Dr. Nancy Allbritton has been named the next Frank & Julie Jungers Dean of the College of Engineering.
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August 8, 2019 | SpaceNews
Audacy CEO and A&A alum Ralph Ewig is too young to recall live Apollo 11 coverage, but its influence on him was great.
July 17, 2019 | Reuters
In the 50th anniversary year of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, A&A researchers are designing rocket legs inspired by Japanese origami.
July 12, 2019 | UW Space Policy and Research Center
For Apollo 11's 50th anniversary, UW presents reflections by those who were inspired to work toward a future in space.
July 1, 2019 | Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
SARP, the UW rocketry team, clinched the top spot as the 2019 Judge’s Choice and Overall Winner with its hybrid rocket.
June 24, 2019 | GeekWire
The SARP team took the Judge’s Choice and Overall Winner Award at the largest collegiate rocket engineering contest.
June 18, 2019 | BARC
A&A's composites research and industry collaborations to receive a boost through BARC award from Washington state.
June 14, 2019 | Foster Blog
WM Launch Services won the Perkins Coie Best Innnovation/Technology prize at the 2019 Dempsey Startup Competition. A&A graduate students Finn van Donkelaar and James Penna and alum Casey Dunn founded the startup to develop a more efficient space launch system for large payloads.
June 13, 2019 | Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
A&A remembers George Jeffs, an aerospace legend from the Apollo missions to the development of GPS satellites.
June 12, 2019 | Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
KWT’s student crew eases the transition from the old DAQ to a new one, a six-month process.
June 10, 2019 | GeekWire
Husky Robotics competed in the University Rover Challenge (URC), an international event that accepted 36 teams with a goal of showcasing designs for the next generation of Mars rovers.
June 5, 2019 | Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Professor Jinkyu Yang’s research team in the LEMS Lab is designing and fabricating origami-inspired aerospace structures.
May 17, 2019 | Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Funding targeted toward enhancing UW ice accretion research leads to KWT structural upgrades.
May 15, 2019 | Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Eight A&A faculty members have been recognized by the 1st annual FACET awards program.
May 11, 2019 | GeekWire
UW Hyperloop is going for the top prize in Elon Musk’s competition. This time they’ve got their racer down to fighting weight.
May 6, 2019 | Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
A&A looks forward to continued collaboration with Professor Christopher Lum after his transition to Boeing.
May 2, 2019 | Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
A&A students won first in master's, first in team, and third in undergraduate at the AIAA Region VI Conference.
May 1, 2019 | College of Engineering
Professor Kristi Morgansen has accepted the position of Chair of the Aeronautics & Astronautics Department. Says College of Engineering Dean Mike Bragg, "Her experience and dedication to the mission and excellence of A&A will serve the department and college well."
April 22, 2019 | Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Research on sync and the structure of networks by the RAIN Lab, led by Mehran Mesbahi, was published in Science.
April 16, 2019 | LA Times
LA Times quotes Interim Chair Morgansen about the competition to provide broadband internet through networks of small satellites.
April 15, 2019 | Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
A&A has partnered with JCATI and aerospace company Chomarat to advance composites research and bring hands-on experience to students.
April 15, 2019 | Aerospace America
Alum Maggie Wintermute is profiled for her work at Honeywell Aerospace and her A&A training and looks to the future of aviation.
April 13, 2019 | ABC News 4 Charleston, SC
A&A students in Boeing's AerosPACE capstone program designed, built, and flew drones in a multi-university effort.
April 8, 2019 | Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Rao Varanasi will accept his Distinguished Alum award at the 2019 A&A graduation, where he will also serve as graduation speaker.
April 5, 2019 | Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics
A&A's FuZE Lab has developed a smaller, cheaper method for thermonuclear fusion using a Z-pinch to compress flowing plasma.