A&A researchers create a method to keep drones on course when GPS signals fail.
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May 10, 2018
We are honored to welcome Lars Q. Andersen (BS '68) as keynote speaker of our 2018 Graduation celebration.
April 26, 2018
A&A Student Trevor Hedges has received a 2018 Dean's Medal for Academic Excellence.
March 23, 2018
John Buffalo has been selected as a Mary Gates Research Scholar for 2018, the second A&A student in two quarters.
March 8, 2018
The Autonomous Controls Laboratory develops algorithms that enhance the on-board decision making and autonomous capabilities of robotic systems.
March 1, 2018
Congratulations to Meera Unadkat for winning the Brooke Owens Fellowship for which she will be working at Virgin Orbit.
February 16, 2018 | UW News
UW engineers have turned tissue paper into a wearable sensor that can detect human movement.
February 7, 2018 | National Academy of Engineering
Congratulations to Dennis Muilenburg (MS ‘90) who has been elected to the 2018 Class of the NAE.
January 17, 2018
Congratulations to Dennis Muilenburg (MSAA ‘90) on receiving the 2018 Dean’s Diamond Award.
January 16, 2018 | UW 360
UW360 features Suzanna Darcy-Hennemann, first female Boeing test pilot, local aviation pioneer, and '17 Diamond Awardee.
January 11, 2018
The Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation (JCATI) is now accepting Request for Proposals until March 2, 2018. JCATI provides short-term funding for aerospace industry/academic collaborations with Washington's public universities. Their focus is on TRL 4-7 projects. The academic partner receives JCATA funding, while the industry partner provides project support. Awards are $50-$100K for the July 1 - June 30 period.
November 30, 2017 | IT Connect
UW doctoral students Laurel Marsh and Whitney Thomas are discovering the advantage that Hyak, the UW’s on-site shared cluster supercomputer, can bring to their research.
November 27, 2017
The Society for Advanced Rocket Propulsion (SARP) is a group of students at the University of Washington that has come together to design, build, test, and launch an advanced hybrid rocket. Help SARP reach their goal of competing in the Spaceport America Cup.
November 17, 2017
A&A Professor and College of Engineering Dean Michael Bragg was selected for the Member Spotlight in Momentum, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' November newsletter.
November 14, 2017
Congratulations to doctoral students Charlie Kelly and Akihisa Shimazu, who won the “Future of Electric Propulsion: A Young Visionary Paper Competition" at this year's International Electric Propulsion Conference (IEPC) in Atlanta, GA.
November 13, 2017
A&A invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty position
October 25, 2017
Congratulations to Gustavo Eidji Camarinha Fujiwara, a PhD student in the William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, for winning the AIAA AVIATION 2017 - Best Student Paper Award.
October 18, 2017
Congratulations to doctoral student Utku Eren on receiving the "Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) Graduate Award 2017-2018" from the Technical Committees of The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
September 28, 2017
Congratulations to A&A Professor Mehran Mesbahi, who has been named to a new Endowed Professorship in Control Systems and Networks.
September 19, 2017
The team’s project, titled ‘Multidisciplinary Arduino Project-Based Learning in Early Engineering Education,’ will involve the development of tools, materials and educational plans to provide and support project-based learning with computation, electronics and mechanical systems along multiple pathways in early engineering education.
September 18, 2017 | Seattle Times
Seattle-based digital imaging company BlackSky has won the backing of Europe’s largest satellite maker, Thales Alenia Space, and expects to open a satellite manufacturing facility in the Seattle area with 30 to 35 initial employees, company co-founder Jason Andrews said Friday.
September 13, 2017
We were saddened to learn that alumnus Eric Schultz (MS 97) passed away. Schultz was a Lieutenant Colonel and pilot in the US Air Force and was flying a training mission when his plane crashed at the Nevada Test and Training Range, near Nellis Air Force Base.
August 29, 2017
Congratulations to Gustavo Eidji Camarinha Fujiwara, a PhD student in the William E. Boeing Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics who has been awarded the Josephine de Karman Fellowship. He was one of only eight students selected in a highly competitive process from a pool of about 400 applicants from universities nation-wide.
August 22, 2017
A&A Doctoral student Hiromi Yasuda and his advisor, Professor JK Yang, have been awarded the Hangai Prize, which is given for the best paper submitted to the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) Conference.
July 28, 2017
Congratulations to A&A Professor and Chair Anthony Waas who has been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences in recognition of his outstanding record of scientific achievement and willingness to work on behalf of the Academy in bringing the best available science to bear on issues within the state of Washington.