Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program

University Student Research Challenge

NASA University Research Program Makes First Award to a Community College Project

Great ideas, and the talent and passion that bring them to life, can be found anywhere. In that spirit, NASA’s University Student Research Challenge (USRC) in 2024 selected its first group of community college students to contribute original research to the agency’s transformative vision for 21st century aviation.

Posted February 24, 2025

Aeronautics

University Student Research Challenge

NASA Selects New Round of Student-Led Aviation Research Awards

NASA has selected two new university student teams to participate in real-world aviation research challenges meant to transform the skies above our communities. The research awards were made through NASA’s University Student Research Challenge (USRC), which provides students with opportunities to contribute to NASA’s flight research goals.

Posted February 19, 2025

Aeronautics

NASA Supports GoAERO University Awardees for Emergency Aircraft Prototyping

With support from NASA, the international GoAERO Prize competition recently announced funding for 14 U.S.

Posted February 11, 2025

Aeronautics

Transformational Tools Technologies

Globetrotting NASA Research Model Increases Accuracy

NASA and its international partners are using the same generically shaped wing design to create physical and digital research models to better understand how air moves around an aircraft during takeoff and landing.

Posted June 17, 2024

University Leadership Initiative

NASA TACP Team Visits with UCF Students, Faculty

Representatives of NASA’s Transformative Aeronautics Concepts Program (TACP) recently shared information about their work to develop innovation and advance aviation and space exploration with students at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.

Posted May 25, 2024

Aeronautics

Transformational Tools Technologies

Aviary: A New NASA Software Platform for Aircraft Modelling

NASA has created a new digital modelling tool for aeronautical engineers to innovate new aircraft designs, building on decades of experience using highly advanced computer code for aviation. Using this tool, researchers can create simulations of conceptual aircraft featuring never-flown technology and receive detailed data about how it would work.

Posted May 17, 2024

Aeronautics

University Leadership Initiative

University Student Research Challenge

NASA Selects University Teams to Explore Innovative Aeronautical Research

NASA has selected another five university teams to participate in real-world aviation research challenges that could help transform flight in the skies above our communities.

Posted February 21, 2024

Transformational Tools Technologies

NASA to Co-Host Stability and Control Prediction Workshop

NASA will co-host the two-day Stability and Control Prediction Workshop II (S&CPW2) during the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ (AIAA) annual SciTech Forum in January 2025. A kickoff meeting for the 2025 gathering is scheduled for Jan. 8, 2024, during the AIAA SciTech 2024 Forum in Orlando, Fla.

Posted December 19, 2023

Aeronautics