News
November 2024
Our collaboration with West Point and the Biomedical Imaging Center at Beckman Institute was featured in the 2023-2024 Beckman Institute's Annual Report, Science that Serves.
October 2024
Cutler's work using micro-CT scans to understand how stress impacts parachutes at the fiber-scale featured in Beckman's News. Read the story by Lauren Otolski: "A micro-scale look at how parachute textiles act under stress"
October 2024
"New instrument uses radar to measure what the eye can't see". Read about the work of Nicolas Rasmont featured in our AE department News, by Debra Larson.
October 2024
Laura gives invited seminar at the Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences Institute, Michigan Tech University.
September 2024
Nicolas Rasmont and Lorenzo Bruni present at the Lunar Surface Science workshop on the first edition of Plume Surface Interaction focused talks
September 2024
Laura Villafañe named Associate Fellow of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics. Read more in the AE department News article by Debra Larson
September 2024
Laura gives invited seminar at Brown University Center for Fluid Mechanics.
August 2024
Cutler Phillippe's paper "In Situ Imaging of Parachute Textile Micro-Mechanics Under
Tensile Load" published in AIAA Journal. Great job Cutler!
June 2024
Update: CONGRATULATIONS!!! "HINDER: Holistic Integration of Navigational Dynamics for Erosion Reduction" WINS second place at NASA's Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) Forum. The UIUC team: a group of students pursuing their BS with majors in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Physics. Read the story in the Aerospace Department website, by Debra Larson.
June 2024
The UIUC HuLC team presents their work "HINDER: Holistic Integration of Navigational Dynamics for Erosion Reduction" at NASA's Human Lander Challenge (HuLC) Forum, an initiative supporting NASA's Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate's (ESDMD's) efforts to explore innovative solutions for a variety of known Human Landing System (HLS) challenge areas. All finalists team presentations will be livestreamed open to the general public. Full Livestream Agenda.