Quality Engineering Career News by UQSI

As more baby boomers reach retirement, demand for qualified graduates is on the rise

By Thomas K. Grose
Posted April 22, 2009

Hypersonic aircraft—including space vehicles re-entering the atmosphere—routinely rocket along at thrilling but dangerous velocities, well beyond the speed of sound. Back on Earth, working to keep them safe, is an aerospace engineering Ph.D. student named Tom Juliano.
Tom Juliano, an aerospace engineering student working on his Ph.D., installs a Hyper-2000 model onto the sting of the Mach 6 wind tunnel operated by Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana.
Tom Juliano, an aerospace engineering student working on his Ph.D., installs a Hyper-2000 model onto the sting of the Mach 6 wind tunnel operated by Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana.

At a Mach 6 wind tunnel operated by Purdue University, Juliano studies airflows nearest the aircraft surface. Some are laminar, or calm; others, turbulent—and they’re the ones that intensify the heat the vehicle is subjected to. Juliano’s experiments show when airflows change from laminar to turbulent. If his predictions are too high, the aircraft will be overclad with heavy thermal protection layers, impeding its performance. If they’re too low, it will burn up. “This is not trivial,” Juliano says of his research.

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Miss. defense, aerospace expanding
The Clarion-Ledger • April 16, 2009

The Mississippi Economic Council’s 60th annual meeting kicked off Thursday morning with talk of some of the state’s most vital — but sometimes overlooked — economic cogs: defense and aerospace.

Officials with Rolls-Royce North America’s naval marine program and the Columbus-Lowndes Development Link spoke of past accomplishments and future plans for facilities in Pascagoula and the Golden Triangle region, respectively.

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Hooray for our aerospace industry!!!  Finally a sector that wants government spending in the right direction. Research and Discovery aid. Imagine that, a government helping an industry the old fashioned way, by not bailing out, but helping out. By spending more in military, aerospace projects, and space research aid, it be the best bailout for main street and unemployed. Lets give that a shot Washington, create real jobs in a sector that is not asking for a handout.