Hello. You can check what is done at Embry Riddle since they have all these programs:
- Aerospace engineering curriculum
- Flight test specialization curriculum
- Proff. Pilot curriculum
Otherwise it can go all over the place (my experience from different schools in both Europe and USA/Canada).
You should touch a lot of general mech. Eng. Stuff as prep and then go into more specific aerospace curriculum.
What I mean is go through these sections:
- Aerodynamics (low, high speed)
- Construction and design
- Manufacturing
- Flight mechanics (performance)
- Propulsion (jet engines, rocket engines)
- Stability and control (include aeroelasticity issue etc)
- Equipment (electrical system, hydro systems, combined sys, autopilot)
- Structural analysis (static, fatigue, DTA, FEM etc)
- Material sciences (composite properties, mech of materials)
- Regulatory issues (FARs, JARs etc)
- Navigation
- Other topics in Flight Ops
In my experience I had one or more of courses in these areas plus 2 extra years of general mech engineering (overall 5 years of courses).
You can always pick what you think it is essential for a specific branch from the above list.
Regards,