Juneau Paulsen (far right) and Ellie Taplin (left of Paulsen), both UW mechanical engineering majors, help direct the diver in NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) from the NBL control room. The ...

The Apollo space missions of the 1960s, which took humans to the moon for the first time, relied on brute-force propulsion more than technological sophistication. The onboard Apollo Guidance Computer ...

Rather than requiring engineers to manually configure every step of an analysis, automation ensures that critical procedures ...

Members of UW’s Crater Cowboys team in NASA’s 2024 Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams engineering design challenge are, from left: Maria Allen, of Parker, Colo.; Hanna Detmer, of ...

The students participated in the Engineering Design Challenge, in which they were tasked with creating “Rube Goldberg” styled machines. A Rube Goldberg machine, named for cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is ...

There is a vast array of design challenges and competitions for both engineering students and professionals. All of these contests are meant to recognize and reward engineering innovations to solve ...

Forget video games. Forget sports. Ditto for movies. Instead, two middle school students have been spending their time tackling some of the same challenges NASA engineers face when designing ...

Investigate climate science using ECOSTRESS imagery from the ISS. Then, hunt for heat islands and design solutions to cool your community. Discover how astronauts exercise to stay fit in space. Then ...

Artificial intelligence is ultimately less an automation challenge than a knowledge management challenge, particularly in ...

Engineering Projects Expo is here! We invite you to spend some time getting to know this year's Mechanical Engineering Senior Design projects and teams. Engineering Projects Expo celebrates the hard ...