Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech
Webpage: www.aoe.vt.edu
The Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering offers a unique blend of two disciplines that takes advantage of commonality in the analysis and design of aerospace and ocean vehicles. Undergraduate and graduate degrees are offered in both disciplines, with more than 550 undergraduate students and more than 125 graduate students enrolled. We have a yearly graduation rate of some 160 Bachelor's, 25 Master's and 15 Doctoral degrees. The Department has 36 full-time faculty working in aerodynamics, hydrodynamics, structural mechanics, material science, dynamics and control, multidisciplinary design optimization, and energy systems. All faculty are actively engaged in our broad research program, which has annual expenditures of more than $8 million, and all teach at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The Department has extensive facilities including world class wind-tunnels, water tunnels, structural test equipment, high-performance computer systems, and state-of-the-art spacecraft simulators
Education in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering
B.S. in Aerospace and Ocean Engineering, with Majors in Aerospace Engineering, and Ocean Engineering.
M.S. in Aerospace Engineering and Ocean Engineering, including Distance Learning options.
M.Eng. in Aerospace Engineering and Ocean Engineering, including Distance Learning options.
Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, with areas of specialization in Aero-Hydrodynamics, Dynamics and Control, Structures and Structural Dynamics, Ocean Engineering, Space Engineering, Applied Physics, and Applied Math.
