Old Dominion University is a public doctoral research university in Norfolk, Virginia, founded in 1930. Its Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering offers an undergraduate Aerospace Engineering minor, Master of Engineering and Master of Science aerospace concentrations, and an Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. The graduate programmes span aerodynamics and fluids, thermodynamics and energy, dynamics and controls, materials and structures, design, manufacturing, and space systems, with institutional ties to NASA Langley and other regional research laboratories.