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University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 11, 1991
DINESH D'SOUZA
The Politics Of Race and Sex on Campus
MONDAY OCTOBER 14,1991 AT 8:00 PM IN THE KANSAS UNION BALLROOM
ADMISSION $3.00 TICKETS AVAILABLE AT SUA BOX OFFICE The lecture will be followed by a reception and booksigning in the association with the Mt. Oread Boodshop
KU aerospace teams take top spots in design contest
By Keith Thorpe Special to the Kansan
The Air Breathing Propulsion Team Engine Design Competition, sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, challenged teams to design a helicopter engine using advanced technologies and materials.
*Considering how much work we put into it, it's good to see some benefit.*
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The two five-member KU teams completed their designs as part of a course in aircraft propulsion system design last spring. Judging took place during the summer.
Michael Thacker, Wichita graduate student and captain of the winning team, said his team worked on their design an average of 20 hours a week for the duration of the spring semester.
Thacker said a conservative design was the key to his team's success.
two teams of students from the KU department of aerospace engineering recently won first and second place in a national design competition.
The first-place team will receive $1,000 and the second-place team $500. A team from the University of Cincinnati took third place.
Considering how much work we put into it, it's good to see some benefit
from it."
Michael Thacker Wichita graduate student
"Rather than going on a limb with exotic materials, we used materials that we thought would be perfected by 1995, the target date for our design," he said.
Elisabet Syerud, Stange, Norway,
graduate student and member of the
first-place team, said that although
the teams were in competition with
each other, the teams often faced
mutual problems with their designs.
"We were discussing all kinds of problems all the time," she said. "We tried to help each other out."
Sistani, Teheran, Iran, senior, said that despite placing second to some of his classmates, the competition was helpful.
Second-place team member Farzad
"Working with a team so tightly and competing with your classmates was an interesting experience," he said. "For us, it's not so much winning or losing, since both teams won."
Other members of the winning team were: Justin Honshun Lane, Norair Ghazarian and Douglas Squire.
The winning teams will be invited to present their designs at the AIAA conference in February in Irvine, Calif.
Second place team members were:
Sistani, Brian Bruckner, Kyle Wetzel,
Greggory Miller and Yasuharu Inugi.
This was the first year KU has entered two teams, said Saeed Farakhi, associate professor of aerospace engineering and the team's faculty adviser. Previously, KU entered only one队.
Student teams placed first in 1988 and 1990and took second place in 1989.
"I think this is an outstanding record for any aerospace engineering department," Farokki said.
"This is a nationally ranked program here at KU, one of the top ten for many, many years, and yet people don't know that we exist."
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THE WINNER OF "THE WORST POEM ON THE HILL CONTEST" Congratulations to Diane Bulan
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She wants him to escort;
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