News & Announcements

Mar 13, 2021

Tyler Goode Wins Best Research Video Clip

Tyler Goode won first place for the Video & Interactive Category of the Envisioning Research Contest. Congrats! Envisioning Research Contest Winners Show Artistic Exploration His video can be found here. 

Mar 13, 2021

BLAST lab Featured in Alumni Magazine

The Blast lab was recently featured in the Alumni Magazine. In our labs 

Apr 26, 2020

Andrew Rocco Receives NSF Fellowship

Congratulations to Andrew Rocco who was selected to receive the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Andrew will be exploring failure mode changes in composites during impact from increasing energy levels. https://mae.ncsu.edu/blog/2020/04/20/ashok-mattison-and-reed-earn-nsf-graduate-fellowships/ https://www.research.gov/grfp/AwardeeList.do?method=loadAwardeeList 

Oct 7, 2019

BLAST Lab selected for Zero-G flight

Our lab was selected to go on a series of Zero-G flights to test out our deployment of the composite origami that we have been working on. https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/flightopportunities/25_Promising_Space_Technologies_for_Commercial_Flight_Tests https://www.geekwire.com/2019/nasa-picks-25-experiments-fly-blue-origin-companies/ 

Sep 26, 2019

Congratulations to Tyler Goode for ASC PhD Research Scholarship

Congratulations to Tyler Goode for receiving the 2019 American Society for Composites PhD Research Scholarship Award. 

Sep 26, 2019

Congratulations to Nathan Sesar for Best Paper at ASC

Congratulations to Nathan Sesar for his best paper win for the 2018 American Society for Composites best paper, presented at this years conference.