Major Contracts Signed by Wagdi Habashi
0 N C 0 R D I A,S ~PORT VOL. 2I NOVEMBE R 7, I996 N ° 5 Major contracts signed by Wagdi Habashi a gas turbine engine (for Pratt & tant to Pratt & Whitney for 19 BY SYLVAIN COMEAU Whitney). years, will develop software with the rofessor W agdi Habashi scored For CAE Electronics, Habashi following applications: in-flight icing P a research coup last month, will develop software with which the performance of engines, aero-elastic signing research contracts with the company can create a flight simula ity (combining the efforts of struc Montreal offices of two high-tech tor to train helicopter pilots to land tural and fluid engineers), conjugate giants. The contracts, with CAE on navy ships. heat transfer (for cooling blades and Electronics and Pratt & Whitney, "Landing on these ships can be other engine components), and aero provide . one-year funding of extremely dangerous," he explained. acoustics (for reducing the noise lev $100,000 and $155,000, respectively. "Helicopter pilots have to deal with els of engines). "It's quite a nice coincidence that winds blowing from varying direc "This program will be multidisci two projects, which were discussed tions at a range of speeds, causing plinary," he said. "Every time you and negotiated separately, were vortices to form behind the ships' change something in an engine, it signed on the same day," H abashi superstructures. They have difficulty affects something else. For example, said las t week. N egotiations for deciding when and how to land. if a blade is made to curve some way both had been carried on through That takes a lot of training." CAE to reduce the noise, that may affect C oncordia's Industrial Liaison will construct a simulator to fulfill a its strength, and it may break.
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