October | 2021 | Raghavan Research Group

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
Gregory Freihofer wins 2nd place at the SAMPE CAMX student paper competition
Dr. Raghavan is named

Educator of the Year

by Women in Aerospace

Lab Member Wins Florida Space Grant Consortium Fellowship

Perla Latorre Suarez, A Graduate Aerospace student at UCF has been awarded with a Florida Space Grant Consortium (FSGC) Fellowship. The FSGC master’s fellowship Program is a one-year fellowship for full-time Master’s students. Perla has proposed the development of autonomous 3D printed sensors that will monitor the structural integrity of the vehicles and components used on other planetary surfaces. The printing method that will be developed to print these sensors provides a non-destructive method that can be used for multiple roles in lunar and planetary exploration.

Our team performs tomography experiments at Argonne National Laboratory

Our post-doctoral researcher Quentin Fouliard and our undergrad student Rohan Madathil got access for experimentation at beamline 2-BM at Argonne National Laboratory. The DARPA-funded project focuses on the mechanics of crack initiation and propagation in stress-corrosion cracking of aluminum 7075. X-ray computed tomography was performed to obtain micron-scale 3D reconstructions of the specimens.