The latest issue of AeroContact magazine spotlights a new era of space exploration at the University of Maryland as faculty and students tackle the logistics of space exploration and extraterrestrial living.
Awards will support upgrades for UMD’s existing rotor rig in the Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center and new equipment in Saetti's Extended Reality Flight Simulation and Control Lab.
Big Ben at Mach 4: The High-Speed Aerodynamics and Propulsion Laboratory (HAPL) at UMD explores Everyday Objects at Not So Everyday Speeds. This installment features a high-speed schlieren movie of a Big Ben model, recorded in the lab's Mach-4 MIST Ludwieg tube.
M.S. grad’s winning research explored aeroassisted maneuvers for missions to the ice giants Neptune and Uranus.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Attending AIAA's SciTech 2024 Forum? Find us in the exhibition hall, at booth 206.
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?
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.
From all of us in the Department of Aerospace Engineering
at Maryland, we wish you and yours
a wonderful holiday season and Happy New Year.
