Mapping Outcomes in an Undergraduate Aerospace Engineering Program

Karen Willcox is Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics in the Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory at MIT. She is also co-chair of the Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education and co-Director of the MIT Center for Computational Engineering. She holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and master’s and Ph.D. degrees from MIT. Before joining the faculty at MIT, she worked at Boeing Phantom Works with the Blended-Wing-Body group. Professor Willcox’s research and teaching interests lie in computational simulation and optimization of engineering systems.