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Fall 2007

Vol. 78, Issue 1

Engineering for the 21stCentury

UC Aerospace

Department Recieves Second Eminent Scholar Award from OhioBoard of Regents

Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric D. Fingerhut recently announced the Universityof Cincinnati Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

received an Ohio Eminent Scholar Award this year in the area of Reliability and ServiceLife Management for Advanced Propulsion and Power Systems. This is one of only twoOhio Eminent Scholar Awards to be designated for 2007 by the Board of Regents inthe state.

This eminent scholar position will complement the current department strengths in

aeropropulsion, turbomachinery, combustion and aeroacoustics research. It will alsoexpand existing life management research activities in the areas of advanced erosion

and corrosion protection under extreme operational conditions and environmentally-assisted degradation mechanisms, manufacturing quality control, nondestructiveinspection, and real-time in situ engine health monitoring.

With this award, the Department will have the distinction of having two Ohio EminentScholars. Dr. Miklos Sajben, our first Eminent Scholar, joined the Department in 1993.After his retirement in 1999, Dr. Ephraim Gutmark assumed his current Ohio Eminent

Scholar position in 2000.

Individual Highlights

From the

Department Head

Faculty News

Alumni News

Student News

Alumni News &

Views

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Left to right: Provost Tony Perzigian, Cynthia Barryman-Fink, Professor Tom Mantei,

Department Head Awatef Hamed, Chancellor Fingerhut, Professor Bill Heineman,

UC President Zimpher, VP of Research Sandra Degen, Associate Dean Gerner


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Brian Rowe

Much has happened since our last newsletter. Earlier this year we were saddened

by the passing of Brian Rowe, Chairman Emeritus of GE Aircraft Engines. Brian Rowe

was held in high regard at the College of Engineering, not only for his outstandingprofessional achievements, but for his commitment to education and steadfast

support of the College, the AE program, and our students.

On the brighter side, our two new faculty, Professors Cohen and Turner are

already busy coordinating student develoment through the Integrated Aerospace

Engineering and Senior Design classes. When you read their profiles in thisnewsletter, I think you will agree with me that their engineering practice experience

will add enrichment to our student education.

As many of you know the Department launched a five-year, two-degree program,

called ACCEND (ACCelerated ENgineering Degree) in 2003. The ACCEND program provides an opportunityfor motivated students to make a significant difference earlier in their careers through a combination of

asynchronous distance learning during co-op quarters with traditional on-campus education, laboratory and

project-based learning experience to condense the BS and MS or MBA into a five-year program. I am pleased

to report that 20 of this years freshman class are enrolled in ACCEND, with 20additional ACCEND sophomores, pre-juniors, juniors. We are impressed by the high

academic standards, excellence, and drive of these students.

Our alumni support and engagement continues in several avenues. Tom Byar visitedcampus this spring when he established the Knowlson and Irene Byar Endowed

Scholarship Fund for undergraduate aerospace students. During his Cincinnati visit,

Tom toured the Department research labs and sampled t he Cincinnati culinaryofferings. Our annual reception at the AIAA Aerospace Sciences meeting in Reno

was a great success. Many alumni and friends had the chance to meet with the

faculty and several undergraduate and graduate students who presented papers atthe conference. Some alumni were joined by t heir families like Dr. Yong Du Jun, who

came with his wife, Mi-Yeon, and their two sons, Paul and John. We look forward to

seeing many of you at the next reception Monday night January 7, 2008.

Our Advisory Board met on April 2, 2007 toreview the Department strategic plans, as

well as, educational and research activities. In

addition, the Board members evaluated theSenior Design Team presentations. This year

the Engine Design group was the Depart ments

thirteenth team to win in the twelve years UChas competed since 1988.

Finally, we are very proud to have won one ofonly two Eminent Scholar Awards from the

Ohio Board of Regents in 2007. We are lookingforward to having two Ohio Eminent Scholars in

the Department, and welcome suggestions and

nominations from our alumni, and industrialand government partners.

A Few Words from the Department Head

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Faculty Prole: Dr. Mark G. Turner

Mark Turner is now an Associate Professor in the AerospaceEngineering Department at UC. Mark had been a research

professor in the department for the past 6 years. Before that, he

worked at General Elect ric Aircraft Engines in Cincinnati, Ohio forover 20 years. His work includes developing CFD methods for use

in turbomachinery design and providing technical leadership in

the further development of the Multistage CFD tools. He workedwith a team at NASA and GE to produce the first 3D simulation of

an entire Turbofan engine (the GE90) at takeoff conditions. Mark

is currently working with AVETeC, GE Aerospace, NASA GlennResearch Center and the Propulsion Directorate at AFRL on time

accurate simulations of compressors and turbines, combustor-turbine coupling, visualization, and full engine simulation efforts.

In addition, Mark has interests in t urbomachinery design as well

as high performance computing.

Professor Turner is an alumnus of the depart ment, having completed his Masters at UC in Aerospace Engine

in 1986. He earned his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech, and a doctorate in Aeronand Astronautics from MIT in 1990.

Mark has published over 30 papers in conference proceedings and refereed journals. He holds two US Patea Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio, and an Associate Fellow of the AIAA. He is an active member

Turbomachinery Committee and Education Committee of the IGTI.

Dr. Cohen came to the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics in September 2and is its newest associate professor specializing in Dynamics and Control. He will teach undergraduate cla

in integrated aircraft engineering and controls and graduate classes in intelligent control. With his grad

teaching and research assistants, he is planning to develop an Uninhabited Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Lab, wifocus on intelligent systems, for civilian applications such as fighting Wildland fires. He is currently advi

one graduate student.

Prior to joining the department, Dr. Cohen was a research contractor

at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO, where

he developed low dimensional modeling and control computationaltools for feedback flow control of bluff bodies. This research effort

was funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. His researchexperience includes fifteen years in the rese arch and development of

UAV platforms and technologies.

Dr. Cohen is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA (American Institute of

Aeronautics and Astronautics) and an active member of the Intelligent

Systems Technical Committee. His engineering career spans over 22years during which he has published twenty journal papers as well as

over eighty other publications. Dr. Cohen received his B.S., M.S. and

Ph.D. degrees from the faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technion,Israel Institute of Technology, 1985, 1991 and 1999 respectively.

Faculty Prole: Dr. Kelly Cohen

Dr. Awatef Hamed

Department Head

Aerospace Department Advisory Board

From left to right: Dr. Tom Wakeman, Belcan Corporation; Dr. Edward M.

Kraft, AEDC; Dr. John Benek, AFRL/WPAFB; Mr. Dick Johnson, Gulfstream

Aerospace; Dr. Don Paul, AFRL/WPAFB; Mr. Tim Kinne, General Electric

Aviation; Dr. Eric T. Baumgartner, T.J. Mull College of Engineering; Dr. Ronnie

Miller, NDE & Engineering Services; Dr. Alan Garscadden, AFRL/WPAFB; and

Dr. Carol Russo, NASA Ames Research Center.


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2007 College Distinguished Alumni Includes Two from Aerospace

The College of Engineering celebrated its annual

Distinguished Alumni Award banquet in the

Continental Ballroom of the Hilton CincinnatiNetherland Plaza on April 26th, 2007. Distinguished

alumni recipients are chosen based on their exemplary

achievements in engineering, business, public service,education or professional activities. The individual

engineering departments bestow the award on

their alumni/ae based on meritorious achievement,recognized stature, and conspicuous success in the

imaginative blending of engineering education withhighly productive endeavors in industry, professional

activities, and public service. The 2007 recipients

included two aerospace engineering alumniTimKinne and D.R. Reddy.

Tim graduated cum laude and received a BS in AerospaceEngineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1974.

He received a MS in Mechanical Engineering from the

University of Cincinnati in1977. Tim began his career

with General Electric in1974 as a Design Engineer

working on aircraft engine

structural components.He honed his engineering

design skills with a variety

of components. He soonprogressed into Team

Leadership positions based

on his developing leadershipskills. He was promoted

to a management positionat a relatively early point in his career. As his teams

successes mounted, Tim was promoted to manage

larger design teams. As his Program Management andLeadership skills advanced he was promoted to the

position of Master Black Belt, the highest rank in the

General Electric Six Sigma Quality Program. Followingthis assignment, Tim was promoted to the Department

Manager position. His strategic vision combined with

his personal management style have enabled hisdepartment to achieve world class status.

Dr. D. R. Reddy received his Bachelor of Engineeri

Mechanical Engineering from Sri Venkateswara

University, Andhra Pradesh, India (1971); MastEngineering in Aerospace Engineering from In

Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (1974);

PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the Univof Cincinnati (1983). Dr. Reddy joined NASA G

1991, as Chief of the Computational Fluid Dyna

Branch. In 1998, he became Chief of the On-BPropulsion Branch, where his responsibilities incl

development and transfer of advanced on-bspacecraft propulsion technologies for future N

missions and other government and comm

spacecraft applications. In 2002, he was appoto his current position as a member of the U.S. S

Executive Service. Prior to joining NASA, he worke

Sverdrup Technology Inc., Allison Gas Turbine DivGM Corp. (currently part of Rolls Royce), Univers

Cincinnati, and Defense Research & Develop

Laboratory (India). Dr. Reddy currently serves as of the Aeropropulsion Division at NASA Glenn Rese

Center (GRC), Cleveland, OH. There he is responfor leading research and developing technolog

the area of propulsion for aero and space applicat

He also leads partnerships with internal and extorganizations, plans new initiatives and en

technical capabilities in strategic areas consi

with the Centers roles and mission. Dr. Reddy htechnical publications; is an Associate Fellow o

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astrona

(AIAA); a membeAIAAs Air Brea

Propulsion techcommittee; a memb

ASMEs Turbomach

Technical Committeea member of the JAN

(Joint Army Navy N

Air Force interagpropulsion comm

Executive Committee

John Lueke Retires After 40 Years Of Exemplary Service

The Air Force recently presented John Lueke (BS AE 70) with its Outstanding Civilian Service Award. The award

was in recognition for his work with the United States Air Force (USAF), Fan and Compressor Branch, TurbineEngine Division, Propulsion Directorate (AFRL/PRTF), Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), from 1967 to 2007.

John Lueke began his career in the Turbine Engine Division as a co-op student demonstrating his capabilitiessuch that he was hired full time after graduating from the University of Cincinnati. Throughout his career he

was placed in positions of high responsibility culminating in taking the Branch Chief position for the Fan &Compressor branch. His involvement and contributions in the IntegratedHigh Performance Turbine Engine Technology (IHPTET) program resulted

in doubling the thrust to weight ratio of modern turbine engines. John hasserved on numerous panels and working groups to solve problems in the

F110, Pegasus failures and Global Hawk AE3005H Engines.

Faculty News

Professor Asif Syed and his students were partners in Hexcel Corporations development of the Acousti-CapTM

technology for which they received the composites industry s highly esteemed JEC Innovation Award. The

product, developed for acoustically absorptive liner material, was developed for use in the inlet and exhaustducts of commercial aircraft engines.

Jeff Kastner joined the department as a Research Assistant Professor on July 1, 2007. He was awarded his PhD

in Mechanical Engineering from Ohio State University in 2007 for his research on high speed jet noise. Hegraduated with a BS in ME in 1999 and went on to receive his MS from the same institution in 2002 for his

work on development of actuators for control of high speed flows. Jeff will work with Dr. Gutmark in the GasDynamics and propulsion Laboratory on aeroacoustics, fluid dynamics and combustion research.

During winter and spring quaters of 2007 Dr. Sheng Wan was a visiting professor in the Department. He taughtdual level courses on Analytical Dynamics and Space Craft Dynamics, and an undergraduate course on Flight

Mechanics. Dr. Wans expertise is in the field of Aircraft and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Controls, Guidance

and Navigation. He worked at General Electric Company in Erie, PA before coming to UC in January.

Dr. Dong-Jin Cha, from Hanbat National University in Korea, is currently a visiting Professor in the Depar tment.He is working with Prof Gutmark on thermoacoustic instability of gas turbines engines. In Korea, Prof. Cha taught

Fluid Mechanics and thermo-fluids courses and conducted research on combustion instabilities of commercial

dry low NOx (DLN) gas turbines operated at the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO).

On February 5th, 2007, Mr. Barry Eccleston, President and Chief ExecutiveOfficer of Airbus North America, gave a seminar entitled An Overview of

Future Challenges in Commercial Aviation in the Lindner Center Auditorium.

The presentation addressed future challenges in commercial aviation andadvanced technology development for meeting the increasing demand for

high performance, low noise, and affordable and safe aviation for projected

transportation needs. Dean Montemagno, Professor Hamed and severalaerospace engineering faculty and students were in the audience as well as

engineers from General Electric, AFRL and Belcan.

Barry Eccleston Speaks at UC

Tim Kinne

D.R. Reddy

Dr. Bill Borger, Propulsion Director,

recognizing John Lueke


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Tom Byar, a 1959 graduate of the University of Cincinnati with a BS

in aerospace engineering, has established the Knowlson and IreneByar Endowed Scholarship Fund for undergraduate aerospace

students in recognition of his deceased parents.

Knowlson, Toms father, was a design engineer at the American

Tool Works Company. Irene, his mother, was a graduate of

Bethesda Nursing School. Byar made the gift, he says, because Ihad some assets that were appreciating and I wanted them to be

meaningful. A need-based scholarship fund for undergraduates

seemed like a good way for that money to be used.

Byar, who retired 12 years ago, worked on aircraft externalstructural loads during a 36 year career at the North American

Aircraft Division of Rockwell International (now Boeing) in

California. Among the notable projects he was involved in werethe B1 and B70 bomber program, the Apollo program, and the

X31 fighter program for enhanced maneuverability.

Byar, whose first co-op assignment was with Cessna in Wichita, Kansas, was quite a model aircraft buff,

participating in the 1956, 1957 and 1958 national model aircraft competitions. In 1956 he set a national record

for speed in the 160 mph class.

A graduate of Hughes High School and Hartwell Elementary School, Byar returned to Cincinnati and visited UCearlier this year. He was pleased to see that Professor Widen Tabakoff, who came to UC in Byars senior year, was

still active in performing sponsored research. Said Byar, Dr. Tabakoff came here in 1959 to t each propulsion and

48 years later, he is still here.

Aerospace Department Head Awatef Hamed praised the gift from Byar, saying, This is a gift that will make a

difference in the lives of our students. On behalf of the students and faculty of the department, we are gratefulfor what Tom Byar has done to provide support for undergraduate aerosp ace engineers.

Aerospace Graduate Tom Byar Establishes Scholarship Fund for Undergraduates

Tom Byar and Dr. Hamed

Alumnu Prole: Betty J. Fulford Dooley

Update: Betty J. Fulford Dooley, BS AE 50By Michael J. Dooley, BSIM (CoB) 50

Five or six years ago Betty and I wandered through Baldwin Hall until we found her class picture, the aeronauengineering class of 1950, maybe 20 students. Betty was the only woman in the class and may be the firs

female Aero. Her bio may be of interest to your 21st century engineering coeds.

Betty was a BWOC at UC. She was Mortar Board, President of Theta Phi Alpha, honorary member of Tau Bet

and active in a host of other organizations. She was also a varsity basketball player. When she graduated in she went to Seattle with Boeing. Only Boeing and Lockeed were hiring aero grads right before the start of

Korean War.

I followed her to Washington State and convinced her to marry me. In 1951 the Army called me back to a

duty. Betty suffered a hiatus of 23 years in her engineering career. During that time she raised three child

and earned an MBA. When we returned to Redstone Arsenal in 1974 she was looking for a job. She worke15 years for NASA contractors responsible for the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Boosters. Almost all that time

spent as a first line supervisor of younger engineers who did not have her work ethic.

One of my friends who is a Georgia Tech grad told me he sat next to a female student for a whole year in

and never said a word to her. Why? He thought admitting women to Georgia Tech cheapened the mens degI was happy to embarrass him by telling him my wife would like to hear that.

In the 1980s, while Betty was still in the workforce, she became the premier runner of her age in the statAlabama. At one time she had over 50 state records in distances from one mile to the half marathon. She

run 10 marathons.

In the 1980s I called Tau Beta Pi Hq and asked if they had come

out of the dark ages, and what was it with Bettys Womens Badge.

The staffer (a female) informed me that they had indeed emergedand that Betty could now become a full fledged member. She also

informed me that there were many men at the general membership

meeting who were adamantly opposed to letting women in.

I have had a number of female Alabama graduates workingfor me and found most of them more mature than their male

counterparts.

Betty stopped setting road racing records at age 78 when she had a

stroke on 27 May 2006. She has severe aphasia. She has had PT, OT

and speech therapy for about sixteen months now.

Honors

The following eight UC alumni were among

those selected by the 2007 American Institute of

Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Associate FellowGrade Committee:

Brent F. Beacher, General Electric AviationMS 72.

PhD AE 83

Keith E. Blodgett, General Electric AviationBS 87,

MS 90 and PhD 95

Rolf R. Hetico, General Electric AviationBS 81, MS

85

Fred H. Krause, General

Electric AviationBS 74

John Lafferty, AEDCBS 87

R. Kevin Rowe, General Electric

AviationBS 75, MS 82

Dr. James E. Wade, University

of CincinnatiBS 58

The 2007 Associate Fellows

were honored at the AIAA Associate Fellows Dinner

on January 8, 2007, in conjunction with the 45th AIAAAerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit at Reno,

Nevada.

Dr. James E. Wade


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Two years of hard work by the senior spacecraft design class culminated in the

completion of BEARSatUCs first in-house manufactured spacecraft. Underthe direction of Professors Trevor Williams and Albert Bosse, from 2005 to

2007, approximately 35 students designed, fabricated, assembled, and tested

a nanosatellite for the U.S. Air Force University Nanosatellite Program 4. Thestudents developed many novel components and experiments, including

the Phase Change Material Reservoir, Thermal Switch, Reaction Wheel, Solar

Concentrator, and Electronic Radiation Susceptibility Testbed.

The team wishes to thank the following organizations for their support: ATK SpaceSystems (PSI Operations), Blue Chip Tool, C&R Technologies, CTL Aerospace, D. B.

Roberts Company, Gerlach Machine & Tool, Naval Research Laboratory, Quartus

Engineering, University of Maryland Physics Department Machine Shop andWoodrow Corporation.

BEARSat: A Satellite Designed and Constructed by Students

AsE Class of 77 Holds 30th Reunion

The Aerospace Engineering Class of 77 held its 30th reunion at UC on June 8-10. 11 out of the 14 class membersattended and renewed old friendships while reveling in the fond memories of UC in the seventies.

It was fairly easy to locate the members of the class. Thanks

to several members who had each kept up with one or two

classmates over the years, and to the large contingent whoare employed by Wright Patterson AFB, all the members of

the class were located and contacted in only a few days, with

a little additional help from the UC Alumni Office.

The weekend began on Friday with a cocktail reception at

the Embassy Suites, Blue Ash, followed by dinner at LaRosaspizza, a favorite hangout of the class. On Saturday, Merrianne

Cardes, a campus guide with the Government Relationsand Communications Department, gave the class and their

guests a wonderful and informative tour of the campus,

highlighting the large number of significant changes that

have occurred over the past 30 years since the class leftcampus. Curt Fox, an Aerospace Research Associate, then

showed the group around the engineering building, citingsome of the current projects that were ongoing in the

Aerospace Department. Lunch followed at Skyline, as no

UC reunion would be complete without a Five Way and aConey. A leisurely boat cruise up and down the Ohio River

completed the afternoons activities. The class and theirguests later attended a wonderful buffet dinner at Mike

Finks Riverboat Restaurant. Sundays activities capped

off the weekend with a Reds baseball game against theCleveland Indians followed by dinner at The Montgomery

Boathouse Inn. Before saying a final goodbye, a small group

made an unplanned visit to Graeters for an ice cream treat.

The 77 alumni were very impressed with the look of the UC

campus today. Several of them commented on the upscalelook of the facilities. Its amazingvery impressivea

country club atmosphere. One of the alumni said that

it was strangely familiara kaleidoscope of old and new. All were especially impressed with the exercisefacilities. The reunion attendees were grateful for the tour, made po ssible with the help of Susan Berman of t he

Engineering Development Office.

The grads also enjoyed t he company of some faculty members who took the time to join in the reunion. Dr.Awatef Hamed, chairman of the Aerospace Engineering Dept. attended along with Dr. Widen Tabakoff, and Dr.Gary Slater. The class was pleased to discuss their career accomplishments with those who gave them their

start.

The Class of 77 came away from the reunion with renewed ties and promises to keep in touch. A great time was

had by all, along with the hope that they can do it again in the future.

By Nancy Benko

UC Team Wins Second Place in AIAA Engine Design Competition

The University of Cincinnati Propulsion System design team won second

place in the 2006-2007 AIAA National Engine Design Competition.

The goal of the competition that is sponsored annually by the AIAAAirbreathing Propulsion Committee was to design the propulsion

system for an uninhabited, limited life Mach 3 cruise vehicle that has

an operational ceiling of 85,000 feet, a c ruise Mach number of 3.00 andendurance at cruise Mach of at least five minutes. Air-launch included

a maximum dynamic pressure of 150 pounds per square foot (psf) and

an altitude range from 5,000 to 40,000 feet. Another design constraintwas that the flight system be storable for up to 20 years and operational

without readiness maintenance for entry-into-service in 2015.

In addition to the certificates of recognition, the winning team receives

a cash award of $1,500 from AIAA. The Faculty Advisor was John W. Livingston, the team was led by ElizaSorrell and included Douglas Huseman, Andrew Vick, Jonathon Chatwood, Jason Booth, Brian Kodrich, and

Rothaar.

With support from the College of Engineering and the Ohio Space Grant Consortium,

nine UC seniors traveled to Houston, Texas in Spring 2007 to conduct experimentsaboard the NASA C-9 microgravity aircraft. Two UC proposals were chosen by the NASA

Johnson Spaceflight Center for participation in the Microgravity University Student

Flight Experience program. The MICRODUCTS (Micro-gravitational Investigation,Certification and Research Of Deployment Utilizing a Collapsible Tethered Subject)

team tested their prototype tether deployment system, whereas the ONURIS (Optical

Network for -gravity Rendezvous of Independent Systems) team flew a robot arm totest machine vision algorithms for autonomous capture of a free-floating object.

The lucky flyers included Andy Baylor, Josh Cory, Kellie Cozart,Adam Gerlach, Michael Kamp, Chris Meckstroth,Courtney Spriegel, Jenna Stahl,and Justin Templeton.

NASA Microgravity University Experiments

June 12, 1977: 1st row: Tom Black, Leo (Dave) Gomez,Rich Rolfes, Dave Glock. 2nd row: Steve McCormick, BobLevo, Russ Claus, Don Benko, Bill Stange. 3rd row: DaveHumphreys, Tom Cressman, Steve Finch, Jim Newcomb.

(missing: Dave Turner)

June 9, 2007: 1st row: Tom Black, Leo (Dave) Gomez, Dr.Gary Slater. 2nd row: Dr. Steve McCormick, Bob Levo, Russ

Claus, Don Benko, Bill Stange. 3rd row: Dave Humphreys,Tom Cressman, Steve Finch, Jim Newcomb. (missing: Dave

Turner, Dave Glock, Rich Rolfes)

Paul Rothaar, Douglas Huseman, BrandElizabeth Sorrell

Jenna Sta


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Graduate Student News

Elise Minda (MS student) was awarded a scholarship

to attend the Electromagnetic Nondestructive Testingshort course organized by the British Research Centre

for Nondestructive Testing (RCNDT) at Imperial Collegein London, United Kingdom, in June, 2007.

PhD candidate Samir Tambe received the Stu

intern/Co-Op Contribution Award in recognitiohis efforts during this summer at GE Global resea

Cincinnati was the host for the 43rd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE

Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit, from July 8-11,

2007. The eventAdvancing Propulsion Technologiesand Celebrating Our Aerospace Heritagedrew over 1400

attendees and featured over 700 papers and 25 special

sessions, including a NASA Public Consultation on theNational Aeronautics R&D Plan and an AFRL Student Design

Challenge.

Among the scheduled events were an opening keynote,

inaugural Brian H. Rowe Lecture by Joe Sutter; awardsluncheon attended by Ohio Governor Ted Strickland (photo);

AIAA historic site dedication of Cincinnati Observatory;

Passport to the Future teacher workshop; and RegionalLeadership Conference.

Rebecca Shupe (PhD student) received the 2007 AIAA Gordon

C. Oates Graduate Award for studies in air breathing propulsionat the conference awards luncheon (photo). Instituted in 1985

by the Air Breathing Propulsion Technical Committee, theaward is for research endeavors in air breathing propulsion as

part of graduate studies.

Several faculty and students participated in the conference

as authors, panelists, and chairs of technical sessions.Professor Awatef Hamed was speaker in two technical

panels: one on Control, Monitoring and Analysis of Propulsion Systems and a second on Future of Fed

Aeronautics Research. In addition other faculty and students presented papers at the JPC: Peter Albrecht Blowout Control Using an Auxiliary Premixed Flame in a Swirl-Stabilized Combustor. Nicholas Caldwell

Detonation Engine Research. Yongqiang Fu Experimental Investigation of Swirling Air Flows in a Multip

LDI Combustor. Rodrigo Villalva Gomez Development of a High Pressure Combustion Simulator to SCombustion Instability Control Methods and Strategies. Prof. San-Mou Jeng Characteristics of the Swirling

Generated by a Counterrotating Swirler and Experimental Study on Coherent Structures of a Counter-rotMulti-Swirler Cup. Mike List High Fidelity Modeling of Blade Row Interaction in a Transonic Compressor

High Resolution, Parallel Visualization of Turbomachinery Flowfields. Mihai Mihaescu Modeling of the

and Acoustical Field due to a Single Jet with Chevrons. Olaf Rask Jet Aircraft Propulsion Noise ReduResearch. Samir B. Tambe Spray Properties of Liquid Jets Injected Transversely into a Shear Layer. Prof.

Turner Applications of a Turbomachinery Design Tool for Compressors and Turbines.

Cincinnati Hosts AIAA Joint Propulsion ConferenceStudent Research & Scholarship Awards

Alex Maag (class of 2008) spent the summer and spring quarters of 2007 working at University of Genoa,

Savona, Italy in Prof. Carlo Craveros Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory on research suppor ted by PRAI

(Programma Regionale di Azioni Innovative), DIMSET (Dipartimento Sistemi Energeticie Transporti), and PiaggoAero. His research included grid generation for a Formula 1 car , and design and analysis of a liquid lead coolant

pump for future European nuclear reactors. His six month intellectual, globetrotting and gastronomic adventure

provided Alex with an unforgettable experience and lasting friendships.

Scott Mindel (class of 2009) is from the first group of ACCEND students. He was awarded a NATO SummerFellowship at the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Brussels, Belgium. Scott worked in their Plasmatron

ICP wind tunnel simulating hypersonic re-entry conditions. Scott had

the opportunity to meet and collaborate with scholars from othercountries. Weekends and holidays provided an excellent opportunity

to travel around Europe. Nick Heeb (class of 2008) worked as a

research coop in Berlin where he performed measurements ona combustor during summer of 2007. Nicks work is part of Prof.

Gutmarks joint project with Technical University of Berlin, Germany

on clean combustion. Joshua France (class of 2008) spent six monthsin Munich, Germany at Kayser. There he conducted research on

infrared camera sensing of fiber optic embedded and carbon fibercomposite. He traveled to Zurich, Switzerland to represent Kayser

in demonstrating this capability to Orelikon Space.

Undergraduate research included three students who completed their freshman year and who received s ummer

internship awards as sophomores: Michael Knadler and Timothy McKnight (from NASA Glenn Research Center)

and from OAI, Cory Peters (class of 2011).

Five UC Aero students received OSGC scholarships. Eric Miller (Class of 2007); Robert Knapke (Class of 2008);

Ashley Verhoff (Class of 2009); Marshall Galbraith (BS 2006); and Michael List (BS 2006).

Christopher Hummer: Engineer of the Quarter

Christopher Hummer, a senior in aerospace engineering, received the Engineering Directorate: Engineer of the

Quarter award from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (WPAFB) on October 18, 2007. This is the se cond time that

Christopher has won the award which is typically reserved for engineers working at the base. Christophers firstaward in 2006 resulted in savings of thousands of dollars by eliminating the need for extensive flight testing and

windtunnel experiments.

Christopher returned for his final double-block co-op at WPAFB in spring 2007 in the Aeronautical Systems

Center-Engineering Directorate-Flight Technology Branch. His super visor, Dr. Ojars Skujins, assigned Christophera very important analysis for the testing group at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Specifically, the issue was

with the Airborne Icing Tanker(AIT) which is an airborne refueling tanker modified to

spray a water-air mixture through an array of nozzles at the end of the boom to simulatein flight icing on aircraft. Three array configurations had been used and all had exhibited

specific issues in flight from large instabilities to ice accretion on the arrays.

Christopher went to work modeling the arrays and completed a computational fluid

dynamics (CFD) analysis. The results of this analysis allowed him to identify the most likely

contributors to the problems with the arrays and identify other potential deficiencies inthe designs. His success enabled the engineers at Edwards Air Force Base to refine their

design and Christopher briefed his results to the entire engineering directorate.

Rebecca Shupe, fanked by Dr. John Blanton andDr. Paul Neilsen

Scott Mindel in front of the plasmatron at VKI

Governor Strickland and Professor Hamed


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Appointments & Promotions

Bassam Abu-Nabah, (PhD 07) joined General

Electric Aviation in Evendale to work on eddy currentnondestructive testing techniques.

Dave Brown, (BS 05) is now at Gulfstream in Savannah

Carolyn (Eglet) Goettke, (BS, 05) is working at GEAviation in the CF 34 control Systems

Luke Graham, (BS 06) was promoted to Engineer

2 at Gulfstream, where he works on new productdevelopment

Josiah Hauck, (BS 06) recently became the lead of

Rollback Engineering at Gulfstream

Irene Ibrahim, (MSc. 06) is at AeroSystems Engineeringin St Paul, Minnesota

Dr. Yong-Du Jun,(MS 91 PhD 96) is spending two

years as a Visiting Professor at the University of Nevada

Dr. Rangnath A. Kotwal(PhD 79) is now Propulsion

Marketing and Production Manager at HoneywellInternational

Dr. Greg Laskowski, (MS 97) GE Global ResearchSchenectady

John A. McCullough, (BS 89) was promoted Chief of the

Spaceflight Training Management Office in the Mission

Operations Directorate of NASA/Lyndon B. JohnsonSpace Center. Previously, John was a Flight Director and

in charge of International Space Station operations.

Aditya Saraf, (PhD 2007) joined Sensis Corporation in

Campbell, California.

Alex Sullivan, (BS 05) now leads two groups at

Gulfstream: Electrical Component Installation & FlightDeck & Furnishings

Milestones

Dr. Debashis Basu(PhD 05) andSudipa SahaRoy (MSc

02 Biochemistry Calcutta Univ.) were married on Nov.

30, 06

Nicholas Caldwell, (BS 03) and Megan Evans (BSInterior Design 05) were married on September 29.

Dr. Kaushid Das(PhD 05) andParomita Syam (MS 06Computer Science Calcutta Univ.) were married on Nov.

28, 06

Mike (BS 05) and Holley Holbrook had a baby, Nole

Charles on the 15th of September

John Lewis (BS 05) is getting married on the 29thof December, to Kai Osborne (BA Management 06

Georgia Tech)

Mat Urbanik (BS 05) and Jessica Kugas (BS ChemE

2005) were married on Oct. 13, 07. Mat is working atNASIC in Dayton

Jon (BS 05) andNicole Vandenbemden had a baby,

Jon Peyton, in September

Alumni News & Views

Documents

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