Department of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering

Project Descriptions: ARCHIVES

1. Stress and pressure field information in high speed machining problems.
2. Educational Training of a New L-Band Weather Satellite Station. 

1. Stress and pressure field information in high speed machining problems.
   
   This project involves the use of a novel approach for the solution of stress and pressure field information in orthogonal high speed machining problems. Using a fluid mechanics approach for modeling of machining immediately establishes a connection to well understood problems in hydrodynamics. In fact, orthogonal machining can be visualized as nothing more than the flow of a material, a non-Newtonian fluid, over an object, the cutting tool. If the machining speed is high enough, the material flow can be considered to be the same as a non-Newtonian liquid with a free surface. This project will look at using an experimental apparatus to develop the tools required to investigate high speed machining using a non-Newtonian working fluid and a high speed imaging system. Directed by Professor Scott Morris.
   
   
2. Educational Training of a New L-Band Weather Satellite Station. 

   This project is part of a proposal to the IndianaView consortium.  The overall purpose of IndianaView is to promote sharing and use of public domain remotely sensed data for education, research and outreach across universities, colleges, K-12 institutions and state and local governments for the state of Indiana.

   This project involves the use of a weather satellite receiver system located on the Notre Dame campus.  It receives information from five NOAA polar orbiting satellites.  The system is controlled using TeraScan software by SeaSpace, Inc.  It automatically tracks and captures many forms of image data collected by a suite of instruments capable of remotely sensing conditions of the Earth’s atmosphere, its surface, and cloud cover.  Data is collected automatically according to a schedule set up by the user.  The data is stored on a computer accessible via the internet.  Post processing of the data into 2-D color images and animations is possible using TeraVision software, a module of TeraScan. 

   This project will train a local high-school teacher how to schedule satellite tracking, collect image data, and process the data into images and animations.  It will include 3-days of TeraScan training by SeaSpace on Notre Dame campus.  One goal of the project is to create an off-campus portal to the data accessible by the teacher to use in course curricula.  The project is directed by David Cavalieri, dcavalie@nd.edu.

   Further Information: The stipend for this project is $1,500 intended to cover a level of effort of about 3 to 4 hours per day over a 3 or 4 week period in the early summer, probably June.  It may be necessary for the teacher to have access in their school to a computer with internet connectivity, preferably high-speed.  It would be helpful, if the computer operating system were Windows or Unix based.

   
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