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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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UA Engineering Student-Designed Orthopedic Tools on Path to Market

The startup Ancerix plans to commercialize a toolkit of surgical instruments – which a team of seniors worked on for their capstone project – to remove bone rods and screws.
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OSIRIS-REx's Success Marks the Start of Extended OSIRIS-APEX Mission

After dropping off its historic sample from asteroid Bennu, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is headed to its next target: another potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid, called Apophis.
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Engineering Welcomes 22 New Faculty, a Record High

The college’s newest group of hires includes two new department heads, leadership for a new school, professors of practice, and experts in software engineering.
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UA Scientists Investigate New Frontiers of Sound With $30M Center

The New Frontiers of Sound Science and Technology Center will focus on topological acoustics, an emerging field in which researchers exploit the properties of sound in ways that could vastly improve computing, telecommunications and sensing.

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