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EFSC’s Titusville aerospace center: two training routes explained
The October 13 opening expands training in North Brevard. The aerospace associate degree and aircraft-maintenance certificates have different requirements.
Eastern Florida State College celebrated the opening of its Aerospace Center of Excellence at the Titusville Campus on October 13. The facility supports two existing training paths: Aerospace Technology and Aviation Maintenance Technology. They lead to different credentials.
Aerospace Technology is a full-time, 61-credit Associate in Science degree. Its limited-access program places accepted students into daytime or evening cohorts. Related options include a 43-credit Aerospace Technician certificate, which has the degree’s hands-on training courses without its general-education requirements, and a 17-credit Structural Assembly Technician certificate.
Aviation maintenance follows a separate route: Career and Technical Certificates in Airframe Mechanics and Powerplant Mechanics. EFSC lists 2,250 clock hours for both certificates and a two-year completion timeframe. The training prepares students for FAA written, oral and practical certification exams leading to airframe and powerplant ratings.
The new center includes electronics, metal-fabrication, fluids and composites laboratories. For aviation maintenance, the project converted a former campus gymnasium into classrooms and laboratories and added a training hangar, according to the college’s opening announcement.
That announcement says Aerospace Technology expands into North Brevard while remaining based at the Cocoa Campus. It says Aviation Maintenance Technology relocated to the new center. Students should distinguish an expansion of the aerospace degree from the reported move of the aircraft-maintenance program.
The aviation program’s overview lists Titusville starting in fall 2026, while another course-description paragraph still refers to Melbourne International Airport. Prospective students should confirm their assigned classroom and hangar location with the program advisor before committing to a cohort.
Both training routes use selective admissions and require a program application in addition to EFSC’s general admission process. The official program pages explain those steps. A new facility does not establish an available seat or a particular applicant’s acceptance.