Aero Students Dominate at AIAA
April 11, 2009
The Clark School sent 24 students to compete for Student Paper Awards in three categories: Team, Graduate, and Undergraduate. Thirty judges from industry and government scored the written manuscripts and oral presentations.
The Clark School won the following:
* First Place, Team category: Robbie Vocke and Timofey Spirodonov (et. al.) – Design and Construction of All-Composite UAVs Utililizing a Modified VARTM Process (Advisor: Dr. Darryll Pines)
* First Place, Graduate category: Louise A. Ahuré – "Behavior of Magnetorheological Fluid Composites Employing Carrier Fluids Certified for Landing Gear Use" (Advisor: Dr. Norm Wereley)
* Third Place, Graduate category: Harinder Singh – "Nondimensional Analyses of Single and Multiple Event Vertical Stroking Crew Seats Employing Magnetorheological Energy Absorbers" (Advisor: Dr.Norm Wereley)
* First Place, Undergraduate category: Michael Gentry – "Fatigue Testing of Pneumatic Artificial Muscle Actuators" (Advisor: Dr. Norm Wereley)
* Second Place, Undergraduate category: Joseph Ramsey – "Flow Visualization and Particle Imaging Velocimetry of an Insect-Based Flapping Wing Mechanism" (Advisor: Dr. J. Gordon Leishman)
* Third Place, Undergraduate category: Nicholas D’Amore – "An Empirical Assessment of Several Models for Drag of an Underwater Vehicle" (Advisor: Dr. Dave Akin)
* The UM chapter of AIAA also came away with the 2007-2008 Outstanding Student Branch (Mid-Atlantic Region) Award. Breanne McNerney (2008 AIAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Student Conference co-chair) accepted on behalf of the Maryland Chapter.
The first-place winners earned $500 cash prizes. Vocke, Ahuré and Gentry also were awarded free trips to represent the Mid-Atlantic Region at the International Student Paper Conference, which will be held January 4-7, 2010, in conjunction with the 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, in Orlando, Fla. Second-place winners earned a cash prize of $300, and third-Place winners a cash prize of $250.