TAMU Aerospace

Welcome to the official Texas A&M University Aerospace Engineering page! Thanks and gig 'em!

Here you will find pictures, announcements and other important information about our department. Please read the Texas A&M University Facebook Usage Policy at tx.ag/FBUsagePolicy.

09/04/2026

Join us in welcoming a new member of the faculty, Dr. Trevor Wolf!
Dr. Wolf comes to us fresh off a post doc position at the University of Colorado Boulder, and has joined the department as a part of the new Space Engineering major. He brings expertise in several areas, including information-driven tasking and planning under uncertainty, spacecraft guidance, and machine learning for astronomical data analysis. We're excited to see what he'll do as a new part of the Aggie family!

09/01/2026

The aerospace engineering student org fair was a success. Thank you to everyone who stopped by to visit each table and see what they had to offer. We’re can't wait to see the exciting projects and developments they accomplish this semester!
If you could not come by, learn more about all of the student orgs in aerospace engineering and what they do throughout the year here: u.tamu.edu/studentorgan

08/24/2026

We're so proud of our own Dr. Darren Hartl, who is a valuable part of our department. This honor was well deserved!

08/22/2026

From attending orientation on the first day of their new studies to giving tours after several years as a part of the department, we’re thankful to the graduate students that keep Aerospace Engineering moving in new and fascinating directions.

We're so happy to have them back on campus, and we’ll see the rest of you soon for the beginning of the semester!

08/21/2026

Ph.D student Kacy Carter is this year’s Stanger Endowed Graduate Fellow who will be using this upcoming year to work on plasma related research in the department.

The Sandra and William R. Wheeler ’70 Endowed Graduate Fellowship in Aerospace Engineering was awarded to Ph.D. Student Adam Zheng, who will be using his time as a fellow to pursue his passion for space exploration.

Read more about the students and the generous donors that make these fellowships possible here: u.tamu.edu/fellows

08/18/2026

TAMU Aero welcomes Dr. Dilmurat Azimov, visiting professor from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. His work focuses on topics such as targeting, guidance, navigation and control for autonomous systems, machine learning and supervised reinforcement learning and analytical dynamics. Welcome to the Aggie family, Dr. Azimov!

08/13/2026

Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. Priscilla Nizio Ho responded to an email sent to all potential graduates with a speech she began on her phone, which led to an amazing moment this past weekend where she delivered the Student Appreciation speech on behalf of all graduates at her ceremony.

She is now on her way to a job at NASA and used the speech to thank her peers, faculty adviser and partner for giving her a place to grow and pushing her to be the best student and person she could be.

Congratulations to all of the graduates, and gig ‘em!

Click here to hear everything she had to say as she says goodbye to Aggieland: youtube.com/watch?v=DG-xGzsw7vI

08/11/2026

Congratulations to all of our graduate students who have earned their degrees this summer! Whether they’re entering industry positions, serving at a government lab, or continuing the academic path, we wish them the best and can’t wait to see the impact they make in the field.

08/07/2026

Thank you to Vertiflite magazine for this piece highlighting a decade of research done by Dr. Moble Benedict and post-doc David Coleman that has produced a mini vertical flight vehicle inspired by nature’s original vertical flight experts–hummingbirds!

Whereas traditional flight wings are purposefully designed to be less flexible, the wings on this tiny robot were designed to intentionally twist and deform to imitate hummingbird wings in flight.

Dr. Benedict says the results of this research could aid in the future of creating autonomous vehicles for everything from infrastructure inspection to environmental monitoring.

Read more about this here: shorturl.at/Aw9mO

08/06/2026

Sebastian Munoz Burrafato has spent the summer as an intern in the aerospace laboratory at the University de Sao Paolo (USP) in Sao Carlos, designing and building a small scale controlled aircraft.
His team focused on creating small aircraft that can fly further with larger payloads. They created a design from scratch using computer simulations and then experimental prototypes to create a vehicle that can deliver resources to remote parts of the Brazilian rainforest.
He said this was a once in a lifetime opportunity that he would recommend to any fellow Aggies.
"We enjoyed our time here very much as we got to know people in the labs and all around campus. Everyone here at USP is very welcoming, both professors and random people on the streets, and we certainly established friendships that will last for a long while. The program also included technical visits to relevant industries nearby such as an Embraer aircraft manufacturing line, a maintenance hangar and a local agriculturally drone company."

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