Inside Composite Testing: The Detective Work Keeping Planes Aloft
Thu, Jan 29, 2026
And then there's the matter of cracks in airplane wings.
But they don't tell you they are there.
Down in that wing, wedged among sheets of carbon fiber as thin as a fingernail, where it would be impossible to spot an opening even with a microsc... Read More
STEM Virtual Labs: 5 Trends Shaping 2026
Thu, Jan 29, 2026
You stroll into a high school science lab in 2026 and what are you seeing? The same stuff your parents saw. Bunsen burners that with clogged nozzles and worn O-rings. Flasks and beakers someone chipped in 2014. A fume hood that haunts us with its unt... Read More
Hypersonic Radome Materials: Engineering at the Extremes of Physics
Mon, Dec 08, 2025
Here's a challenge in materials engineering so steeped in science fiction it even sounds made up.
Design a substance that shields delicate electrical circuits when traveling at five times the speed of sound. The surface temperature exceeds the melti... Read More
The Future of STEM Virtual Labs: AI-Driven Personalized Learning Environments
Mon, Dec 08, 2025
STEM education is seeing a lot of interesting changes right now. Virtual labs, initially seen as an inadequate alternative during lockdown, are turning into adaptive learning environments that can help students in ways actual labs are incapable of do... Read More
Advanced Composites: Manufacturing Innovations Driving Performance Boundaries
Sat, Nov 15, 2025
Here's one material science fact that doesn't get enough credit: advanced composites are quietly enabling just about everything amazing in current aerospace.
That aircraft flying overhead? Composites. That satellite maintaining your GPS signal? Comp... Read More
STEM Tools That Transform: From Educational Instruments to Career Foundations
Wed, Nov 05, 2025
There's this moment that happens in STEM education.
A student stops seeing tools as things the teacher makes us use and starts seeing them as things that let me build what I'm imagining. In that moment, the tools switch from being an obstacle in the... Read More
RF Testing Methodologies: Ensuring Mission-Critical System Performance
Wed, Oct 15, 2025
So you're probably not thinking about RF testing right now.
Totally normal. In the modern world, hardly anyone thinks about RF testing. Why? Because we take it for granted that all of our electronics and devices communicate perfectly over invisible ... Read More
Virtual Laboratories: Creating Safe Spaces for High-Risk Experimental Learning
Mon, Sep 08, 2025
Virtual laboratories have evolved from budget alternatives into transformative educational spaces where students can safely explore dangerous experiments that would be impossible in physical labs—mixing explosive chemicals, inducing nuclear reactor f... Read More
Hypersonics & Advanced Composite Radomes: Engineering the Impossible
Mon, Sep 01, 2025
Hypersonic missiles traveling at Mach 15+ create an engineering nightmare: their nose cone radomes must survive temperatures exceeding 2,100°C that can vaporize steel while remaining completely transparent to electromagnetic waves for guidance system... Read More
