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Thirty UCF graduate programs and areas, including two from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, have been recognized among the nation’s best, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Graduate Schools Rankings. The aerospace engineering program was ranked No. 51 this year, two spots higher than last year, when it debuted in the rankings. […]

A record-breaking 16 UCF students and alumni were named National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellows this year — with an additional seven singled out for honorable mentions. Three of the winners and four of the honorable mentions are from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Started in 1952, the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship […]

My fascination with flight — like that of many others — is simple: There is something about the way an aircraft dances gracefully with the wind to lift itself off the ground, seemingly defying the impossible, that has always intrigued me. One hundred and eighteen years have passed since the Wright brothers demonstrated the first, […]

Two assistant professors from the UCF Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering have been selected to receive CAREER Awards from the National Science Foundation this year. The funding will support the research of Samik Bhattacharya and Robert Steward. Bhattacharya, whose research focuses on aerospace engineering, will explore the seas rather than the skies with his […]

Since childhood, Quentin Fouliard, Ph.D., has always been fascinated with air transportation and how to make things faster, more efficient, easier and safer. Yet, it wasn’t until his graduate studies in Sevilla, Spain, that Fouliard realized how he wanted to apply those interests. “I was taking a specialization on thin films and ceramic coatings, and […]