Students

Every college student looks forward to Spring Break, but the students who take “Contemporary Projects in Aerospace Manufacturing” look forward to it even more. As part of the class, students travel to São Paulo, Brazil, during Spring Break for a week-long study abroad experience. “This program allowed me to see aircraft manufacturing on small and […]

Two Burnett Honors Scholars, Rishi Basdeo and Emma Shafer, were the recipients of the prestigious Astronaut Scholarship this year. The scholarship, which is awarded by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation to promising STEM students seeking to conduct graduate research and advance their fields, is highly competitive. Since 1986, 39 scholarships have been awarded to UCF students. […]

Women in Aviation International has named Manuela Morales the 2020 recipient of the Delta Air Lines Engineering Scholarship. The $5,000 award is given annually to a member of WAI who also majors in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering or electrical engineering. This award has a lot of meaning for Morales, who is a member of Delta’s […]

Like many college students, Gabriel Torres dos Santos Mechi spent his Spring Break studying abroad. Unlike most college students, his study abroad experience gave him a new perspective on his own home country. Mechi, an aerospace engineering major from Brazil, was one of nine students to participate in this year’s study abroad trip to São […]

Michelle Otero was in the 8th grade when she searched the web for influential aerospace leaders of color. As a Hispanic woman, she said she found it important to find minorities who she could look up to, even if they weren’t in her community. The UCF Ph.D student came across Katherine Johnson, a legendary NASA […]