FACULTY

Criterion 6 of ABET 2007-2008 criteria requires that the program must have sufficient number of faculty with competencies to cover all of the curricular areas of the program, to accommodate adequate levels of student-faculty interaction, student advising and counseling, university service activities, professional development, and interactions with industrial and professional practitioners, as well as employers of students.

The program faculty must have appropriate qualifications and must have and demonstrate sufficient authority to ensure the proper guidance of the program and to develop and implement processes for the evaluation, assessment, and continuing improvement of the program, its educational objectives, and outcomes.  The overall competence of the faculty may be judged by such factors as education, diversity of backgrounds, engineering experience, teaching experience, ability to communicate, enthusiasm for developing more effective programs, level of scholarship, participation in professional societies, and licensure as Professional Engineers.

AE Faculty Size and Composition

The faculty of the aeronautical engineering department consists of thirteen full-time members; twelve Ph.D. holders and one MS holder.  Since 2003, three faculty members either retired or left the department and seven new members have joined it.

The department operates with minimal hierarchy.  Faculty members of all ranks have similar teaching loads.  They work under the leadership of the department chairman and assume authority and responsibility to design, implement, assess, and improve AE program.  The distribution of the 13 members is as follows:

-          1 full professor

-          3 Associate professors

-          7 Assistant professors

-          2 Lecturers

The following table provide listing of faculty size, composition, qualifications, experience, activities, and workload distribution

Faculty Workload Summary

Aeronautical Engineering