2016 AME Newsletter

AME news The annual newsletter serving the students, alumni and friends of the University of Oklahoma School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

Letter From the Director Welcome to the 2016 newsletter of the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. It is my great pleasure to write you about the exciting progress we are making in AME. The demand for our educational programs continues to be at an all-time high, as we saw an influx of more than 200 freshmen beginning the aerospace and mechanical engineering programs.

We now have almost 1,000 students pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees in AME. We are looking forward to working with all of our students and providing them an excellent learning environment.

In 2015, we continued to strengthen our research programs and enhance course offerings by hiring truly exceptional faculty. You will read more about the accomplishments of assistant professors Dalton, Hays and L’Afflitto, as well as their future plans on page three. You will also find updates about our distinguished faculty who have been recognized worldwide for their research and scholarly contributions to our profession. We are actively recruiting new faculty this year in the areas of energy and biomechanics, as well as a professor of engineering practice to focus on our students’ educational experience and learning.

I would also like to acknowledge and thank our outstanding alumni, who have been our staunchest supporters and have graciously given so much over the years. All of our students and faculty are continuing to benefit from your generosity. Thanks to this support, we have initiated the upgrade of both educational and research infrastructure, including renovations of the L.A. Comp Wind Tunnel and AME CAD Lab. I hope you will consider our school’s current need for additional scholarships and funds for facility enhancements and join AME’s list of donors. With your help, we will continue to offer the best educational experience to our students in the years ahead.

Give to AME M. Cengiz Altan

2016

In This Issue Letter From the Director....….…………1 2015 in Review……………………........…...…2 New Faculty…………………………...............3 Faculty Research…………...……….…..4-5 Remembering Bert……….......…..……....6 TECAID………………………...............………...7 Student Spotlight..............................8-9 Outstanding Students.........................9 Faculty Updates................................…10 Student Team Update and Recent Graduates….............................11 Giving Opportunities………………........12

Recent Graduate?

Don’t forget to inform AME after you land a new job. Keeping track of recent graduates’ employment status is a vital part of our accreditation process. Email any job-related updates to AME director M. Cengiz Altan at altan@ou.edu or AME communications coordinator Danielle Geier at dgeier@ ou.edu.

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2015 in Review Faculty and Staff

#AMEChallenge

AME hosted its first photo challenge in which students were encouraged to complete various challenges in return for a complimentary AME T-shirt.

Students had to complete three out of four photo challenges and post the photos to AME social media sites with the hashtag #AMEChallenge.

Over 60 students participated and received a T-shirt. Visit the AME Facebook page to see the photos.

New Faces at AME

Faculty

Chris Dalton, Thomas Hays and Andrea L’Afflitto joined AME as assistant professors in August. AME has plans to hire three additional faculty members during the 2016 academic year. To learn more about our new assistant professors, continue to page three.

Ongoing Renovations

Over the past year, Felgar Hall has undergone a number of renovations.

This includes updates to the AME front office and various other offices.

The CAD Lab currently is being renovated to better accommodate our students. The L.A. Comp Wind Tunnel is being remodeled with plans for completion in spring 2016.

GSC Team Room

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M. Cengiz Altan, Director Peter Attar J. David Baldwin Kuang-Hua Chang Chris Dalton Rong Gan Jivtesh Garg Subramanyam Gollahalli Kurt Gramoll Thomas Hays Andrea L’Afflitto Feng Lai Yingtao Liu Wilson Merchán-Merchán David Miller Farrokh Mistree Kumar Parthasarathy Mrinal Saha Zahed Siddique Li Song Harold Stalford Prakash Vedula

Staff

Rebecca Norris Office Manager and Assistant to the Director Debbie Mattax Financial Associate Kate O’Brien Student Services Coordinator As the AME Graduate Student Community continues to thrive, the size of the organization continues to grow. Dave Bert, 1985 graduate and board member, and his family made a generous donation to AME to create a GSC Team Room for graduate student meetings and presentations, as well as an area for relaxation.

Danielle Geier Communications Coordinator Melissa Foster Staff Assistant

Shop Personnel Billy Mays Greg Williams

AME Welcomes New Faculty Christopher Dalton attended the University of Oklahoma, where he received his doctorate in mechanical engineering with a concentration in thermal sciences in 2010. His research and background is in engineering education and K-12 STEM outreach.

While Dalton was a professor of practice in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, he received the College of Engineering Teacher of the Year Award in 2013 and the Outstanding Advising Award in both 2013 and 2014.

As a three-time OU graduate, receiving his bachelor of science, master of science and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering, Dalton is no stranger to our school. “As an alumnus, I know the quality of education, facilities, faculty and students at OU,” he said. “I am excited to return to the OU AME family.”

Thomas Hays attended Oklahoma State University, where he received his doctorate in aerospace engineering in summer 2015.

Hays’ research interests include small unmanned aerial vehicle propulsion, unmanned systems for weather research and forecasting, and practical unmanned aircraft systems design, fabrication and optimization.

Hays has big plans as he begins at AME. “I am eager to begin working with students to build their understanding of aircraft design and optimization while also creating opportunities for hands-on learning through flight-testing student aircraft,” he said. “Composite fabrication, 3D printing and computer numerical control machining will be foundational skills required to complete student’s theoretical and practical education in aircraft design.”

Andrea L’Afflitto earned his doctoral degree in aerospace engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in May 2015.

L’Afflitto’s research interests include state- and output-feedback optimal control theory, with applications ranging from coordination of unmanned aerial vehicle formations to robotics.

L’Afflitto is eager to begin his time at AME. “I look forward to interacting daily with the curious young minds of OU students,” he said.

“I will include graduate and undergraduate students in my research while transmitting my passion for engineering and mathematics to the next generation.”

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Faculty Research Liu develops Novel Polymers With Self-Healing Capability Yingtao Liu, Ph.D., and his research team currently are developing intrinsic self-healing epoxy and composite materials. Without adding any healing agent, the developed polymer and composite materials are able to autonomously repair structural damage due to fatigue and impact loading. This project has been funded by the OU Research Council Faculty Investment Program. Once complete, this exploratory project will be a solid foundation for the design, synthesis and characterization of multifunctional polymers and composites for aerospace, mechanical and civil engineering applications.

“We will focus on the synthesis and characterization of self-healing polymers and composites in this project,” said Liu. “The self-healing process of the proposed polymers will mimic the biological systems that can autonomously repair the physical damage and recover the load carrying ability after damage.

The developed polymers will be employed to replace traditional epoxy matrix in composites, providing the healing ability with extended material service life.”

Liu’s long-term career goal is to develop an adaptive structural health management system for multi-physics damage diagnosis and prognosis by combining multifunctional materials, intelligent and multi-scale sensing, nondestructive evaluation, and multi-scale and probabilistic modeling into a general framework. The successful development of intelligent materials and structural systems will be a game-changing improvement of damage diagnosis, structural maintenance and risk management for various engineering applications. This project, which focuses on the self-healing capability, is one of the key elements in Liu’s long-term research plan.

Vedula Develops Innovative Computational Algorithms Prakash Vedula, Ph.D., and his research group pursue high-risk research relevant to fundamental discoveries and innovations in computational algorithms applicable to a broad class of complex systems in nature and engineering. One of the longterm objectives of Vedula’s research is to enable development of intelligent and energy-efficient complex systems via integration of fundamental knowledge with algorithms for prediction, control and sensor fusion for real-time applications.

Vedula has made considerable progress toward that goal and has already tackled some of the challenging mathematical problems. Significant innovations include development of computational algorithms for (i) fast and optimal prediction of turbulence and other dynamical systems based on spatiotemporal statistical information, (ii) unified descriptions of transport phenomena in continuum/noncontinuum regimes based on fundamental kinetic theory and (iii) nonlinear filtering and stochastic optimal control.

These algorithms can be considered as breakthroughs in their disciplines while having the potential to greatly improve performance and/or lower operating/design costs relevant to many complex systems, such as power plants based on bio/fossil/nuclear fuels, oil and natural gas processing plants, pharmaceutical manufacturing units, hypersonic re-entry space vehicles, aircraft engines, micro/nano electromechanical systems, weather prediction systems, and UAVs, just to name a few.

Vedula’s algorithms address generic problems in a broad range of complex systems where complexities arise due to multiscale/multiphysics interactions, breakdown of continuum assumptions, reduced order modeling and/ or decision-making based on integration of information from computational prediction and sensor data. Some of the algorithms he has developed also have been implemented in codes of interest to the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy. Vedula’s research has received financial support from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy and NASA. AME • 4

Merchán-Merchán Mentors Undergrads Through Research Throughout his career, Wilson E. Merchán-Merchán, Ph.D., has mentored undergraduate and high school students in various research labs. He continues these research mentorship opportunities at AME. “These students learn to conduct research, interpret data, interact and work with graduate students in a laboratory setting,” said Merchán-Merchán.

“I strongly believe a successful undergraduate research experience allows students to be more competitive at a national level for graduate school and/ or industry.” Merchán-Merchán recently mentored Henry Ware, and together they published research about biodiesel fuels. In that study, they reported that Sophia Morren (McNair Scholars carbon particulate deposits on a surface of a metal probe inserted in a Canola Director), Henry Ware and Methyl Ester flame contained the presence of elongated carbon structures Wilson Merchán-Merchán and carbon/metal composites. The metallic components within the combustion by-products are of ultra-small size diameter. The release of such materials by engines using this fuel can have a significant impact on the environment and human health. It is hypothesized that the corrosion rate on the surface of the metal probe is significantly enhanced in the biodiesel flame due to the physiochemical properties of this oxygenated fuel. Transmission Electron Microscopy micrographs taken from the deposit samples reveal material clusters composed of agglomerates formed of primary particles surrounded by “strand-like” fibers with a high degree of networked morphology. These fibers contain a high number of metal nanoparticles, and form a networked carbon/metal composite structure. This research is supported through a multi-year grant from the National Science Foundation.

Under Merchán-Merchán’s mentorship and the McNair Program at OU, Ware chose to pursue a doctorate in mechanical engineering. He was able to leverage these research findings into support for his graduate studies and was awarded the prestigious NSF Graduate Fellowship.

Miller and Team Engineer Mobility Robot for Children David Miller, Ph.D., along with graduate students Mustafa Ghazi, Michael Nash and fellow engineering faculty Andrew Fagg, Ph.D., and Lei Ding, Ph.D., developed a wireless robotic system known as the Self-Initiated Prone Progression Crawler, which allows babies with mobility challenges, like cerebral palsy, learn to crawl. The foundation of this research began with Thubi Kolobe, Ph.D., a physical therapist and researcher in the College of Allied Health at the OU Health Sciences Center.

The SIPPC3 is a wireless robotic system. While the babies lie on their stomachs, the SIPPC responds to and can amplify any ground movement by the infants. The babies also wear a kinematic capture suit with 12 sensors that gather information about the infants’ movements 50 times a second.

David Miller and Mustafa Ghazi The SIPPC3 allows the research team to track the babies’ movements from cameras mounted on the SIPPC3 while learning about their mobility patterns and brain activity.

Miller helped design and engineer the SIPPC3 robot, ensuring all the different movements could be tracked, including tilting, raising and bending. “It’s like an Ironman suit, except for infants,” Miller said. “They get to do all kinds of things they couldn’t before.”

The team will continue to improve the SIPPC3 to make it easier to use with an ultimate goal of availability for all families who have infants with mobility challenges. In September, an earlier version of Kolobe’s SIPPC was showcased at the Smithsonian Innovation Fair in Washington, D.C.

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Remembering Charles W. Bert The AME family lost one of connection with his research, he its valuable members, Charles mentored 26 doctoral students W. Bert, Ph.D., on Feb. 3, 2015. and over 40 masters students. A Bert began his journey at the registered Professional Engineer, University of Oklahoma in 1963, he consulted on numerous where he served the School projects, including the design of Aerospace and Mechanical of the propulsion clutch for Engineering as a professor for 41 the USS Nautilus (first nuclear years before retiring as emeritus submarine), first annular air-oil faculty in 2004. During his time shock absorber, steel-belted at AME, Bert served as director radial tires and NASA Space from 1972-1978 and again in 1990Shuttle payload-bay doors.

1995. He also held the Benjamin Bert was elected as a Fellow to H. Perkinson Chair. In 1981, he seven technical organizations, was the recipient of the highest including the American Society recognition for research at the of Mechanical Engineers, the University of Oklahoma: the American Institute of Aeronautics George Lynn Cross Research and Astronautics and the Charles Bert during his time as director in the 1990s.

Professorship. He was inducted American Society for Composites. into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame Additionally, Bert had a love for Sooner sports, in 2011. especially football and basketball, for over 50 years.

“I am deeply saddened to lose one of our best.

“Dr. Bert was a great mentor and guided me Charlie was a giant in the broad well throughout my career. field of mechanics and composite His reputation and research materials,” said M. Cengiz Altan, accomplishments were spread AME director. “He has been worldwide. In international or such a positive influence on me national meetings I attended, since I started my career at OU. there were always people who He has always been supportive inquired about him when they and provided encouragement saw my name tag mentioning to many AME faculty, as well as OU,” said Subramanyam R. to countless undergraduate and Gollahalli, AME professor. “Above graduate students. I will miss all, he was a great person. We him greatly as a mentor and a miss him very much.” friend.”

The AME family would like to Bert’s work in composite send its deepest condolences to materials earned him an the Bert family. Bert’s kind heart, international reputation in the field; he authored his encouraging words and supportive attitude, and co-authored 205 papers in refereed journals, along with his skillful teaching, excellent research published one monograph, edited three books, and contributions and friendship, will be dearly missed produced 13 book chapters and 158 other papers. In by all.

DONATIONS To make a contribution to the Bert Family Scholarship, please send a check payable to The University of Oklahoma Foundation with Bert Family Scholarship on the memo line and mail to the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, 865 Asp Ave., Norman, OK 73019-0390. Gifts to this scholarship also can be made online. Contact Debbie Mattax at dmattax@ou.edu for more information.

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AME Selected to Join TECAID The OU School of Aerospace and Mechanical inclusive mechanical engineering program, and we Engineering was selected in late February to see this as a great opportunity to help us reach that participate in a program funded by a National goal,” said Rebecca Norris, AME’s assistant to the Science Foundation grant titled Transforming director and member of the TECAID team.

Engineering Culture to Advance Inclusion and AME’s core team includes M. Cengiz Altan, Diversity. As part of the program’s initiative, five director and professor; J. David Baldwin, associate mechanical engineering departments from across professor; Wilson Merchán-Merchán, associate the United States were selected to improve diversity professor; Rebecca Norris, assistant to the director; and inclusion related to race, gender and other and Zahed Siddique, professor. This team will social identities, while benefitting from an infusion of rely heavily on input from other faculty and staff support and expertise. members. They have been working closely with “I am very excited about our participation in the Sezin Kadioglu, Ph.D., AME lecturer and faculty TECAID program as one of the five mechanical adviser to the Gallogly College of Engineering’s engineering departments in the nation,” said M. student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers, Cengiz Altan, AME professor and director. “The and Lisa Morales, director of the Multicultural program will give Engineering Program for us a tremendous the GCoE. The TECAID opportunity to team believes that the transform engineering transformation of the culture to advance school has to be driven inclusion and diversity. from within and was We have formed an excited to discover that outstanding AME many allies for this kind team that will work of change already exist with the national within the department. leaders to develop and The extended team implement effective has been meeting strategies to enhance regularly and has the recruitment, already identified several M. Cengiz Altan, Rebecca Norris, Wilson Merchán-Merchán, J. David Baldwin and Zahed Siddique retention and success of projects that they hope will underrepresented groups in mechanical engineering help achieve their goals. at OU.” “This program will help us discover more effective As part of the TECAID program, each ways to recruit and retain underrepresented department will define several diversity and students in mechanical engineering to ensure that inclusion change projects while working together we are providing learning opportunities to top to achieve their goals. Expected departmental students from all groups,” said Siddique. outcomes include increased diversity, less bias, greater inclusion, and a more informed and Select TECAID Projects welcoming academic environment for all students.

• Training for students, faculty and staff to provide As part of the program, TECAID coordinated three a framework for practicing inclusive intergroup workshops during the year; teams also met by phone communication that facilitates diversity and and video conference. The teams have already innovation traveled to Phoenix, Arizona and Chicago, with one • A new showcasing platform to highlight student and alumni achievements more workshop scheduled in Forth Worth, Texas.

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Student Spotlight

Amber Kapoor, a master’s degree candidate in mechanical engineering, was selected as an awardee for the 2015 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Her research interests include alternative energy and sustainability, specifically HVAC efficiency and controls. Kapoor works under the advisement of Li Song, Ph.D. As part of her thesis, Kapoor is addressing the uncertainties associated with residential smart meter use by developing a model of a residential home. Smart meters are becoming more popular for the average home owner; however, there is limited literature available about how to use the smart meter to save energy and money. Using the computer model to run a variety of scenarios and the smart meter data to validate the model, Amber will optimize the HVAC cooling operation and develop a set of guidelines for other homeowners to follow as well.

In addition to her research and coursework, Kapoor has been heavily involved in AME’s Graduate Student Community. This year, she is the co-chair of the organization. She has enjoyed the diverse culture of the graduate student community.

“I feel our department is unique in the diversity of cultures that are represented through our graduate student body,” Kapoor said. “It has been a pleasure to learn about these different cultures while working with other students.”

Following the completion of her master’s degree in the spring of 2016, Kapoor will begin her doctoral studies in wind energy research. She then hopes to work in the energy industry contributing to sustainability and wind research.

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Alex Spens is a senior studying aerospace engineering. In addition to time spent in the classroom, he enjoys writing smartphone applications as well as running and playing soccer.

Spens is a research assistant in the Combustion Lab, where he measures ignition energy, ignition delay and flame velocities of Jet A and biofuels.

During the summer, he volunteers as an instructor for the Sooner Flight Academy Summer Camp, working with elementary through high school students.

Spens is an Oklahoma Regents Scholar and is on the President’s and the Dean’s Honor Rolls at OU. He was honored as an Outstanding Sophomore in Aerospace Engineering in 2014 and an Outstanding Junior in 2015.

Spens is a member of Crimson Skies, OU’s Design/Build/Fly competition team. When Spens first began at OU, he joined DBF as a way to gain practical, hands-on experience in aerospace engineering.

“DBF has done a great job of not just giving me hands-on experience in working with carbon fiber but also giving me an opportunity to apply theory learned in class to actual aircraft design decisions,” he said. “It has also taught me skills which I wouldn’t have otherwise gained, like running SolidWorks simulations.”

This year, Spens is DBF’s structures team lead.

He is in charge of structural integrity, material choice, reducing weight and aircraft construction.

After graduation Spens plans on attending graduate school, then work in industry focusing on propulsion research and design.

Celeste and Janella Clary their time to leadership and service. are sisters studying mechanical Celeste is a Dean’s Leadership engineering with an outstanding Council tutor, AT&T Summer Bridge list of accomplishments that only counselor, secretary and treasurer continues to grow. In the spring of of the Society of Women Engineers, 2015, both sisters were honored mentee with the Multicultural with the President’s Award for Engineering Program and a member Outstanding Students, which is of the Sooner Powered Vehicle Team, the highest honor granted to just to name a few. Janella has held students by the University of such positions as Noche De Ciencias Oklahoma. Each year, roughly 48 chair and freshman representative of undergraduate students receive the the Society of Hispanic Professional award for exemplifying excellence Engineers, E-Week liaison for the in scholarship, character, leadership Engineers Club and a mentee of MEP. and service.

Not only has hard work and Celeste and Janella Clary “All of my life, I have been taught dedication made these sisters to do the best I can at everything that I can, so to successful, but having one another for support be recognized as an Outstanding Student is a great during their challenging college years had a lasting reward for striving to give my all,” Celeste said. “It effect. Celeste hoped to be a role model for Janella, was even more special when my sister was able to and she has been just that. join me while following in my footsteps and receiving “Celeste is like a machine, loading her plate to the same accolade.” the brim. She has been a great source of help and As recognized, both of the sisters embody advice; seeing what she goes through has better exceptional students in scholarship, leadership and prepared me for the year to come,” Janella said. service. With high grade-point averages and a list “With her involvement and hard work, she has set of academic honors, including President’s Honor the bar really high.”

Roll, Latino Alumni Club Scholars, National Merit In the future, Celeste plans to follow her career Scholars and Fellows of various programs, these goals of working in the mechanical engineering women know what it takes to be successful during field, while Janella hopes to work for the Peace their college careers. As members of more than Corps or Engineers Without Borders to begin her 12 organizations, Celeste and Janella dedicate career.

Outstanding Students 2015 Outstanding Students are selected by AME’s Undergraduate Committee every academic year based on academic excellence, leadership and campus involvement.

The Outstanding Students for 2015 (from left) are Corbin Graham, senior in Aerospace Engineering; Kyle Smith, sophomore in Mechanical Engineering; Austin Burrus, junior in Mechanical Engineering; Tayera Ellis, sophomore in Aerospace Engineering; Adam Dachowicz, senior in Mechanical Engineering; Nathan Justus, junior in Aerospace Engineering; Richard Vollmeier, sophomore in Aerospace Engineering; Alex Spens, junior in Aerospace Engineering; and Ethan Murphy, senior in Mechanical Engineering.

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Faculty Updates Siddique Appointed as Associate Director Zahed Siddique, Ph.D., recently was appointed as associate director of the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. In his role, he will work to improve AME’s profile to both internal and external stakeholders, involvement in special projects and the capstone program, and working closely with student groups and AME competition teams.

“I am excited for the opportunity to work with our exceptional faculty members, students, staff and industry partners to enhance the educational and research experiences of our students,” said Siddique.

Joining the AME team in 2000, Siddique currently is a professor teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses. Many of the courses he teaches are related to engineering design. Siddique also is the head of the mechanical engineering design practicum program. Some of his research interests include development of tools and framework to enhance engineering design education; design methodology; design for product variety; graph grammars in engineering design; product platform design; product portfolio management; virtual prototyping; and CAD support for product family design and design for the environment, just to name a few.

Siddique was awarded the Regents’ Award for Superior Teaching at OU and also the Ralph R. Teetor Education Award from the Society of Automotive Engineers in 2008. He belongs to many professional organizations, including the American Society

of Mechanical Engineers, Tau Beta Pi National Honor Society, Golden Key Honor Society, and the International Association of Science and Technology for Development, where he has served on the Technical Committee since 2001.

In addition, Siddique recently was appointed to the Dick and Shirley O’Shields Professorship in Engineering. The professorship was made possible by the O’Shields’ devotion to the University of Oklahoma and their desire to provide opportunities for students and faculty. The couple donated roughly $1.5 million benefiting four separate funds in the Gallogly College of Engineering with one of them being the professorship. Mr. O’Shields was an AME graduate.

“I am honored to be appointed to the Dick and Shirley O’Shields Professorship, which will allow me to make significant contributions toward GCoE’s strategic goal on experiential learning,” said Siddique. “I expect to develop research-based education programs and tools for in-class and online courses to have a sustained and broad impact for the engineering community.”

AME director M. Cengiz Altan, Ph.D., says that private donations such as the O’Shields’ allow the school to recruit and retain faculty of the highest caliber.

“I am excited to have Dr. Siddique as the associate director. He has been an exemplary educator at OU and a national leader in engineering product design,” said Altan. “I am looking forward to working with him.

He is a great addition to the AME leadership team.”

Promotion and Tenure Congratulations to Li Song, Ph.D., for her promotion to associate professor with tenure. Song started working at the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering in 2008 as an assistant professor. Her research interests include building energy system optimization and control, centralized HVAC system fault detection, energy efficiency technology developments, building energy system simulation and modeling, and measurement and verification.

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Student Team Update Crimson Skies, OU’s Design/Build/ Fly competition team, participated in Speedfest V in Stillwater during the summer. The team placed third in the Alpha Class.

Sooner Off Road participated in Baja SAE Oregon 2015.

The team tied for 38th in Presentation, 43rd in Design and 62nd in Acceleration.

The Sooner Powered Vehicle team attended the 2015 ASME HPVC Competition in San Jose, California.

SPV placed 16th in Design and 20th in Innovation.

In 2015, the Sooner Racing Team competed at both Formula SAE Michigan and the Formula SAE Lincoln competitions.

Congratulations, Graduates!

FALL 2014 GRADUATES B.S. Aerospace Engineering Stephanie Andrade Zachary Hardina Matthew Powers B.S. Mechanical Engineering Kevin Cox Logan Laporte Shane Lloyd Seth Strout Tyler Toth Joshua Yager M.S. Aerospace Engineering Mathew Smeltzer Gorkem Guloglu Ryan Smith Katherine Willingham M.S. Mechanical Engineering Michael Mannas SPRING 2015 GRADUATES B.S. Aerospace Engineering Trevor Austin Ashley Carpenter Kegan Duplechin Corbin Graham Andrew Hawkins Evgeniy Illichev Josiah Lund Alvin Ngo Joshua Page Allison Parker Justin Parks Resen Praytor Jared Repplinger Kylie Richardson Blake Riojas

Cody Shell Xinyu Sun B.S. Mechanical Engineering Mohammed Abu Alrahi Ali Alkaba Morgan Andersen Derrick Anierobi Jackson Autrey Sarah Baker Sarah Bedell Allicyn Berka Gabriela Berrios Joshua Bevil Grant Bolding Isaac Bower Rebecca Browder Tucker Chonka Kyle Christian Adam Dachowicz Hailey Dinh James Dunbar Warren Engles Jonathan Foss Peter George Ray Gibson Logan Groves Alexander Guerra Miguel Guerrero Hannah Harris Alyass Hasan Kyle Hendon Whitaker Henson Brooke Hitt Seamus Hunt Raymond King Wesley Kirby

Nathan Kohl Taylor Lunger William Maez Robert Marcham Antonio Marquez Chacin Conor McBride Daniel McCaskill Steven Merrill Ethan Murphy Tolga Ozdil John Pate Minh Phi Alexander Pierson Maria Prada Lauren Reiners Brianna Reyna Cameron Riney Andrew Roberts Marcus Samuels Joe Saucedo Benjamin Schoen John Shetley Clayton Stich Brianna Szymanski Bridget Taylor Jimmie Terronez Brent Tolbert Jeffrey Walker Chad Wallis Jeffrey Weaver Andrew Williams William Wilson Patrick Wood Joshua Woodard Aaron Wright Neal Yarberry

M.S. Mechanical Engineering Juan Felipe Correa Pugliese Michael Petri Ian Brindle Brian Chapman Mohammad Imran Stephen McCollam Michael Richichi Jordan Whetsell Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering Mani Razi Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering Orhan Ozcelik SUMMER 2015 GRADUATES B.S. Aerospace Engineering Austin Jones B.S. Mechanical Engineering Gregory Barbour William Cook Eric Douglas Michael Evans Aubrie Hill Scott Maxwell Anthony McWater Johnny O’Keeffe Melissa Oestmann Jacob Pickle Brian Rockwell Chance Schweer Tyler Totten M.S. Mechanical Engineering Guy Abou-Nassar Lucas Balmer Matthew Walker Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering Bipul Barua

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Giving Opportunities Are you interested in making a gift to the School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering?

To contribute, visit www.ame.ou.edu.

Funding Priorities Student Support: -Fellowships for graduate and undergraduate students: $100,000 Program Support: -AME Machine Shop and Capstone Program enhancements: $250,000 Facility Enhancements: -Renovations of Experimental Laboratories: $200,000

The University of Oklahoma School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering is home to more than 900 undergraduate students, 60 graduate students and more than 20 faculty members. We are pleased that our programs have continued to attract highly qualified students and have grown considerably over the past several years. The School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering has the highest number of students in the Gallogly College of Engineering graduating nearly 30 percent of all engineers. To ensure AME students have the facilities, programs and teaching excellence needed to have a succeessful career, the school must secure strategic resources to recruit, retain and graduate the very best. For questions or more information, please contact Jill Hughes, executive director of Development, at (405) 325-5217 or jillq@ou.edu.

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