The Aerospace Engineering Department is part of the College of Engineering at Iowa State University. As a land-grant university, ISU emphasizes service to community, with a goal of using technology to make a difference in the world. While you are experiencing all that our department and college can offer on the educational front, you will also have an opportunity to participate in life at a Big 12 Conference University.

Our faculty and students conduct cutting-edge research in nondestructive evaluation; complex systems; computational and experimental aerodynamics; astrodynamics; guidance, navigation, and control; aircraft icing; composite structure; and micro/nano mechanics of materials. Our department has had the privilege to educate some of the most accomplished and distinguished leaders of industry, government, and academia.