Momentum - The Magazine for Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering Vol. 2 No. 4 Winter 2017 | Page 5

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Robot-operated machines were
part of an exhibit at the ACCeler-
ate: ACC Creativity and Innova-
tion Festival at the Smithsonian's
National Museum of American
History in October. The festival
was hosted by Virginia Tech's
Institute for Creativity, Arts, and
Technology and the Smithso-
nian's Lemelson Center for the
Study of Invention and Innova-
tion.
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Jeff Stout, a junior in mechanical engineering
and member of the Baja team, talks to students
from McHarg Elementary School in Radford
in October. Mechanical engineering students
and faculty host a variety of visitors and student
groups from local area schools interested in
learning about STEM fields. Teams like Baja
often travel to schools as part of outreach efforts
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to interest students in STEM.
Joseph Schetz, center, an affiliate
faculty member of mechanical en-
gineering and a retired professor of
aerospace and ocean engineering,
received the AIAA Aerodynamic Mea-
surement Technology Award at the
AIAA meeting in Denver this summer.
Schetz also gave an invited lecture in
conjunction with the award.
WINTER'17

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