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
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
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 Managemen...
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
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
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 ...
UAH in pilot AUVSI program to establish student clubs
Mar 09, 2015
UAH is among six universities involved in a pilot program to establish student clubs for the Association of Unmanned/Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI). ...
Borrowing from whales to engineer a new fluid sensor
Mar 02, 2015
How can a humpback whale and a device that works on the same principle as the clicker that starts your gas grill help an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fly longer and with more stability? Well, it all starts with biological structures called tuberc...
Professor’s illustrious career leads to research innovations and broadened horizons for students
Feb 17, 2015
It might be surprising to learn that Dr. Phil Ligrani, Eminent Scholar in Propulsion and Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UAH, is an avid antique collector. His most exciting find to date? An original hand-colored copperplate li...
