I have had the opportunity to take two UCLA Extension courses and I have had this opportunity because my dad teaches for UCLA Extension. As a professor of UCLA Extension, he is able to take a UCLA Extension class for free each quarter and was able to transfer his free class to me. This opportunity has allowed me to take aerospace classes that have taught me skills that are applicable in industry. I took a systems engineering class and an orbital mechanics class. In the systems engineering class, I learned the role of the systems engineer is to plan out the logistics of the spacecraft and take into account all the specificities that come with building and designing a spacecraft based on its mission and what supplemental payloads would be needed
