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Research Newsletter--Summer 2007
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Feature Stories
Aircraft research takes wings in multidisciplinary focus
Dr. Aditi Chattopadhyay’s research in composite structures involves probing materials to detect damage and weakness. In recent years, this singular focus has evolved into a broad cross-disciplinary effort to study ‘smart’ structures, where damage modeling techniques are fused with sensors and sensor networks for monitoring the physical condition of aircraft materials.
Two sizeable federal grants in recent months have allowed Chattopadhyay, a professor in the mechanical and aerospace engineering (MAE) department, and her research team to forge ahead in a comprehensive investigation of aircraft materials damage and the ability to predict defects before they become a problem of catastrophic proportions.
Water management technique improves fuel cell stability
Fuel cells in automobiles and portable electronics have garnered broad support from energy experts and consumers alike, but nagging technical issues still persist in their design and operation.
Mechanical Engineering Professor, Dr. Jonathan Posner, is utilizing his combined expertise in fluid mechanics and transport phenomena to investigate some of these issues with specific emphasis on improving the performance technology of one class of fuel cells--Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) hydrogen fuel cells
Engineers aim to improve golf ball design
Golf and high technology are being wedded ever more intensely.
Srixon, an international sports equipment company, is working with Dr. Kyle Squires, professor and interim director of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Dr. Daniel Stanzione, who directs the university’s High Performance Computing Institute, on combining aerodynamic analysis and computational firepower to improve golf-ball design and performance.
ME grad student wins prestigious NSF research award
If Philip Wheat's career path goes as he hopes, his education in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering will take him from airplanes in the skies above Arizona to spacecraft exploring Mars.
Wheat earned a private pilot's license at age 17. At 18, he had his commercial license and became a certified flight instructor. At 19, he helped his parents start a flight school in Mesa, Ariz., and worked there as an instructor.