Kelsey Pepper, HPEPL undergraduate research assistant, was selected to receive Georgia Tech's 2019 Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award for the School of Aerospace Engineering. Kelsey was chosen based on the quality of her research and demonstrated leadership on the project.  

NASA's Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, tours HPEPL on April 4, 2019.

Nathan Brown is one of three graduate researchers selected to receive a Georgia Tech Institute for Materials (IMat) Graduate Student Fellowship (IGSF). Nathan's winning proposal is titled "Revolutionizing SmallSat Propulsion with Materials Science".  

Congratulations to GEM & Aerospace Corporation Fellow David Jovel for his successful completion of the Aerospace Engineering Ph.D. Qualifying Examinations!

David received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2011 before going on to gain valuable industry experience with Orbital ATK, Intelsat, and the Aerospace Corporation. His primary research focus is thermal management of high-power electric propulsion devices.

Georgia Tech's annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition challenges graduate students to present their research in three minutes using only layman's terms. Connie Liu's final presentation for the 2018 3MT Competition is available online:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTK2tpJu4sY&feature=youtu.be