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Aerospace engineering students win engine design competition

May 28, 2026

Each year, the Air Force Research Laboratory's Aerospace Propulsion Outreach Program (APOP) develops an engineering challenge for college students across the nation. The 2026 challenge was to design a heat exchanger for a small gas turbine engine. The University of Cincinnati student team placed first. The team adviser was Professor Jongguen Lee.

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Aerospace engineering students win engine design competition

May 28, 2026

Each year, the Air Force Research Laboratory's Aerospace Propulsion Outreach Program (APOP) develops an engineering challenge for college students across the nation. The 2026 challenge was to design a heat exchanger for a small gas turbine engine. The University of Cincinnati student team placed first. The team adviser was Professor Jongguen Lee.

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Solving real-world problems with AI

May 27, 2026

Arvish Pandey, a recent computer science graduate at the University of Cincinnati, is using artificial intelligence to better assess risk and prevent harm to the public. A downtown Cincinnati brawl that went viral last summer has sparked Pandey's recent research project dubbed "HORIZN."

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UC earns first place in construction student competition

May 26, 2026

A group of University of Cincinnati students from the College of Engineering and Applied Science and the College of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning traveled to Florida for the annual National Association of Home Builders student competition. The UC team's proposal earned first place.

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Materials scientist gains valuable research experience

May 20, 2026

The opportunities at the College of Engineering and Applied Science are what attracted Ananth Balasubramanian to the University of Cincinnati. He came to UC as a master's student and after two years, transitioned to a direct PhD program in materials science and engineering. Here, he works in the Digital Fabrication Laboratory and recently was named Graduate Student Engineer of the Month by CEAS.

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Engineering alumnus instrumental in NASA Artemis mission

May 19, 2026

Space, rockets, and NASA have been a lifelong fascination for John McCullough '89. He was inspired after watching the moon landing as a child and learning about aerospace engineering. He graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a degree in aerospace engineering and has worked at NASA for more than 36 years. He has played key roles in many missions including Artemis I and the most recent Artemis II.

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Computer science student's color blindness inspires outfit matching app

May 14, 2026

Eric Langhorne, a computer science undergraduate student at the University of Cincinnati, has developed a smartphone application that tells users whether or not their clothes are a match. Langhorne has color blindness, so this is a question he often asks himself and was a challenge he wanted to address. This project was done through the Experiential Explorations Program (EEP).

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GE Aerospace workforce training focuses on Dayton workers

May 11, 2026

GE Aerospace is launching more employee training at its Beavercreek Plant. The Dayton Daily News talks to the company's site leader, a University of Cincinnati graduate who got his start at GE Aerospace through UC's co-op program.

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UC students engineer first-place-winning hydraulic bicycle

May 5, 2026

For more than a decade, students in the University of Cincinnati Fluid Power Club has designed, built and competed a hydraulic bicycle in the annual National Fluid Power Association’s Fluid Power Vehicle Challenge, where students develop a bicycle-like vehicle fully powered by pneumatics and hydraulics. For the first time, the Bearcats brought home the grand champion title this year. A group of fifth-year mechanical engineering technology students joined together to design, develop, and finetune the vehicle.