Within NC State’s renowned College of Engineering, the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University is the largest in the state and among the largest and most prominent in the nation. The department brings together industry professionals and academic leaders across an innovative and cutting edge curriculum including the thermal sciences, particularly thermal fluids, fluid mechanics, and combustion; mechanical sciences, including manufacturing mechanics, structural dynamics, materials, and controls; and the aerospace sciences, particularly aerodynamics, aircraft design, hypersonics, propulsion, flight research using UAVs, and computational fluid dynamics.