News

April 2024

Tuhin Bandopadhyay receives the Faculty Outstanding Graduate Student Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the teaching and research missions of the Aerospace Engineering Department. Congratulations Tuhin!! UIUC Aerospace News

April 2024

Tuhin Bandopadhyay receives an Aerospace Engineering Department Fellowship for outstanding academic and research achievements.

April 2024

Cutler Phillippe selected as NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity awardee, NSTGRO 2024. Congratulations Cutler!!

April 2024

Second successful edition of Magnetic Resonance Velocimetry experiments at the Beckman Institute in collaboration with West Point Academy researchers and cadets took place on April 9. Kudos to the full team!

March 2024

Congratulations to the UIUC HuLC team!! Their concept titled "HINDER: Holistic Integration of Navigational Dynamics for Erosion Reduction" has been selected as Finalist in the 2024 HuLC competition!

March 2024

Congratulations Nick for an excellent preliminary exam presentation and performance!

March 2024

Laura participates as invited speaker in the "Fluid dynamics meets Synchrotron X-ray high-speed imaging" at ESRF, the European Synchrotron Research Facility at Grenoble (France)

Laura presents research on particle-laden flows in an invited seminar at LEGI (Laboratoire des Écoulements Géophysiques et Industriels), Grenoble (France)

March 2024

Tuhin receives the Faculty Endowed Graduate Award in Aerospace Engineering in recognition for his outstanding research and teaching activities. Congratulations Tuhin!

February 2024

On the News : Illinois wins competitive research grant to model surface cratering and ejecta during final descent of rocket-powered lander.
Read article in UIUC Aerospace News

February 2024

Laura selected as 2024 U.S. National Committee on Theoretical & Applied Mechanics (USNC/TAM) Young Observer

September 2023

On the News: Unique collaboration brings West Point cadets to Beckman Institute. Read article in UIUC Aerospace News

August 2023

Laura joins the Beckman Institute as Affiliate Faculty. Read more

March 2023

Nicolas Rasmont's paper on millimeter wave interferometry for particle concentration measurements in opaque particle-laden flows published on IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

January 2023

Laura awarded grant from U.S. Military Academy for Magnetic Resonance Imaging research

August 2022

Nicolas Rasmont receives NASA's Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) award. Congrats Nick!

Read article in UIUC Aerospace News

May 2022

Four-story vertical wind tunnel is now operational within the walls of Talbot Lab

Read more in UIUC Aerospace News

April 2022

Nicolas Rasmont receives AE Department Kenneth Lee Herrick Memorial Award

November 2020

Together with Prof. Panerai we will be investigating parachute fluid and structural mechanics thanks to a new NASA 2020 Early Stage Innovation award

November 2019

Thanks a NASA 2019 Early Stage Innovation award we will studying plume-surface interaction effects during the final descent of a space exploration vehicle onto the surface of Mars and the Moon