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Team Debuts New Overview Video

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After two days of interviewing and filming and a week of work by Uprooted Productions, we are excited to share the story of our team:
 

Maestro wins 2018 South ASME University Technical Competition

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On April 7, undergraduate researchers Hannah Stroud and Samuel Murley won the undergraduate student research poster portion of the University Technical Competition hosted by the South Texas division of ASME. The pair presented their poster on multiphysical characterization of avian inspired morphing wings and discussed 3D digital image correlation augmented by infrared imaging methods for obtaining shape and temperature data for a wing mounted in a wind tunnel.

Congrats Hannah and Sam!

 

TAMU Qatar students visit the VR Studio

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Texas A&M has a campus located in Qatar and every spring break, they send a delegation to the College Station campus and facilitate interactions with them and the students in here. One of their stops on the tour this year was the Maestro VR Studio where they got to try out AR/VR, many for the first time, and understand how these emerging technologies are used in Education. They ended their visit with eating A&M themed cookies, what a sweet treat!

Staffers tour the Maestro Lab

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On February 22nd, the Maestro Lab had the opportunity to host senate and congressional staffers in the VR Studio. They were all gifted a small SMA band that would always morph back into the shape of Texas when heated. They heard about all that the Maestro Lab is doing to advance space concepts using SMAs and how we’re utilizing VR to create the next generation learning experience.

Team Debuts New Overview Video

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After two days of interviewing and filming and a week of work by Uprooted Productions, we are excited to share the story of our team:
 

MAESTRO Team Attends AIAA SciTech in Orlando

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Once again the Maestro group had a strong presence at the SciTech  conference, the biggest aerospace conference in the US with more than 4200 participants and 2000 technical papers. Representing the lab, PhD student Pedro Leal and Dr. Darren Hartl presented four technical papers related to the avian-inspired and EVA glove projects (all papers are listed below). [Read more…] about MAESTRO Team Attends AIAA SciTech in Orlando

Volleyball Extravaganza 2017 a Success

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As a means off blowing end-of-the-semester stress, the MAESTRO Team gathered at casa de Hartl for another round of morale building and pride crushing volleyball. A full 20 players participated in the four-team round-robin competition. In the end, the “Slat Cove Winners” (Scholten, Patterson, White, Garza, and French visiting student Thomas Thollot) and “HRBB Fully Loaded” (Brazilian visiting student Bia Borges, Pedro Savi, Hartl, Cabezuela, and Alyssa Saenz) tied with three wins and one loss each. A Wiffle Ball game followed, with Hartl (pitcher) learning that some students neglect to mention that they were high school baseball players on their resumés. The evening concluded with a Secret Santa gift exchange organized by Patrick Walgren.

For more pictures, see the Recreation page.

Hartl and Collaborators Featured in WIRED Article on Shape Memory Alloys

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You know you are reading a WIRED article when it begins: “HUMANITY MAY BE divided on a great many issues, but most would agree that it would be very cool to have airplane wings made of shapeshifting metal.” Along with collaborators Jim Mabe (Boeing Research and Technology) and Othmane Benafan (NASA-Glenn Research Center), Dr. Hartl was fortunate to work with a good science and technology reporter to summarize some of the most important work currently happening in shape memory alloys.

Read the entire article HERE.