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Ehsan Taheri

Aerospace Engineering

Assistant Professor

316 Davis Hall

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Education

Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Michigan Technological University
M.S. Aerospace Engineering, K. N. Toosi Univeristy of Technology
B.S. Aerospace Engineering, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch

Research Interests

Optimal Control
Orbital Mechanics
Optimization

In The News

Senior aerospace engineering student awarded the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation’s 2024 scholarship 

Justin Littlefield, a senior in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, has been awarded the 2024 Astronaut Scholarship Foundation award.  

Researchers earn multi-year VLRCOE grant to study coaxial rotor phenomena

Assistant professors in aerospace engineering, Vrishank Raghav and Ehsan Taheri, and graduate student Lokesh Silwal, received multi-year funding from the Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence for their proposal

Graduate student in aerospace engineering wins 2023 Breakwell Award

Keziban Saloglu earned the most prestigious student prize in astrophysics with her paper, "Existence of Infinitely Many Optimal Equal Delta V Trajectories in Two-Body Dynamics."

Aerospace professors play key role in designing, testing prototype aircraft

Imon Chakraborty and Ehsan Teheri will develop and test one-fifth scale model of vertical takeoff and landing aircraft concept before full-scale development for U.S. Air Force Agility Prime Small Business Technology Transfer Research program

Aerospace students challenged to resolve space trajectory issue

Can satellites built from asteroids surround the sun? Graduate students in aerospace engineering believe so

Aerospace professors successfully partner with U.S. Air Force Agility Prime Program

Professors Imon Chakraborty, Roy Hartfield and Ehsan Taheri designed and implemented propulsion and flight control systems for a 40-foot-long airship

Assistant professor joins editorial board of prominent aerospace engineering journal

Ehsan Taheri, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, has been invited to serve as an associate editor of the Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. The journal covers the general field of optimization and aerospace engineering, focusing on the mathematical optimization techniques and their applications to science and engineering.