Considering the emerging trends in Aerospace Engineering and societal needs, the Aerospace department’s vision is centred on integrating emerging technologies, such as digital twins, artificial intelligence, and related innovations. Such an approach will help produce highly skilled engineers, foster indigenous research, advance digital technologies, and strengthen India’s leadership, all in alignment with the objectives of IIT Jodhpur and the National Education Mission. The Aerospace Engineering Department’s Vision and Mission are the following:

Vision

• Integrating aerospace engineering with new-age technologies, fostering multidisciplinary research for innovation, self-reliance and leadership in aerospace and allied technologies.

Mission

• Offer graduate, post-graduate and executive programs that emphasize on interdisci- plinary approaches as per the requirements of the Indian aerospace industry.
• Develop a platform for product-oriented and multidisciplinary research involving governmental, industrial, and academic stakeholders.
• Facilitate the aerospace engineering research infrastructure as per the defence, civil and space exploration national requirements.

Key Objectives

1. To provide foundational knowledge in fundamental principles of aerodynamics, propulsion, structural mechanics, flight mechanics and their control guidance, related to aerospace engineering.
2. Cultivate critical thinking by integrating theoretical knowledge with computational and experimental skills that are related to the design, analysis, and testing of aerospace vehicles and systems.
3. Expose students to hands-on experience on flying objects, emerging technologies, entrepreneurial opportunities, problem-solving capabilities of unmanned aerial systems design and related interdisciplinary prospects in aerospace engineering.
4. Showcase integration of the newer engineering concepts in Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, Internet of Things, and Digital twin into Aerospace engineering

Graduate Attributes

Graduates of the B.Tech program in Aerospace Engineering will have:

1. Strong knowledge of fundamental subjects in aerospace engineering.
2. Understanding of various subsystems and their integration for several aerospace-related applications.
3. Knowledge of current industrial practices in aerospace engineering.
4. Clarity on Academic, Administrative, and industrial prospects and pathways in aerospace engineering