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Fall-Spring Student Opportunities at PRC

This post contains description of  some positions on pending contracts and grants that we are working on for the fall 2012 and the spring 2013.  If you have interest in becoming a Graduate Research Assistant or and Undergraduate …


UAH Student Awarded Patent for Rocket Nozzle Design

A patent was recently awarded to Sean Entrekin, Dr. James B. Blackmon, and Dr. D. Brian Landrum of the UAH Propulsion Research Center (PRC) for a new approach that increases the performance of RBCC Propulsion Systems. This new concept uses …


Popular Science Recognizes PRC Again This Year

Popular Science Magazine recognized the UAH Propulsion Research Center again this year. The PRC Laboratories are featured in the top 10 "Laboratories that go Boom" feature in October 2012. The PRC was named #3 in the nation for the past 2 years …


Students Representing UAH at 63rd International Astronautical Congress

We are very proud to announce that 34 UAH student researchers will be representing our university at the upcoming 63rd International Astronautical Congress to be held in Naples, Italy from October 1-5. These students have been selected by the …


PRC and MAE Honor Contract Administrators and Proposal Team

The UAH Propulsion Research Center works in close cooperation with the Office of Sponsored Projects (OSP) and the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering to prepare proposals and perform research programs.    We hosted a lunch …


PRC Facility Usage Policy

The Propulsion Research Center is committed to provide an environment that assures that all UAH Propulsion Research Center personnel, customer personnel, students, and visitors are kept safe and that our faculties are not critically damaged …


55th Anniversary of Blackmon’s Rocket

In 1957,  ”Eagle Scout Jimmy Blackmon of Charlotte, NC, startled Army Rocket experts when he explained that the nose cone of his six-foot rocket was a five dollar metal lampshade.  Although 17-year old Jimmy’s plans to fire the missile on …


Featured Propulsion Class – Spring 2012

Featured Propulsion Class (Spring …