Meet Andrew Bingham '07. "As a sophomore at Clarkson I developed an idea for interstellar space travel that reduces the timeframe for missions. That caught the attention of NASA." Read more.

Clarkson combines two distinctive strengths that benefit students: personalized teaching and high-powered research. Faculty members involve undergraduates as they conduct research in areas of vital importance in aeronautical engineering. Some summer research assistantships are available to qualifying undergraduates because Clarkson has joined Cornell University as a member of the New York Space Grant Consortium, sponsored by The National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Honors, CSTEP, and McNair programs also include research opportunities. Faculty research areas include:

• Smart materials and composites
• Aircraft design
• Aerodynamics
• Turbomachinery endwall design
• Computational fluid dynamics

You will also have the opportunity to participate in one of our SPEED (Student Projects for Engineering Experience and Design) teams. You may choose among 14 different events involving complex, real-world problems, while preparing to compete against teams from other universities. Teams of particular interest to aerospace engineering students include:

• Design, Build, and Fly
• Formula SAE
• Miini-Baja
• Clean Snowmobile
• Solar-Powered Vehicle