The Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics (AEM) Department at the University of Minnesota offers bachelors, masters, and doctorates of philosophy in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics. The AEM faculty conduct research in the areas of Fluid Mechanics, Solid Mechanics and Materials, Aerospace Systems and in other emerging fields such as Nanotechnology. More...
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At first glance, the idea of optimization may seem indigenous to aerospace or other transportation sciences. However, Yiyuan Zhao, an AEM professor and expert on the subject, argues that optimization is part of everyday life. |
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Employment
A postdoctoral Associate position is open in Development of Multi-scale particle-continuum simulation of hypersonic flows and gas-surface interactions Courses
Change in permission number policy Prior to Spring of 2008, AEM did not issue Course Permission Numbers for its courses. However, recent changes in the number of students in AEM courses and the demands directly enrolling students in AEM courses placed on our staff resulted in this change in policy. Click here to request a permission number for AEM courses |
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Solar car finishes race in Canada
Posted August, 4th, 2008
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AEM alumni participate in NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission
Posted August 4, 2008 |
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Azeem Khan working on next generation avionics
Posted May 22nd, 2008 |
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AEM alum awarded Best Dissertation Award
Posted May 19th, 2008 |
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The night before the University's solar
team was to begin its North American Solar Challenge Race in Texas, a piece of
the car's equipment completely failed - and team members thought they might be
out immediately. 
Three U of MN AEM
graduates participated directly in the recently landed Mars Phoenix
mission. Jim Chase (BAEM 1999), Scott Doudrick (MS 1997) and Maria
Schellpfeffer (BS 2003) all participated in the Mars exploration mission
which has been developing since August of 2003
| Date | Item |
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| 2008-9-2 | ISS Changes Orbit To Avoid Russian Debris: for the first time in 5 years the ISS had to maneuver to avoid the remains of a destroyed satellite. |
| 2008-8-28 | NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is Climbing out of Victoria Crater, after spending almost a year inside. Spirit is still working as well and has recently taken this 180 degree panorama. |
| 2008-8-25 | QinetiQ's Zephyr breaks flight time record for unmanned aircraft, beating the Global Hawk's old record. |
| 2008-8-24 | NASA's Shuttle Successor Fails Parachute Test. A mock-up of the Orion crew exploration vehicle was destroyed when the parachutes used to setup the test did not work. |
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