Aerospace Engineering
Current research in aerospace engineering focuses on fluid dynamics, materials and structures, combustion and propellants, dynamics and control, and autonomy with applications to aerospace vehicles. The research methods include theoretical modeling, computational simulations, as well as experimental techniques. Major aerospace laboratories are described in the following sections.
Physics & Space Sciences
Current research in physics includes experimental high-energy physics, instrumentation development, theoretical and observational studies of the solar/heliospheric energetic particles and cosmic rays, physics of energetic radiations from thunderstorms and lightning, auroral and magnetospheric physics, astrophysics, engineering physics, and physics education.
Current research activity in space sciences includes the physics of supermassive black holes and galaxy evolution, massive stars, astrophysical jets and accretion phenomena, exoplanets, planetary science, observational cosmology, cosmic ray modulation/propagation and its interactions with the interstellar medium, energetic radiation from terrestrial and planetary lightning discharges, solar wind-magnetosphere interactions and energetic particle observations and human space exploration research.
Facilities that are currently available to students include the following laboratories.
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