February 11, 2022
Rockets don’t just spawn on the launch pad. You know this, even if sometimes it seems like the behemoths that launch explorations to space spontaneously line up, ready to blast off. After all, what machine on Earth is even capable of hauling skyscraper-sized structures over solid ground? Ask Breanne Rohloff — she’s an engineer for NASA contractor […]
February 10, 2022
Olusegun Ilegbusi is an engineering-in-medicine pioneer helping doctors understand the fluid dynamics of the heart, throat, and lungs, which ultimately will help patients battling heart disease, cancer, and sleep apnea, among others. In collaboration with Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, the professor conducted a study to answer the age-old question of why a heart attack […]
February 8, 2022
University of Central Florida researchers are part of a new $1 million project funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to better understand and predict how and why raindrops are affected when they cross a hypersonic shock wave. Hypersonic speeds are those at Mach 5 and higher, or five times greater than the speed […]
February 4, 2022
Most undergraduate students don’t spend their summers conducting research, but for the students who participate in the HYPER Research Experience for Undergraduates, summers are less about vacations and more about academics. HYPER is the short name for the Advanced Technologies for Hypersonic, Propulsive, Energetic and Reusable Platforms program, which is an REU that’s co-funded by […]
February 3, 2022
With the Space Coast in our backyard, researchers at the University of Central Florida are hard at work developing the next generation of space technology. One of those projects focuses on hypersonic propulsion. Kareem Ahmed is a Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Associate Professor. His team is working on propelling rockets at speeds even faster than […]