News Archives
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A&A Students Build Rocket to compete in Sounding Rocket Competition
The Daily, 6/26/09
The 10-foot, 8-inch rocket was designed and built by a team of 11 graduate students and four professors from UW A&A. The team has been working on the project for the past two quarters to compete in the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC), which took place June 25 and 26 in Utah.
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Professor Mehran Mesbahi featured at the 2009 Distinguished Teaching Awards Showcase
University Week, 5/21/09
Professor Mesbahi was recently featured at the Distinguished Teaching Award Showcase by giving a 20 minute mini-class which was modeled in the same way he teaches A&A undergrads. Professor Mesbahi was the 2005 recipient of the UW's Distinguished Teaching Award.
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A&A Rocket Team Wins Two Awards at Experimental Sounding Rocket Association Competition
University Week, 7/09/09
Students in AA 599G won the Furfaro Award for Technical Excellence at the 4th Annual Experimental Sounding Rocket Association Competition in Green River, Utah. They also received 2nd for the award for altitude.
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A&A Students Build Rocket to compete in Sounding Rocket Competition
The Daily, 6/26/09
The 10-foot, 8-inch rocket was designed and built by a team of 11 graduate students and four professors from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. The team has been working on the project for the past two quarters to compete in the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC), which took place June 25 and 26 in Utah.
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Professor Mehran Mesbahi featured at the 2009 Distinguished Teaching Awards Showcase
University Week, 5/21/09
Professor Mesbahi was recently featured at the Distinguished Teaching Award Showcase by giving a 20 minute mini-class which was modeled in the same way he teaches A&A undergrads. Professor Mesbahi was the 2005 recipient of the UW's Distinguished Teaching Award.
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Another A&A Alum assigned to Space Shuttle Mission
NASA, 5/14/09
UW Alum Tony Antonelli will serve as the pilot for the space shuttle mission STS-132, targeted for launch in April 2010.
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Professor Adam Bruckner knew shuttle astronaut way back when
KING 5 TV, 5/10/09
Greg Johnson is piloting the shuttle Atlantis, 32 years after graduating from the UW. Aeronautics and astronautics professors Adam Bruckner and Jim Hermanson knew Johnson in his younger years, as a teacher and classmate, respectively. "It's like one of my kids is doing great in the world," said Bruckner. "It's a good feeling, it's a very good feeling. " KIRO TV interview about Greg Johnson with Professors Bruckner and Hermanson (and a few A&A students),
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A&A Alum to pilot space shuttle mission to Hubble Space Telescope
The Seattle Times, 5/6/2009
Seattle native Greg Johnson, a UW graduate in aeronautics and astronautics, will pilot the final shuttle mission to service and repair the Hubble Space Telescope. The 11-day mission will be Johnson's first trip into space. Learn more about Greg Johnson. KOMO News, 5/11/09
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Future aerospace work depends on state's competitiveness, Gregoire says
The Seattle Times, 4/10/2009
Gov. Chris Gregoire rolled out a new industry task force to improve the state's competitiveness. UW President Mark Emmert is on the council to ensure that aerospace research at the UW is coordinated with industry.
- Robots that look, act and are designed like animals
Popular Mechanics, 3/11/2009
Humans can engineer machines to mimic animal biology with startling accuracy. Aeronautical engineer Kristi Morgansen's team successfully built three robotic fish that can communicate with one another while swimming under water.
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Water rescue plans in place
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1/16/2009
Airplanes are not really designed to float in water but do because of what it takes to fly at high altitude, said local aeronautics expert Robert Breidenthal.
