Undulating flight saves Monarchs energy, says award-winning study with drone implications
Feb 07, 2020
In a finding that could benefit drone design, award-winning research by a doctoral student at UAH shows that the undulating flight paths of Monarch butterflies are actually more energy efficient than a straight-line path. ...
Mentoring Lunch - Jan. 31, 2020
Jan 31, 2020
Eminent Scholar and Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Dr. Phillip Ligrani gave his presentation entitled, "Physical Phenomena Associated with Hypersonic Weapon Vehicles" to a "packed house". Among the numerous guests were representativ...
Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth visited the UAH campus for an aerospace research tour
Dec 09, 2019
Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth visited the UAH campus for an aerospace research tour on Monday, December 9, 2019. Dr. Frederick, Dr. Ligrani, and several graduate and undergraduate students offered the delegation a tour of the Propulsion Research Center exp...
PRC Graduate Recognition
Dec 04, 2019
Dr. Shery Welsh, a UAH Alumna, now serving as the Deputy Director, S&T, Advanced Technology Directorate, at the Missile Defense Agency, presented her title "Leaning Forward in Life to Success (Be a Weirdo)" to the graduating PRC students. ...
UAH modeling the spacecraft for NASA’s nuclear thermal propulsion idea
Nov 13, 2019
Successful human spaceflight to Mars and back is bound by basic rules of physics that any home garage hot rodder knows: mass, power and fuel consumption. To complete the mission, there must be enough thrust to propel a spacecraft’s weight to the ...
2019 PRC Poster Winners
Sep 18, 2019
Shelby Westrich, Nathan Schilling, and Dennis Nikitaev win in the 2019 Von Braun Symposium poster contest. Engineering - First Place - Undergraduate Shelby Westrich, University of Alabama in Huntsville “Pulsed Power Diagnostics for Fusion Propul...
Standing room only crowd engages in student’s warp drive theory speech
Sep 16, 2019
If space is the final frontier, we’re going to have to boost our propulsion speeds to slip the bounds of our solar system. Andromeda, our nearest major galaxy, is 2.573 million light years away. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second, so a ...
Ligrani recognized for ASME committee leadership
Jun 27, 2019
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Gas Turbine Institute has recognized Dr. Phillip Ligrani for outstanding contributions, commitment and service to its Heat Transfer Committee with an Outstanding service Award. ...
Doctoral candidate Ryan Gott earns DOE research opportunity at Sandia
Apr 12, 2019
Ryan Gott, a doctoral candidate in Dr. Gabe Xu’s Plasma and Electrodynamics Research Lab at UAH, has been awarded a United States Dept. of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Program research opportunity at Sandia Nat...
