Local AIAA Chapter Hosts Regional Conference

Award recipients, judges, corporate panlists and conference representatives in the recent AIAA Student Regional Conference on the Urbana campus were as follows: (front row, from left) Sy Liebergot, keynote speaker; Brandon Gulker, Sarah Lane, Ian Tobasco; Sivaram Gogineni, AIAA regional representative. Stephen Brock, AIAA national representative; (second row, from left) Bob Wood, Northrop Grumman; Michael Thake, Matt Schuster, Nick Schifer, Cedric Langbort, conference chair; Steve D’surso, The Boeing Company; Gail Jankowski, Arrow Technical Services ; Barnaby Wainfan, Northrop Grumman. Award recipients not in this photo were Phil Martorana and Erik Kroeker.

Sy Liebergot, flight controller and EECOM for Apollo 13, presented the keynote lecture. Corporate representatives of The Boeing Company, Rolls Royce, Northrop Grumman and Arrow Technical Services presented a question and answer forum.

Presentations were given by students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ohio State University, Case Western Reserve University, the University of Kentucky, the University of Michigan, Miami University, Michigan State University, Wright State University, Kent State University, Ohio Northern University, and the University of Notre Dame.

AE students whose projects won prizes were graduate student Phil Martorana, national competition second place for “Effect of Carbon-Based Nanoadditives on External Gear Pump Performance,” and graduate student Erik Kroeker, regional competition first place for “Design and Low Boom Supersonic Inlet Model for NASA 8 foot by 6 foot Wind Tunnel.”