Sentences with phrase «aerospace engineers on»

Today's aircraft use roughly 80 percent less fuel per passenger - mile than the first jets of the 1950s — a testimony to the tremendous impact of aerospace engineering on flight.

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Today, thanks to aerospace engineer Burt Rutan's brilliance, the team at Virgin Galactic is working on the world's first feasible space tourism operation.

Carbon - fiber thread on its own isn't of too much use to aerospace engineers.

He has bachelor's and master's degrees in Aerospace Engineering and worked as a research engineer on the NASA Space Station project before entering teaching.

«Sectors such as aerospace and transport are thriving; however, more support and skilled engineers are needed in other sectors to keep the recovery on track.»

Aerospace engineer and retired Army officer Joseph Kopser is vying to take on Texas Rep. Lamar Smith.

The research team led by Schneider; David Go, Rooney Family Associate Professor of Engineering in aerospace and mechanical engineering; and Jason Hicks, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, discovered that because the nitrogen molecules are activated by the plasma, the requirements on the metal catalysts are less stringent, allowing less expensive materials to be used throughout the process.

Ephrahim Garcia, a mechanical and aerospace engineer at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, has worked on DARPA - funded research, and also served as a programme manager for DARPA between 1998 and 2002.

There could be fish,» says Bill Stone, head engineer on the VALKYRIE project and founder of Stone Aerospace in Texas.

They relied on the same sort of high - tech computer models that aerospace engineers use to analyze stresses induced in aircraft parts during flight.

Each presents an intriguing problem involving fluid dynamics, as aerospace engineer Nicole Sharp illustrates on her blog F * # $ Yeah Fluid Dynamics, or FYFD.

Toward that end, Congress instructed NASA to spend $ 55 million, under the 2016 appropriations bill, on developing space habitats, with funding primarily going to major engineering partners such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK and Bigelow Aerospace.

► On Wednesday, also at ScienceInsider, David Malakoff reported that «[a] half - dozen academic journals are investigating allegations that aerospace engineer Willie Wei - Hock Soon, a prominent skeptic of the idea that humans are contributing to global warming, failed to disclose financial ties to a fossil fuel company in papers they published.»

Heather Hava, who is working on a doctorate in aerospace engineering sciences, explains that the goal is to have robots do much of the monotonous tasks, saving time for the astronauts.

Heather Hava, right, who is working on a doctorate in aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, describes a computerized system she is developing with other graduate students participating in the eXploration HABitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge.

He's working on the projects with Alric Rothmayer, an Iowa State professor of aerospace engineering; Kai Zhang, a doctoral student; and Waldman.

A recent study led by Hugh Lewis, an aerospace engineer at the University of Southampton in England, reports the growth of small satellite traffic is expected to have a «significant impact» on the space environment.

«Once you have robots that cooperate, you can do all sorts of things,» said Kilian Weinberger, associate professor of computer science, who is collaborating on the project with Silvia Ferrari, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Mark Campbell, professor of mechanical engineering.

So yes, said Hu, an Iowa State professor of aerospace engineering, turn on the water.

«Our new material provides support for the liquid silicone as it is 3D printing, allowing us create very complex structures and even encapsulated parts out of silicone elastomer,» said lead author Christopher O'Bryan, a mechanical and aerospace engineering doctoral student in UF's Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering and lead author on the paper.

«Our approach reduces the cost of nanolithography to the point where it could be done in your garage,» says Dr. Chih - Hao Chang, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State and senior author of a paper on the work.

«The military's becoming ever more dependent on GPS systems,» notes Mark Lewis, a University of Maryland aerospace engineer and former air force chief scientist.

Nicole Sharp, an aerospace engineer who runs a Tumblr blog on fluid dynamics, and Jordan Kennedy at Harvard University gathered data from historical records and ran experiments on how molasses flows under various conditions, then fed it all into computer models.

«By manipulating the structure of the aluminum oxide, which is dielectric, we've improved both its optical and mechanical properties,» says Chih - Hao Chang, corresponding author of a paper on the work and an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State.

Steve Justice, TTSA's aerospace division director and former Lockheed Martin engineer who worked on advanced top secret aircraft for the latter company's storied «Skunk Works» division, speculates that in both cases such incredible feats of flight could be due to the objects possessing some sort of warp drive.

«NRL has twice flown our solar UAV [based on the SBXC sailplane] over 10 hours using a combination of solar photovoltaics and autonomous soaring as part of the «solar - soaring» research program,» said Dr. Dan Edwards, aerospace engineer.

NASA aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson told more than 600 seventh - to tenth - grade girls at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's Young Women's Conference that she was depending on them to pursue their dreams and make their ideas a reality in the wide - open field of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

That means for every $ 1 the US Government spends on aerospace it generates $ 2.6 in economic activity (the engineers get paid, they pay for groceries, cars, school trips for their kids etc).

NASA aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson told more than 600 seventh - to tenth - grade girls at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's Young Women's Conference that she was depending on them to pursue their dreams and make their ideas a reality in the wide - open field of Science, Technology, Engin

David Legates is often a co-author on work with Willie Soon, an aerospace engineer who has worked with Heartland for years and whose climate denying research has often been sponsored by the fossil fuel industry.

He returned to Ohio and taught aerospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati for eight yrs, then worked on the aerospace corporation.

Alan Bond (born 1944) is an English mechanical and aerospace engineer, as well as Managing Director of Reaction Engines Ltd and associated with Project Ellwyn E. Angle was a rocket engineer who, in the 1940s and 1950s, worked on various advanced projects in the US, including the Bell X-1 and X-5.

In 2007, he landed the role of Howard Wolowitz, a nerdy aerospace engineer, on The Big Bang Theory.

Sylvia also had a career in aerospace engineering as a senior scientist on the GPS navigational satellite system research and development.

Transport secretary Chris Grayling said: «Engineers — whether they are working on cutting - edge technology in aerospace, energy or artificial intelligence — are vital to the lifeblood of our economy.

Many industries including aerospace engineering and healthcare use them to train individuals on more complex aspects of job skills and best practices.

He grew up in England where he earned a degree in aerospace engineering and later went on to successful c - suite careers at ComputerVision and Navteq in the US.

I personally know people who have defaulted on large Federal student loans; those same people are now marketing directors and aerospace engineers making WAY over six figures.

Erick Prince is a former US Air Force Aerospace Engineer, photographer and world traveler on a quest to become the first African American to visit every country in the world.

Rusty Scruby's educational background in aerospace engineering, mathematics and music composition is the blueprint on which he builds his lyrical imagery.

The 26 - year - old MIT student, with duel masters in aerospace and mechanical engineering, did just that, because, hey, you spend a lot of time working on that black and white beauty.

Tom Hanson, a retired aerospace engineer in Santa Clarita, Calif., has not actually built a compressed - air car, but he is working on one.

On January 27, I wrote an «open letter» to Burt Rutan, aerospace engineer and former CEO of Scaled Composites, expressing my disappointment that he would co-sign a commentary in the Wall Street Journal that contains incorrect and misleading information on climate science and economicOn January 27, I wrote an «open letter» to Burt Rutan, aerospace engineer and former CEO of Scaled Composites, expressing my disappointment that he would co-sign a commentary in the Wall Street Journal that contains incorrect and misleading information on climate science and economicon climate science and economics.

S&R's collection of a discussion on human - caused climate disruption between Brian Angliss, S&R climate / science writer and electrical engineer, and Burt Rutan, aerospace engineer and former CEO of Scaled Composites.

On the plus side, Carelton isn't exactly renowned for anything other than journalism and aerospace engineering last time I checked.

David Legates is often a co-author on work with Willie Soon, an aerospace engineer who has worked with Heartland for years and whose climate denying research has often been sponsored by the fossil fuel industry.

Prior to attending law school, Bick worked in the aerospace industry as an environmental engineer, developing and implementing facility compliance programs for air, water and hazardous waste, and serving on the Operating Industries, Inc..

Ironically, the town has also been home for decades to cutting - edge pilots and aerospace engineers at Edwards Air Force Base — people on the true cutting edge of climate and atmospheric science.

The undated photo provided by the German aerospace center (DLR) shows engineer Paul Zabel with fresh salad he harvested in the EDEN - ISS greenhouse at the Neumeyer - Station III on Antarctica.

Sales professionals who work in fields such as engineering, aerospace, and industrial equipment should also have an educational background that is specific to their industry on their sales resume.