Department of Aerospace Engineering
https://engineering.tamu.edu/aerospace/index.html
Head: Ivett Leyva
Director, Graduate Studies Program: Raktim Bhattacharya
The Department of Aerospace Engineering offers graduate work and research programs in aeronautical/aerospace engineering, leading to the degrees of MEng, MS, and PhD. The department also offers courses and faculty supervision for students pursuing the Master of Science and Doctor of Engineering degrees. The department provides educational and research opportunities in four core discipline areas associated with aerospace engineering. These are (1) aerodynamics and propulsion, (2) dynamics and control, (3) materials and structures, and (4) Systems, Design, and Human Integration. Areas of interest include aerodynamics, fluid dynamics, hypersonics, autonomous air/ground/space systems, machine learning and artificial intelligence, lasers, optics, plasma, electromagnetics, robotics, computational fluid dynamics, fluid-structure interaction (aeroelasticity), flight mechanics, astrodynamics, aircraft/spacecraft dynamics and control, rotorcraft, computational mechanics, solid mechanics, micromechanics, multifunctional materials, high temperature materials, nanomechanics, composite materials, bio-nano materials, aging aircraft and structures, and bioastronautics. A foreign language is not required for any of the aerospace degree programs.
The 28 well equipped laboratories in the department include the Advanced Vertical Flight Laboratory, Aero and Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Aerospace Laboratory for Lasers, Electromagnetics, and Optics (ALLEMO), Aerospace Systems, Technology Research & Operations (ASTRO) Laboratory, Aerospace Vehicle Systems Institute (AVSI), AggieSat Small Satellite Program Laboratory, Center for Intelligent Multifunctional Materials and Structures, Computational Stability and Transition Laboratory, Estimation, Decision and Planning Laboratory, High Temperature Gasdynamics Laboratory, Immersive Mechanics Visualization Laboratory, Klebanoff–Saric Low-Speed Low Disturbance Wind Tunnel (KSWT), Laboratory for Uncertainty Quantification, Land, Air and Space Robotics (LASR) Laboratory, Laser Diagnostics and High-Speed Combustion Laboratory, Materials and Testing Laboratory, Multifunctional Materials and Aerospace Structures Optimization (M2AESTRO) Laboratory, Nanostructured Materials Laboratory, National Aerothermochemistry and Hypersonics Laboratory (NAL), Oran W. Nicks Low–Speed Wind Tunnel (LSWT), Plasma Dynamics Modeling Laboratory, Plasma Simulation Laboratory, Propulsion Laboratory, Systems Engineering, Architecture and Knowledge (SEAK), Tensegrity & Morphing Structures Laboratory, Turbulence and Advanced Computations Laboratory (TACL), Vehicle Systems & Control Laboratory (VSCL), and ZLab, as well as modern High Performance Computing Facilities.
Alfriend III, Kyle T, University Distinguished Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1967
Andrienko, Daniil Aleksandrovich, Assistant Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Wright State University, 2014
PHD, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 2013
Benzerga, Amine A, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Mines De Paris, 2000
Bhattacharya, Raktim, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, University of Minnesota, 2003
Bowersox, Rodney D, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Virginia Tech, 1992
Boyd, James G, Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Texas A&M University, 1994
Chakravorty, Suman, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, University of Michigan, 2004
Chamitoff, Gregory E, Professor of the Practice
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992
Cizmas, Paul G, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Duke University, 1995
Cruzado Garcia, Aitor, Lecturer
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Mondragon University, 2013
Currie-Gregg, Nancy, Professor of the Practice
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, University of Houston, 1997
DeMars, Kyle, Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, University of Texas, 2010
Diaz Artiles, Ana, Assistant Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015
Donzis, Diego A, Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007
Dunbar, Bonnie Jeanne, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, University of Houston, 1983
Girimaji, Sharath S, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Cornell University, 1990
Hartl, Darren J, Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2009
Hurtado, John E, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Texas A&M University, 1995
Jameson, Antony, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, University of Cambridge, 1963
Junkins, John L, Distinguished Professor and Regents Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, University of California at Los Angeles, 1969
Karaman, Ibrahim, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000
Karpetis, Adonios N, Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Yale University, 1998
Kinra, Vikram K, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Brown University, 1975
Kulatilaka, Waruna D, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
DEN, Purdue University, 2006
Lagoudas, Dimitris C, University Distinguished Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Lehigh University, 1986
Langari, Gholamreza, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, University of California at Berkeley, 1991
Le Graverend, Jean-Briac B, Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Ecole Nationale de Mécanique et d’Aérotechnique, France, 2013
Limbach, Christopher M, Assistant Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Princeton University, 2015
Majji, Manoranjan, Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2009
Miles, Richard B, University Distinguished Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Stanford University, 1972
Moble, Benedict, Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, University of Maryland, 2010
Mortari, Daniele, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, University La Sapienza of Rome, 1980
Naraghi, Mohammad, Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2009
Oran, Elaine, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Yale University, 1972
Reddy, Junuthula N, Distinguished Professor and Regents Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, University of Alabama at Huntsville, 1974
Reed, Helen L, University Distinguished Professor and Regents Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 1981
PHD, Virginia Tech, 1981
Richard, Jacques C, Senior Lecturer
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Rensselaer University, 1989
Saric, William S, Distinguished Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1968
Scully, Marlan O, Distinguished Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Yale University, 1966
Selva Valero, Daniel, Assistant Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012
Shryock, Kristi J, Associate Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2011
Strganac, Thomas W, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 1987
PHD, Virginia Tech, 1987
Strouboulis, Theofanis, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, University of Texas, 1986
Talreja, Ramesh R, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, The Technical University of Denmark, 1974
Tichenor, Nathan R, Research Assistant Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Texas A&M University, 2010
Tropina, Albina, Research Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Kyiv Aviation University, 2011
PHD, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 1999
Vadali, Srinivas R, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Virginia Tech, 1983
Valasek, John L, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, University of Kansas, 1995
Whitcomb, John D, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Virginia Tech, 1988
White, Edward B, Professor
Aerospace Engineering
PHD, Arizona State University, 2000