Every day the future is being expanded in our labs. From the development of advanced unoccupied aerial vehicles to new aerodynamic techniques and unconventional space propulsion concepts, the faculty and students of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics are honing the cutting edge of tomorrow's technologies.

Controls

• Autonomous Flight Systems Lab
• Robotics, Aerospace, and Information Networks
• Nonlinear Dynamics and Control Lab
• Autonomous Control Laboratory
• UW Boeing Controls Collaboration

Fluids

• Aircraft Icing and Aerodynamics
• Computational Fluid Mechanics
• Fluid Dynamics & Aerodynamics
• Quantitative Flow Visualization for Fluid and Turbulent Flow Studies
• Detonation Engines
• Combustion & Gas Dynamics
• Microgravity Science
• Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer
• Williams Lab

Plasma Science

• Computational Plasma Dynamics
• The Plasma Science and Innovation Center (PSI)
• Steady Inductive Helicity Injected Torus (HIT-SI)
• Flow Z-Pinch Experiment (ZaP)
• Space Propulsion and Advanced Concepts Engineering Lab (SPACE Lab)

Structures

• Laboratory for Engineered Materials and Structures
• Laboratory for Multiscale Analysis of Materials and Structures
• BARC - Boeing Advanced Research Center

If you are interested in connecting with faculty or sponsoring a research project, please contact A&A's External Relations to set up a department visit.