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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

 
Research Labs

Undergraduate and Graduate Computer Lab

Faculty Researchers: Location: Phone: Website:
  Room 321D
Talbot Laboratory
217-265-0270  

Description of Research:

The lab contains twenty-six workstations, twenty-four Windows computers, two Macintosh G5 computers and two dual processor Linux computers. The computer lab is used extensively for senior design projects where Unigraphics and Pro/Engineer CAD programs are used. In addition, MATLAB, Mathematica, Labview, Satellite Toolkit, Tecplot, and other software packages are provided for use in the undergraduate and graduate courses.