Aerospace is a key strategic area at McGill, with more than 40 faculty members conducting research over a broad range of areas. Projects are funded by major government grants and international aerospace companies. Key areas include:
• Aero-acoustics (Prof Luc Mongeau)
• Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics (Profs Evgeny Timofeev, Rabi Baliga, Luca Cortelezzi, Tim Lee, Siva Nadarajah, Laurent Mydlarski)
• Aero-icing (Prof Fred Habashi)
• Aerospace Coatings and Tribology (Prof Richard Chromik)
• Aerospace Materials and Alloy Development (Profs Stephen Yue, Mathieu Brochu, and In-ho Jung)
• Aircraft Dynamics and Control (Prof Meyer Nahon)
• Automation and Manufacturing (Prof Yaoyao Fiona Zhao)
• Avionics (Profs Haibo Zeng, Frank Ferrie, Benoit Boulet)
• Combustion (Prof Jeff Bergthorson)
• Composite Materials (Profs Pascal Hubert and Larry Lessard)
• Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Health Monitoring (Prof Srikar Vengallatore)
• Environmental: Fuels and Icing (Profs Fred Habashi, Jeff Bergthorson, and Marianne Hatzopoulou)
• International Space Law (Prof Ram Jakhu)
• Light Metals Research (Profs Stephen Yue, Mathieu Brochu, In-ho Jung, and Mihriban Pekguleryuz)
• MDO: Multidisciplinary, Optimization, Simulation (Prof Michael Kokkolaras)
• Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) (Profs Srikar Vengallatore and Mourad El-Gamal)
• Multiscale Materials Modeling (Prof Jun Song)
• Nanomaterials (Prof Mathieu Brochu)
• Product Lifecycle Management (Prof Yaoyao Fiona Zhao)
• Space Robotics (Profs Jorge Angeles, Jozsef Kovecses, Inna Sharf, Peter Radziszewski)
Space Systems (Profs Arun Misra, Andrew Higgins, James Forbes)
