Georgia Institute of Technology Aerospace Engineering
Since 1930, the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering (AE) at Georgia Tech has been at the forefront of this rapidly changing field. The School currently enrolls approximately 694 undergraduate students, and has 30 highly regarded faculty members who posses a wealth of educational, research, and engineering experience.
The AE graduate program at GA Tech has approximately 146 master's degree students and 191 Ph.D. candidates participating in advanced coursework, research, and design using extensive experimental and computational research facilities.
More than $7 million worth of research projects are preformed annually under contract to major corporations, and federal agencies, such as the National Science Foundation; NASA; U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force; the Department of Energy; the Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Aviation Administration.
The AE Combustion and Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at GA Tech is a state of the art research facility using the latest diagnostic tools for the study of combustion and fluid mechanical phenomena. The Laboratory is a 13,000 square foot facility located on the research campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology. The facility is staffed by 5 instructional faculty members, 5 research engineers, over 20 graduate students, several visiting scholars, and several post-doctoral fellows. Most experimental setups are devised or broken down as needed "in house." Most construction is provided by the machine shop in the Aerospace main building (Montgomery Knight) The laboratory has over 20 personal computers linked internally via a local area network and externally connected to the World Wide Web via a fiber optic link to the Georgia Tech hub.
The laboratory has four high -pressure test areas for conducting large-scale combustion experiments, a high bay area for large vertical experiments and micro-gravity drop tower, four light and sound isolation laboratories, and a large open test area. Furthermore, the lab is also equipped with an instrument calibration room, a small machine shop, and a tool room. The entire lab is vented by an extensive exhaust system capable of handling exhaust products from experiments up to 25 MMBtu/hour. The facility is fully equipped for the study of combustion and fluid mechanics ranging from micro-combustion to experiments as large as 25 MMBtu/hour. The facility is equipped with a 3000 psig air compressor with 105,000 scf storage capacity, a 125 psig air compressor with over 10,000 scf storage capacity, and a process air heater capable of heating 720 psig of air to 995°F at a maximum mass flowrate of 300 lbm/minute. The facility is also equipped with 20 gpm fresh water, and a recirculated process cooling water system. Each of the experiment stations is supplied with 720 psig heated and non-heated air, 125 psig compressed air, 25 psig natural gas, fresh water, process chilled water, and laser cooling water. Future facility improvements will include a 5000 psig Natural Gas compressor and 18,000 scf storage facility, as well as a high volume vacuum system.
For updated and detailed information about GA Tech AE, visit http://www.ae.gatech.edu |