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Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering

This section of the college news site gathers stories that feature the faculty, students, staff and programs of the UA Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. For detailed information about all other aspects of AME, please visit the department website.

Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering News

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Students Demonstrate Firefighting, Grasshopper-Catching and Bruise-Measuring Tech at Design Day

On April 29, 616 senior engineering students will display projects they’ve developed over the course of a year. There are inventions to fight fires, reduce cyclist fatalities and combat child abuse, as well as more than 100 other projects to make our world better and bigger.
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Tech On Tap: UA Inventors Address World Water Woes

UA researchers have developed a number of promising solutions and inventions that are ready for companies to adopt and take out into the world.
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UA Student-Led CatSat Mission Selected by NASA

UA students will get hands-on spacecraft hardware development experience thanks to NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative, which recently selected CatSat to fly as auxiliary payload aboard future space missions.
Martian sailplane

Researchers Propose an Inflatable Sailplane to Explore Mars

It could accelerate Mars exploration at a fraction of the cost of current missions.

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