The warm winter has ended. But at least it looks nice.
The project I'm working on for the aero lab is to add small wings to the front of a speed boat to help it lift out of the water to reduce drag. It looks like it should be fairly interesting.
A new year is here. It's a pretty nice year, so far. The weather has been above freezing in Michigan, and should be for at least the next week. Tomorrow it's supposed to hit 51°.
It is also beginning well as my last undergraduate semester. I'm taking a math course again (the last one I took was my first semester here), Boundary Value Problems for Partial Differential Equations. I don't know how useful it will be to me, but it seems decent enough so far. I'm also taking a graduate level aerospace class, Hypersonic Aerothermodynamics. This course seems really interesting to me. I'm also taking the second aero lab course, in which I'll be working on an as yet unknown project for a real company, and a directed study class with one of the professors from my design class last semester. For the directed study, right now I'm looking at how some flight dynamics code might be useful for a solar-powered micro air vehicle project.
Here's an article I wrote for the Aero Lab I class last semester. For most of the labs we had to do technical writeups, but for this one we did popular-level maganize-type articles. It's slightly dramatized from one actually happened, but is accurate at the general level.
