Aeronautical Engineering, B. S.

Student works with the Wind TunnelAeronautical engineering focuses on the analysis, design and operation of structures, vehicles and systems (e.g. aircraft, helicopters, drones) which nominally involve safe, sustained and controlled atmospheric flight. It can also involve other vehicles and systems such as wind-turbines, Formula One race cars and submarines which operate in aerodynamics or hydrodynamics environments.

The Aeronautical Engineering program at Rensselaer is accredited by Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, https://www.abet.org, under the commission’s General Criteria and Program Criteria for Aerospace and Similarly Named Engineering Programs.

Aeronautical Engineering Faculty

Michael Amitay
James L. Decker '45 Endowed Professor in Aerospace Engineering and Director, Center for Flow Physics and Control (CeFPaC).
Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Aerodynamics, and Flow Control
Kurt Anderson
Professor and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies
Multibody System Dynamics, Space Vehicle Design and Simulation, Advanced Algorithm Development, Molecular Dynamics
Prabhat Hajela
Edward P. Hamilton Professor of Aerospace Engineering
Multidisciplinary System Analysis and Optimization, AI and Machine Learning, Biologically Inspired Computational Tools for Optimization, Computational Intelligence
Jason Hicken
Professor
Simulation-based Design and Computational Fluid Dynamics
Amir Hirsa
Professor
Fluid Dynamics at Interfaces, Surface Tension Phenomena, Proteins at Liquid Surfaces
Kevin Housley
Lecturer
Fotios Kopsaftopoulos
Associate Professor
Nikhil Koratkar
John A. Clark and Edward T. Crossan Chair Professor
Advanced Materials, Electrochemical Energy Storage, Batteries, Nanotechnology, Interfacial Science
Robert Niemiec
Lecturer
Rotary-Wing Flight Mechanics and Handling Qualities
Matt Oehlschlaeger
Professor, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs School of Engineering and Aerospace Program Director
Propulsion and Energy Systems, Spectroscopy, Optical Sensors, Chemical Kinetics
Shaowu Pan
Assistant Professor
Scientific Machine Learning, Reduced Order Modeling, Turbulence Modeling and Simulation
Leonid Pogorelyuk
Assistant Professor
Onkar Sahni
Professor
Sandeep Singh
Assistant Professor
Optimal Trajectory Design for Spacecraft, Autonomous Guidance and Sensor Fusion Technology
Keith Taylor
Sr. Lecturer
Ozgur Tumuklu
Assistant Professor
Kinetic theory, computational fluid dynamics, rarefied gas dynamics, aerothermodynamics, turbulence, flow instability and control.
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