October 15, 2020
Nine new columnists, including MAE Professor Seetha Raghavan, will begin sharing their opinions for the ninth year of the weekly UCF Forum. The faculty, staff and student writers for the next 12 months of columns are from engineering, business, athletics and varied other fields around the university. Some of the writers also are graduates from […]
October 9, 2020
One small crack in an aircraft component can lead to major problems. The cracks can grow fast and damage metal components to the point of failure, but they are often hard to detect. In an effort to stop this problem as it starts, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently awarded UCF aerospace engineering Assistant […]
May 11, 2020
As a young boy growing up on the Space Coast, Zac Stein watched in awe as the space shuttles and rockets launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. He would marvel at airplanes as they flew overhead—how could something so large and so heavy fly gracefully through the sky? It’s no wonder that Stein’s curiosity led […]
April 16, 2020
Women in Aviation International has named Manuela Morales the 2020 recipient of the Delta Air Lines Engineering Scholarship. The $5,000 award is given annually to a member of WAI who also majors in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering or electrical engineering. This award has a lot of meaning for Morales, who is a member of Delta’s […]
March 26, 2020
More than 25 of UCF’s graduate programs have been ranked by U.S. News and World Report, and aerospace engineering is now among them. The graduate programs debuted at No. 53, just one semester after the launch of the Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering, housed within the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. “Our strong debut in […]