Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay

About Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT Bombay

The Department of Aerospace Engineering was established as the Department of Aeronautical Engineering in the year 1966-67 and celebrated its Silver Jubilee in the year 1991-92. The department has been involved with teaching and research activities in the various disciplines of the aeronautical and aerospace engineering. In the year 1992, the department implemented a new Undergraduate curriculum, keeping in view the requirements of an expanded space and missile programs of the country and also changed its name to Department of Aerospace Engineering. The department has maintained and nurtured its close association with the Aeronautical, the Aerospace and the Defense industries of the country through invited lectures, faculty participation and continuing education, in addition to providing high technology supports and inputs to the National projects such as the Light Combat Aircraft and the Integrated Guided Missile Development Project. The faculty of the department have been responsible for the transfer of aerospace technology as spin-off benefits to other fields of engineering.

Established in 1966-67 as the Department of Aeronautical Engineering, the department was renamed the Department of Aerospace Engineering in 1992. The department runs strong undergraduate and graduate programs in aerospace engineering, and carries out research in several areas of aeronautical and aerospace sciences.