Walking out of the latest “Top Gun” movie, you might remember the iconic catchphrase, “I feel the need for speed.” Pete “Maverick” Mitchell, played by Tom Cruise, said those famous words in the 1986 movie, and they became the mantra of NAVY fighter pilots pushing their limits with the aerodynamics of flight. That’s the movies, but what about real life?

Professors at Florida A&M University (FAMU) and the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering have garnered a prestigious Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) grant from the National Science Foundation to support the Center for Complex Materials Design for Multidimensional Additive Processing (also known as the CoManD Center).

Louis N. Cattafesta, III, university eminent scholar and professor of mechanical engineering at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, has been elected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).