In early September, a research presentation developed by undergraduates Kevin Lieb and Ryan Lotz (and recorded by Dr. Darren Hartl) will be given virtually to the smart materials and adaptive structures communities regarding the design, fabrication, and testing of a shape memory alloy-driven “flow modification system,” all performed at the MAESTRO Laboratory in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University.
The recorded video of this presentation is being shared here to provide glimpses both of the kind of research presentations that are common throughout the aerospace research ecosystem, but most especially to highlight the quality work expected of and performed by undergraduate engineering students at Texas A&M and in the MAESTRO Laboratory in particular, even at the sophomore level.
This work was performed in collaboration with an uncredited sponsor toward an exciting but herein unspecified application.