The Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics (AEM) Department at the University of Minnesota offers bachelors, masters, and doctorates of philosophy in Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics. The AEM faculty conduct research in the areas of Fluid Mechanics, Solid Mechanics and Materials, Aerospace Systems and in other emerging fields such as Nanotechnology. More...
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Change in permission number policy Prior to Spring of 2008, AEM did not issue Course Permission Numbers for its courses. However, recent changes in the number of students in AEM courses and the demands directly enrolling students in AEM courses placed on our staff resulted in this change in policy. Click here to request a permission number for AEM courses |
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SpotlightFaculty Spotlight
December of 2007 marked Professor William Garrard’s 40th year in the department. During his time as Department Head, Garrard helped guide the department from one with a heavy emphasis on applied math to what he sees as more a balance between theory and engineering. |
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Alumnus brings aerodynamics to auto fuel efficiency |
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Candler selected as NSSE Fellow |
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The World's First "Flying Museum"?
Posted October 22nd, 2008
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Back in Session
Posted September 24th, 2008 |
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Solar car finishes race in Canada
Posted August, 4th, 2008
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The Walker Art Museum recently brought Museo Aero
Solar, ‘The First Flying Museum,’ to the Twin Cities which included
a collaboration between the artist, Tomas Saraceno, and AEM faculty members
James Flaten (Associate Director of the MN Space Grant Consortium) and Perry
Leo. 
Welcome Week began the last week of August as students
returned to campus. The University’s Welcome Week is designed to
acclimate new students to campus. Within AEM, the week began with our new
graduate student orientation and was concluded with the campus wide College Day
which focused on incoming freshmen. 
The night before the University's solar
team was to begin its North American Solar Challenge Race in Texas, a piece of
the car's equipment completely failed - and team members thought they might be
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| 2008-11-24 | Space Weather is reporting that the tool bag lost by astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper is visible from Earth. This site also says to expect some auroras over the next couple of days. |
| 2008-11-14 | India has become the fourth nation to send a probe to the lunar surface. India is part of the second space race to the Moon. |
| 2008-11-5 | British scientists invent "mini-magnetosphere" to protect astronauts during solar storms. An often overlooked problem in space travel beyond LEO is solar radiation, without shielding astronauts will be cooked. |
| 2008-10-28 | Plasma rocket engine VASIMR VX-200 first stage achieves full power rating. This is one type of ion propulsion that reduces the reaction mass needed by having very high exhaust velocities. |
| 2008-20-27 | Hubble Telescope Service Mission 4 page indicates that one of the telescopes cameras is now back in action. Problems with the telescope have caused NASA to delay this final service call. |
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