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

• Aeronautics & Astronautics, PHD

• Aeronautics & Astronautics, MS
• Aeronautics & Astronautics, MSAAE
• Aeronautics & Astronautics, MSE

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 51700 - Unsteady 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 54600 - Aerospace Structural Dynamics And Stability
• AAE 54700 - Experimental Stress Analysis
• 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 55900 - The Mechanics Of Friction And Wear
• AAE 56000 - System-Of-Systems Modeling And Analysis
• 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 59000 - Projects In Aeronautical Engineering
• AAE 59500 - Aerospace Seminar
• 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 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

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