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:
awards
Graduate Student wins Simulia poster contest
Graduate Student Patrick Walgren took home top honors in the academic poster competition at the Dassault-Systemes Simulia Regional Users Meeting (RUM). Patrick presented work completed during his summer internship at the Air Force Research Lab, titled “Structural Design of Adaptive Cylinders.”
Poster Presented at the RUM
Graduate Student Wins Best Student Oral Presentation Award at ICAST 2018
Graduate student Brent Bielefeldt represented the MAESTRO Lab at the 29th International Conference on Adaptive Structures and Technologies (ICAST) hosted by Konkuk University and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Seoul, South Korea. In addition to networking with members of the community and learning about recent advancements in the field of adaptive structures, Brent won Best Student Oral Presentation for his paper entitled “Expanding the Design Space Via Graph-Based Interpretation of L-System Encodings for Topology Optimization of Multifunctional Structures”. [Read more…] about Graduate Student Wins Best Student Oral Presentation Award at ICAST 2018
(left) Jacob Mingear and Dr. Darren Hartl receiving the award at SMASIS 2018. (right) Jessica Zamarripa investigating the liquid metal powered shape memory alloy actuator in the lab.
Members of Dr. Darren Hartl’s research group, graduate students Jacob Mingear and Brent Bielefeldt, and junior Jessica Zamarripa, won the 2018 ASME Ephrahim Garcia Best Paper Award for their paper titled “Towards High-Frequency Shape Memory Alloy Actuators Incorporating Liquid Metal Energy Circuits” at SMASIS 2018 in San Antonio this last month.
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Hartl receives Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award
Dr. Darren Hartl, TEES Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University, has received the Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award from the Aerospace Division of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). [Read more…] about Hartl receives Gary Anderson Early Achievement Award