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 2020-2021 |
180
|
| Women Underrepresented minorities |
16%
10% |
| BSAAE degrees awarded 2020-21 |
74
|
Graduate enrollment
| Graduate enrollment 2020-21 |
283
|
| Women Underrepresented minorities |
15%
13% |
| MSAA degrees awarded 2020-21 |
51
|
| MAE degrees awarded 2020-21 |
30
|
| PhD degrees awarded 2020-21 |
9
|
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
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.