Why Choose ISUs Aerospace Engineering Department?
Chairs Message Our department has exciting educational programs in aerodynamics, aerospace structures, propulsion, flight mechanics and guidance as well as space systems with a lot of hands-on experience in the classroom and out of the classroom. Our faculty and their students conduct cutting-edge research in nondestructive evaluation, computational fluid dynamics, wind engineering and experimental aerodynamics, guidance and control, aircraft icing, rotorcraft/UAV/MAV, turbine science and technology, and micro/nano mechanics of materials. Our department has had the privilege to educate some of the most accomplished and distinguished leaders of industry, government, and academia. These include former Chairman of the Board of Boeing, retired Chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin, an astronaut, … (see our alumni page). Our department has 28 faculty members with 2 members of the National Academy of Engineering (1 emeritus), about $9.8 million annual research expenditures. The department is
