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October 17th, 2010
On October 15, 2010, the AIAA informed Dr. David Greatrix that he has been elected to the grade of Associate Fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
Under AIAA guidelines, “Associate Fellows shall be persons who have accomplished or been in charge of important engineering or scientific work, or who have done work of outstanding merit or have otherwise made outstanding contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology of aeronautics or astronautics (Article III 3.2 AIAA Constitution)... A maximum of 1 Associate Fellow for every 150 voting members may be upgraded annually... An Associate Fellow Grade Committee, appointed by the Vice President – Member Services and composed of active Associate Fellows representative of the broad interests of the Institute, shall review and evaluate the applications of nominees, and shall recommend to the Membership Committee the candidates for upgrade (AIAA Bylaw 3.1.4).”
The official announcement by the AIAA of the complete list of new 2011 AIAA Associate Fellows will appear by December 1, 2010. The new associate fellows will be honoured at the Associate Fellows Dinner, to be held Tuesday, January 4, 2011, in Orlando, Florida.
October 26th, 2010
On October 24, 2010, the laboratory-scale hybrid rocket engine designed and fabricated by the Propulsion Research Facility of Ryerson University was test-fired at the Continuum Aerospace test facility near Hamilton, Ontario. The Continuum team completed two successful engine firings, one utilizing a polyethylene solid fuel grain, and one utilizing a paraffin solid fuel grain.
The HRE was developed as part of Adam Trumpour’s M.A.Sc. project, which was funded by a Proof of Concept grant from the Centre for Earth and Environmental Technologies (Ontario Centres of Excellence).
On October 15, 2010, the AIAA informed Dr. David Greatrix that he has been elected to the grade of Associate Fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
Under AIAA guidelines, “Associate Fellows shall be persons who have accomplished or been in charge of important engineering or scientific work, or who have done work of outstanding merit or have otherwise made outstanding contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology of aeronautics or astronautics (Article III 3.2 AIAA Constitution)... A maximum of 1 Associate Fellow for every 150 voting members may be upgraded annually... An Associate Fellow Grade Committee, appointed by the Vice President – Member Services and composed of active Associate Fellows representative of the broad interests of the Institute, shall review and evaluate the applications of nominees, and shall recommend to the Membership Committee the candidates for upgrade (AIAA Bylaw 3.1.4).”
The official announcement by the AIAA of the complete list of new 2011 AIAA Associate Fellows will appear by December 1, 2010. The new associate fellows will be honoured at the Associate Fellows Dinner, to be held Tuesday, January 4, 2011, in Orlando, Florida.
October 26th, 2010
On October 24, 2010, the laboratory-scale hybrid rocket engine designed and fabricated by the Propulsion Research Facility of Ryerson University was test-fired at the Continuum Aerospace test facility near Hamilton, Ontario. The Continuum team completed two successful engine firings, one utilizing a polyethylene solid fuel grain, and one utilizing a paraffin solid fuel grain.
The HRE was developed as part of Adam Trumpour’s M.A.Sc. project, which was funded by a Proof of Concept grant from the Centre for Earth and Environmental Technologies (Ontario Centres of Excellence).