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Imagine walking into your college classroom and donning a pair of virtual reality goggles to learn the day’s lesson.  If Dr. Darren Hartl has his way, that will be a reality in the near future. He is one of the faculty members in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M bringing virtual reality (VR) into the realm of research and teaching.

[Read more…] about Hartl and Coworkers Bring the Virtual World into the Classroom

A team of Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) researchers has been selected for a potential award by NASA to lead research into commercially viable civil supersonic transport aircraft that meet noise and efficiency requirements for overland flight. Put simply, their research is on designing an aircraft that can modify its shape in real time in order to optimize for fuel efficiency or quiet flight as the flight phase and conditions change. The team is one of five transformative system-level aviation innovations that NASA has selected as part of the NASA Aeronautics’ University Leadership Initiative (ULI.) [Read more…] about MAESTRO Lab and Collaborators win $10M Grant to Design Supersonic Transport Aircraft That Modifies Its Shape in Real Time

The six graduate students of the MAESTRO Team were invited to join Dr. Hartl at his father’s deer lease for a weekend of “Texas Immersion.” [Read more…] about Graduate Students Participate in a Traditional Texas “Deer Camp” Weekend

Dr. Hartl and an ad hoc group of his students successfully converted the legacy dark room and optics laboratory in the Aerospace Engineering department into the new Immersive Mechanics Visualization Lab (MAESTRO VR Annex).

[Read more…] about MAESTRO Facilities Expand to Include the new “VR Annex”

Almost the entire MAESTRO Lab team gathered in the Hartl Woods for a game of late-fall Wiffle Ball. [Read more…] about Team Plays Wiffle Ball Game to the Death