A&A Quick Facts

The University of Washington’s William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics offers the only aerospace degree program in the Pacific Northwest, a region whose aerospace industry has been a major contributor to the technological development, economic vitality and the security of the United States.

Undergraduate enrollment

Undergraduate enrollment 2018	186
Women Underrepresented minorities	18% 11%
BSAAE degrees awarded 2017-18	75

Graduate enrollment

Graduate enrollment 2018	225
Women Underrepresented minorities	20% 12%
MSAA degrees awarded 2017-18	22
MAE degrees awarded 2017-18	31
PhD degrees awarded 2017-18	4

Recent student achievements

Brooke Owens Fellowship
Mary Gates Research Scholarship
NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship
SAE Doctoral Engineering Fellowship
Air Force Research Laboratory Space Scholar
Multiple National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellows
Clean Energy Institute Graduate Fellow
Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow
Air Force Research Laboratory Space Scholar
Department of Defense SMART Scholar
Josephine de Karman Fellow
Member of First Class of UW Husky 100
National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Fellows
Forbes Magazine's "30 Under 30" Awardee

Faculty

15 core tenured and tenure-track faculty and 5 research faculty
6 faculty adjunct with other UW Engineering and science departments
23 affiliate faculty representing industry and outside research institutions
8 post-doctoral research associates

FY 2017 annual operating budget

Pie Chart FY 2017 Funding: Grants & Contracts: $8,796,245 (54%), $5,316,530 (32%), Gifts & Endowments: $1,201,483 (7%), Commercial Testing: $499,942 (3%)

Quick history

Boeing Wind Tunnel (now the Aerodynamics Laboratory (ADL)) built in 1917 at UW.
UW starts one of the first Aeronautical Engineering departments in the nation in 1929, one of seven originally established with the help of the Guggenheim Fund for the Advancement of Aeronautics.
Founding faculty: Fred S. Eastman, Everett O. Eastwood, Frederick K. Kirsten, John W. Miller.
Kirsten Wind Tunnel built in 1936; formal testing begins in 1939 with the North American AT-6 "Texan."
"Astronautics" added to department name in 1961.
NASA grants $1.5 million in 1966 to build new Aerospace Research Laboratory (now AERB). Building dedicated in 1970.

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