UH Engineers Help Develop NASA's Visionary New Aerospace Initiative
Imagine an airplane that morphs into different shapes, monitors its own structural health and even “heals” itself in mid-flight. That’s the kind of futuristic vision UH engineers are working to fulfill as members of a new nationally funded research institute launched in October 2002 at the George Bush Presidential Conference Center in College Station. UH is one of six participating universities in NASA’s new Texas Institute for Intelligent Bio-Nano Materials and Structures for Aerospace Vehicles (TiiMS), which will be administered by the Texas Engineering Experiment Station at Texas A&M University.