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Todd Humphreys has been honored with the 2023 Johannes Kepler Award from the Institute of Navigation “for sustained contributions to the art and science of navigation signal processing; and for increasing the public awareness of the vulnerability of GNSS.”

The University of Texas at Austin is collaborating with three other institutions to build the foundation for space operations to, from and throughout the Earth and moon neighborhood.

The aerospace engineering undergraduate program in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has once again been named one of the nation’s top programs in the nation coming in at No 9, with Texas Engineering coming in as the 11th best undergraduate engineering program in the nation (No. 6 among public universities and No. 1 in Texas).

- Written by: Rebecca Riley, Oden Institute
ASE/EM faculty at UT Austin are set to spearhead a groundbreaking research collaboration to advance the U.S. Air Force’s ability to understand and monitor activity in cislunar space.

- Written by: Joanne Foote, Oden Institute
J. Tinsley Oden, who was widely known as the founder of computational mechanics and the first director of what is now known as the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, died on Sunday, Aug. 27.

On August 26, aerospace engineering alumnus Andreas Mogensen took to the stars, flying his second trip to the International Space Station where he is serving as the mission pilot and space station crew commander for the Huginn Mission.

We are seeking nominations for the 2024 Class of the ASE/EM Academy of Distinguished Alumni. Read more about the nomination process and the academy.

Thomas Connolly is on a quest to make engineering more accessible through teaching, engineering and international studies.

Started last fall, Launch Texas aims to give students the entrepreneurial education needed to create their own space tech companies and serve as a hub for Texas space innovation, bringing together the aerospace community, academia and VCs.

Aerospace engineering alumna, Major General Jeannie M. Leavitt, has been named a 2023 Texas Exes Distinguished Alumna.

- Written by: Kendra Harris
Two teams of aerospace engineering seniors made history this year by winning two NASA design competitions. Both teams participated in the annual NASA Glenn Research Center University Student Design Challenge, which invites undergraduate students to become involved in research and technology development.

A research team led by Nanshu Lu has modified a commercial virtual reality headset, giving it the ability to measure brain activity and examine how we react to hints, stressors and other outside forces.

Karen Willcox received simultaneous awards at the 17th U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics hosted by the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics.

J. Tinsley Oden was firmly planted at The University of Texas at Austin long before the What Starts Here Changes the World branding existed. There is no doubt, however, that he may be the one of the reasons this statement is so relevant.

Two aerospace engineering Ph.D. students have been selected to receive 2023 NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunities (NSTGRO) awards.