Facilities Overview

The Aerospace Engineering Department is located in the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Building, a 100,000 square-foot complex that includes classrooms, teaching laboratories, research labs as well as faculty, and staff offices. The department also partially occupies four other research buildings; the wind tunnel building( 20,000 Sq ft), Hi vacuum pumping station (4000 sq ft), power house (1000 sq ft) and the PEPL lab (5000 sq ft). Research facilities in the building(s) include:

• a collection of wind tunnels that can test from micro air vehicles to models generating hundreds of pounds of lift, and from very low-speed flight to above Mach 4 (Supersonic tunnels are in the wind tunnel bld)
• a laboratory for plasmadynamics and electric propulsion, where full-scale tests can be run at millionths of a Torr  (this is our PEPL lab on green road)
• a composites laboratory with facility for mechanical testing of materials, vacuum and heating chambers for testing in controlled environments, high speed imaging of cracks, instrumentation for non-destructive evaluation.
• a laboratory for autonomous aerospace systems

• Explosion resistant high bay research labs
• Aero Learning Center for students

To schedule a tour of our facility,  click here.