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University of Maryland Department of
Aerospace Engineering
Newsletter | November 2023
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UMD-led Team Selected for DARPA Triage Challenge


Dubbed RoboScout DTC, the team led by Professor Derek Paley, Director of the Maryland Robotics Center, will be part of the Systems Competition, one of three competitions in challenge, and will focus its efforts on primary triage, in which medical personnel seek to identify and treat those most urgently in need of care.
DEPARTMENT NEWS

Faculty Positions Open


For a complete list of currently open positions in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Maryland,
visit ejobs.umd.edu.
ALUMNI NEWS

From Childhood Stargazing to Building a Lunar Space Station  

Aerospace engineering alumnus Oliver Ortiz (‘14, M.S. ‘16) featured in NASA article. Ortiz leads Northrop Grumman’s systems engineering team focused on the integration of Gateway’s foundational elements, HALO (Habitation and Logistics Outpost) and the Power and Propulsion Element.

Do you have alumni news to share? Share it at: go.umd.edu/AE-alumni-news.
STUDENT NEWS

Diving Deeper into Competition, and Recruitment


UMD’s RoboSub team sets sights on blasting the 2024 competition out of the water.

Undergrad Visesh Uppoor Among Clark School Students Named Philip Merrill Scholars


The Philip Merrill program provides $1,500 scholarships, while recognizing and celebrating the teachers and mentors involved in preparing the next generation.
PHILANTHROPY
The Department of Aerospace Engineering is grateful for the gifts made by alumni and friends. Are you interested in learning about how you can make a difference in the work of the department and the life of its students?

Contact Almarie Wood at aiwood@umd.edu or or 301-405-9836, or visit aero.umd.edu/give.
Support Aerospace Engineering Students Today
Support aerospace engineering undergraduates this giving season by donating to the department's Chair's Fund for Undergraduate Education.

Gifts to this fund support the educational and research needs of undergraduate students. As students constantly pursue new ideas and innovations, this fund helps to seed projects, present awards, host inspiring industry speakers, send students to conferences and competitions, and subsidize other opportunities as they arise.
UPCOMING EVENTS

Attending AIAA's SciTech 2024 Forum?
Find us in the exhibition hall, at booth 206.
 
The fall/winter 2023 issue of Engineering at Maryland magazine is now available to read online!

Learn about Stanley R. Zupnik Hall (University of Maryland's interdisciplinary engineering hub), faculty member Umbero Saetti's new VR lab, and more. Read the latest issue at https://go.umd.edu/fw23.

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