Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
From Rofflehaus
The Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, located in Howe Hall, is fly-boy central at ISU. Because aerospace engineers spend so much time working with forces and... stuff, engineering mechanics courses are administered by this department too; every semester, hundreds of students from other engineering departments are forced to take courses from AEEM professors. Major areas of research within the department include computational fluid dynamics, aircraft icing and non-destructive evaluation.
There is a departmental honorary, Sigma Gamma Tau, as well as departmental clubs for undergrads and graduate students. There's also a student organization explicitly for aspiring pilots, the ISU Flying Cyclones, that is for some reason full of industrial engineers.
Classes from this department are listed under AER E or E M in the schedule of classes. If you've taken Dynamics and Aircraft Flight Dynamics and Control, there's actually a class you can take called Flight Experience where you can get credit on your transcript for learning how to fly.
[edit] Faculty
- Tom Shih, Department Chair and Professor
- Abhijit Chandra, Endowed Professor
- Vinay Dayal, Associate Professor
- Dana Haugli, Lecturer
- Hui Hu, Assistant Professor
- James Hilliard, Associate Professor
- David Holger, Professor and Dean of the Graduate College
- John Jacobson, Assistant Professor
- Thomas McDaniel, Professor
- Ambar Mitra, Associate Professor
- R Ganesh Rajagopalan, Professor
- Joseph Schaefer, Lecturer
- Leroy Sturges, Associate Professor
- Yu-Min Tsai, Professor
- Loren Zachary, Professor and Assistant Dean of the College
