According to David Williams , faculty and students are performing innovative research on control surfaces for aircraft and on turbine engines. Mach speed range. When the center was under the guidance of Professor Hassan Nagib, it was named a National Center of Excellence by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Innovation builds on tradition.
Ours began in the 1960s with Professors Andrew Fejer and Mark Morkovin. Morkovin is a world-renowned expert in boundary layer theory. He had been involved at Bell Aircraft with the first plane to break the sound barrier. Some of the firsts were developed at IIT, including the smoke wire flow visual technique.