Smead Aerospace Faculty/Staff News - Jul. 21

Smead Aerospace students had a stellar performance in the student poster competition at the 2025 CEDAR workshop held in Des Moines, Iowa. 

• 1st Place - James Monaco "Monte Carlo Simulation to Estimate Meteor Radar Performance",
• 2nd Place - Yingfei Chen“Lidar Discovery of AO and SAO of TINa Layers from the First Na Climatology of 75-150 km: Connections to Metallic Ions, Wave and Eddy Transport, and Meteoric Influx."
• 3rd Place - Brenna Royersmith“Integrating New GNSS Methods into 3D Ionospheric Imaging: A Simulation Study"

Aerospace undergraduate Alex Pfankuch has been awarded a Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) scholarship for the next academic year. The program supports talented individuals with a passion for geospatial intelligence, geospatial sciences, and related disciplines.

Please join the upcoming AGU25 Meeting for our "A090 - Spaceflight and Earth’s Atmosphere: How the Coming Era of Larger and More Frequent Rocket Launches and Space Debris Reentries Could Affect Global Climate, Ozone, High-Altitude Clouds, and Upper Atmosphere."

The conference will run in-person and virtually this year from Monday to Friday, 15-19 December 2025 in New Orleans, LA, USA, 8:30 am-7:30 pm Eastern Standard Time.

The abstract submission deadline is Wednesday, 30 July 2025, 23:59 EDT/03:59 UTC.

Instructions and abstract submissions.

Nov. 18-20, 2025
Bremen, Germany

Space Tech Expo Europe 2025 is free-to-attend, you simply need to complete the registration form with the requested details. 

The Professor of Teaching series parallels that of the research-focused series but with an emphasis on excellence in teaching and other instruction-related activities. Individuals in the position are expected to provide outstanding teaching and engage in professional activity, including but not limited to research on pedagogy and service related to the pedagogical mission of the School of Engineering and UC Merced.

The CEAE department is hiring a new lab manager for our large-scale structures and centrifuge testing facilities. We conduct research and service projects for infrastructure, energy, and space companies and agencies in our CIEST facility. This is a staff position requiring leadership skills, industry connections, and some technical understanding.