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Department of Aerospace Engineering

Department of Aerospace Engineering

A man wearing a suit and tie and a woman in a red blazer stand and smile at the camera.

$2 million estate gift to create faculty chair in aerospace engineering

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Five engineering students receive scholarships

Two students involved in the KidWind Challenge make adjustments to their team’s wind turbine.

Pennsylvania KidWind Challenge 2019

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Susan Stewart receives PennFuture Woman of Renewable Energy and Climate Award

Assistant Professor Namiko Yamamoto works with aerospace engineering Ph.D. candidate Yagmur Atescan (right) on a triaxial Helmholtz coil system that applies three-dimensional oscillating magnetic fields to organize and tailor nanoparticles within polymer matrices to make unique nanocomposites.

Yamamoto to use NSF CAREER award to improve nanoengineered materials in aircraft

Alan Wagner, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, and graduate student Sagar Lakhmani adjust a pair of Braccio robotic arms on the latest generation of emergency evacuation robots.

Safety in numbers: Mobile robots could save lives during emergency evacuations

An experimental rocket engine to collect beamed microwave energy to heat propellants to plasma temperatures.

Engineers to study use of beamed microwave energy to launch space vehicles

Robert Melton, professor of aerospace engineering

Aerospace engineering's Melton elected to International Academy of Astronautics

Greenland Ics Sheet

$490K grant funds unique Greenland glacier study

Aerospace engineering Ph.D. student Mollik Nayyar calibrates a robot to play an interactive game in the Robot Ethics and Aerial Vehicles Laboratory.

Aerospace engineer to explore impact of social robots on students in higher ed

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Engineering students receive Vertical Flight Foundation scholarships

David Spencer

Aerospace engineer honored by International Astronautical Federation

Blue Sparrow

Penn State's Blue Sparrow team named Phase I winner of GoFly Prize

Mark Maughmer, professor of aerospace engineering

Maughmer named American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Fellow

Puneet Singla, associate professor of aerospace engineering

Singla named American Astronautical Society Fellow

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