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Aere Report__2007.Pdf Greetings from the chair I am very pleased to share Martin C. Jischke Professor in Aerospace Engineering in August this report on the exciting 2005. Roger Hanson, who earned his BS in 1954 and PhD in accomplishments in the 1958 from Iowa State, endowed the professorship in honor of Department of Aerospace former Iowa State President Martin C. Jischke. Engineering at Iowa State University over the last We also have two other extremely capable young faculty two years. We continue to members to introduce. Stephen Holland, who earned build on our rich history in his PhD at Cornell University and has set up a lab to study aerospace engineering and vibrothermography in the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation, engineering mechanics and joined the department in July 2006; and Soon-Jo Chung, strive to reach new levels of a 2007 MIT graduate, arrived in summer 2007. His research achievement. interests include formation flight spacecraft and network control and synchronization. Also, Hui Hu, who joined us in 2004, Our world-class faculty members conduct research in eight received the prestigious NSF Career Award in January 2007. major areas unified under the theme of engineering for harsh environments. The common goal is to increase the Though we are delighted to have had some outstanding new performance, durability, and life of engineering systems. Our faculty members join us, we also had to bid farewell to some major research areas are highlighted in this report. pillars in the department who retired––Professors Bion Pierson, John Tannehill, and Yu-Min Tsai. Our department U.S. News and World Report ranks our comprehensive graduate is extremely grateful to these faculty members for their dedicated and undergraduate programs among the top 25 in the country. service and strong contributions to the department. Our graduate students in both aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics are actively involved in our eight major Our alumni continue to bring great honor to Iowa State research areas. University. This summer, Clay Anderson, who earned his MS in 1983, began his mission on board the International Space We have more than 400 students in our undergraduate program. Station. He is the first Iowa State alum to become a NASA In addition to classroom and laboratory activities, they learn astronaut. In 2004, we unveiled our Hall of Distinguished through a wide range of extracurricular pursuits. Some are hired Alumni to pay tribute to those who have become eminent as undergraduate research assistants, working on such things as leaders in the aerospace field. Our display, which now features an aircraft icing project or investigating how materials behave 14 distinguished alumni, reads like a Who’s Who of the at the nanoscale level. Some join AirISU, a student club that is aerospace industry. The 2005 inductees are all highly respected designing and building a light sport airplane, and others work leaders in the aerospace industry and academia. The 2006 on special projects in the Spacecraft Systems Operations Lab. inductees have all contributed to the department’s international Seniors serve on a simulated industrial team completing a major reputation in computational fluid dynamics. aircraft or spacecraft design project for their capstone course. Our dedicated faculty, staff, and students, and our loyal alumni An endowed chair and an endowed professorship have have established the Department of Aerospace Engineering as helped us further strengthen our faculty expertise. In March a leader, and we look forward to continuing that tradition of 2007, Bong Wie was installed as the first Vance D. Coffman excellence in serving our state, our country, and our profession. Endowed Chair in Aerospace Engineering. Professor Wie is one of the world’s leading researchers on space vehicle dynamics If you have any questions about the department, please contact and control, solar sail flight control system development, me at [email protected]. and modeling and control of flexible space structures. The Lockheed Martin Corporation funded this chair in honor of former CEO Vance D. Coffman, a 1967 alumnus. Paul Durbin, internationally recognized for his contributions Tom I-P. Shih in mathematical modeling of turbulence, was installed as the Professor and Chair 2 · AEROSPACE ENGINEERING Engineering for Extreme Environments News from the college 4 Computational Fluid Dynamics Nondestructive Evaluation Engineering minor 5 The Iowa State University College of Engineering now 7 Wind Engineering and Experimental Aerodynamics offers an engineering minor. Offered beginning in spring 2007, the minor is aimed at non-engineering students who Flight Dynamics, Guidance, and Control 8 want a better understanding and appreciation of technology 11 Mechanics of Micro/Nano Materials and the issues engineers address in the design process. 12 Rotorcraft/UAV/MAV Twenty-one credits are required, including 15 in engineering. Three engineering studies courses— 13 Turbine Science and Technology Engineering: From Thought to Thing (260); Survey of the Impacts of Engineering Activity (265); and How Things Advanced Flow Diagnostics and Experimental 14 Work (270)—will be offered as part of the minor. “We Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer are very excited about the classes we are offering,” reports Mani Mina, program director, “and we will add to them Bong Wie is first Coffman endowed chair Page 9 as more students learn about the program.” Durbin installed as the first Jischke professor Page 13 Interest in the minor is widespread with inquiries coming NSF CAREER Award winner Page 15 from students in business majors such as accounting, Student news Page 18 finance, and marketing, as well as political science, First Iowa State astronaut Page 20 meteorology, and music. Mina expects about 30 students to take classes in the minor next fall. Coffman awarded Anson Marston Medal Page 21 Distinguished alumni Page 22 The first students with the engineering minor will Distinguished speakers Page 24 graduate in spring 2008. Donors Page 27 Differential tuition With a goal of strengthening the quality and Undergraduate Enrollment competitiveness of programs in the College of Engineering, a differential tuition for junior- and senior-level 550 engineering students went into effect in fall 2006. The 500 515 higher cost of educating engineering students compared 450 445 434 to students in other majors was cited as a reason for 400 410 430 350 implementing the differential tuition. The number of 300 laboratory-intensive courses, small class sizes, and the 250 need to provide competitive compensation for world-class 200 engineering faculty contribute to the higher costs. 150 100 The differential tuition for 2006–2007 was $250 per 50 semester. When it is fully implemented in 2010, upper- 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 level engineering students will pay $875 more per semester for tuition than other Iowa State students. Research expenditures 2004–05: $9.8M; 2005–06: $9.9M; and 2006-07: $10.7M A top priority for the differential tuition revenue is to Publications reduce undergraduate student-faculty ratios. Presently 2004–05: 4 books, 4 book chapters, 34 journal articles, 56 conference/proceeding papers the Iowa State engineering college has a 23:1 student- 2005–06: 6 book chapters, 30 journal papers, 54 conference/proceeding papers continued on page 17 2006–07: 3 books, 3 book chapters, 47 journal papers, 83 conference/proceeding papers DEPARTMENTAL REPORT 2007 · 3 Engineering for Harsh Environments Engineered systems in aerospace applications operate in extremely harsh environments. These include the high-temperature environment inside air-breathing and rocket engines and the intense heat generated by space vehicles during entry into planetary atmospheres. The Department of Aerospace Engineering has developed eight major research areas—Nondestructive Evaluation, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Wind Engineering, Guidance and Control, Rotorcraft/UAV/MAV, Turbine Science and Technology, Micro/Nano Mechanics of Materials, and Advanced Flow Diagnostics and Experimental Aerodynamics—with the unifying theme of engineering for extreme environments. Whether our researchers are studying how to design structures that can endure high winds, build turbine engines that can withstand intense heat, or devise instrumentation that can survive sandy terrain, the goal is to increase the performance, durability, and life of engineering systems. Each of the research areas cuts across disciplines. Aerospace engineering faculty collaborate with colleagues within the department as well as from across the College of Engineering and Iowa State University, including Ames Laboratory. The research areas are described in the following pages. Computational Fluid Dynamics Aerospace Engineering: Z. J. Wang, Paul Durbin, Rich Hindman, Ambar Mitra, Ganesh Rajagopalan, Alric Rothmayer, Tom Shih, John Tannehill; Chemical Engineering: Rodney Fox, Jim Hill, Monica Lamm, Dennis Vigil; Civil Engineering: Roy Gu; Mechanical Engineering: Francine Battaglia, Song-Charng Kong, Richard Pletcher, Shankar Subramaniam; Mathematics: Hailiang Liu he Department of Aerospace Engineering is internationally CFD focuses on a common theme of engineering for extreme Trecognized for its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) environments. Iowa State researchers, for example, are investigating research and educational program and has educated many of the areas such as aircraft icing, film and internal cooling of turbine most prominent CFD researchers. Five of these pioneers were blades,
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