Recording of YouTube Live Event

EXPLORA! is holding a virtual science fiesta where various presentations showing STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) concepts are going to take place over September 18-26^th. The Mechanical department is going to have multiple presentations at this event, with the first taking place on Friday, 9/25 at 1:30pm (links below). The second is taking place on Saturday, 9/26 at 1:50pm.

The first presentation is called “Vacuum Chambers, Blast Shields and Shockwave Schilierens” and will be composed of three sub-presentations. The first sub-presentation will be exploring what happens when everyday objects are placed in a vacuum chamber (Not safe for toy pigs). The second presentation will be on blast shields, what they are, how an example blast shield is made, then finally how they are tested (with actual explosion footage!). The final sub-presentation will be with Dr. Hargather covering his research on shockwave analytics via schlieren spectroscopy. Dr. Hargather will have an experiment showing his work, and will have a discussion related.

View the presentation here on Friday, 09/25 at 1:30pm: https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fzoom.us%2Fj%2F91603333462%3Fpwd%3DUmxQaTBxSjNvd1dGSUpMTXgwcjl2QT09&sa=D&ust=1600801426628000&usg=AOvVaw1XiP4FJd0Wjt2HRlBm2v5y

 

The second presentation is with Dr. Hassanalian and his students. It will cover his work with drones and bioinspiration and biomimetics. Then his students will talk about the following items:

1- Steven Lukow (Graduate Student) will talk about a hybrid aerial concept for Mars exploration and he will show the drone that he has worked on. The multirotor-drone has the ability to attach and detach to a fixed-wing drone. It has a thermal camera and does a realtime image processing.

2- Mariah Gammill (Graduate Student) will talk about a Titan drone with energy harvesting capability. The drone will be able to harvest the available liquid methane on Titan (Saturn's moon) as a source of energy and apply Dynamic Soaring.

3- Michelle Sherman (Graduate Student) will talk about bioinspired concepts for Mars Exploration. She will present her research on the dandelion-inspired flying micro rovers on Mars.

4- Brenden Herkenhoff (Undergraduate Student) will talk about an amphibious Drone with the capability of releasing an underwater robot for marine exploration.

5- Megan Richardson (Undergraduate Student) will talk about Manta-rays and bioinspired amphibious robots.

View the presentation here on Saturday, 09/26 at 1:50pm: https://youtu.be/mCOqCALK-7A