University of Dayton Department of

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

University of Dayton

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Annual Report 2018-2019

From the Chairs

2018-2019 was another strong year for the department. 934 undergraduate students and 154 graduate students continued to excel in scholarship, professional experience, research and service. Our student teams placed highly in national aerospace competitions, won national scholarships in renewable energy, were recognized for their integration of Humanities and Engineering, developed appropriate technologies for peoples across the world through ETHOS, and modified toy cars for children with disabilities. Our students participated in 267 professional engineering co-op experiences. Graduation and post-graduate employment rates remain exceedingly high; within six months of graduation, 95% of our students found full-time employment or enrolled in graduate school.

Our faculty continue to innovate in the classroom. We added more computer programming early in the undergraduate curriculum, employed Arduino technology to create mobile sensors, and tackled community problems through interdisciplinary teams. Our faculty taught across the globe in Italy, China and Korea.

Our faculty continued to excel in scholarship and service. The faculty published 51 peer reviewed papers and conducted $1.1 M in sponsored research. They delivered 27 invited lectures. Four faculty members serve as Associate Editors of major journals and two were named as endowed chairs.

This was also a year of leadership transition. In July 2018 Jamie Ervin was named Associate Department Chair. After a year of on-the-job training, Jamie assumed the Department Chair position and Kelly Kissock stepped down. Kelly’s 8.5 year tenure as Chair was a period of significant growth as Department enrollment increased from 634 to 1,088 students and 11 full-time faculty were hired.

Please continue to follow our progress at go.udayton.edu/mae.

Sincerely,

J. Kelly Kissock, Ph.D., P.E. Jamie Ervin, Ph.D.

Chairs, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering / Renewable and Clean Energy

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Enrollment and Graduation Data We remain the largest department in the University of Dayton and one of the few that offers B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees. The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department accounts for over 10% of all enrollment at UD.

2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

BS ME 546 648 725 852 916 909 948 934

MS AE 36 27 36 39 29 30 29 31

PHD AE 4 4 3 5 6 5 5 5

MS ME 66 74 81 106 84 70 79 68

PHD ME 27 23 26 31 29 26 23 33

MS RCL 45 48 37 53 51 37 31 17

MEE G 178 176 183 234 199 168 167 154

Total 724 824 908 1,086 1,115 1,077 1,115 1,088

Our graduation rates are very high. In 2018-2019, we granted 224 BME degrees, 66 MS degrees and 9 PhDs. We are 31st largest undergraduate Mechanical Engineering program in the country, and 4th largest among private universities, based on number of students graduating (ASEE Engineering By the Numbers: 2016-2017).

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Student Achievement Jielong Cai won the 2019 UD Koehler International Student Award. Andrew Killian and Ryan Simpkins shared 1st place in the IT Flies competition held at UD in April

with teams from UD, University of Manchester, University of South Wales and University of Cincinnati.

The Aero Design team won third place at the April Speedfest competition for jet powered remote control aircraft held in Oklahoma.

Ph.D. student Shanpu Fang was awarded "Best Presentation in Biomedical and Biomechanics Track" for the 2018 DESS.

Neal Novotny and Hannah Wyatt won Kurz Wind Division Scholarships.

Faith Loughnane won an Ohio Space Grant Consortium scholarship.

Ryan Shea made major contributions to the UD’s energy efficiency efforts which helped UD earn a gold rating in the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education sustainability tracking, assessment and rating system.

Jennifer Winn was one of 4 students to represent the University of Dayton as University Innovation Fellows at the Stanford D School, supported by KEEN.

Spencer Janning, and his company Freedom Brace, was the first Leonardo Enterprises fellow to be accepted into the highly competitive ESP program at The Entrepreneurs Center, receiving up to $25k state funding to grow his business.

Leonardo Enterprises invested in three student start-up enterprises including the Freedom Brace (led by MEE undergrad Spencer Janning) and Healing Green (led by MEE grad student Tess Isemann). Other notable Leonardo Fellows from Mechanical Engineering:

o Luke Schepers, Gunnar Lykins, Leo Lamantia, Recyclops Bot o Devon Florczak, Ivan Kalnoki-Kis, Abinesh Selvacanabady, Bitbox o Kevin Hallinan with Freedom Enterprises/GEMnasium class, Justice Energy o Neal Novotny, Sid G, Breezy Technologies o Connor Dushane, Smart Slumber o Patrick Ruhala, Ali Danielson, Liam Budnik, Colt Whitman, Refill Inc.

Paige Hallstrom & Paige Ingram were awarded the Bernard F. Hollenkamp, ’39 Memorial Award of Excellence to the Outstanding Senior in Mechanical Engineering

Jennifer Hoody was awarded the Martin C. Kuntz, 1912 Award of Excellence to the Outstanding Junior in Mechanical Engineering

Shane Kosir was awarded the Class of 1902 Award of Excellence for Outstanding Mechanical Engineering Achievement

Brianna Dooley was awarded the Brother Andrew R. Weber, S.M. Award of Excellence for Outstanding Service & Achievement in Mechanical Engineering

Rodwan Elhashmi was awarded the Professor Henry Chuang Award of Excellence – Energy Conservation & Waste Management

Samuel Barnhart was awarded the Leland Nicolai Aerospace Engineering Award to the undergraduate Aerospace Student Who has Made the Greatest Contributions to the Aerospace Program.

Michael Zahorec was awarded the James L. Heft, S.M. Award of Excellence to the Graduating Senior Who Demonstrates a High Degree of Integration of These Different Fields of Knowledge: Humanities and Engineering.

Jielong Cai won the M.S. in Aerospace Engineering award.

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Saad Qureshi won the Ph.D in Aerospace Engineering award.

Rodwan Elhasmi won the PhD. In Mechanical Engineering award.

Co-operative Education Our co-operative education program empowers students to succeed in professional engineering environments. We continue to have more demand for our co-op students than we can fulfill. Overall, 120 MEE students participated in Summer 2018, 67 in Fall 2018, and 80 in Spring 2019. Some of our top co-op employers are:

AK Steel GE Appliances

Cargill GE Aviation

Continental Building Products Heapy Engineering

Crane Pumps and Systems Johnson Electric

DRT Midmark Corporation

Emerson Parker Hannifin Corporation

Ethicon Tenneco

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies UDRI

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Flyer First Destination 2017-2018 The success rate for our recent graduates is 95%; six months after graduation, 69% of our undergraduate students had full time jobs and 24% went to graduate school.

Alumni Achievement

BME and MSME alumna Renee Brotzki, who now works at Crown Equipment, was named as a 30 Under 30 Honoree by the Society of Manufacturing Engineering.

BME and RCL alumnus Tom Wenning, who now works at Oakridge National Laboratories, won the “2018 Rising Star in Energy Efficiency” award from the Alliance to Save Energy in Washington DC.

BME Alumnus Fred Schauer’s work on pulse detonation engines was covered in the July 2018 ASME Magazine article "There's a new cycle in town".

Teaching Innovation

We added more computer programming (MEE 114) early in the undergraduate curriculum.

Engineering Experimentation classes used Arduino data loggers to experiment outside of the lab.

We acquired a F11 Flight Simulator to supplement our Merlin Flight Simulator.

Seniors in Mechanical Engineering Analysis worked collaboratively with UD students for other disciplines in community engaged projects through the GEMnasium.

Emily Fehrman-Cory piloted the Eureka Ranch Innovation Engineering Fundamentals workbook and online toolkit in 431L Summer 19 with funding from KEEN.

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Faculty and Staff The Department has 22 full-time faculty members and four staff members. Rydge Mulford and Andrew Schrader will join the Department as Assistant Professors in Fall 2019.

Full-Time Faculty Position Expertise

1 Lowe, Robert Assistant Professor Mechanics and materials

2 Reissman, Tim Assistant Professor Robotics and Biomechanics

3 Reissman, Megan Assistant Professor Biomechanics

4 Gunasekaran, Sidaard Assistant Professor Experimental aerodynamics

5 Chiasson, Andrew Associate Professor Geothermal and building energy

6 Kinney, Allison Assistant Professor Computational biomechanics

7 Heyne, Josh Assistant Professor Combustion and alternative jet fuels

8 Perkins, Dave Lecturer Mechanical systems

9 Choi, Jun-ki Associate Professor Design for environment and sustainable manufacturing

10 Henrick, Andrew Lecturer Thermal fluid analysis

11 Rumpfkeil, Markus P. Associate Professor Computational fluid dynamics

12 Bigelow, Kimberly E. Associate Professor Biomechanics

13 Pinnell, Margaret F. Professor K-12 STEM education

14 Murray, Andrew P. Professor Mechanical system design

15 Kissock, Kelly Professor and Chair Energy efficiency and renewable energy

16 Kashani, Ahmad R. Professor Acoustics and dynamic systems

17 Ervin, Jamie S. Professor Aircraft fuels and thermal management

18 Myszka, Dave. Associate Professor Mechanical system design

19 Hallinan, Kevin P. Professor Energy data analytics and community clean energy

20 Petrykowski, John C. Associate Professor Fluid mechanics

21 Jain, Vinod K. Professor Mechanical system design

22 Fehrman-Cory, Emily Prof of Practice Innovation and entreprenurialism

Staff Position

1 Eric Grimm Lab Manager

2 Lindsey Temple Administrative Assistant

3 Sherri Alexander Administrative Assistant

4 Larry Collins Flight Simulation Tech

Professor and Graduate Aerospace Engineering Director Aaron Altman retired in January 2019 to take a full-time position at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. Aaron joined the Department in 2002 and was promoted to Professor in 2015. He taught Aerospace Design and was awarded the UD Alumni Teaching Award in 2015. Aaron was the driving force behind upgrades to the UD Low Speed Wind Tunnel and acquisition of the Merlin Flight Simulator.

Faculty Achievement Josh Heyne delivered the Fall 2018 Convocation address and shared four “Heyne Principles for

Academic Success”: go deep, find purpose, find a mentor, and take risks. Sid Gunasekaran received the School of Engineering Vision Award for Innovation in Teaching and

was served as a KEEN Community Catalyst.

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Emily Fehrman Cory became the director of the Leonardo Enterprises to nurture student/faculty startups and earned the Blue Belt certification in Innovation Engineering from Eureka Ranch this year.

Margaret Pinnell was named the The Bernhard Schmidt Chair in Engineering Leadership,

Markus Rumpfkeil was named the Hans von Ohain Chair in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

Kim Bigelow arranged for UD to host the Midwest American Society of Biomechanics regional meeting in February at Curran Place with over 100 in attendance.

Markus Rumpfkeil won the Dayton Chapter of Sigma Xi Noland Research Award.

Andrew Chiasson was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.

Margie Pinnell was promoted to Professor.

Kevin Hallinan won the SOE 2019 Engagement and Service Award in recognition of his work with City of Dayton, Montgomery County, Mission of Mary Farm, Twin Towers Neighborhood and others.

Tim Reissman and Megan Reissman organized another Go Baby Go event at Dayton Children Hospital in Troy Ohio in April. About 40 volunteers modified 10 cars for families and for the clinic.

Kelly Kissock was a Visiting Professor at the Dalian Institute of Technology.

Drew Murray taught kinematics at Changzhou University.

Jun-Ki Choi was co-director of the Italian Design Summer School (IDSS) @ University of Bologna and taught life cycle analysis at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

Faculty Scholarship The faculty published 1 book chapter, 15 archival journal articles and 35 peer-reviewed conference articles. This equates to an average of 2.6 and a median of 2.5 peer-reviewed publications per tenure-track faculty member. They delivered 27 invited lectures. Four faculty members serve as Associate Editors of major journals. FY 2019 faculty research expenditures were $1,058,416. Average research expenditures per tenure-track faculty member were $52,921 and median expenditures were $4,914. Research sponsors include:

National Science Foundation US Federal Aviation Administration

State of Ohio Dept of Development Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Ed

Melink Corporation Emerson Climate Technologies Inc

FAA Natl JF Combustion Universal Technologies Corp

Sandia National Laboratories Spray Analytics

US Department of Energy Roush Industries Inc.

US Environmental Protection Agency

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