Senior Projects Guided

 

            1989

            1.   Elizabeth M. Siwek, "Radiographic detection of Flaws in Honeycomb Panels"

 

            1990

            1.   Mark Grethen, "A Smart Composite Truss for Space Station Freedom"

            2.   Stephen C. Petzold, “Space Station Freedom, Where It Has Been and Where It Is Going"

            3.   Kevin M. Hinners, "Interlaminar Fracture Toughness of Unidirectional Graphite/Epoxy Composites"

            4.   Jason Ting, "A Preliminary Study of the Nondestructive X-Ray Method in Quantitative Estimating the Composition of Bimetallic Alloys"

            5.   Dana R. Hall, "Analytical and Experimental Investigation of Advanced Composites"

            6.   Polyvious Greoriades, "Design and Fabrication of a Graphite Disk Wheel"

 

            1991

            1.   Brent Anderson, “An investigation into the use of Fiber Optics as Strain Measuring Device"

            2.   Jawad D. Mokhtar, "Determination of a linear relationship between ultrasonic c-scan and FEA”

 

            1992

            1.   Tony L. Buttz, "Composite Baseball Bat Fabrication & Test"

            2.   Jeff A. Hauswirth, "Graphics Supplement for Existing Composite Stress Analysis Code"

            3.   Mark D. Taylor, "Impact Damage on Composite Laminates-Tensile Behavior"

 

            1993

            1.   Mark J. Bitzes, "The Effect of Light and Severe Damage on the Dynamics of Composite Plates"

            2.   Mark Verhulst, "A Study of Damaged Graphite/Epoxy Bicycle Tubes"

            3.   Christopher M. Afful, "Quality Control Method for Cross-Plied Carbon Composites"

 

            1994

            1.   Jon W. Heim, "Comparison of Ultrasonic NDE Technique Effectiveness on Composites"

            2.   Azmi Bin Ahmad, "Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) of Temperature Effects on Composites"

 

            1995

            1.   Richard Seeman, “Effect of Elevated Temperature and Moisture Content on the Ultimate Composite Strength of T300/5200 Graphite/Epoxy Composite Material”

            2.   Siao-Ching Yeang, “Investigation of the Failure at Bolted Single Lap Joints of Composite Materials”

3.      Simon Haxton, “Use of Composites in Bicycle Frame Design”

 

            1997

           

1.      Jonathan Hicks, “Design and Fabrication of a Composite Bicycle Crank”

 

1999

 

1.       Tricia Devore, “Alternate Porosity Standards Using Ultrasound”

 

            2000

 

1.      Brian Galvin, ”Composite design and manufacturing of the AerE 462 blended wing body project”

2.      Jeremy D. Roth, “Aerodynamic and structural modeling of an existing wing configuration”

            2001

 

16.  Rory Eisel & Jesse Hilton, “An Experimental study of the Gluhareff G8-2-130R”

 

            2002

 

1.      Christopher Narvison, Design, Fabrication and Testing of a Space Truss.

 

            2003

 

1.      Paul Anhalt, “Composite Replacement of Honeycomb tructures

2.      Nicholas D.Morrow and Adam J. Christians, “Analytical and Experimental Study of an Aircraft Landing Gear”

3.      Daniel A. Kult, “Frequency and Modal Analysis of a Composite Golf Shaft”

4.      Ben Aga, Fabrication and Testing of Composite Football Helmet”

5.      Matthew J. Kettering, ”Composite Design of Cockpit Door Structure for Commercial Aircraft.

 

 

Independent study Project: Honors program

 

            1994

 

            Marcus A. Runyan, "Preliminary Design of an Earth Orbiting Space Station"

 

            1995

            Angela Swanson, “Load Distribution in a Riveted Joint”

            Jonathan Fortney, “NDE of Soybean Seeds”