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Jan 27, 2025
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Aerospace, Flight Dispatch Concentration, B.S.
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Aerospace
615-898-2788
Andrea Georgiou, program coordinator
Andrea.Georgiou@mtsu.edu
The Flight Dispatch concentration offers instruction designed to meet the aviation industry’s needs by preparing professional, corporate, and airline flight dispatchers. Selected True Blue Core and minor courses are interwoven with required aerospace courses to provide students with a foundation for careers in this area. Upon completion of the program, the FAA Flight Dispatch exam will be administered. Successful completion of this FAA exam is required for graduation. In addition to the academic requirements below, Flight Dispatch students must
- adhere to the following requirements for these 14 CFR, Part 65 dispatch core courses: AERO 3080, AERO 3510, AERO 3630, AERO 4580, and AERO 4590;
- online courses will not satisfy these requirements,
- obtain at least a grade of 70 percent,
- miss no more than 10 percent of the contact hours for each course,
- make up all missed class time before the end of the semester,
- retake a course if more than 10 percent is missed and/or obtain less than a 70 percent.
- be at least 21 years of age before the Fall graduation date in order to enroll in AERO 4580.
NOTE: All major courses, program accreditation, and/or Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) related coursework (physics, mathematics, and selected engineering technology courses) must be completed with a grade of C or better in order to graduate.
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Degree Requirements
| True Blue Core (TBC) |
41 hours |
| Major Requirements |
43 hours |
| Aerospace Core |
13 hours |
| Flight Dispatch Concentration |
30 hours |
| Supporting Courses |
32 hours* |
| Minor |
15-18 hours |
| Electives |
0-6 hours |
| TOTAL |
120-134 hours |
*This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If courses for this program are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the program of study may be completed in 120 hours.
True Blue Core (41 hours)
True Blue Core (TBC) requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.
The following courses required by the major meet True Blue Core requirements:
Major Requirements (43 hours)
Aerospace Core (13 hours)
Flight Dispatch Concentration (30 hours)
Supporting Courses (32 hours)
Minor (15-18 hours)
Selected from Computer Science, Geology, Information Systems, Physical Geography, or other science- or business-related field approved by the program coordinator.
Curriculum: Aerospace, Flight Dispatch Concentration
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