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Date Time Gift establishes Fujikawa ’77 Endowment for Astronautical Engineering Entrepreneur Steve Fujikawa ’77 has committed an eight-figure gift to aerospace engineering at Cornell, an investment that will strengthen the university’s status as a leader in space education and research. The Stephen J. Fujikawa ’77 Endowment for Astronautical Engineering will be used for future investments in graduate fellowships, professorships and laboratory enhancements, with the ultimate goal of crea...

The Air Force Academy is renaming a building after a graduate and distinguished Airman and NASA astronaut.

Image Credit: REC Stock Footage/Shutterstock.com State-of-the-art plasma technologies are being combined with printed electronics to enable the safe reuse of single-use personal protective equipment (PPE) as researchers from the University of Southampton attempt to tackle shortages and the mountain of excess waste generated throughout the coronavirus pandemic. PPE Problem A 2020 survey suggested that 129 billion single-use face masks are being used worldwide per month, with more than 53 millio...

Laura Jones-Wilson, M.S. ’10, Ph.D. ’12, has long had her sights set on outer space. “I learned about space at an Earth Day celebration when I was 5, and as soon as I found out that people had left the planet, I was like, ‘I’m in, let’s do this!’,” she remembers. “I got the word ‘aerospace engineer’ from watching ‘Star Trek’ episodes, and by early middle school, that’s what I was convinced I was going to be.” NASA/JPL/Provided Laura Jones-Wilson, Ph.D. ’1...

It is common knowledge that the University of Florida wants to break in to the U.S. News & World Reports top five public national universities rank, earning a prestigious title that would help attract students to its bachelors degree, masters degree, doctoral degree and certificate award programs. UF was one spot short in Novembers rank, coming in sixth. But one higher education data company, Optimal, presents an alternative measure of quality for students to consider based on finances: how muc...

Paul Johnson brings over 30 years of experience in the auto and automotive aftermarket industries.

February 23, 2021 HUMANITY rejoiced at NASA’s (National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s) announcement that the Mars Perseverance Rover had a successful touchdown on the Red Planet. Perseverance is NASA’s most advanced rover and a car-sized robotic geologist and astrobiologist that is set to further propel advancements in the study of life outside of Planet Earth. Among the set of hands that helped drive the program to success is Fil-Am engineer Gregorio Villar III, who...

After traveling seven months from Earth to Mars, another robotic visitor — the Perseverance — successfully landed on the red planet, and a Filipino-American engineer from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration played a key role.

Buyenlarge/Getty Images The Massachusetts Institute of Technology had its first African-American graduate, Robert R. Taylor, in 1892. It was only 25 years later, in 1917, that the university gave its first civil engineering diploma to an African-American. For quite a while throughout history, engineering was almost entirely the domain of white men. Although Caucasian males still dominate the profession in the U.S. (only 5 percent of engineers are African-American, only 13.4 percent are wome...

Share As aircraft become more electric, engines become more efficient and spacecraft seek to conquer new frontiers, the aerospace and defense industry needs fresh ideas from younger generations that grew up with a passion for sustainability and innovative technologies.  Through the annual 20 Twenties program, the Aviation Week Network and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) recognize young, rising stars within the industry. Top students working to solve aerospace chal...