Monthly Archives June 2017

Lab students prepare samples for experimentation at the German Aerospace Center

IRES Students at DLR received metallographic training to prepare samples for experimentation. These experiments are intended to support investigations being conducted at our Lab at UCF.

You can learn more about their experience and check out their blog here.
https://aerostructures.cecs.ucf.edu/international-research-experience-for-students-ires/ires-blog/

You can learn about the IRES program and how to gain an international research opportunity next summer here
https://aerostructures.cecs.ucf.edu/international-research-experience-for-students-ires/

Research Students promote research for the Student Research Academy

Through the Summer Research Academy, four of our research students got the chance to promote our research lab to undergraduate students who were interested. They talked about their own personal experience with research as well as the projects they are working on. The attendees got a chance to learn about the equipment and posters in the lab as well. Also one of our research students, Khanh Vo, presented one of our posters at the Research Showcase.

Thank you Taiason Cole, Khanh Vo, Ryan Hoover, and Eric Barker

Camp Connect

Camp Connect is a week-long day camp that introduces high school and middle school students to various engineering disciplines at the University of Central Florida. For Camp Connect we hosted “Shedding Light on Damage in Aircraft Structures”. We had 4 groups of 20 students, meaning we met up to 80 students in total. We started off by educating the students about spectrums and how we use light to test our materials and study their mechanical properties. Afterwards the students got into group of four and created their own spectroscopes. Spectroscopes are a tool used to split the wavelengths of lights into the colors that make them up also called spectrums. Once they created the spectroscopes we allowed the students to look at various light sources through the spectroscopes and record their observations. They got to look at fluorescent, incandescent, projector, computer, and their cellphone lights. Following the observations, they played a matching game where they compared different spectrums to the lights they observed and see how many they could match up. Two groups got all five spectrums correct. It was a great activity and the kids had a great time learning about light and understanding how it can be used to tell us about our materials.

                    

Special Thanks to Taiason Cole, Khanh Vo, Sanjida Jahan, Ryan Hoover, and Eric Barker