UCF Partners with NASA on New Engineering Graduate Certificate The certificate program will train students to evaluate and test the electrical and electronic components of devices and equipment used in the harsh environment of space.
UCF Joins Space-Edge Accelerator to Advance Biomedical Innovations, Businesses The 12-week hybrid program will help researchers and businesses develop strategies to support health-related advancements that will benefit humans in space and on Earth.
UCF’s First Mission to the Moon Passes Two Critical Milestones The objective of the mission is to study how the Moon’s Gruithuisen domes were formed and provide greater insight on the creation and composition on the lunar surface.
UCF to Expand Space Medicine Research, Curriculum Aimed at Keeping Space Travelers Healthy Emmanuel Urquieta will lead the program, which will create space medicine training for students in medicine, nursing, engineering, computer science, and optics and photonics.
Scientists Discover CO2 and CO Ices in Outskirts of Solar System A UCF-led research team’s findings revealed a vast presence of ancient carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide ices on trans-Neptunian objects, suggesting carbon dioxide may have existed at the formation of our solar system.
UCF Researcher Is Developing Algorithms to Further Space, Sea Exploration The work will help protect spacecraft from colliding with objects like asteroids and satellites.
UCF Student’s Primitive Asteroids Work Provides Context for Further Research, Future NASA Missions Brittany Harvison studied the composition of families of ancient asteroids to better understand the history of our solar system and if they may have carried water to Earth.
Robot Rovers on the “Moon”: Lunabotics Challenge Preps Students for Space Careers College teams, including a group of Knights, will build robot rovers and compete at the new Regolith Bin at UCF’s Exolith Lab before the best crews advance to finals at Kennedy Space Center.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson: UCF ‘Is America’s Space University’ Nelson told UCF graduates that “there’s no moonshot beyond your reach.”
UCF Planetary Scientist’s Innovations Help Pave the Way for Economic Activity Beyond Earth Some of Metzger’s latest inventions are designed to help cost-effectively gather, use and manage resources, such as ice for water and fuel and lunar soil for building materials.