April 21, 2019
About a year ago, Sean Marrero was on a camping trip with a group of families from the Orlando area. Some of the other campers knew that Marrero, chief strategy officer for Correct Craft, worked for a boating company. “One of the dads asked if we made a boat that would work well for fishing […]
April 19, 2019
It took Tyler Knowles and his team of fellow UCF students a few tries to figure out how to design something that would help hobbyists land their rockets more efficiently. He tried wings. He tried reverse propulsion. “We didn’t want to be shooting a flame toward the ground,” said Knowles, a 23-year-old aerospace engineering student […]
April 19, 2019
Robert Cook, Christopher Di Taranto and Sherild Rivera Melendez aren’t old enough to have seen the first release of blockbuster movies “Jurassic Park” or “The Lion King.” If you combine their years on Earth, that total barely surpasses retirement age. But the Kennedy Space Center engineers already are making significant contributions at the Florida spaceport, […]
April 15, 2019
During the first week of April, the research efforts of graduate and undergraduate students take center stage at UCF’s Student Research Week. This year, 10 mechanical and aerospace engineering students won awards for their research — and two faculty won awards for their teaching and dedication to student research. Read on for the complete list […]
April 12, 2019
Where the classroom can provide practical and theoretical knowledge, the laboratory can put that knowledge into practice. But oftentimes students aren’t prepared to work in a lab — so Associate Scientist Julie Brisset is creating educational opportunities at the Florida Space Institute to change that. Brisset, who studies planetary sciences, joined the Department of Mechanical […]