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Join us on Friday, Nov. 4th for an unveiling of our new entrepreneurial space tech program, Launch Texas with special guest Bob Smith, CEO of Blue Origin and more.

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Autonomous robots will soon rove the buildings and streets of The University of Texas at Austin campus. But unlike other commercial delivery services, this fleet of robots will help researchers understand and improve the experience of pedestrians who encounter them.

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Moriba Jah, an astrodynamicist, space environmentalist and aerospace engineer at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded a MacArthur Fellowship, often referred to as the “genius grant.” The award recognizes Jah’s work to track and monitor the more than 30,000 human-made objects orbiting the earth.

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In September the journal, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (CMAME), published a special issue in honor of J. Tinsley Oden.

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For the third year running, a team of aerospace engineering seniors at UT Austin has continued a winning tradition, taking second place in the annual Undergraduate Space Systems design competition sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Foundation.

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Moriba Jah and a team of researchers from MIT are one of three university-based teams selected by NASA to study orbital debris.

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Geethu Jacob, an aerospace engineering Ph.D. student who usually applies her skills to gravity estimation for tracking climate change at the Center for Space Research, has also been using machine learning to help identify and sort ultrasound images into categories, improving the process of identifying fetal anomalies.

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ASE/EM lecturer Thomas Connolly is featured in this Texas Global story on balancing academic rigor and student success.

Digital twin research at the Oden Institute includes applications in geosciences, aerospace engineering and materials science. Credit: Oden Institute.

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A collaborative research team led by the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences has been given the green light by the Department of Energy’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program to establish a major new applied mathematics center for research on digital twin technology. 

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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.