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Mary Wheeler has received a $1.5 million NSF grant to use big data to predict and model naturally-occurring ground fractures.

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The Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin offers its congratulations to our Fall 2015 graduates.

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This year the Longhorn Rocketry Association is working on a stabilization system that will keep a multistage rocket straight on its path as it launches thousands of feet into the air.

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The Longhorn Rocketry Association is hard at work on two new projects this year.

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Bevo-2, a small satellite that was designed and built by Cockrell School of Engineering students in the Texas Spacecraft Lab, launched to the International Space Station.

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Maruthi Akella and his students are working with the City of Austin to pioneer search and rescue work using drones.

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Jayant Sirohi is the recipient of the 2015 ASE/EM LUNAR Council Teaching Award.

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Tinsley Oden is leading a research group that is focused on modeling how cancer cells thrive in their native environment.

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NASA has selected the Cockrell School for a five-year $1.3 million grant that will support the national expansion of a STEM program for high school students.

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Tinsley Oden was inducted into the Hall of Fame for Oklahoma State's College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology.

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Thomas J.R. Hughes has given three national and international plenary lectures this fall.

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Srinivas Bettadpur was selected to receive the Vening Meinesz Medal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) for his distinguished research in geodesy.

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Prof. Michael Watkins, Director of the Center of Space Research, authored this op-ed piece on the support of space exploration.

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Maruthi Akella is working to create fast, agile, and autonomous UAVs by borrowing navigation skills from nature’s great flyers—birds.

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Andrzej Stewart, BS ASE ’05, is one of six scientists selected for the yearlong Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation mission (HI-SEAS) IV, a NASA-funded Mars simulation project located in a solar-powered dome atop Mauna Loa in Hawaii.