February | 2021 | Raghavan Research Group

Gregory Freihofer wins 2nd place at the SAMPE CAMX student paper competition
Stephen and Greg Spend Summer at Boeing Seattle as part of NSF GOALI Research
Albert Manero wins Fulbright Fellowship to conduct doctoral research at DLR in Cologne, Germany
Ashley and Greg performed summer research at Boeing Seattle

Dr. Raghavan Featured in Space Champion Interview

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Seetha Raghavan was featured in Space Champion Interview, a YouTube channel by IgnitedThinkers where space champions and their diverse space careers are showcased to encourage the future rocketeers. In this interview, Dr. Raghavan discusses about her research, obstacles, advice, and job experiences.

Check out the interview here!

Lab Member Remelisa Esteves Awarded A Summer Internship Under NREIP

We would like to congratulate Remelisa Esteves for being awarded a summer internship opportunity under the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP). This is a ten-week summer internship program, which provides opportunities for both graduate and undergraduate college students to participate in conducting research at a Department of Navy laboratory under the guidance of a research mentor. We wish Remelisa all the best on this very exciting opportunity!

Learn more about NREIP here.

Lab Member Jillian Gloria Featured on UCF Today

We are delighted to announce that one of our newest lab members, Jillian Gloria, was featured on UCF Today. The article mentions about her accomplishments, research, outreach, and her dream to become an astronaut. See the article here: A UCF Aerospace Engineering Student Has Out-of-This World Dreams.

Jillian is a member of our Hypersonics Materials team and was selected to be a member of this year’s IRES team (Read more about that here: 2021 IRES Team Announcement). Read the UCF Today article to learn more about it and the other projects that she has worked on!

Lab Member Remelisa Esteves’s Work on Smart Coatings Featured on AIAA Aerospace America 2020 Year In Review

We are delighted to announce that Remelisa Esteves‘s work on smart coatings was featured in AIAA’s Aerospace America 2020 Year in Review under Aerospace Design and Structures! The Year in Review article mentions about her internship, sponsored by the NSF INTERN program, where she was working on creating tailorable, smart polymer-based coatings with embedded photo-luminescent and ceramic nanoparticles that act as stress sensors. The article can be viewed here.

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