Core Competencies
Aerodynamics
Subsonic | Compressible | Supersonic | Hypersonic
Low-Fidelity | Mid-Fidelity | High-Fidelity
Flight Dynamics and Controls
Trim | Stability | Damping
Linearized Models | Handling Qualities
Flight Simulation
6 DoF Motion | Quaternion Representation
Atmospheric Models | Unreal-Engine Graphics
Flight Testing
Custom Hardware and Software | RC Flight-Test Field Near Campus
HITL and SITL Testing | Unique Control Systems
Our Mission
Equip the next generation of aerospace engineers with the tools and abilities to solve the future challenges in aerospace through rigorous education.
Support the Department of Defense and civil aerospace sectors by providing innovative ideas, useful tools, and actionable results through academic research and publications.
Inspire youth to follow their dreams and build lives full of purpose educational world-wide outreach activities.
Our Beliefs
In order to solve the toughest challenges ahead, we must better understand the underlying mathematical and physical principles.
"The best dividends on the labor invested [will] invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power." - Orville and Wilbur Wright
"A picture is worth a thousand words, and an equation is worth a thousand pictures." - WF Phillips
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Alumni Perspectives
Austin Stewart
(MS)
"Working on a thesis, you become one of the leading experts in that field"
Dalon Work
(PhD)
"Having the PhD is sort of a sign that you're willing to sit down and do hard things."
Josh Brincklow
(MS)
"You're making big breakthroughs on things that no one has ever actually figured out before, and that's really fulfilling."
Sabrina Snow
(MS)
"It is a very special feeling to see something that you built take off and start flying"
Josh Goates
(MS)
"I gained the experience of encountering a problem, independently searching for a solution, coming up with something new, and applying it."
Austin Kohler
(MS)
Dynamic Dimension Technologies
"Grad school has opened up a lot of doors and given me opportunities to find more fulfilling work"
Dallin Wiberg
(Undergraduate)
"What I've always found is that there's no wasted efforts"
Bruno Moorthamers
(PhD)
"Find what you like doing and focus mostly on being happy at the end of the day"
Jaden Thurgood
(MS)
"Grad school was the way I envisioned school as being during my undergrad ... [it is] an introductory course to the rest of life's learning."
Jeff Taylor
(PhD)
USU Center for Anticipatory Intelligence
"I realized that research was what I had always wanted to do, I just didn't know that it was research."
Christian Bolander
(PhD)
"Even more than the skills I've gotten in the AeroLab, I value the connections I've made with people in the lab."
The Equation Wall
Check out the equations we have developed in this field of research.
