The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Graduate)

Website URL:

https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAE

Department/School Head:

William A. Crossley

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, non-thesis MS, thesis MS, and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics. The program offers a wide selection of courses and world-class research facilities. 

Areas of Study:

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

Online/Distance Programs:

The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, through Purdue University’s Purdue Online is offering graduate level courses in aerospace engineering so that students can earn a non-thesis MS degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics entirely via distance learning. Also offered is a Graduate Certificate in Hypersonics.

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:/>

Professor

Alina Alexeenko
William Anderson
Gregory Blaisdell
Barrett Caldwell
Weinong Chen
Steven Collicott
Martin Corless
William Crossley
Daniel DeLaurentis
James Doyle
Arthur Frazho
James Garrison
Stephen Heister
Kathleen Howell
Inseok Hwang
Husheng Li
James Longuski
Robert Lucht
Sergey Macheret
Karen Marais
R. Byron Pipes
Jonathan Poggie
Timothée Pourpoint
Li Qiao
Michael Sangid
Steven Schneider
Tom Shih
Dengfeng Sun
Vikas Tomar
Wenbin Yu

Associate Professor

Sally Bane
Ran Dai
Carolin Frueh
Leifur Leifsson
Shaoshuai Mou
Alexey Shashurin
Carson Slabaugh
Haifeng Wang

Assistant Professor

David Arnas
Joseph Jewell
Keith LeGrand
Kenshiro Oguri
Tyler Tallman
Dianyun Zhang

Emeritus Faculty

Dominick Andrisani
John Drake
Alten Grandt
Winthrop Gustafson
Francis Marshall
Charles Merkle
John Sullivan
Chin-Teh Sun
Terrence Weisshaar
Marc Williams

Courtesy Faculty

Andres Arrieta Diaz
Luciano Castillo
Christopher Goldenstein
Jay Gore
Briony Horgan
Nicole Key
Jan-Anders Mansson
Monique McClain
Terrence Meyer
David Minton 
Guillermo Paniagua
Carlo Scalo
Fabio Semperlotti
Steven Son

Visiting Faculty

Thomas Cunningham
Danilo De Camargo Branco
Hashim Hassan
David Wolf

Research Faculty

Brandon Chynoweth

Continuing Lectures

James Goppert

Adjunct Faculty

Daniel Dumbacher
Serget Gimelshein
Michael Grant
Mark Grubelich
Pascal Hubert
Vlastimil Kunc
Mark Lewis
Belinda Marchand
Srdjan Simunovic
David Spencer
Henry Yang
Boris Yendler
 

Programs

• Aeronautics & Astronautics, PHD

• Aeronautics & Astronautics, MSAA

• Hypersonics, Post Baccalaureate Graduate Certificate
• Hypersonics, Postbaccalaureate Graduate Certificate (OL/HY

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 52100 - Plasma Laboratory
• AAE 52300 - Introduction To Remote Sensing
• AAE 53200 - Orbit Mechanics
• AAE 53400 - Spacecraft Electric Propulsion
• 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