The objective of the Aerospace Engineering Honors Program, established in 1998, is to encourage superior academic scholarship and research accomplishments by (1) offering a set of undergraduate honors courses with enriched curricula, and (2) by providing opportunities to undertake a research project under the mentorship of a faculty member in the Dept. of Aerospace Engineering. This research project culminates in an undergraduate honors thesis that is presented at either a regional student conference (such as the AIAA Region 1 Student Conference) or a national professional conference, at the discretion of the faculty research mentor.

The goals of the Aerospace Engineering Honors program are as follows:
1. Enable students to undertake hypothesis driven research and to gain experience.
2. Encourage students to be innovative, and to think independently and creatively about a wide range of contemporary and classical issues in Aerospace Engineering.
3. Encourage in-depth, scholarly, and scientific presentation of research results both in technical writing and oral presentation.

The articles in this collection represent the research efforts of Aerospace Engineering undergraduates who have completed the Aerospace Engineering Honors Program.