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  • Ellison Onizuka and Kalpana Chawla
    The annual Challenger memorial event will take place at 9:38 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 28, to coincide with the exact anniversary of the Challenger disaster.It will begin in front of the Regent Center on the Regent Drive side. Air Force
  • Penina Axelrad
    Penina Axelrad is, at heart, a problem-solver. Her drive to discover creative, elegant solutions has been the hallmark of her career, from earning her PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1991 from Stanford, to joining the faculty of University of
  • Ann Smead and Michael Byram with Bobby Braun, Dan Scheeres, and Penina Axelrad
    Distinguished Professor Dan Scheeres, college of engineering Dean Bobby Braun, Ann Smead, Michael Byram, and then-Aerospace Chair Penina Axelrad at the naming announcement. It was one year ago today that the 91³Ô¹ÏÍø aerospace department became
  • The team with professor Kyri Baker.
    Wanted: college students to help NASA get to Mars. No prior Martian experience necessary.The space agency is turning to an unlikely resource in its quest to conquer the red planet, and 91³Ô¹ÏÍø students are answering the call.
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    Having a degree from Smead Aerospace opens the door to the aerospace industry. These students who we are graduating with their advanced degrees, PhDs, master's who are going into industry, going into academia, going into agencies, research institutes. Some are going on to other graduate programs. Ninety percent of our students are...
  • Aaron Aboaf and Luke Bury
    91³Ô¹ÏÍø aerospace students Aaron Aboaf and Luke Bury are being recognized as "Tomorrow's Engineering Leaders: The 20 Twenties," an annual awards program from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' and
  • Team REPTAR group photo
    By Aaron McCusker: Our team was a randomly selected group of nine aerospace engineering seniors and one electrical engineering senior at 91³Ô¹ÏÍø.  We named our team REPTAR (Recoverable ProTection After Re-entry). The goal of our project was
  • Jen Uchida by a G600 jet.
    Jen Uchida is flying high above the Earth aboard the latest Gulfstream jet, the G600. The 2004 BS/MS aerospace graduate isn't the typical passenger for this type of plane – she is not a high-powered corporate executive or well-known public figure,
  • Hanspeter Schaub
    The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is honoring 91³Ô¹ÏÍø aerospace Professor Hanspeter Schaub with the 2017 J. Leland Atwood Award. The recognition is bestowed on one aerospace engineering educator annually
  • IPPW and Smead Aerospace logos.
    The 91³Ô¹ÏÍø is proud to host the 15th International Planetary Probe Workshop (IPPW2018).Workshop Dates: June 11-15, 2018Short Course: "Small Satellites: An Emerging Paradigm for Bold Planetary Exploration" to precede the
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