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AE Alumni Board Funds First Endowed AE Fellowship

Aerospace Engineering at Illinois is pleased to announce that full funding has now been achieved for the department's first endowed graduate fellowship.

Prof. Scott White highlighted in 'Bloomberg Businessweek'

AE Prof. Scott R. White and his research have been featured on magazine's website.

AE Students Awarded Rockwell Collins Scholarships

Three AE students have received scholarships of $5,000 each, thanks to the philanthropy of Rockwell Collins, Inc.

AE Students Compete in NASA Lunabotics Competition

AE students are members of a University of Illinois team competing in the Third Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition, hosted by NASA.

Tanaka Wins CDC Best Student Paper Award

AE graduate student Takashi Tanaka won the 2011 Best Student Paper Award from the Conference on Decision and Control of IEEE.

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Research Area: Systems and Control

The research being conducted in systems and control ranges from the development and analysis of system software to the design of control systems. Some of the current projects focus on dynamical peer-to-peer vehicle systems; endogenous growth and ecological policy; recovery from engine failure on takeoff; controlled-mobility wireless networks, creation, modeling, and analysis of hybrid systems; large telescopic systems; robust communication; and atomic force microscopy. There are currently fourteen active research projects in systems and control. Several of these projects are sponsored by government agencies and leading industry companies such as: the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the National Science Foundation, the Pioneer Corporation, NASA Glenn Research Center, and the University of Zurich. The research is conducted by faculty members, numerous graduate students, undergraduate students, and visiting scholars.

Faculty Researchers: Labs:
  • Soon-Jo Chung - Autonomous systems, aerospace robotics, and nonlinear control theory
  • B. A. Conway - Celestial mechanics, optimal control, numerical optimization
  • N. S. Namachchivaya - Nonlinear dynamical systems, including bifurcation theory, stability analysis, stochastic processes, structural dynamics
  • P. G. Voulgaris  - Robust control of time-varying and nonlinear systems, general systems theory, estimation and identification of complex systems, emphases on aerospace applications