MECHANICAL & AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Missouri University of Science and Technology

MAE Newsletter 2011

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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRWelcome to the 2011 Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering newsletter. Since taking the helm of Missouri S&T’s largest engineering department on Jan. 1, 2011, I have been challenged to make a good thing even better. Under the many years of careful guidance of Dr. Ashok Midha, the department has grown to over 1000 students, its largest enrollment in over 25 years. I hope to be able to add to this success by further developing the quality and the success of our undergraduate program, while improving the national prominence of our graduate program. To help

me in this endeavor is a distinguished faculty, devoted staff and high caliber students who have shared in many successes this year.

The department witnessed the graduation of 218 bachelor degree, 56 master degree and 7 doctoral degree students in the 2010-11 academic year. For fall semester, our on-campus undergraduate enrollment was 783 alongside a graduate enrollment of 168. With a growing off-campus enrollment of 64, our department boasted a total of 1015 students for the fall. If the freshman engineering students who have expressed their interest in joining our department are included, the undergraduate enrollment alone is above 1200 students, representing approximately one-fifth of the undergraduate campus student body. As you will find throughout this newsletter, our students continue to be successful in the classroom as well as in design competitions. Clearly, we have much to be proud of.

Several of our faculty have received acknowledgments this year that recognize their significant achievements. Dr. Walt Eversman was named a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Dr. S.N. Balakrishnan was named University of Missouri Curators’ Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Dr. Frank Liou was recently selected as our inaugural Bytnar Professor of Product Innovation and Creativity and Dr. Ashok Midha was named Director of the Product Innovation and Creativity Center. We have had several changes in the faculty this year. Dr. Darryl Alofs retired at the end of Spring 2011 semester. Similarly, Dr. Bassem Armaly has decided to retire but will continue to assist the department on a part time basis over the next few years. Please read the short articles on both in the newsletter as they reflect on their many years of service to the department and campus. We are pleased to announce that Dr. Nishant Kumar joined our faculty in the Fall of 2010 as an assistant teaching professor. Finally, we hope to be able to report to you on the successful hiring of several new faculty over the next five years, beginning in Fall 2011, all a part of a planned growth of the faculty in response to increasing students’ interest in our programs. More details on these acknowledgements and appointments can be found in the newsletter.

In closing, I invite you to read though our newsletter to learn more about the depart-ment. I would also like to extend my thanks to the many alumni and friends, whose donations continue to enhance the activities of the department. As I embark in my new role as department chair, I will ask this special group to consider particular needs that are critical to the education of our future Miner engineers. I have outlined in this news-letter a new initiative that we are undertaking to transform the undergraduate laborato-ry experience. Please consider contributing to this effort that will enable us to continue to offer one of the nation’s best mechanical and aerospace engineering programs.

Best regards,

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Dates of Interest

October 6, 2011AMAE Induction Dinner

October 7, 2011AMAE Annual Membership Meeting

October 7 - 8, 2011Homecoming

December 16, 2011MAE Design Showcase

March 17, 2012St. Pats Celebration

April 20, 2012Academy Board Meeting

April 20 - 22, 2012 OGS Weekend in St. Louis

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Dr. Jim DrallmeierKimber O’NealBrianna Bales Lila Kolker

Gail RichardsCathy WilliamsMAE Faculty

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DEPARTMENT ADMINISTRATION

James DrallmeierDepartment Chair

J. Keith NisbettAssociate Chair for Mechanical Engineering

Kakkattukuzhy M. IsaacAssociate Chair for Aerospace Engineering

Robert LandersAssociate Chair for Graduate Affairs

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To travel to distant planets or quickly move satellites around in earth’s orbit, future spacecraft require high power electric rockets. Such a system is currently un-der development in the Aerospace Plasma Laboratory directed by Dr. Joshua Rovey, Assistant Professor in the MAE Department.

The propulsion system is a new type of electric plasma rocket. Unlike conventional rockets (for example, the space shuttle), which use chemical reactions to gen-erate thrust to propel spacecraft, electric rockets use electricity from the onboard spacecraft power supply to generate thrust. Similar to electric automobiles, electric rockets trade acceleration for fuel efficiency. An electric rocket uses propellant far more efficiently than its chemical counterpart, but has significantly less thrust or acceleration. The result is that an elec-tric rocket uses less gas, but takes longer to reach its destination.

Some electric rockets use ionized gas plasma for pro-pellant. When a gas is heated to extreme temperature, electrons are removed from the gas atoms. The re-sult is a gas or fluid consisting of negatively-charged electrons and positively-charged ions. Electric and/or magnetic fields can be used to accelerate the plas-ma fluid to high velocity and expel it from the space-craft, generating thrust. Electric plasma rockets, such as Hall-effect and ion thrusters, have been flying on spacecraft for decades and the NASA DAWN space-craft (currently nearing the asteroid Vesta) is pro-pelled by three electric plasma ion thrusters.

Aerospace Plasma Lab Researchers, Spring 2011. From Left to Right, back row: Dr. Rovey, Mark Emanuel, Ben Gaither, Alex Satonik, Timothy Nichols, David Zidar, Andrew Heckman, Shawn Miller, and Warner Meeks, front row: Hu Jing, Whitney Lewis, Tom Hulsey, Ryan Pahl, and Michael Solari. Not pictured: Mag-gie Mawhiney and Rebecca Miller.

Future Rocket Propulsion gets a Boost at Missouri S&T

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Onboard spacecraft power levels continue to increase, enabling higher power electric rockets capable of travelling faster while maintaining superior fuel efficien-cy. With funding from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the researchers of the Aerospace Plasma Lab are investigating a new high power electric rocket that expels plasma toroids (plasma fluid in the shape of a do-nut). The new rocket uses energy initially stored in a capacitor bank to create and expel the plasma toroid at high velocity. When the capacitor is discharged, a large 100 kiloamps current flows through a large inductive coil generating strong magnetic and electric fields. These fields create the plasma and form it into a toroidal (do-nut) shape and then expel it at over 100,000 miles-per-hour. The benefit over state-of-the-art plasma rockets is that more plasma propellant is expelled at a higher speed, maintaining high fuel efficiency while increasing rocket

thrust to reach the destination faster.

Electric plasma rockets can only operate in the vacuum of space. Plasma propellant is more easily created at pressure levels substantially less than atmospheric pressure. Therefore, to test an electric plasma rocket in the laboratory requires a low pressure or vacuum environment. Through an equipment grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Aerospace Plasma Lab has recently assembled a large space simulation chamber for electric rocket and space-craft testing. The new vacuum chamber is 6 feet in diameter and 10 feet long. It is evacuated to high-vacuum by four 35-inch-diameter oil diffusion pumps capable of pumping 200,000 liters-per-second on air. With this pumping speed, the facility is capable of generating an environment with 1 billion times less pressure than sea level.

EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge

The Missouri S&T Formula SAE car saw significant changes this year with a new suspension, aerodynamics, and electrical systems that allowed the car to be faster than it was in 2010. The new car went through extensive test-ing in Rolla parking lots, the Hearnes Center at Mizzou, Ford’s wind tunnel in Detroit, and 4-Post Rig testing at Ohlins in North Carolina, which allowed the students to validate the new design concepts.

At the FSAE West Competition in June the team began the event well, placing 6th out of 80 teams in the Design event. The team managed respectable scores in Skidpad and Ac-celeration and placed 5th in the Autocross event. During the En-durance event the true pace of the car was shown by smoking the field by two to three seconds per lap. Unfortunately, the team was sent off for an oil leak at the driver change pit stop. The final result was 19th overall.

The FSAE team will be taking the car to a number of events in the fall, including the Goodyear and Toronto Shootouts and the high profile SCCA Nationals in Nebraska. The next event is the UTA Autocross in Texas at the end of July.

FSAE: Very Fast at the California Competition!

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In 2011, the Missouri S&T EcoCAR team competed in the final competition of EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge in Milford, MI, and Washington DC. For the three year long competition, the team reengineered a Chevrolet SUV into a fuel cell plug-in hybrid electric vehicle that maintained or improved upon stock vehicle performance while using the least amount of petroleum of any vehicle in the competition.

At General Motors Proving Grounds in Michigan, the car went through extensive vehicle testing and received many compliments concerning drive

quality and power control strategy of the car. In D.C., the team gave techni-cal presentations to a pool of industry experts, participated in radio and television interviews, and toured the White House. They also participated in a ride and drive event, outside the U.S. Department of Energy head-quarters, where media and government officials were given the opportunity to test drive the vehicle. At the end of the competition the team won Most Improved Team, 1st place Lowest Tail Pipe Emissions, 1st place Lowest Well to Wheel Petroleum Energy Usage, 2nd Place Lowest Well to Wheel Green House Gas Emissions, 3rd Place Bosch Diversity Award, and 5th place overall.

The EcoCAR team began with a concept of everything they wanted to accomplish and finished with a one-of-a-kind facility and a vehicle that has turned the heads of industry leaders and government officials. However, progress does not end with this competition. The students are already busy gearing up for their next challenge to build a basic utility vehicle.

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The Missouri S&T Satellite team took Best in Outreach award at the Final Com-petition Review held in January 2011, at the Nanosat competition sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory. In June four students traveled to Boulder, Colorado, where hardware was sent to an altitude of 100,000 feet in a balloon for testing purposes. This trip was a key element of the M-SAT competition where the winning team’s spacecraft is placed in Earth orbit with the assistance of the Air Force Research Laboratory.

For the next round of the competition, ending in January 2013, the team is focusing on proximity operations by designing two small spacecraft. One spacecraft will attempt to circumnavigate the other in order to evaluate the second spacecraft’s key characteristics. The team is currently preparing for their Preliminary Design Review by Air Force personnel as well as other aerospace industry professionals and will travel to Logan, Utah, in August to attend the Small Satellite conference where the PDR review will be held.

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Missouri S&T’s 2011 Baja SAE car was an exercise in sheer willpower. After suf-fering a huge loss of graduating members, the team brought in a fresh crew of rookies. Looming deadlines, inexperience, and academic conflicts presented a challenge that seemed insurmountable, but the green team overcame, making it to the first competition of the season by the skin of their teeth.

The Baja SAE competition designs, builds, and tests the best all-purpose off-road vehicle possible. “All-purpose” is not used loosely; this year all cars had to be amphibious, as well as maneuver through hills, mud, rocks, jumps, and logs. The endurance race proved to be a muddy mess, but in spite of many setbacks, the team finished the race without major problems and placed 39th overall out of 200 teams.

For 2012, the team plans to enter all three U.S. events, and hopes to place in the top five in each. To help out with such ambitious plans, Baja has elevated its fundraising efforts, designed a nifty part-fabrication file system, and will have both electronic and paper documents for every part designed.

Baja Team overcomes all to place 39th out of 200

Each year, the Missouri S&T Miners in Space design team participates in NASA’s Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program. They design, fabricate, fly, and evaluate an experiment in microgravity (weight-lessness) aboard Zero-G’s 727 Weightless Wonder (aka “Vomit Comet”) at NASA’s Ellington Field in Houston, Texas. The team also actively participates in, and looks for, outreach opportunities in grade schools and high schools, and funding opportunities in the community.

In July 2011 the team will test a micro propulsion system de-veloped by the Missouri S&T Satellite Team. The team hopes to demonstrate the effectiveness of the thruster design in the presence of weightlessness. The team will fly over the Gulf of Mexico in a series of parabolic maneuvers that create short periods (30-45 seconds) of weightlessness during which the experiment will be run. The team will also confer with NASA engineers to ensure smooth operation of their experiment, perform and witness a series of physiological tests and demon-strations, and go on tours of the NASA facilities.

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Student Design Team NewsThe Advanced Aero Vehicle Group Participates in Two Competitions

The Advanced Aero Vehicle Group (AAVG) founded in 1999 with a desire to engage students in real-world engi-neering processes is made up of two separate groups, the Aircraft team and the Rocket team, and has about a 50 student membership.

In 2011 the Aircraft team competed in the heavy lift com-petition, sponsored by the Society of Au-tomotive Engineers (SAE), where they designed a heavy lift radio-controlled air-craft with a 16 foot

wing span that incorporated fixed slats and a twin engine propulsion platform and weighed about 23 pounds. The team took 1st place in the written design report competi-tion and took 6th place overall.

The Rocket team participated in the NASA-sponsored University Student Launch Initiative (USLI), hosted by the Marshall Space Flight Center. They built a 9.5 foot tall, 24 pounds reusable rocket with a payload, spon-sored and stipulated by the Science Mission Directorate at NASA, which measured pressure, temperature, humid-ity, and solar radiation. The team had a successful launch and recovery to about 4,300 feet and took home the Aes-thetics in Engineering Award (best looking rocket).

Without the financial, material, and logistical support from campus, alumni, sponsors, and student’s family members, these accomplishments would not have been possible. This support is greatly acknowledged.

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The Human Powered Vehicle Dominates in 2010 and Wins Big in 2011

Each year the Missouri S&T Human Powered Vehicle design team designs and builds a vehicle powered solely by its occupant and competes in both East and West Coast competitions sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. In 2010 the HPV team dominated both competitions by placing 1st in every category of the Speed Class and became the undisputed national champions. The team then decided to switch to the Unrestricted Class in 2011, which required a variety of additional practical capabilities and allowed for a different range of innovations.

In 2011, at the East Coast Competition the team unveiled a new design that had been kept secret until then and set an unprecedented record in the design category while also winning the Knovel Innovation Award. The team also won 2nd place overall despite an injury and tough competition. At the West Coast Competition the team again won the Knovel Innovation Award. The team also faced strong winds and required quick ingenuity to deal with a surmounting host of problems to win 1st place overall.

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1st in Female Sprint1st in Male Sprint

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Student Achievements

S&T M-SAT Students Win Paper Competition!

Eleven students from the Missouri S&T M-SAT satellite team and Dr. Pernicka attended the Small Satellite confer-ence held in Logan, Utah, in August 2010. The Small Sat-ellite conference included a required poster presentation, and was part of the competition requirements for the Nano-Sat 6 competition sponsored by the Air Force Research Labs.

As part of the paper competition session, Christopher Tutza and Ryan Pahl gave a paper presentation on their research with the M-SAT satellite team investigating the use of R-134a as a viable propellant for small satellites, namely MR SAT. This pre-

sentation was to a panel of judges composed of both government and industry representatives. Their paper won first place out of eleven submitted, splitting a $10,000 prize. Christopher and Ryan join two other Mis-souri S&T students who won this same award three years ago. These students were co-advised by Dr. Josh Rovey, and much of their work was facilitated by the use of his lab.

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Varun Lobo - Best paper award at the IEEE-Green Energy Conference . Dr. Arindam Banerjee, Research Advisor

Anan Takroori - 1st Place Award and Mariana Escalona Diaz - 2nd Place Award in the 7th Annual Missouri S&T Undergraduate Research Conference. Dr. Fathi Finaish, Research Advisor

The Rocket Student Team of the Advanced Aero Vehicle Group received a $5,000 Award from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center for their proposal to design, build, and fly a reusable 24 pound rocket that was launched in April of 2011 and climbed to an altitude of 4,300 feet above sea level. Dr. Fathi Finaish, Team Advisor Robert Bostic received the NASA 2010 Space Grant Undergraduate Summer Internship.

Ryan Pahl, Warner Meeks, Tom Hulsey, and Whitney Lewis presented their research on high-power space propulsion to the University of Missouri Board of Curators.

Ali Heydari - Paper was one of the five for the best student paper award at the AIAA Atmospheric Flight Me-chanics conference. Dr. Balakrishnan, Research Advisor

These students received the NASA Space Grant Undergraduate Internship

Awards:Andrew Brune

Stephanie Evans Angela Gugliano Jennifer Hoffman Thomas Hulsey Whitney Lewis

David McKinnonAlyssa Packard

The following students won NASA Space Grant Graduate Fellowship Awards:

Justin Aholt Jocelyn Bailey Steven Berg

Nathaniel Richie David Zidar

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Departmental News

Transformation of the MAE Instructional Laboratories

The MAE Department is setting forth on a mission to transform the laborato-ry experience for students. The fundamental concept is to design experiment stations that can be used by the students throughout their curriculum. Newly designed experiment stations will serve three purposes in the curriculum: dem-onstrating fundamental engineering principles, teaching the fundamentals of engineering instrumentation, and training in the correct approaches to en-gineering experiment design. With this approach, the student will en-counter an experimental station multiple times throughout their education, each time learning a new concept or principle. Not only does the facility get used more frequently making it more

cost effective, but the students become familiar enough with the facility to be able to design and conduct their own experiments at the end of their program. Key features of this approach include having each experiment station suitable for demonstrating principles in lecture courses where engineering principles, previously discussed only in the lecture hall, come to life in the laboratory. Each station is also constructed to teach fundamentals of engineering experimentation in lab courses, such as character-istics of sensors and proper choice of sensors. Finally, each lab facility is capable of reconfiguration for students designing their own experiments. This could be either

through assigned lab course work where students need to design and conduct a simple experiment or as part of an extracur-ricular design competition.

The department is seeking alumni and corporate support as it begins this transformative endeavor in educating the next generation of engineering stu-dents. Having access to a series of flexible experiment stations in the depart-ment, aimed at demonstrating and teaching engineering principles but avail-able for student-designed experiments, provides the student with a unique experience in instructional laboratories. Here by having the ability to “experi-ment across the curriculum,” students will have the opportunity to more fully encounter the engineering principles taught in the classroom.

PICC Student Machine Shop

Robert Williams, Jr. (ME ’74) has made a generous gift to create a well-equipped student machine shop. Rob’s $100,000 gift has already equipped the room with a Lugan 3-axis CNC milling machine, a 13” tool room lathe, a band saw with a 14” throat and a drill press.

Rob is president of Williams Patent Crusher and Pulverizer of St. Louis, a family owned company that has been a leader in crushing and pulverizing since 1871. They make ham-mer mills, shredders, roller mills, impact crushers, roll crushers, conveyers, feeders and products for the forest products industry. Rob’s wife Kathy is an architect who has done a lot of work for Missouri S&T. Their daughter Ashley (ChE’09) is a product engineer for ADM.

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Alumni Are Honored With Professional Degrees

The S&T Professional Degrees are awarded to alumni at each commencement, who distinguish themselves in their careers by virtue of their demonstrated outstanding professional accomplishments and leadership qualities. The following have been awarded in recent semesters:

Doug Duchardt (Fall 2009) of Charlotte, N.C., is vice president of development for Hendrick Motorsports. Duchardt oversees race car design, engineering and production in the chassis, body and engine areas. He earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Missouri S&T in 1987 and a master’s degree from Purdue University in 1992. Duchardt originally joined General Motors in 1983 as a co-op student. In 2003, he became director of GM Racing and worked closely with NASCAR teams. He was named a vice president at Hendrick Motorsports in 2005.

Tim Viox (Fall 2009) of Columbia, Mo., is senior director of maintenance and project management for PARC Management LLC. Viox earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Missouri S&T in 1987. Upon graduation, he took a job with Lever Brothers Co., a subsidiary of Unilever. In 1992, he went to work for Anheuser-Busch as a construction engineer.

In 1996, he transferred to the Busch Entertainment division, work-ing as a regional project manager, where he was responsible for major capital expansions at SeaWorld Orlando and Busch Gardens in Tampa. Before taking his current position with PARC Management, Viox worked as the corporate director of rides and maintenance and the vice president of design and engineering for Busch Entertainment’s three Orlando parks (SeaWorld, Discovery Cove and Aquatica).

Darryl W. Davis (Spring 2010) is president of Phantom Works for the Boeing Defense, Space and Security business unit. Davis joined McDonnell Douglas in 1979 and has held a series of positions with McDonnell Douglas and Boeing. Prior to becoming president of Phantom Works, he was vice president of Advanced Precision Engagement and Mobility Systems. Before that, he was vice president of Boeing’s Global Strike Solutions. In that position, he had responsibility for providing a coordinated set of global strike solutions to the U.S. military and international customers. He was also program manager for the Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems X-45, helping Boeing demonstrate the transformational capability of unmanned combat aircraft. Davis earned a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Missouri S&T in 1986. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University.

Bart Moenster (Spring 2011) is Director of Global Technology Operations at Boeing Research and Technology. Moenster orga-

nized the first company-wide Manufacturing Technology Team. In addition, he is leading the globalization of Boeing’s R&D efforts in the area of materials and processes with collabo-ration efforts to gain access to world-class technology. Moenster also formed the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) at the University of Sheffield in the United King-dom. This Centre is the internationally recognized model for collaborative R&D between academia, industry and government. He earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Missouri S&T in 1971, an Executive Masters Degree in manufacturing management from Washington University, St. Louis, and a honorary Doctor of Engineering from the University of Sheffield, in the United Kingdom.

Faculty Announcements

Dr. Nishant Kumar joined the mechanical and aerospace engineering department in Fall 2010 as an Assistant Teaching Professor. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in me-chanical engineering from New Mexico State University, Las Cruces and Texas Tech Uni-versity, Lubbock, respectively. Before coming to the U.S. for graduate studies, Dr. Kumar worked for Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL), New Delhi, India, as an engineer where he designed cogeneration and combined cycle power plants.

Before joining the faculty at S&T, Dr. Kumar worked as a lecturer at the University of Den-ver, Colorado, for one year. He was also a visiting faculty for the LMCO-DU (Lockheed Martin Corporation – Denver University) graduate program. Under this program he taught a graduate course at the Lockheed Martin campus in Houston, Texas. Kumar was the recipient

of the certificate of “Outstanding Performance in Pedagogy” by the school of engineering at DU, for his commend-able teaching and service to the department.

Dr. Kumar’s teaching interests include undergraduate and graduate level mechanics, vibration, dynamic systems and controls, and engineering analysis courses. His research interests are in the field of nonlinear dynamics and chaotic systems. Other research interests are in developing reduced order models for large dynamic systems.

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The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department has undergone many changes in the past year. Two of these changes include the changing of the Associate Chair of Graduate Affairs and the Associate Chair of Aerospace Engineering.

Dr. Robert G. Landers became the MAE department’s Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs in August, 2010. Dr. Landers replaces Dr. Lokesh Dharani who held the position for 2 1/2 years. Under Dr. Dharani’s leadership the department saw unprecedented growth in it graph pro-grams and its largest graduate student enrollment. Dr. Landers’ vision is to 1) grow the num-ber of doctoral students, 2) continue to grow the distance program, 3) increase recruitment efforts of quality graduate students, and 4) better publicize the achievements of the graduate students. Dr. Landers says, “Doctoral students are a key element of any successful research program and increasing their numbers will greatly aid our department with its goal of increas-

ing national visibility. Our distance program grew at a tremendous rate over the past few years and that trend needs to continue.”

Dr. K.M. Isaac took over as Associate Chair of Aerospace Engineering in June 2011, from Dr. Fathi Finaish who served in that position for more than 10 years. As associate chair, Dr. Isaac will assist Dr. Drallmeier in handling the day-to-day activities of the AE program. Assisted by the distinguished AE faculty, he hopes to contribute to the MAE department’s stated goal of enhancing its national visibility by leveraging the department’s unique strengths due to its size and its co-existence with the mechanical engineering program.

On behalf of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering department, the faculty and staff would like to thank Dr. Dharani and Dr. Finaish for their years of dedicated service and support.

New Associate Chairs

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Professor Darryl Alofs is retiring after 41½ years with the university where he nurtured stu-dents. He hopes he has had the “Mr. Holland’s Opus” or the “Goodbye Mr. Chips” positive influence on some of his students.

He was chair of both the department promotion and tenure committee and the fluids and aerodynamics area committee for many years. In addition, he served on search committees for faculty members and administrators.

Dr. Alof’s first research grant was from the US Coast Guard, (1971) which was a laboratory study to measure the effect of waves on oil spill movements on the oceans. He then received a grant from the American Society of Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers and five consecutive annual grants which were subcontracts from the Illinois State Water Survey, the primary contracts be-ing from the Department of Energy.

During his years at Missouri S&T, he had many grants with a few notable designs being 1) an instrument to mea-sure the cloud nucleation characteristics of atmospheric particulates, 2) a complex apparatus to measure pressure drops under conditions found in compressor suction lines of refrigeration systems, 3) a large cloud chamber to process large flows of air to discriminate the cloud active particles from the more massive total atmospheric particu-lates, and deposit milligram quantities of only the particles of interest on filters for subsequent chemical analysis, and 4) adjustable, strong, and rigid stands to hold the particulate or gas probes in the discharge jet of the engine which have not failed.

We thank Dr. Alofs for his many years of dedicated service to MAE and campus and wish him the best in his future endeavors.

Dr. Bassem F. Armaly will be retiring as an Emeritus Curators’ Professor on September 1, 2011. He joined the university as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering in 1969. During his tenure at the university he developed the Convective Heat Transfer Laboratory and taught courses in the energy conversion and thermal transport area. He is recognized as an authority on radiative and convective heat transfer. His early work on the physical properties of thin metallic films at cryogenic temperatures resulted in the first measured ef-fects of size (film thickness) on the thermophysical properties of material (conductivity and emissivity. His work on properties of ionized gases led to significant enhancement of NASA’s reentry simulation code. His experimental studies on buoyancy-affected-separated-and reat-tached flow provided critical data for codes validation. He published more than 200 refereed publications, and his research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Department of Energy.

Dr. Armaly served as the Chair of the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) department (1985 – 1988) and as the Chair of the Mechanical, Aerospace, and Engineering Mechanics department (1988 – 1996). During his tenure as Chair, the MAE Department was the largest department on campus and the level of external funded re-search per year in the department and departmental development fund increased significantly. He was instrumental in establishing the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Academy to honor successful alumni. He was named a Curators’ Professor by the Curators of the University of Missouri (1997).

Dr. Armaly served as the chair of the numerous national committees throughout the years. He is currently serving on the Missouri Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Rules, the Executive committee of ABET, and the Treasurer of ABET. Bassem and his wife, Gery, are looking forward to spending more time with their five grandchildren in California and Minnesota. We thank Dr. Armaly for his leadership and service and wish them the best in their retirement.

Farewell Dr. Armaly (Better Title)

Farewell Dr. Alofs (Better Title)

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Academy of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineers

2010 AMAE Homecoming Events

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The Missouri S&T Academy of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineers (AMAE) held it’s annual induction banquet on Thursday evening, Septem-ber 30, 2010. The evening’s program began with a welcome from MAE Chairman, Dr. Midha. Dr. Jorge Ochoa (ME ’85), president from 2009-2010, passed the Academy leadership to Steve Moss, incoming president for 2010-2011. Mr. Moss (ME’76) is President of Nooter/Eriksen Environ-mental Technologies in Fenton, MO. Randall Wood, 1st Vice President, presented the two inductees, Randy Foster and Paul Niewald, to be hon-ored as members of the Academy. Mike Bytnar, chairman of the scholar-ship/excellence awards committee announced the winners of the Academy scholarships and the faculty, staff and student excellence awards.

After an early breakfast with their spouses, the Academy members met in the Havener Center for their annual membership meeting on Friday, October 1st. They sponsored a BBQ luncheon on the Toomey Hall pa-tio for all department students, faculty and staff. They then entertained presentations made by various student design teams. The spouses, guests and faculty spouses were given a tour of the new Miner Dome, the Solar House Village and then treated to a luncheon at the Benton Square. The two day event concluded with a department Open House where members and guests enjoyed refreshments on the Toomey Hall balcony.

2009 AMAE Inductees:

Michael A. Haas, BSAE ‘87CEO, Orion Energy Group LLC, Oakland CAManaging Director, RDC LTD, Edinburg, UK

Robert J. Hoffman, BSME ‘81Vice President & Co-Owner,

Hoffmann Bros. Heating & Air Conditioning, St. Louis, MO

Dr. Darrell W. Pepper, BSME ’68, MSAE ’70, PhD ‘73Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Director, Nevada Center for Advanced Computational MethodsUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas

Fred “Art” Simmons, BSME ‘66President, Eleison Composites, LLC, Brighton, MI

Thomas J. Spiegel, BSME ‘73Director of Integration & Support Engineering,

The Boeing Company, St. Louis, MO

Chris A. Thomason, BSME ‘85Senior Manager, Advanced Vehicle Architecture,

General Motors Company, Warren, MI

2010 AMAE Inductees:

Randy Foster, BSME ’80Director-Product Technology, Dayco Products, Springfield, MO

Paul W. Niewald, BSAE ‘85Program Manager, F/A-18A-D International Programs

Defense, Space & Security, The Boeing Company, St. Louis, MO

Executive Board 2010-2011

Steve Moss – PresidentRandall Wood – 1st Vice President

Chris Thomason – 2nd Vice PresidentGreg Kellerman – Secretary/Treasurer

IN MEMORIAM . . .

Willbert StoeckerDeceased 2010

Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering

University of IL-Urbana/ChampaignInducted: 2000

Ronald WoodardDeceased 2010

Co-Founder, Group President & Owner (Retired)

Roush IndustriesLivonia, MI

Inducted: 1996

It is with much sadness that we report the passing of two great friends of the department and distinguished Academy members in recent times. We will always cherish their memories. They will be fondly remembered for their dedicated support of the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering.

2009 & 2010 STUDENT EXCELLENCE AWARDSKevin McNease, Jennifer Peterson, Aaron Young, Eric Borcherding, Ryan Pahl, Brent Piercy, Mahesh Shetty, Jacob Larimore, Thomas Oakes, Cayt Schlichting, Benjamin Bettis, Tamas Erdos, Aaron Haley, Patrick Hill, Zachary Lagrone, Jeff Massey, Warner Meeks, James Meub, Pamela Roach, and Toby Wilcher

2009 & 2010 STAFF EXCELLENCE AWARDS Mitch Cottrell, Ken Schmid, Joe Boze, and Tammy Vena

2009 & 2010 FACULTY EXCELLENCE AWARDS Dr. S. N. Balakrishnan and Dr. Joshua Rovey

AMAE SCHOLARSHIPS McGovern James Gaines

Past President Thomas Hulsey

Scholarships Kayla Billedeau Laura Confer Alexander Dunn Kevin Dillon Allen Ernst Jennifer Hoffman Victoria Holderby Nathan Kostelecky Jeremy Ohse Michael Owens

DEPARTMENTAL SCHOLARSHIPS Aerospace Engineers Andrew Brune Michael McBride Paul Soklich Chad Stovall AE Alumni Matthew Walter

Bassem and Gery Armaly Michael Owens

William M. Byrne Whitney Lewis Mathew Walter

Caterpillar John Kiblinger Jeffrey Krampf Curtis McDonald Thomas West

Chevron William Bartz Kenneth Gravlin Benjamin Smith

Clark Family Amber Carver Bradley Harris

Charles Copeland James Holtgreven David Strautmann

Donnell & Ruth Dutton Mariana Escolana Diaz

Thomas Faucett David Mast Michael Owens

Alan Finley Jonathan Sanders

Norman E. Hart Thomas Hulsey Brandon Moore John Muich Kaiser Aluminum Jessica Anna Matthew Archuletta Kevin Armendariz Blake Brenton Komal Choong Sarah Diehl Kelly Dowdy Alexander Dunn Michelle Ekholm Mariana Escalona Diaz Austin Ferguson Danielle Foley Todd Germeroth Mike Ho Jeremiah Johnson Kirtesh Khengar Kynam Le Whitney Lewis Jonghan Lim

Steve McDonald Katie McFarland Shanna Montgomery Thomas Rehmeier Eric Roth Victoria Smiley Anan Takroori Adonis Williams Leslie R. & Barbara R. Koval Zachary Luker

Tsen-Lu & Yuen-Ray Lee Scholars Jonathan Sanders

Don & Alwilda Mathews Jeff Blettner Andrew Busby John Carboneau David Conradi Trent Doerner Mitchell Duffield Donald Gesell Zachary Jennings Owen Johns Clayton Koch Benjamin Korff David Malawey Isaac Neal Zachary Robinson Shawn Slinkard James J. Murphy James Gaines Steven Schwalbert

Christopher Vincent Glenn Wiskur

Fred Nelson Elizabeth Hinck Joe Vehige

C. Remington Alan Ernst Ryan O’Daniel Jeremy Ohse

John Wm. and Camille Ricketts Brian Garber Austin Mehner Brandon Schweitzer Otha Stone Peter Williams

Rayferd D. Routh Brett Gaumond Stacy Herdman Jeffrey Hollis Carl Lacy Nicholas Schweisguth

Patricia Ann and Harry J. Sauer, Jr. Joseph Graff Drew Hall Bradley Harris John Heineck Bradley Hood Ethan Jolius Taylor Reinhart Travis Williams

Robert Schoenthaler David Besand Justen Grindstaff Chris Hoskins Rocky Klabunde Austin Long William Maull Joshua Owens Logan Wesley

Robert L. Seaman Daniel Ems

Amy L. Weir Kayla Roberts

Daniel K. and Linda K. Wright Steven Beetz Jonathan Bick Joshua Mangrum Lucas Mann Andrew Sharp Andrew Terbrock DeMarquis D. & Louise D. Wyatt Komal Choong Michelle Ekholm Katie McFarland Scott Melliere Victoria Smiley Thomas West

Scholarship Awards 2010 - 2011

AMAE SCHOLARSHIPS

McGovern Michelle Ekholm

Past President James Gaines

Scholarships Kayla Billedeau Mark Haarmann Joel Hey Bradley Hood Jeremy Ohse Nicholas Schweissguth Brandon Schweitzer Jacob Sinclair Aimee Snell Logan Wesley

DEPARTMENTAL SCHOLARSHIPS

Aerospace Engineers Nicholas Blubaush Tyler Meadows Sam Pomeroy Thomas Rehmeier

AE Alumni Alexander DunnBassem and Gery Armaly Mariana Escalona Diaz

William M. Byrne Bradley Hood Eric Walter Jacob Wilson

Caterpillar Brent Courtney Logan Wesley Adam Wood

Clark Family Amber Carver Bradley Harris

Robert & Shirley Clooney Joseph Barry Daniel Brames McKenzie Geltz Zachary Jennings Andrew Sharp

Charles Copeland John Pace

Matthew Schaeperkoetter Logan Wesley Robert Davidson Paul Sokolich

Donnell & Ruth Dutton Bradley Hood

Thomas Faucett Daniel Schneider Thomas Sullivan

Alan Finley Caleb Myers

Norman E. Hart Martin Di Stefano Caleb Myers Jason Stumfoll

Kaiser Aluminum Gergory Baja Abby Campbell Amber Carver Kameron Davis Michelle Ekholm Abdulaziz Huraih Kayla Jackson Lisa Lake

Melinda Lake Mocara Rice Krishawn Ridenhour Christopher Robles Melissa Searle Heather Steele Leslie R. & Barbara R. Koval Peter Gent

Tsen-Lu & Yuen-Ray Lee Scholars Jonathan Sanders

Don & Alwilda Mathews Stephen Arnaud Ryan Beck Steven Beetz Kayla Billadeau Justin Britton Komal Choong Landon Day Jacob Duvall Marc Fagen Brian Foulks Benamin Glover Joseph Graff Shawn Herrington Ryan Hoff John Heineken Ashton Kappelman Benjamin Korff Lucas Mann Eric Murray Jeremy Ohse

Matthew Robinson Joshua Smith Matthew Wood

Fred Nelson Ryan Rethy

Chevron Co. Mark Haarmann Joel Hey Kevin Pence

James J. Murphy Jonathan Bick James Bird William Maull Jonathan Nance Ryan Weldon

C. Remington Brian Charles Adam Drees Kevin Kissel

John Wm. and Camille Ricketts Andrew Christian Brandon Schweitzer Travis Stewart

Rayferd D. Routh Nathan Eye Bradley Harris Stacy Herdman Patrick Lawrence Caleb Smith

Patricia Ann and Harry J. Sauer, Jr. Ting Chi Hsu Matthew Eye Jongham Lim Robert Meinders Travis Williams Zhongchi Zhang

Robert Schoenthaler Jacob Shila Anan Takroori Robert L. Seaman Caleb Smith

Amy L. Weir Kayla Roberts

Daniel K. and Linda K. Wright David Amaro Marianna Escalona Diaz DeMarquis D. & Louise D. Wyatt Donald Branson Jeremiah Johnson David Malawey Robert Naeger Taylor Rinehart

Scholarship Awards 2011 - 2012

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Faculty Accomplishments

S. N. Balakrishnan Curators’ Professor of Aerospace Engineering

… guiding missiles and students

S.N. Balakrishnan was named Curators’ Professor by the University of Missouri Board of Curators. Internationally known for his work in developing missile guidance algorithms and intelligent control, he also describes himself as a “dream facilitator” who helps students achieve their research goals. His research interests include stability and control of aerospace and mechanical systems, cognition and bio-inspired techniques for decision and control, and large-scale optimization. His research has been sponsored by the National Science Foundation continuously for more than 17 years. His aircraft and space research work has been sponsored by NASA, and his research in missile guidance and control has been supported by grants from the Army Space and Missile Defense Command, Naval Surface Warfare Center, the Air Force and the Missile Defense Agency.

Dr. Balakrishnan holds a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He has given keynote addresses and invited lectures in several countries. Balakrishnan has more than 200 journal and conference articles; many of his students have won top awards at national and international conferences.

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Walt Eversman, Curators' Professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, was named a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) during a ceremony in Washington, D.C., on May 11, 2011.

The distinction of fellow is conferred upon members of the institute who have made notable and valuable contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology of aeronautics or astronautics.

In 2008, Eversman received the institute's Aeroacous-tics Award for his outstanding contributions to the field of aircraft community noise reduction. He has made fundamental and timely contributions that have enhanced understanding of aircraft turbofan engine noise genera-tion and propagation. His work is widely recognized and used for noise control by major aircraft engine companies. Among his accomplishments is the development of the Eversman Code, which has become an industry standard design tool for turbofan and tonal radiation.

Eversman earned a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering from Purdue University in 1959. In 1961, he earned a master's degree in engineering mechanics from Stanford, and he received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford in 1964. He is a registered professional engineer in Missouri.

Eversman's industrial experience includes working in orbital and flight mechanics with Lockheed Missiles and Space, aircraft noise and structural dynamics and flutter with The Boeing Co. in Wichita and Seattle, and induction system noise with GM/AC/Delphi.

He has been an active member of the aeronautics commu-nity, serving as general chair for the eighth AIAA Aeronau-tics Conference, former chair and vice chair of the AIAA Aeroacoustics Technical Committee and former chair of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Noise Control and Acoustics Technical Committee.

Walt Eversman Named Fellow of AIAA

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Dr. Bassem F. Armaly was appointed to the Missouri Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Rules by Gover-nor Jay Nixon and approved by the Missouri Senate in March 2011.

The Missouri Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Rules works with the Boiler and Pressure Vessel Safety Unit that functions under the Missouri Department of Pub-lic Safety. The board formulates definitions, rules and regulations based on nationally recognized standards and codes for the safe construction, installation, main-tenance, inspection and repairs of boilers and pressure vessels in the state. The Boiler and Pressure Vessel Safe-ty Unit performs the mandated inspections and issuance of certificate of inspection of all non-exempt boilers and pressure vessels, and enforces the rules set forth by the Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Rules.

The Board consists of seven members who are appointed by the Governor with advice and consent of the Senate.

The Board meets five times a year to review and upgrade the rules in addition to approve, if appropriate, requests for variances from the approved rules.

Appointment to the Missouri Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Rules

Dr. Umit O. Koylu was pro-moted to full professor of Me-chanical and Aerospace Engi-neering at Missouri S&T as of September 1, 2011. Dr. Koylu specializes in the interdisci-plinary areas of combustion, environment, energy transfer, hydrogen technologies, and fuel cells. He has been involved in various research projects with

significant environmental and technological implications. In particular, he has been conducting fundamental research on different aspects of particle-laden flames such as their pollutant forma-tion and emission properties, radiation heat transfer, and experimental diagnostics in order to control, monitor, and regulate the harmful effects of sub-micron particu-lates. In recent years, he has also been investigating par-ticulate matter emitted from practical energy conversion systems such as diesel engines and gas turbines. Very recently, Dr. Koylu also started exploring alternative energy systems involving fuel cells and hydrogen-fueled

transportation vehicles. The major objectives of these efforts are to increase the efficiency of fuel cells, to com-putationally model fuel cell operations, and to investi-gate the safety risks of hydrogen-powered vehicles.

Dr. Koylu has received numerous research projects from various government agencies and industry, including the prestigious NSF CAREER award, which is competitively given to the most promising young faculty in the nation’s universities. These projects have resulted in the comple-tion of 4 Ph.D. dissertations and 8 M.S. theses under his supervision. He also has co-authored more than 150 papers published in journals/symposiums/books and presented at professional conferences. A large portion of his papers has been in the leading international jour-nals that have highly been cited by other scientists as the primary indicator of research quality. He has been teach-ing Heat Transfer, Applied Thermodynamics, Combus-tion Processes, and Fuel Cell Principles. He has received teaching awards, including the university outstanding teaching award and silver slide rule award. He has served on several department, university, and professional society committees as well as student organizations.

Dr. Koylu Promoted to Full Professor

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Faculty Accomplishments

Made possible by the generosity of Michael (ME ’68) and Joyce Bytnar through the Bytnar Product Innovation and Creativity Professorship Endowment, Dr. Frank Liou be-came the inaugural Bytnar Product Innovation and Cre-ativity (PIC) Professor. Dr. Liou’s scholarly work is in the field of mechanical engineering design. The Bytnar Pro-fessorship will foster his research in product and process design and design methodology. Additionally, Dr. Ashok Midha became the inaugural Director of the Product In-novation and Creativity Center (PICC). The PICC pro-vides S&T students with opportunities for developing creativity and tools to conduct open-ended, real-world projects to meet industrial and societal needs. Drs. Liou and Midha will work closely to bring national recogni-tion and acclaim to the S&T mechanical engineering de-sign program at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

Mike Bytnar is retired from Nooter Corporation which he joined n 1968. His career with Nooter Corporation includes positions in factory line supervision and man-agement. During that time the Corporation transitioned from a custom steel and alloy plate fabricator to a holding company of diversified industrial companies. In 2002 the

Corporation was reorganized. Mike served as President of Nooter Corporation, overseeing activities of Nooter Construction Company, St. Louis and Philadelphia; RMF Nooter, Toledo; Wyatt Field Services, Houston; and St. Louis Metallizing.

Pictured: (seated) Joyce and Michael Bytnar, (standing left to right) Dr. Frank Liou, Chancellor Jack Carney, Dr. Jim Drallmeier, and Dr. Ashok Midha

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Dr. Victor Birman co-organized, with Colonel Reed Young from Army Reseach Office a Work-shop on Revolutionary Fundamental Research in Support of Energy Harvesting. The work-shop was conducted on April 7th, 2011 in Austin, Texas. The workshop was attended by 25 representatives of Department of Defense (Army Research Office, Air Force and DARPA) and academia. The purpose of the workshop was to bring together representatives of the DoD and academia to identify exceptional fundamental research thrust areas and concentra-tions that foretell revolutionary enhancement of energy harvesting and storage applications, perhaps using multifunctional or multi-disciplinary approaches. The principal interest was to explore and discuss pioneering ideas and directions of fundamental research beyond that investigated today that can result in eventual broad-scale applications relevant to the needs of the Army.

This is the second workshop that Dr. Birman has co-organized in the last two years. The first was a Workshop on Intelligent and Adaptive Systems for Dynamic Load Mitigation

conducted by the Army Research Office on May 27-28, 2010 in Aberdeen, Maryland and co-organized with Dr. Bruce LaMattina and Colonel Reed Young from ARO. The purpose of the 2010 workshop was to explore the next genera-tion of fundamental research needed for the development of future systems capable of the mitigation of dynamic loads associated with hostile actions.

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Featured Staff

Ted Davis came to the Mechanical and Aerospace Department in October 1991 as an elec-tronics technician. While he was a very capable technician, he truly shined with his ex-traordinary computer abilities. Over his nearly twenty years of service, he used his unique and invaluable talents creating specialized software packages for the department and re-search groups, as well as creating and maintaining a complex infrastructure of departmen-tal servers and computer resources. His abilities with scripts and programming were key to elegant and creative solutions to many problems. Among his many accomplishments, and his most visible, was the creation of the electronic building directory. This unique program allows any building visitor to quickly locate the office or lab of interest, with a graphic de-piction of how to reach the desired room. This system has garnered great interest across campus with several departments interested in having such a system.

Ted retired in June of 2010 and passed away in April of this year. He will be sorely missed.

Ted Davis Memorial

Meet the MAE Machine Shop StaffOur Department has an outstanding staff that works in the machine shop and instructional lab.

Bob Hribar has been with Missouri S&T for 28 years. His education includes classes at Lake County Junior College, various trade schools, engineering classes and the U.S. Marine Corps. He performs machining, welding, pipefitting, carpentry, and whatever is required to “Get the job done.” Bob enjoys his job because it’s challenging everyday and requires “out of the box thinking.” He enjoys working with students and professors as well as visiting with foreign stu-dents and comparing lifestyles. Bob says it’s satisfying to “do the impossible.” Bob is married and has three children and eight grandchildren. His hobbies are farming, drawing, hunting, landscaping and carpentry, restoring old vehicles, and travel.

Joe Boze started his career as a blacksmiths’ apprentice in 1970 at age 13 running a forge and making horseshoes and skidding tongs. He has been in the metalworking craft for over 40 years. His experience includes underground mining, the oil fields, injection molding shops, stamping die shops and job shops, all the while working as a machinist, fabrica-tor, welder and draftsmen. He has also programmed and ran 5 and 6 axis CNC equipment and performed quality control and parts inspection for Boeing, Learjet and Cessna. His “gift” is that he can make one-of-a-kind parts. Joe assists the for-mula car, the human powered vehicle, the heavy lift aircraft, the solar car, and the Baja teams. His hobby is his work. Randall Lewis is the Instructional Lab Coordinator for ME 153 and just marked his 10th anniversary with the depart-ment. He instructs 9 lab sections with numerous TA’s as well

as managing the equipment in the Boeing CNC lab. He is the Team Advisor for the Missouri S&T SAE Baja Team and a voting member of the SDELC Advisory Board. He helps with manufacturing components for the various teams. He has CNC machined components’ on several department research projects over this summer and also consults and assists on many projects in other departments. Randall is married and has two daughters who are students in the Life Sciences department at Missouri S&T.

Education: PhD, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Research Interests: Fluid mechanics, aerosol mechanics, and the effect of clouds on glob-al climate with an emphasis on experimental approach and instrumentation development

DR. DARRYL J. ALOFSPROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Education: PhD, University of California at Berkeley

Research Interests: Heat transfer and fluid mechanics, thermophysical properties, heat pipes, combined conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer problems, solar energy, cryogenics, and thermal effects in manufacturing processes

DR. BASSEM F. ARMALYCURATORS’ PROFESSOR OF

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Research Interests: Guidance, stability, control and estimation, pattern recognition, stochastic processes, optimization, neural network applications to control, numerical methods, design

DR. S. N. BALAKRISHNAN CURATOR’S PROFESSOR OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Education: PhD, Purdue University

Research Interests: Multidimensional radiative heat transfer, laser processing of materials, radiative heat transfer in combustion processes, microscale heat transfer, biomedical optics, interaction of radiation with conduction and convection, multiple scattering and polarization of laser beams, solutions of integral equations, numerical heat transfer

DR. AL CROSBIECURATORS’ PROFESSOR OF

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Education: PhD, Clemson University

Research Interests: Aircraft structures, fracture mechanics, fatigue and failure analysis; micro-mechanics; composite materials and structures; process modeling of ceramic matrix compos-ites; friction and wear of composites; fracture of laminated glazing

DR. LOKESWARAPPA R. DHARANICURATORS’ PROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL

AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERINGEducation: PhD, Technion (Israel)

Research Interests: Composite material structures, smart structures and materials, structural dynamics and vibration, buckling and dynamic stability

DR. VICTOR BIRMANPROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION CENTER

Education: PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Research Interests: Composite materials, smart structures, nanocomposites, biocomposites, structural dynamics, finite element analysis, damage monitoring, composite manufacturing, experimental characterization

DR. K. CHANDRASHEKHARACURATORS’ PROFESSOR OF

MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Education: PhD, Texas A&M University

Research Interests: Buoyancy driven flows, turbulence, low reynolds number hydro-dynamics, nano-fluidics, optical and laser based diagnostics in thermal-fluid sciences, bio-heat transfer

DR. ARINDAM BANERJEEASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Education: PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests: Precision motion control for micro- and nano-positioning systems, iterative learning control, robust control, modeling, design, solid freeform fabrication, microscopy, signal processing

DR. DOUGLAS A. BRISTOWASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Education: PhD from University of Missouri-Rolla Research Interests: Composite Materials, Systems Engineering/Design, Solar and Wind Energy.

DR. DOUGLAS R. CARROLLPROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

DIRECTOR OF COOPERATIVE ENGINEERING PROGRAM AT MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY

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Education: PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), aerodynamics, micro/nano flows, stochastic CFD, uncertainty and error quantification in computational simulations, multidisciplinary design and optimization, robust design, numerical methods

DR. SERHAT HOSDERASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Education: PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago

Research Interests: Design optimization, mul-tidisciplinary optimization design, probabilistic/statistical methods, system/structural reliability, robust design, kinematics, mechanism synthe-sis, petroleum machinery

DR. XIAOPING DUASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Education: PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder

Research Interests: Aerodynamic testing, unsteady flows, vortex dynamics in separated flows, physical and numerical flow visualizations, variable density flows, flow control

DR. FATHI FINAISHPROFESSOR OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

DIRECTOR, NASA-MISSOURI SPACE GRANT CONSORTIUM

Education: PhD, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana

Research Interests: Fluid dynamics, heat transfer, and thermodynamics of energy systems, heat and mass transfer in buoyant flows, second-law and exergy analysis, nu-merical simulation of transport phenomena and experimental methods

DR. KELLY HOMANASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Education: PhD, Stanford University

Research Interests: Noise control, acoustics, vibrations, aircraft structural dynamics and aeroelasticity, systems and control

DR.WALTER EVERSMANCURATORS’ PROFESSOR OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Education: PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Research Interests: Combustion, laser based diagnostics for sprays and combustion, optical measurement systems, fuel injection, internal combustion engines

DR. JAMES A. DRALLMEIERCURATOR’S TEACHING PROFESSOR OF

MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGCHAIR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL AND

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

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PhD, Texas A&M University-College Station

Research Interests: Design theory and methodology, design of complex systems, behavioral modeling of complex systems, design of hybrid powertrain systems, en-gineering software development, graphical simulations of engineering systems

DR. RYAN S. HUTCHESONASSISTANT TEACHING PROFESSOR OF

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Education: PhD, Washington State Univer-sity

Research Interests: Advanced manufactur-ing systems; alternative energy; intelligent control; robotics

DR. K. KRISHNAMURTHYPROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

VICE PROVOST FOR RESEARCH

Education: PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Research Interests: Fluid dynamics and aerodynamics. aero-structure interaction and control, microfluidics, emissions from combustion and evaporative systems, CFD applications in fluid dynamics and combus-tion problems

DR. KAKKATTUKUZHY M. ISAACPROFESSOR OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

ASSOCIATE CHAIR OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Education: PhD, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Research Interests: Combustion, air pollut-ants, alternative fuels, fuel cells, hydrogen technologies, radiative transfer, flame diag-nostics, nanoparticle characterization, fire safety, thermal/fluid engineering

DR. UMIT O. KOYLUPROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

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Education: PhD, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities

Research Interests: Finite elasticity, vis-coelasticity, liquid crystal hydrodynamics, solid and continuum mechanics

DR. GEAROID MACSITHIGHASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL

AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Education: PhD, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities

Research Interests: CAD/CAM, rapid prototyping, rapid manufacturing, fuel cell manufacturing

DR. FUEWEN (FRANK) LIOUMICHAEL AND JOYCE BYTNAR PRODUCT

INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY PROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

DIRECTOR OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING PROGRAM

Education: PhD, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities

Research Interests: Mechanical design, rigid-body and compliant mechanism design, high-performance machinery analysis and design, machine vibration and stability

DR. ASHOK MIDHAPROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

DIRECTOR OF THE PRODUCT INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY CENTER

Education: PhD, University of Texas at Arlington

Research Interests: Kinematics, mechanical design, synthesis of mechanisms

DR. J. KEITH NISBETTASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AND

ASSOCIATE CHAIR OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Education: PhD, University of California at Berkeley

Research Interests: Rapid prototyping, addi-tive manufacturing, virtual reality, CAD/CAM, robotics, mechatronics, automatic control.

DR. MING C. LEUKEITH AND PAT BAILEY DISTINGUISHED

PROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGDIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS CENTER (ISC)

DIRECTOR OF CENTER FOR AEROSPACE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES (CAMT)

Education: PhD, Purdue University

Research Interests: Astrodynamics, orbital mechanics, spacecraft design, spacecraft mission design, satellite attitude dynamics, nonlinear analysis, dynamics and control, optimization

DR. HENRY (HANK) PERNICKAASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Education: PhD, Michigan Technological University

Research Interests: Manufacturing including intelligent machining, high speed machining, machine tool dynamics and metrology, metal forming, sensors and signal processing, com-puter numerical control (CNC), virtual manufac-turing, and neural network applications; smart structures including structural health monitor-ing, aging aircraft, damage assessment and repair of metallic and composite structures, non-destructive evaluation, and proton exchange membrane (hydrogen) fuel cells

DR. ANTHONY OKAFORPROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Education: PhD, Missouri University of Sci-ence and Technology

Research Interests: Hydrogen infrastructure modeling, fuel cell technology,energy policy

DR. KEVIN B. MARTINASSISTANT RESEARCH PROFESSOR OF

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

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Education: PhD, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Research Interests: Manufacturing, systems, and control; modeling, analysis, monitoring, and control of manufacturing processes; metal cutting; laser metal deposition; freeze extrusion fabrication; friction stir process-ing; electro–hydraulics; analysis and control of alternative energy systems; digital control applications

DR. ROBERT G. LANDERSASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF

MECHANICAL ENGINEERINGASSOCIATE CHAIR OF GRADUATE AFFAIRS

Education: PhD, New Mexico University

Research Interests: Nonlinear Dynamics and Vibrations, studey of deterministic and random dynamical systems, model order reduction, theoretical modeling and numerical computa-tion, structural dynamics

DR. NISHANT KUMAR ASSISTANT TEACHING PROFESSOR OF

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

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Education: PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Research Interests: Fluid dynamics, compu-tational fluid dynamics, hypersonic propulsion systems, computational analysis of jet mixing, flow losses and mixing enhancement in com-bustors, aircraft gas turbine ramjet propulsion systems, scramjet performance

DR. DAVID W. RIGGINSPROFESSOR OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

Education: PhD, University of Michigan

Research Interests: Plasma aerospace applica-tions, advanced space propulsion, plasma aero-dynamics and flow control, plasma-enhanced combustion, applications to energy systems, hypersonics/re-entry body plasma interactions, plasma physics, rarefied gas dynamics

DR. JOSHUA L. ROVEYASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

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Education: PhD, North Carolina State University

Research Interests: Industries-of-the-future, industrial energy management, energy efficiency, hydrogen energy systems, thermal contact conductance/resistance

DR. JOHN W. SHEFFIELDPROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF CTIS NATIONAL UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION CENTER

Education: PhD, Purdue University

Research Interests: Dynamics, vibrations, modeling and development of piezoactua-tors and transducers-mechatronics, embed-ded systems and control

Education: PhD, University of California at Berkeley

Research Interests: Ultrashort laser pulse-material interaction, laser micromachining for micro-sensors and micro-devices, gas metal arc welding, laser welding and hybrid welding, Ab Initio MD modeling, multiscale modeling

Education: PhD, Stanford University

Research Interests: Design theory and methodologies, design for manufacture, lifecycle engineering, sustainable design, applications of decision analysis and game theory in design, creativity and innovation, customer need analysis, uncertainty modeling for product cost, warranty cost, market share, and competition

DR. SHUN TAKAIASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

DR. DANIEL S. STUTTSASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

DR. HAI-LUNG TSAIPROFESSOR OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

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OUTSTANDING TEACHING AWARDS: The de-partment of mechanical and aerospace engineering is for-tunate to be endowed with many excellent teachers. The S&T Committee on Effective Teaching bases their selection on the results of the student surveys of teaching effective-ness, and the nature of the faculty instructional responsi-bilities. Three faculty members, Drs. Jim Drallmeier, Hank Pernicka, and David Riggins received these awards for the 2008-2009 academic year. Four faculty members, Drs. Xiaoping Du, Hank Pernicka, David Riggins, and Joshua Rovey received these awards for the 2009-2010 academic year. The Global Learning Outstanding Teaching Award of Excellence was also presented to two of our faculty in 2010, Drs. Lokesh Dharani and Robert Landers. Dr. Victor Birman also received commendations for Global Learning Outstanding Teaching in 2010. In 2011, Drs. Victor Bir-man, K. Chandrashekhara, and Lokesh Dharani received the Global Learning Outstanding Teaching Award. Dr. Frank Liou received the Faculty Research Award for 2010. STAFF EXCELLENCE AWARDS: Among the nine full-time employees recognized in 2011, for their con-tributions to the campus during S&T Staff Recognition Day ceremonies on campus, was Robert Hribar, senior laboratory mechanic in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering. This is a very competitive award, and the winners are selected from a group of staff members nominated by faculty, staff and students, and selected on the basis of their job performance, relationship with associates and dedication to the university.

S&T Awards for ourFaculty and Staff Members

Dr. Jim Drallmeier was promoted to Curators’ Teaching Professor in 2010. Jim’s hallmark teaching endeavors and outcomes have consistently been outstanding and of stellar quality. He has been consistently been recognized by nu-merous awards during his career.

Dr. Jim Drallmeier Promoted to Curators’ Teaching Professor

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Phonathon

Thank you to everyone who made contributions to last year’s Phonathon. This year’s Mechanical Engineering Phonathon will be held September 8, 11-15, 18-22, and 25-28 2011. With the Aerospace Engineering Phonathon being held October 23-26 2011. When the phone rings, please take a moment to speak with one of our student representatives. Every gift helps make a difference. Make this year’s fundraising efforts the best yet on record!

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