UTSI Secures $17.8M Hypersonic Wind Tunnel to Accelerate TPS Development On reentry, space shuttles slam into Earth’s atmosphere at nearly Mach 25 (25 times the speed of sound). That tremendous speed heats the shuttle’s surface above 2600 degrees Fahrenheit, and subjects it to similarly extreme pressure, for up to 15 minutes. While spacecraft reentry is […]
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Kreth Selected AIAA Associate Fellow
Associate Professor Phillip Kreth was selected as Class of 2025 Associate Fellow by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
UT Projects Receive State Transportation Funding
Two Engineering groups from the University of Tennessee received financial grants awarded by the Tennessee Department of Economic Community Development for transportation growth.
UTSI’s Palies Makes Stanford List of Top 2 Percent Cited in World
The Tickle College of Engineering had 73 current or former researchers make Stanford University’s list of the top 2 percent most cited in the world.
The New Wave of Flight: Acharya’s Research Boosting Scramjets, Giving Insight into Hypersonics
Ragini Acharya receives three-year grant from an Office of Naval Research to further the development of various aviation innovations.
Professor Highlights, Spring 2021
Peng Zhao joins the department as an associate professor of mechanical engineering and Damiano Baccarella is awarded the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award.
Alumni News, Spring 2021
Alumni news from spring 2021, Jackson retires from NASA and Wilmore returns to space.
Hypersonic Research Gets a Boost
Hypersonic flight holds promise as a way to improve a number of fields, national security among them.
Sanjaya Takes Flight with Aerospace Inspiration
Sanjaya carries with her the same inspiration that she experienced in her youth.
“I Want to be an Astronaut”
Camille Bergin, a recent aerospace engineering graduate, tells her story of growing up wanting to be an astronaut to working with NASA as part of Lockheed Martin.