Facilities Overview

The Aerospace Engineering Department is located in the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Building, a highly modern 90,000 square-foot complex that includes classrooms and teaching laboratories, as well as faculty and staff offices. Research facilities in the building 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
• a laboratory for plasmadynamics and electric propulsion, where full-scale tests can be run at millionths of a Torr
• 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