About Aeronautical Engineering Department

• Aeronautical engineering is primarily concerned with the design, analysis and maintenance of aircraft and spacecraft.
• B-TECH in Aeronautical Engineering begins with courses that give you an excellent grounding in both engineering and calculus-based physics.
• Use software to build models and analyze real aerospace parts and systems; and design, build, and test your own model airplane or rocket.
• Subfields include aircraft maintenance, aerodynamics, aircraft structures, flight controls, and propulsion systems.
• Students who choose to earn an aeronautical engineering degree at SGU are part of a prestigious program that consistently receives accolades, at a university that is ranked in the nation's top tier.
• Research projects and relevant hands-on workshops in the classroom involve concepts and systems at the forefront of engineering.

Aeronautical engineering internships and research projects include such diverse areas as:

• Aircraft maintenance
• Structural dynamics
• Flight Controls
• Wind tunnel testing and experimentation
• Computational fluid dynamics
• Computer-aided design
• Aircraft and Rocket propulsion system
• Aerodynamics
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
• Composite Materials

With experience gained from aeronautical engineering internships and research, SGU's students culminate their SGU undergraduate careers with comprehensive capstone senior design projects. These projects give students the experience of working in teams to address real-world issues and create innovative solutions through the design, development, prototyping, and presentation of a complex engineering system.

Examples of these student projects include:

• Numerical and experimental analysis of baseline airfoil with and without dimples.
• Numerical and experimental investigation of different airfoils.