University Catalog 2025-2026

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Aerospace Engineering (MS): Industry Concentration

Degree Requirements

This concentration is only for on-campus students. Students enrolled in the distance  education – Engineering Online (EOL) - are not eligible to select this concentration.

Required Courses 127
Select a minimum of 18 credits (6 courses) of 500-level to 700-level MAE courses
Select a maximum of 9 credits (3 courses) of non-MAE or MAE technical elective courses approved by the Director of Graduate Programs
Internship Course 23
MAE 650
Internship Work
Total Hours30
1

"Required Courses" may include up to three non-MAE courses approved by the Director of Graduate Programs

2

This concentration requires an internship of at least four months duration (maximum of seven months) and the student to take 3 credit hours of MAE 650 Internship Work and obtain a Satisfactory grade. An internship of at least four calendar months duration would require that it span at least one semester and possibly part of summer. The credits for MAE 650 Internship Work would be taken during the semester that includes the internship.

Faculty

Full Professors

  • Igor A. Bolotnov
  • Matthew Bryant
  • Gregory D. Buckner
  • Tarek Echekki
  • Farhan Saifuddin Gandhi
  • Tasnim Hassan
  • He Huang
  • Jack Ray Edwards Jr.
  • Srinath Ekkad
  • Tiegang Fang
  • Ashok Gopalarathnam
  • Xiaoning Jiang
  • Andrey Valerevich Kuznetsov
  • Hong Luo
  • Kevin M. Lyons
  • Andre P. Mazzoleni
  • Marie Muller
  • Venkateswaran Narayanaswamy
  • Gracious Ngaile
  • Brendan Timothy O'Connor
  • Lokendra Pal
  • Kara Jo Peters
  • Afsaneh Rabiei
  • Katherine Saul
  • Rohan A. Shirwalker
  • Hooman Vahedi Tafreshi
  • Fen Wu
  • Chengying Xu
  • Fuh-Gwo Yuan
  • Yong Zhu
  • Mohammed A. Zikry

Associate Professors

  • Sajjad Bigham
  • Justin M. Bradley
  • Scott M. Ferguson
  • Landon Grace
  • Timothy Joseph Horn
  • Hsiao-Ying Shadow Huang
  • Arun Kumar Kota
  • Jun Liu
  • Jong Eun Ryu
  • Alexei V. Saveliev
  • Nitin Sharma
  • Liming Xiong

Assistant Professors

  • James Braun
  • Darius Carter
  • Chuyi Chen
  • Curtis Congreve
  • Mohammad Heiranian
  • Jingjie Hu
  • Florian M. Laggner
  • Andrew Jeungahn Lee
  • Donggun Lee
  • Jaemin Lee
  • Seyed Mehran Mirramezani
  • Rohith Mittapally
  • Mark Moretto
  • Laura Paquin
  • Jason F. Patrick
  • Susmita Sarkar
  • Henry Oliver Tenadooah Ware
  • Chi-An Yeh
  • Chi-An Yi
  • Jie Yin

Teaching Associate Professor

  • Felix Ewere

Teaching Assistant Professors

  • Mingtai Chen
  • Etana A. Ferede

Teaching Professors

  • Anna Howard
  • Chau Tran

Assistant Research Professor

  • Huaiyu Wu

Emeritus Faculty

  • Michael A. Boles
  • Thomas A. Dow
  • Herbert Martin Eckerlin
  • Jeffrey W. Eischen
  • Richard David Gould
  • Hassan A. Hassan
  • Richard F. Keltie
  • Clement Kleinstreuer
  • David S. McRae
  • Robert T. Nagel
  • Lawrence M. Silverberg
  • John S. Strenkowski