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Average undergraduate student? Not by a long shot.

Let's build a plane!

AE undergrad team takes second in complex NASA competition

Using artificial intelligence to train teams of robots to work together

Disruptive ideas needed to achieve sustainable flight by 2050

Learning from DART to protect the world from future near-Earth object impacts

News | September 21, 2022

Daniel Dorney on campus to accept distingushed AE alumni award

News | September 9, 2022

Sustainability in Aerospace Technologies, Tia Benson Tolle to give H.S. Stillwell Memorial Lecture, Sept. 12

News | September 7, 2022

New diversity ambassador brings experiential empathy

News | September 7, 2022

Our programs are ranked in the top 10 by US News and World Report Rankings (2021)

#6

Illinois Undergraduate Engineering Program

#5

Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering Program

#7

Graduate Aerospace Engineering Program

Open Faculty Positions

Open Rank Faculty, 2 positions

Teaching Professor

Open Rank Professor of Practice (Clinical Professor)

Upcoming Events

October

3

AE 590 Seminar: Aviation's Grand Challenge: Disrupting technologies for an environmentally sustainable future

4:00 PM

CIF 2035

October

10

AE 590 Seminar: Safe and efficient autonomy in the face of uncertainty

4:00 PM

CIF 2035

October

17

AE 590 Seminar - Multi-robot systems for planetary exploration: NASA's Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Explorers

4:00 PM

CIF 2035

October

24

AE 590 Seminar: Alberto Aliseda, University of Washington

4:00 PM

CIF 2035

October

31

AE 590 Seminar: Sung Hoon Kang, Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute

4:00 PM

CIF 2035

November

7

AE 590 Seminar

4:00 PM

CIF 2035

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