AEM News

Hangar renovation featured

The Winter 2010 edition of AEM Update is available in PDF and print format in Akerman 107. This edition focuses on the Akerman Hall Hangar renovation as well as the 2009-2010 undergraduate scholarship recipients. Click here.

Posted January 29th, 2010

Sheng publishes paper in PNAS

Jian Sheng, assistant professor in AEM, has published a paper in the prestigious scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). More Info.

Posted January 15th, 2010

AEM Scholarship recipients announced

The department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics is pleased to announce the award of fifteen undergraduate scholarships. Top students are selected each year and recognized with a monetary gift. More info.

Posted December 15th, 2009

Photography exhibit featuring women engineers and scientists

AEM fluids faculty, Prof. Ellen Longmire, was recently included in the Inventive Women photography exhibit now featured at the Minnesota History Center. The exhibit, which will run through 2010, features the women faculty in the Institute of Technology. More info.

Posted December 7th, 2009

U of M students reveal results of experiments in 'near space' 

How do solar panels work in space? Can you inexpensively measure cosmic radiation? University of Minnesota students will answer these questions and share their findings from scientific experiments recently carried by a weather balloon to an altitude of more than 100,000 feet. More info.

Posted November 23rd, 2009