Subjects covered.
The course work in the Department is divided into five major technical areas. These are Biomechanics, Dynamics & Controls, Fluid Dynamics, Propulsion and Structural Mechanics.
| Undergraduate | Graduate |
| Aerospace design | Analysis of materials behavior |
| Aircraft structures | Applied aerodynamics |
| Airplane design | Biomechanics |
| Combustion | Bio fluid dynamics |
| Compressors | Biomaterials |
| Continuum mechanics | Biorheology |
| Dynamics and control | Body aerodynamics |
| Elasticity | Boundary element methods |
| Engineering mechanics design | Cell mechanics |
| Fluid mechanics | Combustion |
| Gas turbine engine design | Composite materials and structures |
| Heat transfer | Computational aeroacoustics |
| Numerical methods | Environmental flows |
| Propulsion | Elastic stability |
| Ramjets | Experimental fluids |
| Scamjets | Finite element modeling |
| Solid mechanics | Fluid dynamics |
| Thermodynamics | High performance computing |
| Turbines | Inelasticity/plasticity |
| Low density hypersonics | |
| Large space structures | |
| Mechanics of composite materials | |
| Non-destructive testing of composites | |
| Numerical analysis of fluid flow | |
| Numerical methods in engineering applications | |
| Orbital mechanics | |
| Propulsion | |
| Ramjets | |
| Scamjets | |
| Space structure design | |
| Turbojet engines | |
| Ultrasonics | |
| Wave propagation in electric media | |
Degrees granted. The department offers the B.S. in both Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aerospace Engineering and in Engineering Mechanics.
Research focus. In 1981, a Center of Excellence in fluid dynamics was awarded. In 1988, the Department won an Ohio Eminent Scholar Chair in the experimental fluid mechanics area. Through the Ohio Board of Regents Research Challenge Funds, the Institute of Computational Mechanics was established to carry out multidisciplinary research. At the graduate level, there is a strong emphasis on numerical methods in the area of computational mechanics.
Dorothy Byers
May 15, 2000