Departmental Forecast

The year is 2015. UT's star, specially that of the college of engineering, is on the rise as Vince "The invincible" Young came back to finish an Engineering degree, and led the Longhorns to four consequent championships between 2010 and 2014. The admission criteria has been raised, thus, making The Mark College of Engineering (the name was changed back in 2008, after The AerOnion brought the light to Dr. Mark's secret powers) more competitive than MIT. With that intense of intelligence in the Mark College of Engineering, Google has moved their headquarters to Austin, as well as NASA, who is still trying to go back to the Moon.

A series of unfortunate, ironic, and weird events have changed the Aerospace department forever. A secret movement, rumored to be started by the AerOnion, had organized a rebel back in 2008 and taken over the ASCES building. Dr. Yuceil, who led the coup, was financially compensated by an anonymous source, and currently lives in his retirement house in Hawaii.

Amidst the chaos that involved the coup, Dr. Bishop stepped down as a Chairman of the department. The official statement said that "Dr. Bishop takes full responsibility of the recent events;" however, the AerOnion had known that Dr. Bishop had stepped down to pursue personal interests. He enrolled in Law graduate school when he knew that their dress code is a suit.

The visionary Dr. Kyle DeMars took over the Chairman role. Soon after, the Aerospace department faced obstacles that almost closed off the department. He had to gain control of the department and reason with the rebels. The rebels position was weekend, with the sudden departure of Dr. Yuceil after receiving mysterious financial gift. By 2009, the department and the rebels reached a peace treaty; however, they have not figured a solution to the refugee's issue yet.

Dr. DeMars was a man with a plan. Sadly, his plan had backfired when he tried to implement it. His plan included, getting rid of unnecessary classes, bringing in fresh, young blood in the department, and produce socially skillful, technically brilliant, and managerially knowledgeable Aerospace engineers.

With the cancellation of unnecessary classes, the department faced legal issues with state, as the program was reduced to 60 hours, half of the previous plan coarse load. This issue was quickly resolved. As part of the resolution, Aerospace students have to take swimming, fencing, and sculpture classes as part of their degree.

Dr. DeMars had ruled a forced retirement law, which entails that every professor above 65 years old has 2 years to retire, (except Dr. Mark, because we love Dr. Mark.) This rule has left the department with a massive lack of professors, almost only Dr. Marchand was left in the department. Closely after that rule was passed, many professors had left for other reasons. Dr. Ocampo was inspired by The Astronaut Farmer movie. He bought a rocket from the former China Empire; installed Copernicus on it, and went to the moon. Dr. Varghese had left the department seeking self redemption when he realized how many souls his Propulsion Final in Spring 07 destroyed. Dr. Buckley realized that he can make a lot more money at JPL, since the government is pouring money into the Return to the Moon program. Dr. Goldstein is on leave since he had a panic attack when one of his students accidentally destroyed the LDA in the water tunnel facility. Dr. Mear had taken a job as a talk show host. His success was unprecedented. Soon after, he was hired to replace David Letterman. Dr. Demkowicz left UT before 2010, as he was not satisfied with the intelligence levels of UT students. Dr. Fowler took a year sabbatical to go on a pro hand ball tour; however, he decided to never come back to teaching, since handball is much more fun. Dr. Hull still teaches Flight Dynamics occasionally, but he is occupied by establishing the Hull Flight Dynamics institute, which is dedicated to teaching his Flight Dynamics class.

No one knows where Dr. DeMars is in the year of 2015. His tenure of 2 years left the department in a miserable state, and it was not until 2014 that the department revived itself. Currently, the leadership of the department consists of Gail Simpler as a chairman of the department, with Sarah Kitten as her assistant.

It's 2015, now. The Aerospace department bypassed MIT's Aerospace department in rankings, and actual student's performance. This year was marked by the winning of national DBF competition. Remarkably, the first time that the UT team does not crash their UAV in the national competition, they win first place.