Mechanical Engineering

If you were asked to name key players in the aerospace industry, odds are you would list SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, NASA and a few others. I doubt you would include the University of Central Florida. You should. It is no coincidence the 50-yard line of UCF’s football stadium lines up […]

Two new faculty have joined the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering this semester: Wendy Shen, who goes by Wen, and Denizhan Yavas. Shen joins the department as an assistant professor from the University of Texas at Arlington. Her research includes the development of functional materials-based microelectronics for biomedical interfacing, agricultural sensing and structural health […]

Second-year mechanical and aerospace engineering Ph.D. student Leslie Allyn Simms was selected to attend the 70th annual Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting from June 27 – July 2, 2021 in Lindau, Germany. The Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting is an annual gathering of Nobel Prize winners and top young scientists from around the world. It is a […]

The National Science Foundation has awarded four Graduate Research Fellowships to alumni of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. The recipients are: • Debraliz Isaac-Aragones, B.S.AE ’19 — Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at Purdue University. • Leslie Simms, B.S.ME ’18 – Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering at the University […]

Twenty years ago, the Cabrera family, including then 12-year-old Alejandro, arrived in the U.S. The Cabreras originated from Cuba, but the period of economic crisis known as El Periodo Especial, or The Special Period, forced them to seek refuge in Costa Rica when Alejandro was just six. Knowing that “the land of opportunity” could hold […]