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...

UAH ISEEM Department hosting systems engineering conference

UAH ISEEM Department hosting systems engineering conference

Feb 04, 2016

The 14th Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research (CSER 2016) will be hosted by The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) Industrial & Systems Engineering and Engineering Management (ISEEM) Department March 22-24 at the Von Braun C...

UAH Propulsion Research Center part of $50 million NASA contract

UAH Propulsion Research Center part of $50 million NASA contract

Dec 10, 2015

UAH is part of a team that has been awarded a five-year NASA research contract valued at up to $50 million to develop, demonstrate and verify an advanced propulsion system. ...

UAH students compete in the eighth Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium Student Poster Competition

UAH students compete in the eighth Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium Student Poster Competition

Nov 02, 2015

The eighth Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium, "Space Exploration and Discovery: Expanding Human Knowledge," was recently held on the campus of UAH. The annual symposium is sponsored by the American Astronautical Society (AAS) and coordinated wit...

Dr. William Emrich Day proclaimed by Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle

Dr. William Emrich Day proclaimed by Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle

Jul 22, 2015

Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle has declared Dr. William Emrich Day to honor Dr. Emrich's upcoming receipt of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) 2015 Engineer of the Year award. ...

Dr. James Blackmon in his office

Unlocking innovation with Blackmon’s Rules

May 27, 2015

Leroy Jethro Gibbs would be proud. Ask around among mechanical and aerospace engineering students on the campus of UAH and you'll find plenty who can quote from at least part of something known as Blackmon's Rules. ...

Nine faculty receive $365,324 in UAH internal research funds

Nine faculty receive $365,324 in UAH internal research funds

May 19, 2015

Research by nine faculty members at UAH has been awarded a total of $365,324 in UAH Individual Investigator Distinguished Research (IIDR) program funds by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development. ...

Research on fusion engine that could be a Mars hot rod is AIAA Best Paper

Research on fusion engine that could be a Mars hot rod is AIAA Best Paper

May 05, 2015

You could call a fusion engine a space travel hot rod. A 2014 paper that reports on developments in pulsed fusion propulsion that could rapidly propel U.S. manned flights to Mars has been named by the American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronaut...

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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 ...

Von Braun Memorial Symposium sees record number of student poster entries

Von Braun Memorial Symposium sees record number of student poster entries

Oct 30, 2014

A record number of students from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) entered the student poster competition at the seventh Wernher von Braun Memorial Symposium held on the campus Oct. 27-29. A total of 43 students representing every coll...