-
$50,000 and $10,000 Pike Fellows Program Award Winners Announced
CHIEF wins $10,000 People’s Choice Award
UVA Engineering’s Pike Fellows program held its final competition for the University's largest competitive entrepreneurship prize.
-
Viewing options for launch of satellite designed, built by UVa students
A small satellite designed and built by University of Virginia students is set to blast off from Virginia’s Eastern Shore on Wednesday afternoon. At 4:46 p.m., the Libertas CubeSat will be launched from the Wallops Flight Facility and will travel on a rocket to the International Space Station.
-
Student Satellite Designers Prepare to Party
After celebrating a big win in basketball, some students at UVA are preparing for another party as the satellites they designed are launched into space. About a hundred students from UVA, and another 50 from Virginia Tech, ODU and Hampton will be watching when a rocket blasts off late Wednesday...
-
Podcast: UVA Launches CubeSats into Space
University of Virginia Prof., Christopher Goyne, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, discusses the CubeSat Program, its importance, and its advantages with Les Sinclair. At 4:46 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17, a spacecraft called Libertas CubeSat, designed and built by UVA...
-
ChemE Ph.D. and Undergraduate Students Seek to Catalyze Better Ways to Convert Methane
Methane could be valuable as a fuel; instead it’s a huge source of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Chemical engineering researchers at UVA want to flip that narrative.
-
MIST Wins Top Awards at 2019 ACC InVenture Prize
MIST won the ACC InVenture Prize for its innovative technologies to improve treatment for childhood scoliosis, becoming the third UVA team in a row to win the top award and the...
-
Mete Civelek is Named Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor
Undergraduate researchers across the University nomianted faculty mentors who regularly go above and beyond to create and engage students in research opportunities. Three students...
-
Pairs of Students Pursue Scientific, Social Research with ’Double Hoo’ Awards
They will be backed by “Double Hoo” research awards, which fund pairings of undergraduate and graduate students who collaborate on research projects. UVA Engineers are 3 of 15 new projects and 3 of 5 grant renewals.
-
2018-2019 Pike Fellows to Compete for Prizes of $50,000 and $10,000
UVA Engineering will host its second Pike Engineering Entrepreneurship Fellows Program showcase on Monday, April 22. Six student entrepreneur teams will compete for the $50,000...
-
For the First Time, Two BME Majors are SEAS Outstanding Students of the Year
For every year there's been a Biomedical Engineering major, one of our students has won the Engineering School's top award for graduating students. But we've never...