Report summary

The 2015-2017 picture for Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics is a 18-PI network with 5 internal PI collaborations. The research center of gravity is Engineering as the leading field (35% of slots across 13 PIs; 13 labels), Aerospace Engineering as the leading subfield (11% of slots across 5 PIs; 5 labels), and Air Traffic Management and Optimization as the leading topic (6% of slots across 3 PIs; 3 labels). That is a thin collaboration pattern, useful for spotting individual pairs but less persuasive as a broad departmental network. The top weighted PIs are Steven R. H. Barrett (10.9 weighted works; Vehicle emissions and performance, Advanced Aircraft Design and Technologies); Brian L. Wardle (9 weighted works; Carbon Nanotubes in Composites, Graphene research and applications). The strongest pairings are Robert Malina and Steven R. H. Barrett (9 shared works, weight 4). The standout breakdown groups are group 1 with 4 PIs, 3 internal connections, weight 3.3, around Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Computational Mechanics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, led by Karen Willcox, Boris Krämer, Qiqi Wang.