Spring 2012 Edition The Cutting Edge Points of Interest: >Department News >Scholarship Recipients >Professor Spotlight >Projects & Research >Alumni/Student News >Society Updates Inside this issue: Siemens Engineers Week 1 Message from Department 2 MAE welcomes Professor 3 Design Showcase Projects 4 AIAA Conference 6 Panther GBP Nano- Payload 7 Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department Newsletter Download a .pdf copy of this newsletter and more on the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering section of the College of Engineering Website: http://coe.fit.edu/mae Students take top prize at Engineers Week In February, students from the Mechani- cal and Aerospace Engineering Department at Florida Institute of Technology were invited to participate in the Siemens Engi- neers Week Design Contest. Students from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and University of Central Florida were also invited to participate. Siemens Engineers Week is an annual national celebration that recognizes engi- neers for their many contributions. Each year, Siemens has a week-long celebration. During this event, students competed against Siemens engineers in the design contest, which has been the most popular event of Engineers Week for many years. Florida Tech teams have won this event in the college category every year since 2009. During the contest, 40 Siemens and six college teams of up to five members per team competed against one another on a common theme. The theme is revealed a few days before the competition, when all teams picked up their kits and began pre- paring for the contest. Siemens Gas Turbine Engineering Director Vinod Phillip, Professor Ju Zhang and Florida Tech MAE students celebrate their first-place overall finish in the Siemens Engineers Week Design Competition. See Engineers, Page 3
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Spring 2012 Edition
The Cutting Edge
Points of Interest: >Department News
>Scholarship Recipients
>Professor Spotlight
>Projects & Research
>Alumni/Student News
>Society Updates
Inside this issue:
Siemens Engineers Week 1
Message from Department 2
MAE welcomes Professor 3
Design Showcase Projects 4
AIAA Conference 6
Panther GBP Nano-
Payload 7
Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Department Newsletter
Download a .pdf copy of this newsletter and more on the
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering section of the College
of Engineering Website: http://coe.fit.edu/mae
Students take top prize at Engineers Week
In February, students from the Mechani-
cal and Aerospace Engineering Department
at Florida Institute of Technology were
invited to participate in the Siemens Engi-
neers Week Design Contest. Students from
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and
University of Central Florida were also
invited to participate.
Siemens Engineers Week is an annual
national celebration that recognizes engi-
neers for their many contributions. Each
year, Siemens has a week-long celebration.
During this event, students competed
against Siemens engineers in the design
contest, which has been the most popular
event of Engineers Week for many years.
Florida Tech teams have won this event in
the college category every year since 2009.
During the contest, 40 Siemens and six
college teams of up to five members per
team competed against one another on a
common theme. The theme is revealed a
few days before the competition, when all
teams picked up their kits and began pre-
paring for the contest.
Siemens Gas Turbine Engineering Director Vinod Phillip, Professor Ju Zhang and Florida Tech MAE
students celebrate their first-place overall finish in the Siemens Engineers Week Design Competition.
See Engineers, Page 3
Page 2
The Cutting Edge
Message from the Department Head
Dear Friends and Alumni,
As the spring 2012 semester draws to a close and we
prepare to say goodbye to a fabulous group of graduating
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering students, this
edition of The Cutting Edge contains some wonderful
examples of how our students and faculty have worked
together this spring to bolster the recognition of our de-
partment and our students’ alma mater. When you read
these stories the impressive accomplishments will speak
for themselves, but beyond the accolades I want you to
also note two key features in each of these stories: (1)
these activities are above and beyond anything required
in our curriculum, and (2) none of these activities in-
volved either professors or students alone, but rather both
working together as a team. These two reasons are a fan-
tastic reminder that we might be the biggest department
on campus, but we work together as a tight-knit family.
As a university, each spring we hold an Honors Con-
vocation to recognize our top students from all five col-
leges on campus; not only have these students demon-
strated outstanding academic performance, but these are
also the students who have made significant contribu-
tions to the university in terms of involvement in student
government and leadership, athletics, clubs, and public
service. This year, as usual, our MAE students won a
significant number of awards and the numbers speak for
themselves: 19 students were recognized as
“Distinguished Student Scholars,” 15 received
“Outstanding Student Awards,” and Mr. Bruno Poggi
Cevallos won the James G. Potter Award for Excellence
in Physics (read that again: Bruno, our sophomore in aer-
ospace engineering, also won the award for Excellence in
Physics!). We did well in the faculty awards category
too, with Dr. Razvan Rusovici winning The Kerry Bruce
Clark Award for Excellence in Teaching and Dr. Daniel
Kirk winning the University Award for Excellence in
Research. An impressive haul for our department!
This spring, Dr. Razvan Rusovici and Dr. Mark
Archambault were promoted from the Assistant to the
Associate professor rank, which represents a significant
step in their professional careers as well as a gain in pres-
tige for our department. We would also like to welcome
new faculty members that will join us in Fall 2012: Dr.
Tiauw Hiong “Yongki” Go of Nanyang Technological
University in Singapore; Dr. Sarada Kuravi of University
of South Florida; and Dr. Beshoy Morkos of Clemson
University. Their expertise areas in flight dynamics and