If someone has a Bs in communications and information egineering will he be able to do a master in space propulsion research area (at MIT ) or he will be limited to ( autonomy ,communications and networking , control ) which are other areas of research in aerospace engineering.
And will he be equal to someone who has Bs and Ms in aerospace engineering ?
I’m no authority, so take this with a big grain of salt, but it would seem like there would be gaps in your technical prep that you’d have to fill in order to work in propulsion. You might want to post this in the engineering forum under majors.
I don’t know about MIT, but my son will be applying this fall to several schools for a PhD in Aerospace Engineering, focusing on plasma/ion propulsion at Michigan, Georgia Tech, and Princeton. (MIT does not do direct PhD admissions.) He also investigated and considered chemical propulsion at Purdue and Michigan. In either case, you will need to take some pretty heavy duty math, engineering, and thermodynamics classes.
Here is a list of my son’s technical courses at Texas A&M last fall (junior year):
AERO 301 HNR-THEORETICAL AERODYN
AERO 302 AERO ENGR LAB
AERO 304 AERO STRUCTURAL ANALYS I
AERO 310 AEROSPACE DYNAMICS
Spring 2017:
AERO 303 HIGH SPEED AERODYN
AERO 306 AERO STRUCTURAL ANALY
AERO 321 DYN OF AERO VEHICLEs
AERO 351 AEROTHERMO PROPULSION
AERO 489 SPTP: AERO ELECTRIC PROPULSION
And upcoming fall 2017:
AERO 401 AEROSPACE VEHICLE DES I
AERO 423 HNR-SPACE TECHNOLOGY I
AERO 430 NUMERICAL SIMULATION
AERO 489 SPTP:COMP FLUID DYN AERO APPS
Also, he will be doing research in plasma propulsion this fall and winter.
For chemical propulsion, an aerospace or mechanical engineering student would take similar courses, with perhaps a bit more emphasis on chemistry, combustion, and engine/turbine design.
@rocketsgeek15 - Just for drool-bait, here are a couple of links to Purdue’s graduate AE propulsion program.
https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAE/academics/graduate
https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAE/research/propulsion
I encourage you to contact Purdue directly. They are very friendly and helpful.