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Alumnus Greg Holt is leading the navigation system for the Orion spacecraft for NASA's Artemis I mission which will fly the uncrewed spacecraft to and around the Moon before sending a crew aboard in the next phase of the mission.
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A group of aerospace engineering students was recently selected participate in the annual NASA University Student Research Challenge, where they will explore the challenge of flying drones where GPS is not available.
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Maj. Gen. Jeannie M. Leavitt has been named a Distinguished Engineering Graduate of UT Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering for 2021.
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The aerospace engineering undergraduate program has risen to No. 8 in the nation according to the 2022-2023 U.S. News & World Report rankings.
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Congratulations to the undergraduate students in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics who have received scholarships through the prestigious Unrestricted Endowed Presidential Scholarship (UEPS) program for the 2022-23 academic year.
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Welcome to new faculty member Jin Yang who joins us as an assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at UT Austin this fall.
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Two ASE/EM faculty members, Fabrizio Bisetti and Thomas Underwood, are collaborating with Southwest Research Institute to create a cost-effective and environmentally friendly method for producing hydrogen fuel as part of the Energize Program.
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Two students, Catherine Dominic and Hailey Nichols, have been recognized with Aviation Week Network’s 20 Twenties Awards Program.
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In just eight short years, alumnus Payam Banazadeh skyrocketed from a passionate high school student sitting in an astronomy class to becoming the founder and CEO of Capella Space, the first commercial space company to launch and operate Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites.
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Manuel Rausch has received a prestigious R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health in the amount of $3.9M. He will use the funding to lead a study of the heart’s tricuspid valve to better understand functional tricuspid valve regurgitation (FTR) – a condition that causes leakage of the valve located between the right atrium and the right ventricle of the heart.
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Thomas J.R. Hughes has been recognized for his remarkable career with two major awards from the City University of Hong Kong and Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Four graduate students in the aerospace engineering Ph.D. program at The University of Texas at Austin were selected to receive a 2022 NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO) award.
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Professor John-Paul Clarke has been appointed a new member of the NASA Advisory Council for 2022. Read the full NASA release.
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Professor K. Ravi-Chandar is a co-investigator on a $3.7 million R01 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop an accurate biomechanical model to be used as a reliable and useful tool in patient-specific diagnosis and management of breast cancer.
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Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Penn State University have created a new type of fiber that can perform like a muscle actuator, in many ways better than other options that exist today.