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Fri, 02/02/2024
Roberts wins AIAA Abe M. Zarem Graduate Award
Quentin Roberts won the AIAA Abe M. Zarem award for his rotating detonation engine research with propellant mixing.
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Thu, 02/01/2024 | UW College of Engineering
A&A alumna Stephanie Bostwick wins Diamond Award
A&A alumna Stephanie Bostwick wins a College of Engineering Diamond Award for her work on solar microgrids.
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Tue, 01/30/2024 | Brooke Owens Fellowship
Senna Keesing receives Brooke Owens Fellowship
A&A undergrad Senna Keesing joins the latest class of "Brookies" and will intern with Vast Space this summer.
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Mon, 01/29/2024
A&A students learn a new model of aerospace manufacturing from local CEO
Autonomous Machining CEO Mike Dunlop shares his innovative approach to aerospace manufacturing with A&A students.
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Thu, 01/25/2024
Marc Alwan awarded Mary Gates Research Scholarship
Marc Alwan, a member of Husky Satellite Lab’s leadership team, is awarded a Mary Gates Research Scholarship.
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Thu, 01/25/2024
Generating dynamically feasible trajectories reliably and efficiently
Professor Açikmeşe received the IEEE 2023 Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award.
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Mon, 01/22/2024
A&A PhD student Kevin Manohar receives Herbold Fellowship
A&A PhD student Kevin Manohar receives Herbold Fellowship to research models for turbulent flow.
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Mon, 12/18/2023
Adapting an inclusive workshop
A&A adapts a workshop model to strengthen engineering student applications for fellowships and create community.
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Wed, 11/22/2023
Supporting Tribal-led salmon monitoring using computer vision
UW researchers are developing a drone-based salmon survey method that the Sauk-Suiattle can use to manage resources.
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Fri, 11/17/2023
A&A undergraduate Jasper Geldenbott receives Levinson Emerging Scholars Award
Undergrad Jasper Geldenbott receives this award to pursue research to enable robots to navigate around pedestrians.
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Tue, 11/14/2023 | IEEE Xplore
IEEE interviews A&A alum Shahriar Talebi
IEEE Xplore interviews Shahriar Talebi (A&A PhD ‘23) on his dissertation in control theory and his PhD journey.
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Mon, 11/06/2023
Understanding cryogenic propellants for long-duration space missions
Professor Hermanson’s publication selected as Cryogenics Best Paper for advancement of propellant modeling.
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Fri, 11/03/2023
Karen Leung is the Vagners-Christianson Endowed Faculty Fellow
Assistant Professor Karen Leung is the inaugural Vagners-Christianson A&A Faculty Fellow.
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Wed, 11/01/2023
A&A’s Justin Little receives DARPA Young Faculty Award
Little’s award is for research on extracting power from solar winds on the lunar surface.
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Mon, 10/23/2023
Engineering ‘spidey-senses’
Spiders can inform how we engineer sensing structures without sensors.
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Mon, 10/02/2023
A&A graduate students receive Aerospace Career Enhancement Fellowships
Nithin Adidela, Jared Smythe and Eddie Ting receive SPEAA ACE Fellowships to advance their research.
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Thu, 09/28/2023 | UW Research
New faculty spotlight: Bhuvana Srinivasan
Associate professor Bhuvana Srinivasan joins A&A’s faculty to advance nuclear fusion, space propulsion and more.
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Mon, 09/04/2023 | UW College of Engineering
International impact
A&A's Kyra Dugan makes an impact in a local water infrastructure in Nicaragua with UW's Engineers Without Borders.
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Mon, 08/14/2023
The 2023 capstone team awards
We announce the winners of the 2022 Capstone Film Fest and the Technical Excellence Awards.
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Mon, 08/14/2023
2023 A&A Graduate Research Showcase
A&A’s 2nd annual Graduate Research Showcase featured cutting-edge research from our graduate students.
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Tue, 08/01/2023 | A&A's YouTube Channel
Interview with NASA Orion Program Manager Howard Hu
A&A's Kenn Curry interviews Distinguished Alumnus Howard Hu on his best days at NASA, his A&A training, and more.
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Tue, 08/01/2023
Top three fin-tastic research posters awarded at SHARC Week’s undergraduate showcase
A&A recognizes three students for their innovative research at first-ever SHARC Week showcase for undergrads.
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Mon, 07/31/2023 | Empowered Startups
Emerging technology aims to predict the probability of wildfires
Empowered Startups highlights the work of its capstone team developing a drone prototype for wildfire prevention.
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Tue, 07/18/2023 | UW News
Eight UW professors elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences
Professor Mehran Mesbahi will be inducted into the 2023 class of the Washington State Academy of Sciences.
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Mon, 07/10/2023
A&A Student Excellence Awards 2023
A&A announces the 2023 Student Excellence Awards for research, teaching and service.