MAE Faculty Areas of Interest

The Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering hires outstanding faculty members to teach in a broad range of courses.  The following is a list of full-time faculty members' expertise and areas of interest.

Julie Albertson Senior Instructor

experimental aerodynamics, engineering education

Peter Gorder Associate Professor

dynamic systems and control, aerospace vehicle dynamics, engineering design

Andrew Ketsdever Assistant Professor

propulsion and gas dynamics

Michael Larson Professor

solid mechanics and design

Ken Lauderbaugh Associate Professor

dynamics and control of mechanical systems, aerospace control, manufacturing modeling and control

Georg Pingen Assistant Professor

optimization, computational mechanics and fluid dynamics

David Schmidt Professor Emeritus

aerospace dynamics, guidance and control

Valmiki Sooklal Instructor

solid mechanics, finite element modeling

James Stevens Professor

heat transfer, applied thermodynamics

Steven Tragesser Assistant Professor

astrodynamics, guidance and control

Rebecca Webb Assistant Professor

heat transfer, and fluid mechanics