Category Archives Events

SciTech 2021

11-15 January 2021 in Music City Center, Nashville, TN

SciTech is a forum where researchers from around the world come to present their innovations, hear from high-profile experts, and attend courses and workshops to expand their technical knowledge.

https://www.aiaa.org/SciTech

SciTech 2020

6-10 January, 2020 Orlando, Florida

SciTech is a forum where researchers from around the world come to present their innovations, hear from high-profile experts, and attend courses and workshops to expand their technical knowledge.

SciTech 2020

6-10 January, 2020 Orlando, Florida

SciTech is a forum where researchers from around the world come to present their innovations, hear from high-profile experts, and attend courses and workshops to expand their technical knowledge.

MS&T 2019

Materials Science & Technology 2019

September 29 – October 3, 2019

Portland, Oregon

The Materials Science & Technology (MS&T) conference brings together materials scientists, researchers, engineers, and students to showcase a wide variety of materials related technology and research.

ICPT 2018

Inaugural International Conference on Phosphor Thermometry, https://www.icpt18.org/

Lab member Quentin Fouliard will attend ICPT-2018 to present his paper, “Configurations for Temperature Sensing of Thermal Barrier Coatings.”

25-27 July 2018

Technology and Innovation Centre, University of Strathclyde

Glasgow, Scotland

SAMPE 2018

SAMPE Conference and Exhibition, https://www.sampeamerica.org

Lab member Remelisa Esteves will attend SAMPE 2018 to present her paper, “Piezospectroscopic coatings: Effects of alumina nanoparticle volume fraction on stress-sensing.”

Conference: May 21-24, 2018  Exhibition: May 22-23, 2018

Long Beach Convention Center

Long Beach, California

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