Mingtai Chen
Assistant Teaching Professor
- Phone: (919) 515-8737
- Email: [email protected]
- Office: Engineering Building III (EB3) 3308
- Website: https://sites.google.com/ncsu.edu/exp-aero-lab
I am an experimentalist fascinated with designing a test setup, acquiring test data, analyzing the data, and making the final conclusions and recommendations. As an educator, my goal in the long term is to make the experiment in aerodynamics and vehicle structures more appealing to students.
Before joining NC State, I was a flight test engineer in Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd, Shanghai. This job provided experience on how the ideas in textbooks are transferred to industry and tested in real flights. Also, this working opportunity motivated me to learn more in aerospace engineering. Therefore, I chose to pursue my Ph.D. program in 2016 at the University of Alabama. In the end, I am passionate about aerospace engineering to which I continue devoting my time and efforts.
Outside of work, I will play guitar to refresh myself and go fishing in nature.
Grants
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NCSU FRPD 2022-2345
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NCSU SoTL Scholarship
Publications
- Aerospace Engineering Undergraduate Laboratory Courses: A Systematic Review (1990–2025)
- Chen, M. (2026). [Review of , ]. Computer Applications in Engineering Education, 3. https://doi.org/10.1002/cae.70179
- Computational Study of Hybrid Propeller Configurations
- Chen, M., Liu, T., Edwards, J., & Fang, T. (2026, January 15), Aerospace, Vol. 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace13010094
- Correction: Chen, M. A Redesigned Physical Laboratory Approach to Aerospace Engineering Structure Education. Laboratories 2025, 2, 6
- Chen, M. (2026), Laboratories. https://doi.org/10.3390/laboratories3030015
- Experimental Investigation of a Toroidal Propeller in Ground Effect
- Chen, M., Moore, C., Bhatt, D., Richard, J., Edwards, J., & Fang, T. (2026, June 4). , (Vol. 6). Vol. 6. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2026-4404
- Numerical study of active flow control in a toroidal propeller configuration
- Chen, M., Mejia, O. D. L., Cai, J., & Fang, T. (2026, July 29), International Journal of Aeroacoustics. https://doi.org/10.1177/1475472x261473631
- A Redesigned Physical Laboratory Approach to Aerospace Engineering Structure Education
- Chen, M. (2025, February 24), Laboratories. https://doi.org/10.3390/laboratories2010006
- Experimental and Numerical Analysis of a Toroidal Propeller
- Chen, M., Liu, T., & Fang, T. (2025, August 23), Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 38. https://doi.org/10.1061/jaeeez.aseng-6423
- Experimental and Numerical Study of a UAV Propeller Printed in Clear Resin
- Chen, M., Wimsatt, J., Liu, T., & Fang, T. (2025, April 22), Aerospace, Vol. 12. https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace12050362
- Numerical Study of a Small Rotor Interacting with a Generic Wing Using a Transient Solver
- Chen, M., Liu, T., Wimsatt, J., & Edwards, J. (2025, July 16), AIAA AVIATION FORUM AND ASCEND 2025. https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2025-3634
- Rotor-Wing Interaction in Urban Air Mobility Tiltrotors
- Chen, M. (2025). , . https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-8462-6.ch015
