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AE Alums Play Role in Phoenix Lander Mission

Three AE alumni participated in the successful landing of the Mars Phoenix Lander mission that touched down on the Martian northern arctic region on May 25, 2008

Voulgaris Awarded NCSA Fellowship

Aerospace Engineering Professor Petros Voulgaris has been awarded a National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) Fellowship for his project, "Simulation-Based Performance and Robustness Analysis of Large Distributed Control Applications."

Events

September 08
AE 590 Seminar
From Red Cells to Skiing to a New Concept for an Airborne Jet Train that Flies on a Soft Porous Track at 700 km/hr

September 22
AE 590 Seminar
Methods for the Solution of Hybrid Optimal Control/Mission Planning Problems

 
Computing

Software

  • AGI STK
    The AGI STK software is only available in the Aerospace Undergraduate Lab located in 321D Talbot Lab.

  • AutoCAD
    Aerospace Engineering Faculty, Staff, and Student employees are eligiable to use software free of charge. The software is available through the WebStore. Students can download a free student's edition at http://www.engineersrule.org or at the WebStore for a fee.

  • Mathematica, MatLab, & Tecplot
    Aerospace Engineering Faculty, Staff, or Student employees are eligiable to use software free of charge. The software is available through the WebStore. Students may purchase this software at the WebStore for a fee.

  • MathType
    Aerospace Engineering Faculty, Staff, and Students may download software free of charge. The software is available for download at the WebStore.

  • Unigraphics
    Aerospace Engineering Faculty, Staff, and Students are eligiable to use software free of charge. The software is available in the computer support office located in 321F Talbot Lab

  • Additional software
    Some additional software can be downloaded at the WebStore. Please visit the WebStore to download McAfee VirusScan.

  • WebStore - http://webstore.cites.uiuc.edu