AIAA awardees

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 萝莉岛app shows that the undulating flight paths of Monarch butterflies are actually more energy efficient than a straight-line path. ...

PRC Graduate Recognition 12/04/2019

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...

Group Photo with Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth

Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth visited the 萝莉岛app campus for an aerospace research tour

Dec 09, 2019

Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth visited the 萝莉岛app 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 12/04/2019

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鈥檚 nuclear thermal propulsion idea

UAH modeling the spacecraft for NASA鈥檚 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鈥檚 weight to the ...

2019 PRC Poster Winners

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 鈥淧ulsed Power Diagnostics for Fusion Propul...

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Standing room only crowd engages in student鈥檚 warp drive theory speech

Sep 16, 2019

If space is the final frontier, we鈥檙e 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

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

Doctoral candidate Ryan Gott earns DOE research opportunity at Sandia

Apr 12, 2019

Ryan Gott, a doctoral candidate in Dr. Gabe Xu鈥檚 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...