The first flight test of the 5 Meter Joined Wing Sensorcraft  took place at the Foremost Air Base in Alberta, Canada. The Joined Wing Sensorcraft is a proposed next generation High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). This research is part of a joint project between Virginia Tech and the University of Victoria (Canada). A video of the flight test is shown here.

The spring 2012 edition of Virginia Tech Magazine features an articled titled, The Science of inspiration; Hokies envision the next space odyssey...more

Aerospace and Ocean Engineering Associate Professor, Dr. Lin Ma has been featured in U.S. News & World Report for his research on turbulence and chemical reactions...more

A group of students from Virginia Tech competed at the AIAA Region 1-MA Student Conference held at Penn State University on April 13-14, 2012...more 

On March 27 a group of 13 Virginia Tech students visited the Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock's Combatant Craft Division...more

AOE Associate Profesor Leigh McCue-Weil appeared on Alaska’s Fish Radio, talking about SCraMP

Dr. Erin Crede has received the inaugural Outstanding Dissertation Award for Doctoral Education Across the Disciplines from the American Educational Research Association SIG #168.

As a senior double-majoring in ocean engineering and aerospace engineering, Lauren Jean Bradberry of Baton Rouge, La., is no stranger to hard work.

Virginia Tech has been awarded a $3.0 million cooperative agreement with Space and Naval Warfare System Center Pacific (SPAWARPAC) in San Diego, California. 

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Liselle Ann Marie Joseph, a senior master’s student in aerospace engineering, has received the Jean B. Duerr Memorial Scholarship for 2011/2012.

Charles E. Harris, Aerospace Class of 1972 and A. Warner Robins, Aeronautical Engineering Class of 1949 were inducted into the Virginia Tech College of Engineering’s Academy of Engineering Excellence. The 2011 inductees join an elite group that consists of only 105 people out of its more than 55,000 living alumni. 

David Wisda, a sophomore student majoring in Aerospace Engineering has been named to the 2011 American Coast Rugby League (ACRL) All-Academic Team.  

The Virginia Tech College of Engineering Graduate Student Committee held the 2011 Paul E. Torgersen Graduate Student Research Excellence Awards on March 30 at the Graduate Life Center. This year’s first place award in Ph.D. Oral Presentations was presented to AOE doctoral candidate, Thomas McQuigg of Williamsburg, VA.

The AIAA Regional student conference was held at the University of Virginia on 8-9 April 2011. Virginia Tech had a total of six presentations

   

William Mason, professor of aerospace and ocean engineering in the College Engineering at Virginia Tech, has been conferred the “professor emeritus” title by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.

AOE students traveled to the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Combatant Craft Division's Fort Monroe test facility

   

Qing Yang, advised by Dr. Leigh McCue, took 2nd place amongst undergrad entrants amongst grad student entrants. Congratulations to Qing.

Skylar Stephens, advised by Dr. Gary Don Seidel, took 3rd place amongst undergrad entrants amongst grad student entrants. Congratulations to Skylar.

Wesley Slemp, a former National Defense Science and Engineering Fellow and Doctoral student in the department was selected by the College of Engineering as the “Outstanding Doctoral Student” for 2010.

Rob Story (MS OE, 2009; BS OE,2007) has been named a recipient of the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools ETD Award for his Master's thesis “Application of Lyapunov Exponents to Strange Attractors and Intact & Damaged Ship Stability”

The Virginia Tech Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering is participating in the 5th Annual AeroSpace Day at the Virginia General Assembly, February 3 and 4, 2010, to increase awareness of how vital NASA and the aerospace industry are to the economic well-being and future of the Commonwealth.