UAH engineering students take first place in aluminum extrusion design competition

UAH engineering students take first place in aluminum extrusion design competition

Jun 17, 2016

A team of students from UAH won first place in the 2016 Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition - Student Class for their Design Certification Review project entitled "Dynamic Arm Support Apparatus (DASA)." Team members Aubree DeLozier, Christop...

UAH–NASA collaboration reveals modest houseplant’s superpower

UAH–NASA collaboration reveals modest houseplant’s superpower

May 27, 2016

The golden pothos is not a showy plant. It's neither beautiful nor fragrant. Yet this fast-growing vine with its smooth heart-shaped leaves is actually a dark horse when it comes to filtering pollutants out of indoor air. At least that was the theo...

UAH surfs the swell of a powerful additive manufacturing wave

UAH surfs the swell of a powerful additive manufacturing wave

May 12, 2016

The many advantages of additive manufacturing, including cost control and precision, are pushing the adoption of the technique in plastics and metals in the automotive and manufacturing industry, as well as at NASA and in the U.S. military. ...

Micro-thruster test stand paper boosts UAH graduate student to AIAA award

Micro-thruster test stand paper boosts UAH graduate student to AIAA award

Apr 21, 2016

A research paper describing a magnetically levitated micro-thruster test stand that cuts spacecraft development time using 3-D printed parts and high speed motion detection has won a best student paper award for a UAH graduate student. ...

UAH Propulsion Research Center Student Association connects researchers with their community

UAH Propulsion Research Center Student Association connects researchers with their community

Mar 04, 2016

The Propulsion Research Center (PRC) at UAH is known for its cutting-edge research on fusion propulsion and students who do hands-on research. But for the center's members, the people conducting that research are just as crucial to its mission...

Outreach program introduces students to engineering – and UAH

Outreach program introduces students to engineering – and UAH

Feb 26, 2016

As a high school student, Max Beasley knew where he was going to go to college - and it wasn't The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH). That is, until Drs. P.J. Benfield and Matt Turner, principal research engineers at UAH's Systems Mana...

Local middle schoolers speak to ISS astronaut with help from UAH’s Space Hardware Club

Local middle schoolers speak to ISS astronaut with help from UAH’s Space Hardware Club

Feb 24, 2016

On Friday, Feb. 19, at 11:17 a.m., a handful of lucky middle school students were able to speak directly with American astronaut Tim Kopra via amateur radio as the International Space Station (ISS) passed over Huntsville, Ala. Among the 18 questi...

Engineering major shares passion for paintball with fellow UAH students

Engineering major shares passion for paintball with fellow UAH students

Feb 19, 2016

Most hobbies are fairly commonplace; things like reading, writing, or crafting take up the spare time of most college students. Aaron Shepperd's hobby, however, takes a messier, more competitive form: paintball. "I played paintball at a 12th b...

UAH engineering students bring heart to project on brain

UAH engineering students bring heart to project on brain

Jan 19, 2016

After watching her brother struggle with dyslexia throughout his academic career, Kacey Tyra knows the challenges faced by those who are affected by a learning disability. So when the senior mechanical engineering major was asked to select a projec...

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Blast From the Past – Opening a Rocketry Time Capsule

Mar 19, 2015

UAH's Propulsion Research Center is preparing for its 25th anniversary next year, and the experimental roots of its faculty run even deeper. In 1956, 16-year-old Jimmy Blackmon did a very unusual thing for that time. He built a rocket from scratch ...