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WHO WE ARE
The Center for Hypersonics and Entry Systems Studies (CHESS) is a multidisciplinary team of researchers in The Grainger College of Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
WHAT WE DO
We draw from expertise in high performance computing and state-of-the-art experimental facilities to support fundamental advances in hypersonics and entry system technologies.
Graduate Certificate in Hypersonics
Hypersonics flight systems are at the forefront of modern national security, transportation and space exploration. This certificate is designed to provide students with the fundamentals of this multidisciplinary subject area, with attention to emerging topics and advances in hypersonic science and technology.
Press Releases
CHESS student's work featured on cover of Chemical Physics for molecular recombination breakthrough
CHESS student Chaithanya Kondur, along with advisor Kelly A.Stephani, published their work in Chemical Physics, proposing to unravel the complex dynamics behind the recombination of atomic oxygen to molecular oxygen using the quasi-classical trajectory method for the system.
News | November 10, 2021
Collin Foster to spend a study year at Lawrence Berkeley National lab
Doctoral student Collin Foster was selected as one of just 65 graduate students to receive the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research fellowship, a program that allows him to spend up to 12 months of his graduate studies in residence at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
News | October 19, 2021
New discovery about meteorites informs atmospheric entry threat assessment
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign watched fragments of two meteors as they ramped up the heat from room temperature to the temperature it reaches as it enters Earth’s atmosphere and made a significant discovery.
News | September 23, 2021
Kao named an Astronaut Scholar
Justin Kao, a rising junior studying mechanical engineering at Illinois, was recently honored with an Astronaut Scholar award by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF).
News | July 27, 2021
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