A brief overview of the School of Aerospace Engineering of Tsinghua University

This article provides a brief overview of the teaching and research at the School of Aerospace Engineering (SAE) to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the establishment of aeronautics as a discipline at Tsinghua University. The evolution of the school, undergraduate/graduate students and faculty memb...

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Published inChinese journal of aeronautics Vol. 31; no. 9; pp. 1805 - 1814
Main Authors GUAN, Nanxiang, WANG, Bing, LI, Luming
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 01.09.2018
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Aerospace engineering
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Student education
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Summary:This article provides a brief overview of the teaching and research at the School of Aerospace Engineering (SAE) to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the establishment of aeronautics as a discipline at Tsinghua University. The evolution of the school, undergraduate/graduate students and faculty members, and research activities and achievements have been described. The research input including research funding and research projects are summarized, showing a diversity of funding sources and a significant growth in either sum total or spending per researcher. The achievements including publications and inter/national academic awards are also introduced. It can be seen that the level of academic publications has been growing over the past decades. In addition, four representative research achievements have been briefly described to show the scientific contributions of the school.
ISSN:1000-9361
DOI:10.1016/j.cja.2018.07.005