the design, analysis, implementation, evaluation and control of computer hardware and software.
Degree objectives
Degree objectives of MUSE therefore aims to provide the multidisciplinary training of a professional required by an innovative and growing industrial sector, such as the space sector (without qualifying for the practice of a regulated profession). This is because the MSE training satisfies three important requirements:
Specific objectives:
The international nature of space projects. Teaching is entirely in English, the language currently used for international communication, and national and international mobility is promoted.
The rapid technological and application evolution of the sector. To take this into account, a module called ‘Advanced’ is offered, with a subject containing complementary training content that can be modified according to current and near-future trends.
The focus on project development. Significant interaction with the industrial sector (engineering projects) and academia (research projects) is promoted.
Career opportunities
The MUSE provides students with technical and scientific knowledge, skills, abilities and specific and transversal competences that enable them to work in engineering in the space sector, both in the flight segment and the ground segment.
In other words, it enables graduates to join the productive space sector (companies, organisations, research institutes, etc.), as well as any other type of company that requires advanced design or management of complex systems and services.
Graduates of this master’s degree, in accordance with the requirements established in the Spanish Qualifications Framework for Higher Education (MECES, RD 1027/2011), have training that enables them to:
- understand, design and apply spacecraft in an advanced manner.
- understand the space environment.
- calculate orbital mechanics.
- apply attitude control.
- apply thermal control.
- design, build and operate launch vehicles.
- calculate space mechanisms and structures.
- select and study materials.
- analyse the power system.
- define the data management and processing system.
- establish communications, including space communications.
- optimise electronics.
- define compatibilities, reliability, etc.
Mainly aimed at
Mainly aimed at graduates interested in pursuing these studies.
Graduates passionate about space.
Master’s structure
Credits: 90 ECTS
Compulsory: 60 ects | Electives: 18 ects | External placements: 0 ects | Master’s thesis (TFM): 12 ects
Work placements
The Sub-Directorate for Corporate Relations of the School of Aerospace Engineering and Industrial Design facilitates opportunities for students of this School to undertake quality placements, final degree projects and master’s theses at companies and institutions.
Requirements for students:
– Placements can be undertaken from the start.
– The master’s thesis must not have been submitted.
– Students must be registered in the Integrated Employment Service (SIE) curriculum database and keep their CV up to date.
Types of placement:
– Curricular: Compulsory enrolment before starting
– Extracurricular: Enrolment is not required
Research and access to doctoral studies
Study a doctorate at the ETSIADI and discover academic excellence and cutting-edge research in the doctoral programmes of the School of Aerospace Engineering and Industrial Design.
Also at the Doctoral School you will find all the programmes offered by the UPV.
Academic exchange / agreements with other universities
The Sub-Directorate for International Relations of the School of Aerospace Engineering and Industrial Design (ETSIADI) carries out significant international relations activities.
Every year hundreds of students from the School have the opportunity to complete their training at a foreign institution. The ETSIADI participates in a large number of cooperation programmes, both at European and global level.
Facilities and laboratories
The School of Aerospace Engineering and Industrial Design is located on the Vera Campus of the UPV (Valencia), occupying a built area of 16,859 square metres with a basement used for parking. It has its own laboratories and a hangar adjacent to the main building used as a multidisciplinary and flight simulation laboratory.
In addition to the School’s facilities, the Departments of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials, Thermal Engines and Machines, Communications and Cartographic Engineering, Geodesy and Photogrammetry provide 16 additional laboratories for practical work: from composite materials manufacturing to jet engine testing and fluid mechanics measurement techniques.
Master’s Thesis
The Master’s Thesis represents the final stage of the student’s training. It is a multidisciplinary work related to the subjects studied in the degree programme. In the preamble of the UPV framework regulations, which govern all phases of the process, the TFM is defined as “an autonomous activity of the student with the support of one or more supervisors where the final result must always be an individual work by the student, defended before a panel”. It is therefore an original exercise to be carried out individually and presented and defended before a university panel.
The main objective of a master’s thesis is to demonstrate the competences acquired during the master’s training. Given its integrative nature, the theoretical and practical training acquired by the student will conclude with the preparation and defence of this final degree project, which will contribute to completing the development of all the competences established for the degree programme.
On the website of the School of Aerospace Engineering and Industrial Design, more detailed information can be found about the process and each of the procedures to be carried out (Regulations and recommendations; Selection and assignment of TFM; Defence schedule; Evaluation process; etc.)
Collaborating companies and more
Our students work at
- Espai Aero CV
- Comet Ingeniería
- Calsens
- Aimplas
- PLD Space
- Deimos Space (Indra)
- Aeropuerto de Castellón
- Arkadia Space
- FentISS
- NAX Solutions
- GMV
- NERVA Technologies
