Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering News

The work is funded by an $800,000 award from the U.S Department of Energy.

The results indicate masks and proper ventilation may be key to allowing more capacity in schools, businesses and other indoor areas.

The projects aim to investigate advancements in communications and bone cell activity in altered gravity.

Caroline Anderson ’19 will investigate a way to protect and control space vehicles upon re-entry during her 10-week fellowship.

Dazhong Wu was selected for his contributions to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

The UCF-developed propulsion system could allow for flight speeds of Mach 6 to 17 (more than 4,600 to 13,000 miles per hour) and would have applications in air and space travel.

It is hard to imagine what more breakthroughs can be achieved in flight…but just wait and see.

The mission and lander are called Dragonfly and are planned to launch in 2027 and reach Titan by the mid-2030s.

The work is through a NASA Small Business Technology Transfer program in which a Purdue University-affiliated software company is the lead and UCF is the primary research institution.