University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Our research touches celestial spaces.

University engineers are supporting NASA’s goal of colonizing Mars. If successful, the Red Planet will gain a definite vermilion hue.

Our alumni helped the nation – and the world – make “one giant leap.”

Meet J. Harvey LeBlanc, ’62, whose engineering skills contributed to the moon landing a half century ago.

UL Lafayette was the first university in the nation whose students designed, built and launched a functioning communications satellite.

That pioneering work continues in the Nick Pugh Aerospace Electronics Research Laboratory in the College of Engineering.