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First to Last Fall 2010 G R A M A Anewsletter fore alumniro & friends of the school of Aeronautics & Astronautics Covering the 2009-2010 academic year n Darryl Davis – Distinguished engineering Alumni n 2009 outstanding engineer Awards Purdue in CoLUMBiA space STS-1 Launched April 12, 1981 ENDeAVoUR spaCe shUttLe First to Last STS-134 Final planned mission in this issue... From Professor tom i-P. shih - AAe headlines Fall 2010 AAE Headlines . 2 Purdue University’s Connection It is a real honor and pleasure to serve On faculty news, we congratulate three with Space Continues . 3 at Purdue’s School of Aeronautics and faculty members who were promoted: Space Shuttle - First to Last . 4 Astronautics. My first year at Purdue Dr. Daniel DeLaurentis and Dr. Inseok has been wonderfully exciting in working Hwang were promoted to Associate Prominent Alumni donate papers . 6 with our students, alumni, faculty, and Professor with tenure, and Dr. Barrett Head of NASA Space Operations staff who are so enthusiastic, so energetic, Caldwell, who serves as Director of the Honored With National and so constant and dedicated in their Indiana Space Grant Consortium with a Space Trophy . 6 efforts to achieve excellence in all that courtesy appointment in our school, was AAE alumni wins Boeing they do. In this letter, I share some of promoted to full professor. We are pleased Engineering Flightglobal the happenings. to welcome two new faculty members Achievement Award . 7 Our School’s faculty continues to work during fall of 2009: Dr. Vikas Tomar whose Commander of the 434th on exciting and cutting-edge research research is in materials for aerospace, Air Refueling Wing . 7 that has meaning and impact for our energy, and medicine, and Dr. Dengfeng nation’s aerospace enterprise and work Sun whose research is in air traffic flow Development Updates . 8 with passion to provide the best possible management, dynamic airspace configura- Walker “Mahurin” Mahurin education to our students. Also, our tion, and studies for the Next Generation dies at 91 . 10 faculty continues to broaden and enhance Air Transportation System (NextGen). News About You . 12 opportunities for our students to engage We are also pleased to welcome Dr. Allen Orion PA-1 Launch Abort System in hands-on design-build-test/fly projects S. Novick – BSAE’65, MSAE’67, PhD’72, Makes Rocket History . 16 in aeronautics and in astronautics. Support DEA’06, OAE’06, and recently retired vice Honorary Industry Professor - from alumni and friends are instrumental president from Rolls-Royce – who joined Dr. Allen S. Novick . 17 in enabling these opportunities, and we us as an Honorary Industry Professor William F. Moses Jnr inducted into are extremely grateful. and two faculty members who joined 2009-10 saw our School’s undergradu- our school “by courtesy” appointments: the Purdue University Reserve ate enrollment increase by 8.8% to 567 Dr. Jay Melosh and Dr. Robert Lucht. Officers Training Corps Hall and the graduate enrollment increase On a sad note, First Lt. Joel C. Gentz – of Fame . 17 by 22.3% to 335. This year’s graduate BSAAE’07; a combat rescue officer, Gary Payton Retires as enrollment is our School’s largest ever. trained in special-forces operations and Deputy Under Secretary The demand for our students continues an EMT/paramedic – died at the age of the Air Force . 18 to be strong when they graduate, while of 25 in Afghanistan while on a rescue Darryl W. Davis - Distinguished the increased enrollment brings with mission. Also, Professor Emeritus John Engineering Alumni 2009 . 19 it demand for co-op and internship “Bob” Osborne who served on our faculty AAE Ranked in the U.S. News opportunities. from 1957 to 1990 passed on. However, We are delighted and proud that we will remember Professor Osborn & World Report’s Top 10 . 20 Mark Polansky, BSAAE’78, MSAAE’78 through the legacy of his significant Save the Dates! . 21 commanded the Endeavour shuttle crew research contributions in rocket propul- ’Purdue’s Place in Space: From the STS-127 on the 29th mission to the sion, including the Space Shuttle main Midwest to the Moon’ . 23 International Space Station. This is engine, and as a wonderful educator Hayden Krueger Recognized Mark’s third shuttle mission, and during who touched many students. for Contributions to Human this mission, Mark and fellow Purdue We want to welcome our alumni and Space Flight . 23 alumnus, David Wolf, celebrated the friends back to campus so that we Outstanding Aerospace 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 could show you up-close the educational mission and fellow Purdue AAE graduate, Engineers Award . 24 opportunities that your support has pro- Neil Armstrong, as the first person to vided to our students. Having you back Purdue Space Day . 29 step on the moon. Other highlights of on campus also gives us a chance to say Faculty News . 30 the year include the celebration of our thank you for your support and, more New aluminum-water rocket 11th Outstanding Aerospace Engineer importantly, connect you with our present propellant promising for future Awards Banquet, and the college students so that you too can know why we space missions . 31 naming Darryl W. Davis, BSAAE’78 make educating Purdue Aeronautical and AIAA Best Paper . 34 and President of Boeing’s Phantom Works, Astronautical Engineers our life’s work. Professor Emeritus George Palmer as a Distinguished Engineering Alumnus. We strive to make Purdue’s AAE live up honored as the Designer of We welcome three new members to the to the standards that you remember so Industrial Advisory Council: Col (Ret) Mark well. Thanks again for your part in making the Wind Tunnel . 35 Brown, BSAAE’73; Gary Payton, MSAAE’72; Purdue so exciting. Boeing/AFOSR Mach 6 and Dr. Richard Rivir, BSAE’60. With the Quiet Tunnel . 39 support of Dean Leah Jamieson, our school Hail Purdue Congratulations to the Graduates . 40 formed a Steering Advisory Council to help Student Awards . 42 our school as well as our college address tom shih SEDS Spring Space Forum 2010 . 44 critical needs in our nation’s aerospace Professor and Head Student Leadership Council . 45 enterprise. Our school and our college Zonta International 2010 . 46 thank both the IAC and the SAC for their AIAA Regional Student Conference . 47 vision, guidance, and support. Keep in Touch . 48 Purdue University’s Connection with space Continues STS-127 Mark Polansky and David Wolf Purdue University’s connection with space continued with alumnus Commander Mark L. Polansky BSAAE’78; MSAAE’78 and Mission Specialist Dr. David A. Wolf (Top) Astronaut Mark Polansky, STS-127 BSEE’78 serving as crew on STS-127. Polansky was the second astronaut to commander, works on “Tweet” from space. He posted Twitter updates as he prepared for the mission, the flight deck of Space Shuttle Endeavour during tweeting as astro_127. flight day 14 activities. sts-127 launched on July 15, 2009 and was the twenty-third flight of (Bottom) Astronaut Dave Space Shuttle Endeavour. The primary purpose of the mission was to deliver Wolf, STS-127 mission and install the final two components of the Japanese Experiment Module: the specialist, is just about ready to participate in Exposed Facility (JEM EF), and the Exposed Section of the Experiment Logistics Endeavour’s third space Module (ELM-ES). Expedition 19 doubled the size of the resident crew on the walk of a scheduled five overall for this flight. complex, expanding it to six people. During their mission, the NASA crew celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. Neil Armstrong was a strong inspiration to them both while they were at Purdue and their goal was to similarly inspire students at Purdue. As part of an Apollo 11 celebration in Washington, D.C., Wolf and Polansky donned Purdue ball caps and appeared in front of a Purdue backdrop for a brief talk that was broadcast to the audience. See photo above. The 16-day, 6.5 million mile mission returned on July 31, 2009. They both say that coming from Purdue is like having an unfair advantage. While the two lived in the same dormitory - Cary Quad - they didn’t plan to one day be in space together. In 2001 Polansky, first flew as a shuttle pilot and commanded a mission in 2006. He is a former Air Force pilot. Wolf, a physician, began working at NASA in 1983 on medical equipment for space travel. He became an astronaut in 1990 and NASA Inventor of the Year in 1992. David Wolf will be the VIP guest astronaut for Purdue Space Day on October 30, 2010. 3 1972 nAsA announced the launch of the Purdue shuttle Program In early spring, a YouTube video was sent in space by Joe Cassady BsAAe’81; MsAAe’83 to Prof. Stephen Heister, it shows Purdue Aerospace Engineers at the launch of STS-1 in 1981. It features eric ohmit BsAAe’81 at 1:50. This YouTube video is available to watch on the AAE Facebook page. We then asked to hear from anyone with any type of connection with the STS missions. Via both the AAE Facebook page and email, we were delighted to receive stories from alumni whose lives were impacted by both the Space travel in gen- eral and the Shuttle program in particular. The stories are very detailed and we have just included the highlights here. As spaCe shUttLe we want to share them, we have set up a “First to Last” web page on the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics web site and encourage you to read them all under the Announcement section on the front page of the AAE web site.
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