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Fly Like a Bird: UTEP Engineers Seek to Translate the Mysteries of Bird Flight into Aircraft

Researcher(s) Keywords:

  1. Nonlinear Dynamics and Control
  2. machine learning
  3. Hypersonics
  4. Data-driven Modeling
  5. Complex Networks
  6. Optimization

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Shirin, Afroza
College: Engineering
Department: Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Fly Like a Bird: UTEP Engineers Seek to Translate the Mysteries of Bird Flight into Aircraft
Date: Sept. 4, 2025



EL PASO, Texas (Sept. 4, 2025) – Have you ever wondered how birds can soar gracefully through the air for long periods without flapping their wings? The answer lies in temperature, wind patterns and the way air moves up and down in the atmosphere. A coalition that includes researchers from The University of Texas at El Paso are using these insights from bird flight to develop uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS), or drone technology, that can save energy and fly more efficiently.


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