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AEROSPACE ENGINEERING GOES HYPERSONIC New H.H FALL 2014 Alumni Newsletter AEROSPACE ENGINEERING GOES HYPERSONIC New H.H. Arnold Chair Dr. John Schmisseur leads the way Dr. TerMaath Wins Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award UTSI Celebrates Golden Anniversary UT Alumnus Serves as Commander of ISS Mission 1 From the Department Head It’s a great time to be a Tennessee Contents volunteer engineer! The College of Engi- neering (COE) Program is making great Department Head’s Welcome 1 strides towards its goal to be a Top 25 ranked public school. In the most recent COVER STORY: Aerospace Engineering Goes Hypersonic 2 US News and World Report Ranking, the COE undergraduate program improved Hamel is Recipient of 2014 ANS Ray five spots to thirty-second public. The Goertz Award 3 mechanical engineering program is now Mench Named to “World’s Most ranked thirty-sixth public, and we are Influential” List 3 working to improve on the aerospace and biomedical engineering rankings every Ekici and Zhang Receive Tenure and day. Promotion 4 I am excited to see our department grow TerMaath Receives Office of Naval Research Award 4 with the addition of twenty new faculty in the past three years. This growth in- MABE Welcomes New Faculty 5 cludes H.H. Arnold Chair of Excellence in Kihm’s Graphene Research Earns Cover Computational Fluid Mechanics, Dr. John Schmisseur, former program manager of Langmuir 6 of the Air Force Office of Sponsored Research (AFOSR) Aerothermodynam- ics and Turbulence Portfolio and AIAA Fellow. Schmisseur will work at UTSI in Sarles’ Research Could Lead to Tullahoma and build a research center in hypersonics which bridges the Arnold Breakthroughs in Detection, Clean Water 7 Engineering Development Center, the Air Force Research Laboratory activities, MABE Well-Represented at 2014 ICRA 8 and the University of Tennessee. BMES Design Team Receives Honorable To improve the ranking of our BME program, we have put significant resourc- Mention at BMEidea 8 es into establishing a larger presence in the national Biomedical Engineering UTSI Celebrates its Golden Anniversary 9 Society (BMES) annual meeting this Fall in San Antonio and have opened a senior-level search for a nationally known person to become the new director Department Notes 11 of the Institute of Biomedical Engineering. Student News 12 Other recent hires include Dr. Stephanie TerMaath, Dr. Matthew Young, Dr. MABE Athletes 12 Seungha Shin, and Dr. Libby Barker. Each of these new faculty members brings unique talents to the department. I encourage you to read about their research Q&A with Joshua Dobbs 13 and plans for their future at MABE in the New Faculty feature in this magazine. NSBE Chapter Wins National Acclaim 15 A lot of changes are happening in the department that will be beneficial to MABE Student Wins First Place at our students. One is the grand opening of a new MABE senior design suite of Business Competition 15 classrooms. The design suite is housed in Perkins and will open this Fall. This UT Team Advances in EcoCAR3 facility unifies departmental senior design activities in AE, BME, and ME. Stu- Competition 16 dents will have access to facilities for video conference calls and presentations with industrial sponsors, tools, and floor space for design, test, and evaluation MABE Holds Annual Honors Awards of their projects. Advanced prototyping including 3D printing, 5 axis CNC, and Banquet 17 water jet machining are all available. Alumni Spotlight: Dick Rosenberg, Thanks again for taking the time to find out what’s going on in MABE. I look Honorary Member of ASME 19 forward to hearing from you and invite you to get in touch and stay connected. UT Alumnus to Serve as Commander at International Space Station 20 Go Vols! In Memoriam: Former Astronaut, UTSI Graduate Henry Hartsfield Dies 20 Photo Gallery 21 Alumni Photos 22 Matthew Mench @MABEDeptHead Give to MABE volsconnect.com/mabe 2 ON THE COVER >> Aerospace Engineering Goes Hypersonic New H.H. Arnold Chair Dr. John Schmisseur Leads the Way Dr. John Schmisseur Image courtesy of Kei Lau, Boeing What’s faster than supersonic? “Understanding hypersonic flow phenom- hypersonic research and innovation within ena requires contributions from fluid dynam- the region that strongly impacts national Hypersonic! ics, thermophysics and chemistry. Hypersonic technology development programs,” Schmis- Last month, the US Air Force announced its technology development requires a broad seur said. plans to heavily invest in hypersonic aircraft. spectrum of contributions from other areas Prior to joining UTSI faculty, Schmisseur was The first test of a hypersonic aircraft could including material development, thermal the Chief of the Energy, Power & Propulsion come within five years and the technology management, heat transfer and advanced Sciences Division and Program Manager for could be applied to cruise missiles by the diagnostics,” Schmisseur said. Aerothermodynamics within the Air Force 2020s. UTSI, particularly MABE, has outstanding Office of Scientific Research. Hypersonic relates to speeds of more than capabilities in all of these areas. Schmisseur has spent his entire career five times the speed of sound (Mach 5). “We hope to build upon our foundational researching hypersonic aerothermodynamics The increased interest and demand in capabilities to be a source of technology and spent the last thirteen years managing hypersonic aircraft has created a momentous innovation within the Department of Defense the Air Force basic science investments in the opportunity for The University of Tennessee Test Enterprise—helping transition scientific area. Space Institute (UTSI) in Tullahoma. They are discoveries to practical application within the “One of the advantages of moving to UTSI planning to go hypersonic—meaning they test environment,” Schmisseur said. from my former Air Force position is the ex- will be researching hypersonic capabilities. In the long term, Schmisseur wants UTSI to isting relationships I have with other universi- The effort is being led by Dr. John Schmis- be in a position to strongly support the Air ties participating in hypersonic research,” seur, who joined UTSI as professor and H.H. Force’s goals of developing an integrated Schmisseur said. “We have the opportunity to @MABEDeptHead Arnold Chair August 1, 2014. Schmisseur has test and evaluation environment where large build UTSI into a national focal point for hy- designed a multi-phase research plan that experimental data sets are integrated with personics and collaborating with prominent allows UTSI to engage in current opportuni- simulations within a digital environment. US universities and international research ties while building toward new long-term partners will be an important element of our UTSI will be working closely with the capabilities. The plans initially focus on strategy.” Arnold Engineering Development Complex high-quality research into the fundamental (AEDC) and the Air Force Research Labora- “The excitement and optimism for our phenomena of high speed flows. tory (AFRL). AEDC has a long tradition of resurgent emphasis on hypersonics research The plans include both Schmisseur’s excellence in aerothermodynamics research is fantastic, “Schmisseur said. research into the numerical modeling of and the AFRL plans to add a new hypersonic “UTSI and the entire region around Tul- complex flows and strong shock waves and research group at AEDC. lahoma is excited about the future and I feel also working with the entire UTSI team to “I hope working with my counterparts fortunate to be part of a team defining our expand experimental capabilities to higher at AEDC and AFRL will create a culture of strategic directions in the area.” Mach numbers. —Kathy Williams 3 Hamel is Recipient of 2014 ANS Ray Goertz Award master-slave manipulator. Starting with the 1970s until now. His primary contributions planning of the first formal informational include technical and visionary leadership exchange meeting held in 1951, Ray Goertz in the creation of the first microprocessor- was also instrumental in the founding of based servomanipulator system, the jointly the Robotics and Remote Systems Division developed Central Research Laboratories (RRSD), formerly known as Remote Systems (CRL)/ORNL M-2 dual arm force reflecting Technology Division (RSTD). manipulator system. All servomanipulator This award is presented approximately systems have since been influenced by that every two years, it is an ANS level award, early design. and it is the highest honor presented by the Hamel continued to advance the field of Robotics and Remote Systems Division. robotics and remote systems by leading the “The Ray Goertz Award is the highest development of the advanced servomanipu- recognition one can receive from the nuclear lator system, a remotely maintainable dual community regarding technical contributions arm system with an architecture amenable to robotics and remote technology,” Hamel to rad hardening designed to support spent said. fuel reprocessing. He then furthered his professional experience by co-leading, with “I am deeply humbled and appreciative program managers at various national labo- Hamel to receive the award. Over the years, I have ratories, the Robotics Technology Develop- admired the contributions and accomplish- ment Program (RTDP) for the Department Congratulations to Dr. William R. Hamel, ments of those who have previously received of Energy (DOE), which is one of the largest MABE professor, for receiving the Ray Goertz the award. To now be on that list is an un- US robotics-related
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