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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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Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab

 

Faculty Researchers: Location: Phone: Website:
Professor Emeritus K. D. Lee Room 206L Talbot Laboratory 217-244-0954  

Description of Research:

Directed by Professor K. D. Lee. The purpose of the lab is to develop and apply computational tools for analysis and design of flight vehicles. Current research activities include multidisciplinary design optimization, design of multi-element high-lift system, flow sensitivity analysis, high-alpha vortical flow, grid-independent algorithm, solution-adaptive grid, grid quality control, and convergence acceleration.