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On August 24, Alexandra Long received a well-deserved surprise: an email notifying her that she was one of three recipients for the Iridium NEXT Mission Team Scholarship.

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A team of undergraduate and graduate students have worked collaboratively this summer to build a satellite so small it can be held in your hand, yet so powerful it will be deployed into space next year.

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Payam Banazadeh’s persistence, dedication and hard work were rewarded when his abstract entitled “ExtraSolar Observing Low-Frequency Array for Radio Astronomy (XSOLARA) Mission Feasibility Analysis” was accepted for the 2013 IEEE Aerospace Conference.

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Behcet Acikmese will be recognized this year by his alma mater, Purdue University, for his recent work with the Mars Science Laboratory Mission (MSL).

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Two ASE/EM faculty members have joined the new Nanomanufacturing Systems for Mobile Computing and Mobile Energy Technologies (NASCENT) research center – Professor Kenneth Liechti and Assistant Professor Nanshu Lu.

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Laxminayaran Raja has received the honor of organizing the 65th Annual Gaseous Electronics Conference (GEC) which is taking place right here in Austin this week.

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Hurricane season peaks with maximum activity early to mid-September, and researchers in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics are continuing to develop computer simulations that track, measure and predict hurricane storm surge.

 

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The Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics welcomes two new faculty members beginning with the 2012-13 academic year.

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The Center for Aeromechanics Research (CAR) at The University of Texas at Austin has received a $1.3 million dollar grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) through its new initiative that aims to approach fluid mechanics from a more fundamental level.

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Nanshu Lu, an assistant professor of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin has been named by MIT Technology Review as one of the world’s top 35 innovators under the age of 35 (TR35) for her health-related work.

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Dr. Behcet Acikmese, who will join the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics faculty this fall, discusses his involvement with the flight of the Mars Curiosity Sky Crane.

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Friends and colleagues of the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics mourn the loss of David Crittenden who passed away on the morning of Tuesday, July 31, 2012.

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Aerospace engineering alumnus Ravi Prakash shared his thoughts on the landing of Curiosity with the Cockrell School in a Q&A, as well as submitted his personal perspective on his role in the exciting Curiosity mission prior to its landing.

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Despite unforeseen flying challenges beyond their control, the UT Austin Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) team still managed to receive 3rd place in the journal paper award at the 2012 Association for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Student Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Competition.

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ASE/EM Assistant Professor Todd Humphrey's research team successfully demonstrated for the first time that the GPS signals of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), or drone, can be commandeered by an outside source.