The University of New Mexico School of Engineering has several research centers, including a space-related laboratory that spent months making COVID-19 masks, and the Center for High Technology Materials.
Shortly after COSMIAC, the aerospace innovation center, signed a blockbuster $19 million award with the Air Force Research Laboratory, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at UNM began a separate, three-year project funded by the Army Research Office.
According to UNM, assistant professor Nathan Jackson will focus on materials that develop a new class of smart polymer materials for military and civilian use.
“This will allow integration into technology, such as sonar devices, wearable sensors, implantable devices, smarter robotics, and flexible displays and communications,” Jackson said in a statement.
UNM also said Jackson, along with a team of undergraduate and graduate students, will utilize the Center for High Technology Materials to conduct tasks for the project.
According to the university, the project will also be helpful in STEM outreach and training the next generation of students in material science and advanced microscale technology.
Meanwhile, COSMIAC, which promotes aerospace innovation, said its $19 million award will focus on projects that are a priority to the U.S. Space Force and other military researchers.
“GPS is everywhere — restaurants, gas stations, basically every financial transaction you make,” COSMIAC Director Craig Kief said. “However, the GPS system is extremely vulnerable.”
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