Aeronautical engineering was the only thing Ivett A. Leyva ever wanted to do. “I thought there was nothing cooler. I always wanted to be able to build rockets,” said Leyva, the newest senior ...

Aerospace engineers design, develop, and test aircraft, spacecraft, and related systems by using principles of mechanical engineering, materials science, and physics to create designs that meet ...

When reviewing job growth and salary information, it’s important to remember that actual numbers can vary due to many different factors—like years of experience in the role, industry of employment, ...

Graduate Projects I and II (ASEN 5018/6028) is a two-semester course sequence. In addition to designing and building a project, a lecture common to all lab sections will introduce students to project ...

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This Hall Effect Thruster (HET) is a redesign of a previous Senior Design project that experienced a significant amount of erosion to the inner channel walls which limited operational life.

Humans have been looking to the skies for hundreds of thousands of years. Now, we can actually reach them. From first flights, to Mars missions, to bringing light to the dark side of the moon, there's ...

After a year-long effort in designing a reusable payload transportation system for lunar and deep space missions, one Virginia Tech College of Engineering student team took second place at NASA’s ...

(L-R standing) Chris Lyne, Dexter Watkins, Fred Folz, Cameron Ridgewell, Ben Gasser, Robin Midgett, Andrew Voss, Brian Lawson, Alex Goodman (L-R sitting) Jacob Moore, Pranav Kumar, Mitchell Masia, ...

While each track varies in focus, all programs of study must include a minimum of 18 credit hours of thesis research, six breadth and basic science courses and six graduate-level courses in mechanical ...