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Mihir Kamble, UT22 Outstanding Senior
What starts here changes the world — but might one day also help us leave it, says aerospace engineering senior Mihir Kamble.
Keep readingSustainability in the Air Podcast: John-Paul Clarke with Shashank Nigam
In this episode of Sustainability in the Air podcast, faculty member John-Paul Clarke speaks with SimpliFlying CEO, Shashank Nigam, and explains how Hydrogen can help airlines reach their net-zero goals.

Aerospace and Computational Engineering Seniors Collaborate on Aircraft Systems Design
This year, for the first time ever, COE seniors collaborated with ASE seniors to develop better search and rescue map generation and automated payload drops, and to improve data processing for each team’s unmanned aerial system.
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Two UT Austin Teams Finalists in NASA Space Exploration Design Competition
Two teams of aerospace engineering seniors in UT Austin’s Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics are finalists in NASA’s RASC-AL annual design competition.
Keep readingFirst Computational Engineering Undergraduate Program Offered by a U.S. University
Computational engineering is a new and rapidly growing multidisciplinary field that applies advanced computational methods and analysis to engineering practice.
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Research Areas
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Aerothermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics
This area involves study and research in hypersonics, aerodynamics, gas dynamics, turbulence,...
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Computational Engineering
This area involves study and research on theoretical and implementational aspects of numerical...
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Controls, Autonomy and Robotics
This area involves research in system theory, controls, networks, autonomy, and robotics with...
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Orbital Mechanics
This area involves study and research in orbital mechanics, space geodesy, and remote sensing in...
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Solids, Structures and Materials
This area involves study and research in mechanics of composite materials, fracture mechanics,...
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Computational Engineering Undergraduate Program Offered by a U.S. University
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Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering Program in the Nation
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