First formed as an Aeronautical Engineering Department in 1927, the Aerospace Department has continually been at the forefront of Hands On and Learn-by-Doing education. The purpose of the program was to teach students about the maintenance and repair of aircraft and their engines. Today, the Aerospace Engineering Department prepares students for work in the exciting field of aerospace engineering. Students are prepared for engineering work dealing with aerodynamics, propulsion, stability and controls, and structures of aircraft, missiles, and spacecraft.
Modified from aero.calpoly.edu
Senior Projects from 2011
Compressor Performance Map Generation and Testing per SAE J1723, Jeffrey Lee Freeman
An Analysis of N-Body Trajectory Propagation, Emerson Frees II
Thermal Analysis of the CubeSat CP3 Satellite, Jonas Friedel and Sean McKibbon
Decommissioning a Geosynchronous Satellite, Anthony D. Galvan
Development and Design of a Hovering Controller for Operation in a Dynamic Asteroid Environment, Nicholas Georgiades
Determination of the Surface Boundary Layer Using a Quadrotor, Andrew Haviland
Radiation in the Space Environment, Sally Hermansen and Jennifer Shatts
Design and Assembly of a Super Treadmill, Simon Iacob
Scale modeling of Cessna 172, Chee-woon Kim
An Investigation of Dynamic Soaring and its Applications to the Albatross and RC Sailplanes, Christopher J. Lee
Design, Fabrication, and Testing of an Electromagnetic Rail Gun for the repeated testing and simulation of Orbital Debris Impacts, Jeff Maniglia, Jordan Smiroldo, Alex Westfall, and Guy Zohar
Electric Aircraft Propulsion Test Rig Design & Fabrication, Ryan Mayer, Brian Kubicki, Bradley Rodriguez, Austin Harris, and David Caudle
Wind Tunnel Modeling of Small Electric UAV Power System Performance, Nathan R. Phelps
3D CFD on an Open Wheel Race Car Front Wing in Ground Effects, Thomas A. Price
Development of a Laboratory Experiment to Simulate Upper-Stage Rocket Explosions, Timothy J. Price
Composite I-Beam Fabrication and Testing in Response to 14th Annual SAMPE Bridge Competition, Kodi Rider, Niño Noel Las Piñas, and Hans Mayta
Construction of NACA 66-415 NLF Composite Wing for Acoustic Turbulence Testing, Scott Sawyer and Sean Stewart
Aircraft Longitudinal Control Experiment, Dustin Schaff
Clifford Algebra Calculations with Representation Theory & an Introduction to Clifford Algebra, Alexander I. Scherling
Comparison of a High Purity Germanium Gamma Ray Spectrometer and a Multidimensional NaI(T1) Scintillation Gamma Ray Spectrometer, Greg Stratton
Flow Characteristics of the Renovated Cal Poly 3 x 4 ft Subsonic Wind Tunnel, Mathew L. Thomas, Dorian V. Pandey, and Jason N. Nguyen
X-51 Composite Airframe, Brendon J. Townshend
Conical Probe Calibration and Wind Tunnel Data Analysis of the Channeled Centerbody Inlet Experiment, Samson Siu Truong
Analysis of Surface Augmentation of Airfoil Sections via Flow Visualization Techniques, John Louis Vento
Mapping Galileo's Trajectory, Mark Woods