TY - CONF
T1 - Research and educational activities at the NASA/Syracuse university Center for Hypersonics
AU - Dang, Thong Q.
AU - Lagraf, John E.
AU - Spina, Eric F.
AU - Davidson, Barry D.
N1 - Funding Information:
Primary funding for the Syracuse University Center for Hypersonics is provided by NASA Headquarters through grant NAGW-3713, monitored by Isaiah Blankson. Additional funding for hypersonics research has been provided by NASA-Langley Research Center through grants NAG-1-1400 (monitored by Stephen K. Robinson and Michael J. Walsh), NGT-51171 (monitored by Michael J. Walsh), and NGT-70380 (monitored by Griffin Y. Anderson). The undergraduate co-operative education assignments have been supported by Calspan (Michael Holden), Naval Surface Warfare Center (William Yanta and Robert Voisinet), GASL (John Erdos), and the NASA/New York State Space Grant Consortium. Undergraduate research has been partially funded by NSF through grant EEC-9300414 and by the G.E. Foundation.
Funding Information:
The Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering holds a site grant from NSF for a 12-week summer research program focused solely on fluid dynamics. A different NSF grant sponsors undergraduate research in advanced composite materials suitable for hypersonic applications. Still other students perform hypersonics research as part of their senior honor's thesis or as an independent study. All of these programs provide a comprehensive graduate-school-type experience for promising undergraduates ranging from freshmen to seniors. The research experiences are based around one-on-one interaction between the undergraduate students and their faculty mentors, with emphasis on development of research skills, critical thinking ability, and communication skills. Historically, the vast majority of the students participating in these research programs continue on to graduate school; several of the participating students are now focusing their research efforts in areas related to hypersonics. Brief descriptions of the undergraduate research projects within the Center for Hypersonics follow: e Fracture mechanics of advanced composite materials. Students are performing delamination growth experiments using polymeric and ceramic matrix composite test specimens. The research involves manufacture and testing of a variety of different specimens, with comparison to predictive theories being developed in the Syracuse Center.
Funding Information:
Undergraduate instruction in courses directly relevant to hypersonics is being used to provide a foundation for graduate training and to enable undergraduate research in the field. Course instruction includes topics such as hypersonic gas dynamics, high-temperature materials, hypersonic vehicle design issues, and computational science. Undergraduate research has been used successfully at Syracuse University (particularly under the auspices of the National Science Foundation) to provide an impetus for outstanding students to attend graduate school. This practice has been extended to hypersonics, with students working alongside faculty and graduate students on a variety of hypersonic fluid dynamic and materials problems. Promising undergraduates are also being placed in co-operative engineering education work blocks with industry and government in the field of hypersonics (this has been facilitated by student funding from industry and the NASA/New York State Space Grant Consortium). A “Hypersonics Certificate” program consisting of coursework and research has been developed for Syracuse University undergraduates, and 9 students earned this distinction through May 1996. Of these 9 students, 7 have follwed up this education with additional work or study in hypersonics through full-time employment or graduate school.
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© 1996 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - The Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering and the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center of Syracuse University have been funded by NASA to establish a program to educate young engineers in the hypersonic disciplines. This goal is being achieved through an academic program that includes elements of undergraduate instruction, advanced graduate coursework, undergraduate research, and graduate hypersonics research. The research foci of the Syracuse Center for Hypersonics are three-fold: High temperature composite materials, measurements in turbulent hypersonic flows, and the application of high performance computing to hypersonic fluid dynamics.
AB - The Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering and the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center of Syracuse University have been funded by NASA to establish a program to educate young engineers in the hypersonic disciplines. This goal is being achieved through an academic program that includes elements of undergraduate instruction, advanced graduate coursework, undergraduate research, and graduate hypersonics research. The research foci of the Syracuse Center for Hypersonics are three-fold: High temperature composite materials, measurements in turbulent hypersonic flows, and the application of high performance computing to hypersonic fluid dynamics.
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U2 - 10.2514/6.1996-4578
DO - 10.2514/6.1996-4578
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T2 - Space Plane and Hypersonic Systems and Technology Conference, 1996
Y2 - 18 November 1996 through 22 November 1996
ER -