Advancing Engineering: Past, Present, & Future

One of the inventors of the bazooka and a former CEO of Fairchild Industries passed away earlier this year.
Edward G. Uhl, PA A ’40, co-invented the bazooka during World War II in 1942. President Eisenhower hailed the bazooka as one of the four “tools of victory” that won World War II.

During his leadership at Fairchild, the A-10 Thunderbolt II close combat aircraft was developed. Read the obituary from The New York Times

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Crystal Laws, AL D ’08, recently addressed the new members of Mu Alpha Theta, the national mathematics honor society of community college and high school students, at her alma matter, Northeast Alabama Community College (NACC).

Laws, an electrical engineer at Redstone Arsenal, graduated from NACC in 2005 and went on to the University of Alabama in Huntsville where she earned her degree and was president of the AL Delta Chapter of Tau Beta Pi for the 2008 school year.

Read the full article to hear about Laws’ inspirational story and her current work in modeling ferroelectric field effect transistors (FeFETs).

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The new Robotics Center at West Virginia University’s College of Engineering and Mineral Resources represents a partnership between WVU and NASA.

The opening ceremony was held this week along with demonstrations of new robots. The Center “will support future NASA Goddard-related space exploration missions, like refueling a satellite in orbit, or rescuing a satellite that has failed.” Read the full press release

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