2020

Illustration of power, lighting and roving concepts operating in a lunar crater. (Photo courtesy of NASA)

Lunar Lasers and Cosmic Crops: NASA Funds UA Space Exploration Missions

March 6, 2020 | Rosemary Brandt and Emily Dieckman

NASA funding will support UA teams working on ways to harvest water and produce crops in space.

Gregory Ditzler explains a concept at a whiteboard.

Electrical Engineer Trains Computers to Distinguish Between Friend and Foe

March 5, 2020 | Emily Dieckman

NSF CAREER Award winner Gregory Ditzler is making sure machine learning technologies like autonomous vehicles and facial recognition stay secure.

Cybersecurity & Machine Learning >>

Engineers Gain Hands-On Experience in New Medical Device Design Lab

Feb. 26, 2020 | Emily Dieckman

The Peter and Nancy Salter Medical Device Design Lab provides engineering students with a space to design, build and experiment unlike anywhere else on campus.

Salter Lab >>

Students in solar-powered go-karts get ready at the starting line of a race.

Get Set for 2020 Racing the Sun Go-Kart Competition

Feb. 18, 2020 | Emily Dieckman

This SARSEF event, supported by the University of Arizona College of Engineering and its industry partner Caterpillar, empowers high school students to pursue higher education and careers in STEM.

Solar-Powered Empowerment >>

Employers Seek Out Top Engineering Talent at 2020 iExpo

Feb. 17, 2020 | Emily Dieckman

Record numbers of students attend Arizona’s largest student-run engineering career fair. Many walk away with job possibilities.

Students Seeking Jobs >>

A photo shot from above of a man at the top of a ladder next to a large white airplane, which says "Langley Research Center" on the side.

Probing the Hazy Mysteries of Marine Clouds

Feb. 13, 2020 | Joe Atkinson

Engineer Armin Sorooshian is leading a $30M NASA mission to help climate and weather modelers better understand how aerosol particles and meteorological processes affect cloud properties.

Gleaning Clues from Couds >>

Alex Craig and Jesse Little standing next to a hypersonic wind tunnel, a horizontal metal tube about the circumference of a large tree.

$1.7M in Department of Defense Funding Enhances UArizona's National Aerodynamics Reputation

Feb. 13, 2020 | Emily Dieckman

Aerospace and mechanical engineers will use elevated wind tunnel capacity to expand experiments on vehicles traveling at the speed of sound -- and much faster.

Top-Tier Tunnels >>