The Turbo Lab draws on the world-renowned research expertise of Texas A&M University’s Dwight Look College of Engineering and the Texas Engineering Experiment Station to provide undergraduate and graduate education programs that develop highly-skilled, industry-ready engineers.
Undergraduate
Students are provided elective options in turbomachinery performance, fluid and thermal science, vibrations, stress analysis and related topics.
Why Texas A&M? Coursework/Degree Plan
Graduate
Graduate students in the Turbo Lab are remarkably well-prepared to step into leading positions within the turbomachinery community. The Turbo Lab’s emphasis on empirical validation of prediction sets the program apart from related graduate coursework across the world. Students are provided a balance of general performance and reliability research with specific electives in turbomachinery performance, rotordynamics and more.
Why Texas A&M? Coursework/Degree Plan
Prospective Student Resources
Disciplines in mechanical engineering that use turbomachinery:
Control: surge and stall, rotor design, magnetic bearings
Performance: thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, gas dynamics, heat transfer
Reliability
Structures: dynamics, vibration, high-temperature materials
Other: data acquisition and analysis, experimental design, parameter estimation, applied mathematics and statistics