September | 2021 | Raghavan Research Group

Ashley and Greg performed summer research at Boeing Seattle
Gregory Freihofer wins 2nd place at the SAMPE CAMX student paper competition
Stephen and Greg Spend Summer at Boeing Seattle as part of NSF GOALI Research
Albert Manero wins Fulbright Fellowship to conduct doctoral research at DLR in Cologne, Germany

Visiting Lab Member Presents for HYPER Program

To showcase her work this past summer with the lab through the REU HYPER program, Sarah Uddin gave a final presentation on July 27 alongside her 13 colleagues about their aerospace-related research. She presented on ceramic carbides classified as ultra high temperature coatings (UHTCs) that can potentially be used in hypersonic environments, and how their grain geometries and residual strains can be investigated using Raman spectroscopy and high energy x-ray diffraction.

IRES Team Hosts International STARs Conference with DLR

This past July, the 2021 IRES team took advantage of their virtual experience and hosted an international conference featuring UCF and DLR professionals. The Symposium Teaming Aerospace Researchers (STARs) took place over two days, and had panels featuring past IRES students and another with professionals from Argonne National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The IRES students themselves alongside Dr. Raghavan hosted and moderated the symposium, and developed the website used to communicate the details of it (view the website here). The symposium also featured a collaboration space and a student space for attendees to share their work on, which can also be found on the website.