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Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering News - April 2019

A student in a white polo shirt flies a tethered drone outside Old Main at Engineering Design Day

$36,250 in Prizes Awarded at UA’s Engineering Design Day 2019

Top team helps lost hikers find their way home with cellphone app and solar-powered beacons.
Five students standing by a 3D printer

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...
A colorful simulation of a truck running into a wall with a person inside. On the right side of the image is a zoomed-in version of the driver's brain.

A Step Toward Determining Which Car Crashes Cause Traumatic Brain Injury – And Which Don’t

UA researchers are developing a tool to calculate the likelihood of traumatic brain injury after a vehicle collision.