Boomer Rocket Team (BRT) and Design Build Fly (DBF) go head-to-head for Thousands Strong Campaigns

Boomer Rocket Team (BRT) and the Design Build Fly Team (DBF) are going head-to-head in launching our Thousands Strong Campaigns. Thousands strong is OU’s own fundraiser program where alumnae and OU supporters can directly help OU programs. Both campaigns go live on Monday, November 19, 2018! Both teams have a goal to raise $5000 and need  support to get them to competition.  This year, to make things interesting, both teams are racing to see who can raise the most in 30 days!  Check out the Thousands Strong Pages and please consider donating or sharing either campaign with your family, friends, and colleagues! 

The Boomer Rocket Team is a student-run team at the University of Oklahoma. BRT has been an amazing avenue to teach students about rocketry and space through research, competition and in a capstone class for senior aerospace engineers.  In May 2019, the team will be heading to Kansas to compete in the Argonia Cup, previously won by OSU for two years running. This year, We are bringing our A-game to take the Cup, but we can only do this with your support! To learn more and to contribute to the BRT campaign, check out the Boomer Rocket Team campaign page: http://bit.ly/2K7wAwq

The Design Build Fly Team has been a cornerstone of the aerospace engineering program at OU for over 20 years. DBF provides opportunities for students to explore different aspects of aeronautical engineering, from their underclassmen years through to Capstone for seniors. In April 2019, the team will be heading to Tucson, AZ to compete in the AIAA international DBF Competition. With two top-ten finishes in the past three years, we are hoping to secure OU’s first podium finish. We will make sure we design a winning airplane, we need your help to get it to competition.  To learn more and to contribute to the DBF campaign, check out the Design Build Fly campaign page:  https://thousandsstrong.ou.edu/project/12284

AME student Rosa Lopez was awarded 1st place for Poster Presentation

AME Senior Rosa Lopez was awarded 1st place for a non-life science poster presentation at the 24th LSAMP Research Symposium at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater,OK. on Novemeber 3rd. Rosa has been working with assistant professor Yingtao Lui since spring 2017 and has received multiple undergraduate research awards, including the LSAMP award and Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) award.

Rosa’s research focuses on the development development of self-deployable shape memory epoxy and composites for the design of next generation solar sail structures. She has developed novel flexible composites using shape memory epoxy and structural fiber fabrics. The shape memory composites can fully recover from highly bent and twisted shape back to their original shape within a minute and are controlled by electrical resistance heating methods.

Congratulations Rosa!

Students have been selected to receive GCoE Dissertation Excellence Award

Six students have been selected to receive a Gallogly College of Engineering Dissertation Excellence Award for $5,000. Jelena Milisavljevic and Anand Balu Nellippallil advised by Farrokh Mistree and Janet Allen, Madhumitha Ramachandran advised by Zahed Siddique, and Mehrad Amirkhosravi and Maya Pishvar advised by Cengiz Altan.

Mehrad Amirkhosravi is currently a Ph.D. candidate at AME working as a research assistant in the Composite Manufacturing Labratory under Dr. Cengiz Altan. He is on track to compete his doctoral studies by Spring of 2019 and is very thankful for this award.

“I believe this generous support will provide a better atmosphere for me and reduce my financial concerns, thus helping me to focus on my research and career goals in the last year of my Ph.D.” – Amirkhosravi

 

 

 

 

 

Another one of Altan’s students, Maya Pishvar is also working on her Ph.D. candidacy in Mechanical Engineering with an interest in processing science of polymeric composites. This scholarship is helping her achieve her educational goals by allowing her to alleviate financial stress and spend more time finishing her dissertation.

“In addition, receiving this award increased my feeling of accountability towards completing my degree.” -Pishvar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ph.D. Student Madhumitha Ramachandran’s dissertation focuses on the developement of data-driven approaches for condition monitoring, real-time prognostics and fault detection of dynamic seals in oil and gas applications.

“This award will supplement my research stipend and provide flexibility build broader theoretical perspectives to address challenges in oil and gas industry with respect to dynamic seals. Also, it has lightened my financial stress which would allow me to focus more on publishing my scholarly work in peer-reviewed journals.” – Madhumitha

Gaylord student produces video of Dr. Chung-Hao Lee’s Research.

Gaylord student Victor Pozadas filmed and created a video on Dr. Chung-Hao Lee’s research. The video encompasses the work that Lee has been conducting with students in his lab. His research focuses on cardiovascular biomedical modeling and working with biological tissues and patient-specific modeling for improved diagnosis.

The goal of this current project is to take a patient specific geometry and put it into this model to figure out what treatment would work best for the patient. They are able to show how therapeutics effect the mechanics. The students said that it is really amazing to be able to work on a heart since mechanical engineers typically work with steel.

Thank you to Victor Pozadas for filming Dr. Lee’s work for others to see.

Watch video here: https://vimeo.com/295720619?ref=em-v-share