Space engineering training in the Hungarian tertiary education
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.23713/HT.58.1.07Keywords:
university education, space engineering master program, curriculum establishmentAbstract
The Hungarian space age started in 1946 with the successful Lunar Radar experiment by Zoltán Bay. In the past 75 years, the Hungarian space sector evolved and grew dramatically, achieving international recognition in space communications, material science, picosatellites, dosimetry, and many more domains. However, there was no space engineering related higher education program in the country. In early 2021, the Budapest University of Technology and Economics Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics at BME requested approval for its space engineering master program, the first class of space engineering students arrived to the university in September 2022. The BME master’s program has 26 subjects and a 4-week-long industrial training. We outline the establishment process of the national space-engineering curriculum and introduce the curriculum of BME.
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