Department of Aerospace Engineering

Room 1200 Howe Hall
515-294-5666 Phone
515-294-3262 Fax
aere-infoiastate.edu

AER E Administrative Office

Tom I-P. Shih, Professor & Chair
515-294-6241, tomshihiastate.edu

Ann Laws, Administrative Specialist
515-294-6732, lawsiastate.edu

Gayle Fay, Purchasing / Travel Coordinator / WiST Lab Events
515-294-6240, gjfayiastate.edu

Sue McLaughlin, Events Coordinator / Webmaster
515-294-5666, smclaughiastate.edu

Undergraduate Program

John Jacobson, Assistant Department Chair/Advising Coordinator
515-294-2920, jacobsoniastate.edu

Kathy Platts, Advisor, 515-294-3777, kkplattsiastate.edu

Laurie Hoifeldt, Undergraduate Secretary / Coordinator
515-294-3776, hoifeldtiastate.edu

Graduate Program

Ganesh Rajagopalan, Professor & Director of Graduate Education
515-294-6796, rajagopaiastate.edu

Dee Pfeiffer, Graduate Secretary / Coordinator
515-294-9669, dpfeiffeiastate.edu

Center for Nondestructive Evaluation (CNDE)

R. Bruce Thompson, Distinguished Professor & Director of CNDE
515-294-7864, thompsonrbiastate.edu

Heidi Long, Administrative Specialist
515-294-6770, hjlongcnde.iastate.edu

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFDC)

Z.J. Wang, Professor & Director of CFDC
515-294-1614, zjwiastate.edu 

Sue McLaughlin, Assistant to Director for CFD Center
515-294-5666, smclaughiastate.edu 

Iowa Space Grant Consortium (ISGC)

William J. Byrd, Adjunct Asst. Professor & Director of ISGC
515-294-3106, Fax # 515-294-4848,
wbyrdiastate.edu or isgciastate.edu

Carmen Fuchs, ISGC Program Coordinator
515-294-3106, cjfuchsiastate.edu

Spacecraft Systems & Controls Laboratory (SSCL)

Bong Wie, Vance Coffman Endowed Chair Professor & Director of SSCL
515-294-3124, bongwieiastate.edu

Matthew Nelson, Engr., SSCL
515-294-2640, mnelsoniastate.edu

SSCL Website: http://www.sscl.iastate.edu 

Wind Engineering Program

Partha Sarkar,  T.A. Wilson Endowed Professor & Director of WiST Laboratory (Wind Simulation & Testing Laboratory)
515-294-0719, ppsarkariastate.edu

Gayle Fay, WiST Lab Facilities / WiST Events Coordinator
515-294-6240, gjfayiastate.edu / weeaiastate.edu

Wind Engineering website:  http://www3.aere.iastate.edu/wind/facilities.htm