Aerospace Engineering
INSPIRING A NEW GENERATION OF AEROSPACE LEADERS AND SHAPING THE FUTURE OF FLIGHT
RESEARCH
Michigan Aerospace Engineering remains a leader in aerospace research and education, covering an expansive array of topics from unmanned air and space vehicles to commercial airliners.
UNDERGRADUATE
As a student, you will find that our department is a friendly place, with a diverse and enthusiastic group of students, faculty, and staff.
GRADUATE
Our graduate students perform cutting-edge research in aerospace engineering-related subjects. A combination of fundamental and applied research topics is a hallmark of our graduate program.
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NEWS
Raman advocates for more versatile and powerful modeling tools
U-M Aerospace Engineering Professor Venkat Raman advocates for more versatile and powerful modeling tools to meet computational demands of next-generation aircraft design.
RECENT NEWS
Assistant Professor Aaron Johnson studies how students learn and ways faculty instruction can support students’ career launch.
First-of-its-kind facility enables student collaboration on projects to design, build, test, and fly aircraft using MBSE and industry-proven tools and processes.
Anil Yildirim receives AIAA Air Breathing Propulsion Graduate Award and Best Student Paper in MDO at AIAA Aviation Forum
Joaquim Martins’ Engineering Design Optimization book to educate students in how design optimization can replace conventional iterative design processes.
Best-selling book in its field has shaped the education of thousands of students worldwide
Why Michigan Engineering is shifting the way it teaches and practices engineering to close gaps in society rather than widen them.
The data-driven approach to developing better predictive models will result in faster and higher-fidelity engineering models for advanced rocket propulsion systems.
July 30 virtual event highlights future lunar and deep space missions, the technologies to get there, and U-M’s research contributions to space exploration.
The highly coveted FXB Fellowship is given to exceptional Aerospace Engineering PhD students to support their research on the analysis and design of flight vehicles. Meet recent graduate and FXB Fellow Behdad Davoudi.
His top priority is to design and manufacture Taiwan’s own satellites and rockets.
We feel it’s of utmost importance to hear the voices of our students and empower them to be leaders and advocates for change inside and outside of the classroom.
ANTHONY M. Waas
Richard A. Auhll Department Chair of Aerospace Engineering
