Momentum - The Magazine for Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering Vol. 4 No. 2 Summer 2019 | Page 24

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Meadows receives ONR grant
Assistant Pro-
fessor Joseph
Meadows received
a 3-year $736,958
grant from the
Office of Naval
Research. The
research will inves-
tigate the impact of
supersonic jet noise at afterburner conditions
with a goal of providing understanding to
develop noise source reduction techniques.
CASE nominations
Three
members
of the
mechan-
ical engi-
neering
staff were nominated for College Association
of Staff in Engineering Awards this spring.
They were: Jamie Archual, Mandy Collins,
and Diana Israel.
Alum to head Dewberry projects
Frank Moeller,
BSME '89, has been
selected to lead
mechanical and
electrical engineer-
ing projects for
Dewberry's new
office in Roanoke.
The professional services firm's new location
will support projects and clients and southern
and central Virginia. Moeller is a PE, LEED
AP, and is a member of the American Society
of Heating Refrigeration and Air-Condition-
ing Engineers.
ME team takes part in NASA Ice Challenge
A Virginia Tech team took part in the
3rd Revolutionary Aerospace Systems
Concept Academic Linkage Special
Edition: Mars Ice Challenge held at the
NASA Langley Research Center June 4-6.
The team worked to extract ice and
use drilling telemetry to deliver a digital
core. The competition helps researchers
gather information to inform the de-
velopment of tools that will be used to
harvest sub-surface water, hydrogen, and
other substances for consumables and fuel
off-Earth.
Nine schools earned finalist positions
to take part in the event which was won
by West Virginia University. Steven's In-
stitute of Technology placed second and
an honorable mention was earned by the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Virginia Tech team from left: Michael McCampbell and Matia Marquez, both seniors in mining
and minerals engineering, and mechanical engineering graduate student Matthew Anderson, ME
rising sophomore Maria Wass, ME graduate student Joshua Moser, and Assistant Professor Erik
Komendera, director of the Field and Space Experimental Robotics Laboratory.