4/10/2012: Sam Pomeroy places 1st and Tim Collard places 3rd at 8th annual S&T Undergraduate Research Conference. Congrats! Read the papers here.

3/22/2012: Steve Berg successfully defends MS thesis. Read it here.

3/12/2012: APLab attends SPIE Smart Structures and Non-destructive Evaluation conference in San Diego, CA. Presents work on instrumented composite turbine blades for hydrokinetic energy machines. Read the papers here.

1/9/2012: APLab attends the 50th Aerospace Sciences Meeting in Nashville, TN. Read the papers here.

11/30/2011: Dr. Rovey attends AFOSR contractors meeting at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, OH, presents APLab results from pulsed inductive plasma experiments and modeling, as well as APLab original work on Hall thruster channel surface properties.

10/12/2011: Dr. Rovey receives AIAA St. Louis section Young Professional Award. Read more here.

7/31/2011: APLab attends the 47th Joint Propulsion Conference in San Diege, CA. Read the papers here.

4/28/2011: Dr. Rovey attends the Global Marine Renewable Energy Conference and meets industry representatives from the marine and hydrokinetic energy industry.

3/22/2011: APLab invited to present work on high-power space propulsion activities to the Univ. of Missouri Board of Curators. See the presentation given by Ryan Pahl here.

3/18/2011: Dave Zidar successfully defends MS thesis about Hall thruster channel surface properties. Read it here.

3/8/2011: Ben Gaither successfully defends MS thesis about electron beam modification of hydrogen and oxygen. Read it here.

1/14/2011: APLab receives a seed grant from the University of Missouri Research Board to investigate the fundamental plasma properties of high-altitude plasma actuators.

11/12/2010: Jing Hu attended the APS Plasma Physics Meeting in Chicago, IL and presented her work on pseudospark electron beams. See her presentation here.

9/30/2010: CONGRATULATIONS! APLab receives awards/scholarships from the Academy of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineers
Warner Meeks, student excellence award
Tom Hulsey, Past President's Scholarship
Dr. Rovey, faculty excellence award

9/28/2010: APLab receives a second year of funding from the Missouri S&T Materials Research Center. Thank you! To the senior investigators of MRC.

9/21/2010: Dr. Rovey is this semester's Missouri S&T featured researcher by the University of Missouri Research Board. Read and see the interview here.

9/9/2010: APLab awarded grant from DoE to develop structural health monitoring sensors for hydrokinetic energy systems. This project involves collaboration with Dr. Chandrashekhara (K.C.) to fabricate a composite hydrokinetic turbine blade. Read it here. See the list of awardees here.

9/1/2010: APLab receives ONR funding to develop instrumentation sensors for hydrokinetic energy systems. This effort is part of a larger campus-wide program, spearheaded by Dr. Rajiv Mishra in the materials department, to develop small-scale commercial and man-portable hydrokinetic energy systems for Missouri waterways.

6/28/2010: APLab attends AIAA Plasmadynamics & Lasers conference in Chicago, IL. Presents recent work on dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators for aerodynamic control. Read it here.

5/12/2010: Dr. Rovey attends AFOSR Contractors meeting in Washington D.C., presents planned work on high-power FRC plasmoid propulsion.

5/7/2010: Joe Ferry successfully defends MS thesis entitled "Thrust Measurement of Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma Actuators and Power Requirements for Aerodynamic Control." Read it here.

3/28/2010: APLab visits AFRL Edwards Air Force Base Electric Propulsion Lab to collaborate on future advanced plasmoid space propulsion systems. Ryan Pahl and Warner Meeks assisted researchers at AFRL with plasma measurements on an annular field reversed configuration plasma thruster.

3/23/2010: Brian Donius successfully defends MS Thesis on Dual-mode Ionic Liquid space propulsion systems. Read it here.

2/15/2010: David Zidar, aerospace MS student, joins APLab. David will be researching the effects of boron nitride surface on Hall-effect thruster performance and lifetime.

2/11/2010: Dr. Rovey to present Advanced Space Propulsion systems lecture to Residence College Global Research class.

1/28/2010: Dr. Rovey to give Deep Space Propulsion Seminar to Missouri S&T Physics Colloquium. Presentation Slides.

1/4/2010: Brian Donius and Shawn Miller present their work at the 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting in Orlando, FL. Read about their work here.

12/1/2009: Aerospace America December issue "The Year in Review" is published. This year's Electric Propulsion Year in Review compiled by Dr. Rovey. See the article here.

11/2/2009: Jing Hu attended the APS Plasma Physics Meeting in Atlanta, GA and presented her work on pseudospark electron beams for medical applications. See her presentation here.

10/23/2009: Dr. Rovey was selected as a FY 2010 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator to study energy conversion and loss processes in heavy gas field reversed configuration electric thruster plasma. Read about it here.

10/2009: APLab was awarded a grant from the Missouri S&T Materials Research Center to investigate surface roughness properties of boron nitride Hall thruster channels.

9/15/2009: APLab personnel featured in the 2009 Missouri S&T MAE Department newsletter. Read it here.

9/2009: Jocelyn Bailey, Brian Catron, Warner Meeks, Thea Tadlock, Jason Thrasher, and Andrew Waugh join APLab with undergraduate research projects. WELCOME!

6/2009: Brian Donius awarded internship at AFRL Edwards electric propulsion lab to assist ionic liquid electrospray thruster testing.

5/2009: APLab moves to a new home in the new Toomey Hall building.

5/2009: Christopher White awarded first place in the poster competition at the Missouri S&T undergraduate research conference $750!

3/6/2009: APLab awarded DURIP equipment grant for a large space simulation/vacuum facility. Read the release here.

12/1/2008: APLab awarded grant from the Missouri Life Sciences Research Board to investigate pseudospark produced electron beams for medical applications. Read about it here.

5/26/2008: APLab was awarded a grant from the University of Missouri Research Board to investigate field reversed configuration plasma thrusters.