Aerospace Engineering

Associate Professor Subith Vasu has been named a recipient of The Combustion Institute’s Research Excellence Award. This new award is designated for CI members whose combustion science research papers have had major impact on the field. Vasu is one of 40 researchers from around the world who among the inaugural group of Research Excellence Award […]

UCF has broken its own record for the most number of National Science Foundation CAREER Award recipients this year. The university leads the state and ranks third in the nation for boasting 11 award winners, three of whom are mechanical and aerospace engineering faculty members. The recipients are: Assistant Professor Andrew Dickerson Assistant Professor Ranajay […]

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 […]

When mechanical engineering student Kylan Brooks traveled to São Paulo as part of a 2018 study abroad trip, he had no idea how much impact the experience would have on his career. Brooks was one of eight engineering students who participated in the first study abroad trip to Brazil as part of the class, Contemporary […]

William Henken ‘18, a graduate of UCF’s aerospace engineering B.S. program, has received a doctoral fellowship from Volkswagen. The fellowship, the first of its kind in the United States, was awarded as part of Volkswagen’s new partnership with the University of Tennessee Knoxville, where Henken is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in civil engineering. “Receiving the […]