MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

MIT Aero-Astro prepares engineers for success and leadership in the conception, design, implementation, and operation of aerospace and related engineering systems. We achieve this through our commitment to: educational excellence; creation, development, and application of technologies critical to aerospace vehicle and information engineering; and to the architecture and engineering of complex high-performance systems.

Our goals are: educate tomorrow’s leaders through innovative educational programs and pedagogies that have as their context the conception, design, implementation, and operation of systems and processes; create research opportunities that generate inventions, technologies, and solutions to contemporary aerospace problems; and provide leadership to MIT and the aerospace community.

NEW: Aero-Astro is seeking candidates for tenure track faculty positions. -more-

	Time for a dome on the ISS? MIT alums (from l.) Greg Chamitoff, Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, Stephen Bowen, and Mike Fincke are all currently aboard the International Space Station — the greatest number of MITers in space at the same time. -enlarge-
	Prof. Karen Willcox is developing the next generation of computational methods to address the challenges of probabilistic design and simulation/optimization in real time. Her work is critical to the design of future aircraft such as blended-wing-body model she holds. -more-