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The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Graduate)


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Website URL:

https://engineering.purdue.edu/AAE

Department/School Head:

Thomas I-P. Shih

Admission Requirements:

Master’s Degree Program Basic Requirements

  • Undergraduate Cumulative Grade Point Average:
    3.25 or equivalent required
  • Graduate Record Examination (GRE):
    Required – expected GRE scores 156 (verbal), 159 (quantitative) and 4 (analytical)

Doctoral Degree Program Basic Requirements

  • Undergraduate Cumulative Grade Point Average:
    3.5 or equivalent required
  • Master’s Degree Completion:
    Required, with a grade point average of 3.5 or equivalent
  • Graduate Record Examination (GRE):
    Required – expected GRE scores 156 (verbal), 159 (quantitative) and 4 (analytical)

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics offers master’s and doctoral degrees in aeronautical and astronautical engineering.

Concentrations (Areas of Study):

Aerodynamics, Aerospace Systems, Astrodynamics & Space Applications, Dynamics and Control, Propulsion, Structures & Materials, Computational Engineering, Interdisciplinary areas (such as Aeroacoustics, Biomechanics, Design, and Manufacturing.)

Online/Distance Programs:

The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, through Purdue University’s Engineering Professional Education program, is offering graduate level courses in aerospace engineering so that students can earn MS and PhD degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics entirely via distance learning.

Combined Degree Programs: (Undergraduate Degree / Master’s Degree)

AAE Dual BS/MS Degree

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

William Anderson
Gregory Blaisdell
Weinong Chen
Steven Collicott
Martin Corless
William Crossley
Daniel DeLaurentis
James Doyle
Arthur Frazho
Alten Grandt
Stephen Heister
Kathleen Howell
James Longuski
Sergey Macheret
R. Byron Pipes
Steven Schneider
Tom Shih
John Sullivan
Chin-The Sun

Associate Professor

Alina Alexeenko
Dominick Andrisani
James Garrison
Inseok Hwang
Karen Marais
Jonathan Poggie
Timothée Pourpoint
Li Qiao
Dengfeng Sun
Vikas Tomar
Wenbin Yu

Assistant Professor

Sally Bane
Caroline Frueh
Michael Grant
Shaoshuai Mou
Michael Sangid
Alexey Shashurin
Carson Slabaugh
Tyler Tallman
Haifeng Wang

Emeritus Faculty

John Drake
Winthrop Gustafson
Czeslaw Kentzer
Francis Marshall
Charles Merkle
George Palmer
Terrence Weisshaar
Marc Williams

Courtesy Faculty

Barrett Caldwell
Timothy Fisher
Jay Gore
Nicole Key
Steven Landry
Robert Lucht
Henry Melosh
David Minton
Steven Son

Professor of Practice

Daniel Dumbacher

Visiting Faculty

Johnathan Goodsell
Sarag Saikia
David Wolf

Adjunct Faculty

David Filmer
P.K. Imbrie
Anastasios Lyrintzis
Belinda Marchand
John Rusek
Boris Yendler
Kirk Yerkes

Programs

    DoctoralMaster’s

    Courses

      Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering

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