Letter From the Editor
Welcome to the February 2026 issue of Engineers’ Forum!
Welcome to the February 2026 issue of Engineers’ Forum!
Our team hopes that you are having a fantastic semester! We are excited that you have chosen
to pick up a copy of our magazine, and we have a lot of interesting and insightful stories to
share with you about the Virginia Tech and greater NRV STEM ecosystem.
A group of students from the Virginia Tech Student Chapter of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) visited the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) Vehicle Research Center to witness several crash tests and see vehicle safety in action. Steven Ren covers their trip and the main takeaways of this site visit.
Virginia Tech has been a pioneer of additive manufacturing for many years. Garrison Underwood talks about the Center for Advanced Manufacturing, aka VT Made. If you’re interested in learning more about advanced manufacturing, or getting involved, make sure to check this work out!
Are you interested in Orbital Vehicles or adjacent space technology? Eden Enwiya discusses
the Orbital Vehicle Launch Team at Virginia Tech, a design team focused on the design and
launch of various vehicles into low Earth orbit. If you’re interested in getting involved in this area
of design, definitely check this out.
We appreciate your continued support of our mission: to capture the student engineering experience at Virginia Tech. Enjoy!
Sincerely,
Adrian DiMarco
Editor-in-Chief