Department of Aerospace Engineering

Research facilities include laboratories for experimental work in low speed aero dynamics, ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation, wind engineering, composite material fabrication and testing, and structural material s testing.

Major research equipment includes micro- and nano- mechanical testing equipment (AFM, STM, and scanning nanoindenter), a closed circuit aero/ABL wind tunnel, Bill James open-return wind tunnel for aerodynamic testing, a smoke tunnel for flow visualization, and microburst and tornado simulators which are under construction.

• Aerodynamic/Atmospheric Boundary Layer Wind and Gust Tunnel
• Advanced Flow Diagnostics and Experimental Aerodynamics
• Instrumentation
• Micro- and nano-mechanics research lab
• Smaller scale wind tunnels
• Spacecraft Systems and Controls Laboratory
• Support facilities
• Tornado/Microburst Simulator

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Educational and Computer Laboratories

Research Laboratories

Computational facilities include a network of Windows-based PC's and Linux-based workstations. Various data acquisition computers and high performance workstations are used in several laboratories and discipline area of research and are linked to the campus and college networks.

Departmental Computer Maintenance Facilities: The department employs dedicated computer support staff as well as the facilities needed to service and manage the department research computing systems.

Open Labs: In addition to dedicated research computing facilities, graduate students have access to three open, high-end PC workstation laboratories with a total of 69 machines running both Linux and Windows operating systems. Graduate students may access these labs when they are not in use for classes.

Graduate Research Computing Servers: The department maintains a rack of PC servers for research computing.