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20 Years After ‘Hyper-X,’ UVA Team Makes NASA Hypersonic Breakthrough

UVA Engineering researchers have successfully shown for the first time that optical sensors can control a hypersonic jet engine.

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A UVA Engineering Alumna and Summer Intern Dig Into UVA’s Geoexchange Heating Project

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Researchers Drive Safety Forward on 3 Toyota Collaborative Projects

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UVA Researchers Pioneer AI-Driven Manufacturing Efficiency

Cindy Chang and her team have created a more efficient way to optimize manufacturing systems, improving speed and quality while reducing waste.

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Hoo’s a Pinball Wizard? Engineering Student Goes From Winning the Game To Designing the Game

Mean pinballer and second-year systems engineering major Colin Sartori is offering his wizardry to help design a UVA-themed pinball game for Gavin Garner’s mechatronics course project.

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  • UVA Professor Receives $690,000 DOE Grant to Boost Energy Efficiency in Semiconductors

    Patrick E. Hopkins teams with NREL Center on Sustainability project. 

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    • UVA Engineering Seeks Applicants for Talent Pipeline

    UVA Engineering is recruiting talent for its Rising Scholars program.

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  • If an Asteroid Heads Toward Earth, How Close to Harm's Way Will We Be?

    Joshua Handal, a 2012 UVA Engineering alumnus, explains why the best offense against meteors is the NASA Planetary Defense Coordination Office.

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    • UVA Develops a ‘Google Earth’ View of Bone — With an Eye Toward Disease Prevention

    Toni Tang of the Center for Applied Biometrics has collaborated on a biological imaging and characterization approach that allows 3D imaging of bone across all relevant measures for the first time. 

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    Study and Research Don’t Check This Engineering Hoo’s Game

    Aerospace engineering undergraduate Jason Morefield is three for four in state chess championship during his time at UVA.

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    UVA Researchers’ Video Techniques Reveal Trout’s Energy-Saving Secret

    UVA research team’s use of video, computational methods and the physics of fluids explains how fin-to-fin interactions improve rainbow trout’s swimming efficiency. 

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