University Catalog 2023-2024

Aerospace Engineering (PhD)

Degree Requirement

Required Courses39
Select a minimum of thirteen 500-level to 700-level courses 1
Minor Courses (Optional)9
"Minor Courses" are approved in conjunction with the academic committee 2
Research Courses24
Doctoral Dissertation Research
Total Hours72

Additional Requirements

  • Students with a previous MS degree from NCSU:
    • without minor – may transfer up to 18 credit hours
    • with minor – may transfer up to 30 credit hours
  • Students with a previous MS from outside NCSU:
    • without minor – may transfer up to 18 credit hours
    • with minor – may transfer up to 18 credit hours

Faculty

Full Professors

  • Gregory D. Buckner
  • Tarek Echekki
  • Farhan Saifuddin Gandhi
  • Tasnim Hassan
  • He Huang
  • Jack Ray Edwards Jr.
  • Srinath Varadarajan Ekkad
  • Tiegang Fang
  • Ashok Gopalarathnam
  • Richard David Gould
  • Xiaoning Jiang
  • Richard F. Keltie
  • Clement Kleinstreuer
  • Andrey Valerevich Kuznetsov
  • James Woodrow Leach
  • Hong Luo
  • Kevin M. Lyons
  • Gracious Ngaile
  • Kara Jo Peters
  • Afsaneh Rabiei
  • Lawrence M. Silverberg
  • Juei Feng Tu
  • Fen Wu
  • Fuh-Gwo Yuan
  • Yong Zhu
  • Mohammed A. Zikry

Associate Professors

  • Michael A. Boles
  • Matthew Bryant
  • Jeffrey W. Eischen
  • Scott M. Ferguson
  • Su Hao
  • Charles Edward Hall Jr.
  • Hsiao-Ying Shadow Huang
  • Andre P. Mazzoleni
  • Marie Muller
  • Venkateswaran Narayanaswamy
  • Brendan Timothy O'Connor
  • Mark R. Pankow
  • Katherine Saul
  • Alexei V. Saveliev
  • Rohan A. Shirwalker
  • Hooman Vahedi Tafreshi
  • Christopher Raymond Vermillion
  • Chengying Xu

Assistant Professors

  • James Braun
  • Darius Carter
  • Mingtai Chen
  • Chuyi Chen
  • Landon Grace
  • Kenneth Granlund
  • Veeraraghava Raju Hasti
  • Mohammad Heiranian
  • Timothy Joseph Horn
  • Jingjie Hu
  • Arun Kumar Kota
  • Andrew Jeungahn Lee
  • Donggun Lee
  • Jun Liu
  • Jason F. Patrick
  • Pramod Kumar Veera Subbareddy
  • Henry Oliver Tenadooah Ware
  • Chi-An Yi
  • Jie Yin

Emeritus Faculty

  • Thomas A. Dow
  • Herbert Martin Eckerlin
  • Hassan A. Hassan
  • David S. McRae
  • Robert T. Nagel
  • John S. Strenkowski