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Like the weather in Texas, the moon’s temperature varies drastically over the course of its day and night cycle. The moon’s surface can reach scorching temperatures as high as 250 degrees F during the day and a frigid 208 degrees below zero at night.
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Brady Allen and Jacob Collins, undergraduate students in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, recently won the 2019 CAF Wings Over Houston Scholarship. Brady, an undergraduate researcher in the MAESTRO Lab, was recommended for the scholarship by Dr. Hartl.
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Early in march, the US Patent Office assigned patent number US10228197 for a patent entitled “Variable Heat Rejection Device” that protects intellectual property associated with the SMA-based morphing radiator project. Inventors included Dr. Darren Hartl and his collaborators at NASA and Paragon Space Development Corporation.
[Read more…] about US patent granted for shape memory alloy morphing radiator
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Only three years after returning to the Texas A&M Department of Aerospace Engineering as a tenure-track faculty member in August of 2016, Dr. Hartl has reached the 3000 citation mark (as per Google Scholar).
With an h-index of 20 and with 50 publications having over 10 citations, Dr. Hartl continues to work with his students to make an impact on the smart materials and adaptive structures community in particular. Highly cited publications from the MAESTRO Lab address such topics as shape memory alloys, active origami, and multi-functional composites. Newer papers have addressed fracture and fatigue of shape memory alloy materials as well as new topological design methods and actuator concepts.
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Senior undergraduate student Jessica Zamarripa recently attended the Global Grand Challenge Summit in London, UK from September 12-18. The event convened inspirational world leaders with the next generation of engineers and change makers to build a creative collaboration environment to help solve the grand challenges facing our world. The summit focused on answering the questions of whether we can sustain 10 billion people and will AI/other transformational technologies change humanity for the better. She spent her time networking with representatives from industry and academia (including the COE of Deka Research and Development, former president of the National Academy of Engineers, President of the Namibia Society of Engineers, etc.), participated in the student collaboration lab, and attended several seminars that discussed different world issues.
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Happy golfers pose after the final hole played during a perfect game of golf at the exclusive Wolf Point Club.
Representing one of the most unique MAESTRO experiences to date, Dr. Hartl and his team were recently invited to play the exclusive Wolf Point Club, a private golf course with its own attached private airport owned by Dianna Stanger. [Read more…] about Team members invited to play “Texas’ most intriguing and secret golf course”
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MAESTRO graduate students, select undergraduates, and guests Jim and Chris Mabe pose after the 2019 annual retreat.
In what has become a tradition, MAESTRO students and affiliated researchers retreated to the Texas Gulf Coast for multiple days of technical and social activities. [Read more…] about MAESTRO researchers participate in annual Summer Retreat
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The Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University hosted a Pitch Up! competition, giving undergraduate aerospace students the opportunity to showcase their technical work and receive feedback on their presentation skills.
Based on the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition, Pitch Up! challenged the students to describe a technical project or research in which they were involved in three minutes. The students presented their work to a panel of judges that included individuals with technical and nontechnical backgrounds.
Sophomore Brady Allen won first place and $250 with his presentation on the thermodynamics of a Pratt and Whitney turbojet. Second place and the $150 prize went to senior Jacob Collins for his presentation on building a combustion ignition wind tunnel for hypersonic propulsion research. Junior Kevin Lieb took third place and $100 with a talk on acoustic analysis of a leading-edge slat cove filler. Freshmen Collin Invie and Joseph Heimerl were honorable mentions for their presentations on configurable origami antennae and model rocketry, respectively.
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This weekend members of the Maestro lab volunteered at the 2019 Physics & Engineering Festival. The festival attracts over 7,000 people and consists of 200 booths with interactive experiments including two from our lab. This was the fifth year in a roll that we have participated at the festival and we look forward to next year!
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