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Nov. 13, 2025, 3:55 p.m. Jillian Gloria ’22 stands on a balcony at Blue Origin headquarters in Cape Canaveral, Florida, her eyes fixed on the horizon at Launch Complex 36 — the very launchpad her grandfather helped construct as a NASA engineer in the 1960s. Engines ignite. Gloria’s breath catches as she wills the rocket to […]

When most students complete an internship, they leave with a stronger resume, a network of professional contacts and, if they’re really lucky, a job offer. UCF aerospace engineering alum Luis Ferrari Rehder ’25 left with something even more special to mark his internship at the space and defense technology company Firefly Aerospace. Rehder is one of 700 people whose name […]

During a meeting with an academic advisor in his freshman year at UCF, Marcus Royal ’24 realized he was already behind. Three fundamental classes for aspiring engineers — physics, chemistry and calculus — were missing from his high school transcript, putting his engineering goals at risk before he’d truly begun. Although Royal knew since high school that he […]

In the future, people won’t hail traditional taxicabs to the airport — they’ll hop in air taxis that can fly them from remote locations to major airports in a matter of minutes. For passengers, this mode of transportation will save time and add ease to the stressful process of traveling. But for residents of communities […]

Leading researchers from across the country gathered at UCF on Dec. 12 to launch a major Multi University Research Initiative (MURI), supported by the U.S. Army Research Office, aimed at transforming how scientists understand and design for the extreme environments of hypersonic flight. With flight tests, ground-test facilities, and first-principles simulations generating more complex data […]