Additional details are available online. The Academy values research and provides considerable support, both internal and external, to young faculty developing their scholarly life. Our faculty engage in a wide variety of research, e.g. composite structures, flight dynamics, computer graphics, turbine propulsion, flight simulation and space operations. These facilities are used to strongly support course work and faculty research. State of the art machine shop, welding, foundry, sheet metal and model making facilities are maintained to support both course work and research.
Additional details are available on line.
In addition, the department maintains a scientific visualization laboratory of 15 Silicon Graphics workstations and a Silicon Graphics Origin 2000 supercomputer with eight processors. No charge is made for computer usage. Additional details about the general engineering school computational facilities are available on line. The Academy also operates an extensive central computational facility including broadband capability on every faculty member and student's desk. The Nimitz Library, which is very user and faculty friendly, includes both large book and journal collections.