Category: Industry Digest

A group of sailors known as “Team Falcon” has made history by successfully completing their mission to ‘fly on water’ across the 662-mile open ocean from New York to...

Dr. William Kaukler, a longtime NASA contractor and an associate research professor at the University of Alabama Huntsville’s (UAH) Rotorcraft Systems Engineering and Simulation Center, has been awarded a...

Hussam Mahmoud, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Colorado State University (CSU), is leading a team that’s devising innovative repairs for steel structures in canals and...

Researchers from MIT and NASA have designed a flexible “morphing wing” system made of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) that draws inspiration from the twisted wings from the Wright Brothers’...

The world’s first fully biocomposite footbridge has been installed at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in The Netherlands. An existing bridge has been moved to make space for the “biobridge”...

Engineers from the University of Utah are launching a $1.6 million project to research cost-effective, eco-friendly methods of turning coal-derived pitch into carbon fiber composite materials. The University says...

After 20 years of development, NASA has officially finished construction of its James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) – the largest space telescope ever made. The telescope, which is viewed...

Students from California Polytechnic State University’s Prototype Vehicles Laboratory (PROVE Lab) have designed a car to break the international land speed record for solar vehicles. The team consists of...

One of the main attractions from SEMA 2016 in Las Vegas and the 2016 Army of the USA (AUSA) conference in Washington, D.C., has been GM’s hydrogen fuel-cell powered...