The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Graduate)

Website URL:

https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAE

Department/School Head:

Tom I-P. Shih

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics offers masters and doctoral degrees in aeronautical and astronautical engineering.

The Gambaro Graduate Program of Aeronautics and Astronautics is among the top, as well as largest, aerospace engineering programs in the country. The program offers Professional MS, thesis MS, and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics. The program offers a wide selection of courses and world-class research facilities. The program also has the nation’s largest online graduate student enrollment.

Concentrations (Areas of Study):

Aerodynamics, Aerospace Systems, Astrodynamics & Space Applications, Dynamics and Control, Engineering Leadership, Propulsion, Structures & Materials, Computational Engineering, and interdisciplinary minor areas for MS students (such as Computational Engineering, Aeroacoustics, Biomechanics, Design, and Manufacturing.)

Online/Distance Programs:

The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, through Purdue University’s Purdue Online Learning-College of Engineering, is offering graduate level courses in aerospace engineering so that students can earn MS and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics entirely via distance learning.

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

Alina Alexeenko
William Anderson
Gregory Blaisdell
Weinong Chen
Steven Collicott
Martin Corless
William Crossley
Daniel DeLaurentis
James Doyle
Arthur Frazho
James Garrison
Stephen Heister
Kathleen Howell
Inseok Hwang
James Longuski
Robert Lucht
Sergey Macheret
R. Byron Pipes
Timothée Pourpoint
Steven Schneider
Tom Shih
John Sullivan
Vikas Tomar
Wenbin Yu

Associate Professor

Karen Marais
Jonathan Poggie
Li Qiao
Michael Sangid
David Spencer
Dengfeng Sun

Assistant Professor

Caroline Frueh
Joseph Jewell
Shaoshuai Mou
Alexey Shashurin
Carson Slabaugh
Tyler Tallman
Haifeng Wang

Emeritus Faculty

Dominick Andrisani
John Drake
David Filmer
Alten Grandt
Winthrop Gustafson
Czeslaw Kentzer
Francis Marshall
Charles Merkle
George Palmer
Chin-Teh Sun
Terrence Weisshaar
Marc Williams

Courtesy Faculty

Andres Arrieta Diaz
Barrett Caldwell
Jay Gore
Briony Horgan
Nicole Key
Steven Landry
Jan-Andres Mansson
Henry Melosh
Terrence Meyer
David Minton
Guillermo Paniagua
Fabio Semperlotti
Steven Son

Visiting Faculty

James Goppert
Ali Raz
David Wolf

Research Faculty

Johnathan Goodsell
Sarag Saikia

Adjunct Faculty

Timothy Fisher
Michael Grant
Pascal Hubert
P.K. Imbrie
Vlastimil Kunc
Anastasios Lyrintzis
Belinda Marchand
Conchur O’Bradaigh
Srdjan Simunovic
Kirk Yerkes

Programs

• Aeronautics & Astronautics, PHD

• Aeronautics & Astronautics, MSAA

Courses

• AAE 50700 - Principles Of Dynamics
• AAE 50800 - Optimization In Aerospace Engineering
• AAE 51100 - Introduction To Fluid Mechanics
• AAE 51200 - Computational Aerodynamics
• AAE 51400 - Intermediate Aerodynamics
• AAE 51500 - Rotorcraft Aerodynamics
• AAE 51800 - Low-Gravity Fluid Dynamics
• AAE 51900 - Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics
• AAE 52000 - Experimental Aerodynamics
• AAE 52300 - Introduction To Remote Sensing
• AAE 53200 - Orbit Mechanics
• AAE 53500 - Propulsion Design, Build, Test
• AAE 53700 - Hypersonic Propulsion
• AAE 53800 - Air Breathing Propulsion
• AAE 53900 - Advanced Rocket Propulsion
• AAE 54500 - Dynamic Behavior of Materials
• AAE 54600 - Aerospace Structural Dynamics And Stability
• AAE 54800 - Mechanical Behavior Of Aerospace Materials
• AAE 55000 - Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
• AAE 55100 - Design Theory And Methods For Aerospace Systems
• AAE 55200 - Nondestructive Evaluation Of Structures And Materials
• AAE 55300 - Elasticity In Aerospace Engineering
• AAE 55400 - Fatigue Of Structures And Materials
• AAE 55500 - Mechanics Of Composite Materials
• AAE 55600 - Aeroelasticity
• AAE 55800 - Finite Element Methods In Aerospace Structures
• AAE 56000 - System-Of-Systems Modeling And Analysis
• AAE 56100 - Introduction To Convex Optimization
• AAE 56400 - Systems Analysis And Synthesis
• AAE 56500 - Guidance And Control Of Aerospace Vehicles
• AAE 56700 - Introduction To Applied Stochastic Processes
• AAE 56800 - Applied Optimal Control And Estimation
• AAE 57500 - Introduction To Satellite Navigation And Positioning
• AAE 58500 - Air Transportation Systems
• AAE 59000 - Projects In Aeronautical Engineering
• AAE 59500 - Aerospace Seminar
• AAE 59700 - Independent Study In Aerospace Engineering
• AAE 60700 - Variational Principles Of Mechanics
• AAE 61300 - Viscous Flow Theory
• AAE 61500 - Aeroacoustics
• AAE 62400 - Laminar-Turbulent Transition
• AAE 62600 - Turbulence And Turbulence Modeling
• AAE 63200 - Advanced Orbital Dynamics
• AAE 64200 - Graduate Professional Practice
• AAE 64600 - Elastic Wave Propagation
• AAE 64800 - Modeling Damage And Strengthening Mechanisms In Materials
• AAE 65400 - Fracture Mechanics
• AAE 66600 - Nonlinear Dynamics, Systems, And Control
• AAE 66800 - Hybrid Systems: Theory And Analysis
• AAE 67500 - Advanced Signals And Systems For Satellite Navigation
• AAE 69000 - Advanced Aeronautical Engineering Projects
• AAE 69800 - Research MS Thesis
• AAE 69900 - Research PhD Thesis